The battle of space seeking billionaires took an unexpected turn today when Jeff Bezos announced, on twitter, that his Blue Origin spaceflight company successfully landed a spent rocket back on earth.
In case you hadn’t heard, that’s what Elon Musk’s been trying, and
failing at, for a while now. The rocket launched from a facility in West
Texas, flew a suborbital mission up to an altitude of 330 thousand
feet, then made a flawless return to earth touching down a mere 4 feet
from where it took off. Pretty amazing stuff.
Always the gentleman, Musk jumped on twitter
to congratulate Bezos on his accomplishment… but what’s almost
overlooked in this story is that this was Jeff Bezos’ first
tweet! That’s easily the all time champ for best first tweet. What’d you
do today, eh nothing just landed a rocket back on earth… maybe I should
tweet about it. Yeah, no one’s topping that!
You’ve
all seen cheap plastic Nerf dart guns, we’ve got dozens of these things
floating around the DT offices and they’re pretty harmless. This on the
other hand is the PM522 Washbear, a 3D-printed pepperbox revolver.
It’s the world’s first repeating firearm printed on a consumer 3D
printer, and it can fire off 8 rounds before needing a reload. Since
some previous 3D printed firearms have been banned, designer James
Patrick added in some steel rods so the firearm will comply with gun
regulations. As of right now the blueprints for the gun are still
available online, but Nerf… well they may have something to say about
this as well.
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