I wish I could draw » science http://www.lindsaydigital.com/blog A (usually) visual blog to share my work and things that other artists create. Sun, 18 Apr 2010 21:58:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Windfarms – the new National Threat http://www.lindsaydigital.com/blog/2010/04/16/windfarms-the-new-national-threat/ http://www.lindsaydigital.com/blog/2010/04/16/windfarms-the-new-national-threat/#comments Fri, 16 Apr 2010 21:31:04 +0000 Spence http://www.lindsaydigital.com/blog/?p=358 windfarm

So it seems the US Military is trying to stop the worlds largest wind farm from being constructed in Oregon.  They reason that the windmills will interfere with a radar system in Fossil, OR.

Well that’s bullshit.

I worked on radar in the Navy. If you get a repeatable false reflection down range, you can tune it out. Radar in the eighties could do this so well we could see small boats coming in behind a lighthouse. The lighthouse has a known signature. Any deviation from the known signature is a possible target. We did this at SEA fer chrissakes, where you’re radar platform is constantly moving on all axis. Now we’re 30 years further in tech and they can’t figure out how to mask those windmills?  On land?

Something else is up. Not the radar.

“Hi Bob? Yeah it’s Jim at Conoco. Say, can you do something about this fucking windfarm of Obama’s up in Oregon?  Yes?  Excellent.  See you Thursday.”

]]> http://www.lindsaydigital.com/blog/2010/04/16/windfarms-the-new-national-threat/feed/ 2 My Macro Morning http://www.lindsaydigital.com/blog/2010/03/14/my-macro-morning/ http://www.lindsaydigital.com/blog/2010/03/14/my-macro-morning/#comments Sun, 14 Mar 2010 22:25:32 +0000 Spence http://www.lindsaydigital.com/blog/?p=345 One of the cool things about living here in Pacific Grove is the wild forests.  Kenna and I took a walk with the dogs yesterday and I brought my macro lens with a flash.  It’s really hard to get the lighting correct and I’m realizing I need to hold the camera a LOT more still.  Nonetheless, I think these turned out pretty cool.  I love looking at these after I get back to the lab.  You see stuff on the big screen that you don’t catch when you’re out in the field.

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This is my morning at the Aquarium:

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Get it at the App Store.

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Darren Naish, Tetrapod PHD fires off a really interesting scientists view of the creatures of the planet Pandora from James Cameron’s Avatar.

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So this morning, I looked outside and thought it might rain.  Heading over to Wunderground.com (the best weather station around, BTW), I tuned into the “wundermap”.  All these choices for overlays of Tornadoes (we’ve had three in the past twenty years!), Fires, Hurricanes, Brimstone, Illegal Aliens – it’s amazing.  So I fired up every single overlay they offered and goggled (not googles) at the insanely overlayed map.

Time Passes, my programmer on the east coast calls and I open a new tab and start working with him… leaving the wundermap there.  With it’s 17 realtime overlays.  Updating.  All day.
At around 5:00, after a really frustrating day of my main editing machine running dog slow for some unknown reason, I call it quits and start closing apps and windows and realize as the power in the house brightens a bit as I close the wundermap, the reason for my frustratingly slow day.
Spence=Bonehead.
]]> http://www.lindsaydigital.com/blog/2009/12/08/wundermap-system-hog/feed/ 2 resurrecting the tumblr blog http://www.lindsaydigital.com/blog/2009/11/22/resurrecting-the-tumblr-blog/ http://www.lindsaydigital.com/blog/2009/11/22/resurrecting-the-tumblr-blog/#comments Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:50:07 +0000 Spence http://www.lindsaydigital.com/blog/?p=242 There’s a need in my life for more complexity. So I’m starting a second blog.

VISICHUNK

]]> http://www.lindsaydigital.com/blog/2009/11/22/resurrecting-the-tumblr-blog/feed/ 2 Speaking of planets,… http://www.lindsaydigital.com/blog/2009/11/09/speaking-of-planets/ http://www.lindsaydigital.com/blog/2009/11/09/speaking-of-planets/#comments Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:14:50 +0000 Spence http://www.lindsaydigital.com/blog/?p=224 Edit: I just found this cool little gadget on the Highrise site.  Very awesome.

NASA has been spending our tax dollars in some really interesting ways recently.  Apparently some engineer with a really good sense of design got control of the cameras on the cassini spacecraft recently with some really excellent results. Another spacecraft has been flying over mars at a pretty low orbit taking amazing shots of our red brother.  Boston.com has some great excerpts from the raw NASA shots.

Here’s one:

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