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Astronaut Builds LEGO Space Station While Inside Real Space Station | LEGO in Space & L... - 0 views

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scibyte38 lego SpaceStation

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  • took more than 200 astronauts from 12 countries more than a dozen years to build the International Space Station (ISS).
  • , an astronaut from Japan, matched that feat in just about two hours
  • his space station was made out of LEGO.
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  • approximately two-foot (0.6-meter) long model, which replicated the nearly 360-foot (110-meter) space station was more than just a toy
  • other building brick sets that were launched last year, the LEGO space station was part of an educational collaboration between the Danish toy company and NASA.
  • used it as a demonstration for a series of recorded videos aimed at engaging and educating children about living and working in space
  • LEGO's version of the International Space Station built by astronauts living aboard the real orbiting complex
  • Japanese astronaut Satoshi Furukawa poses with the LEGO model of the International Space Station that he built on board the real space station.
  • Although building the LEGO space station was an activity aimed at students, it was not all child's play.
  • LEGOs are an example of something that is a lot of fun on the ground but it can be very frustrating when you have a lot of loose floating pieces
  • To keep the bricks contained and to protect against some potentially serious dangers
  • pieced together the model inside a glovebox — a sealed container with gloves built into its sides to allow the contents to be manipulated
  • crew members use a more complex glovebox to conduct science experiments with hazardous materials
  • don't have all of these little pieces getting loose and becoming either lost or potentially getting jammed in equipment or even becoming a flammability hazard."
  • Fire is usually not one of the warnings that people find on the side of LEGO boxes.
  • there are flammability concerns about the LEGOs
  • challenging part was using the thick rubber gloves in the containment system because it made me clumsy in building the LEGO space station
  • real space station was declared "assembly complete" on May 29, 2011
  • the model was launched in partially-preassembled "chunks" to help make up for the difficulties working with very small pieces in microgravity
  • The space station could not be launched fully-assembled, because like the real orbiting outpost, it could only be built in space
  • It's a solid model but I believe it can't bear its own weight under gravity
  • LEGO station's time fully assembled was short lived however
  • Due to the flammability hazards, the toy bricks could only be exposed to the open cabin air for two hours.
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LEGO Figures Flying On NASA Jupiter Probe | NASA Juno Spacecraft & LEGOs In Space | Spa... - 0 views

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scibyte38 lego Jupiter

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  • three more "very special" LEGO figurines are set to fly to the planet Jupiter with NASA's Juno spacecraft
  • specially-constructed LEGO Minifigures are of the Roman god Jupiter, his wife Juno, and "father of science" Galileo Galilei.
  • part of the Bricks in Space project
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  • joint outreach and educational program developed as part of the collaboration between NASA and the LEGO Group to inspire children to explore science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
  • NASA has a long-standing partnership with the LEGO company
  • Juno and the minifigures are scheduled to arrive in July 2016 and orbit Jupiter for a year (33 revolutions) before intentionally crashing into the giant gas planet
  • 04 August 2011
  • The trio resemble the typical small toys that LEGO sells, but are made out of metal.
  • Jupiter (who was the equivalent of "Zeus" to the Greeks) drew a veil of clouds around himself to hide his mischief
  • Juno was able to peer through the clouds and reveal Jupiter's true nature
  • Juno spacecraft will also look beneath the clouds to help NASA understand the planet's structure and history.
  • Juno holds a magnifying glass "to signify her search for the truth,"
  • husband holds a lightning bolt
  • third LEGO crew member, Galileo Galilei, made several important discoveries about Jupiter
  • first to point a telescope at the sky to make astronomical observations and discovered the four largest satellites of Jupiter — named the Galilean moons in his honor.
  • minifigure Galileo has his telescope with him for the journey to Jupiter.
  • basically the size of the normal LEGO figures
  • made out of aluminum, very special aluminum and they have been prepared in a very special way
  • space-grade aluminum
  • testing to make sure that they fit on our spacecraft in a way that is like our other science instruments."
  • mini-metal statues are joined on the spacecraft by another "special passenger," one
  • 2.8-inch by 2-inch (71 mm by 51 mm) plaque also made of flight-grade aluminum is bonded to Juno's propulsion bay with a spacecraft-grade epoxy. The graphic on the plaque shows a self-portrait of Galileo. The plaque also includes — in Galileo's own hand — a passage he made in 1610 of observations of Jupite
  • Galileo's text included on the plaque reads as follows: "On the 11th it was in this formation -- and the star closest to Jupiter was half the size than the other and very close to the other so that during the previous nights all of the three observed stars looked of the same dimension and among them equally afar; so that it is evident that around Jupiter there are three moving stars invisible till this time to everyone."
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Lego Space Shuttle Takes Flight, Returns to Earth Undamaged | PCWorld - 0 views

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scibyte38 lego space

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  • : Raul Oaidia from Romania launched a Lego space shuttle into the stratosphere on the back of a weather balloon.
  • help from Steve Sammartino, a businessman who funded this Lego spaceflight
  • Lego space shuttle model (set number 3367!) and a video camera to capture the voyage.
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  • According to Raul, he and his father traveled to Germany to launch the balloon, since that country's regulations on this sort of project are more relaxed than those in Romania
  • launch took place on December 31, and the balloon with its Lego cargo flew to an altitude of about 35,000 meters (that's roughly 114,800 feet for those of us in the US).
  • Check out Raul's blog for the full story, and a list of the equipment he used to carry out the launch
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    Lego Space Shuttle Takes Flight, Returns to Earth Undamaged
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scibyte40 bones lego

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  • A video produced for Google Science Fair shows how researchers at Cambridge making synthetic bone have turned to legendary children’s toy Lego for a helping hand.
  • The video, which has already had over 100,000 views, goes behind the scenes at the lab to show how the team develop the bone samples.
  • Bone has excellent mechanical properties for its weight
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  • synthetic bone has a range of revolutionary applications; from the obvious, such as medical implants, to the almost science fiction, such as a material in building construction
  • the process involved in producing samples of bone is tedious and time consuming.
  • To make the bone-like substance you take a sample, then you dip it into one beaker of calcium and protein, then rinse it in some water and dip in into another beaker of phosphate and protein – you have to do it over and over and over again to build up the compound
  • team started to think about ways of automating the arduous process – the ideal being a robot of some kind that they could set up and run in the background
  • One way would be to buy very expensive kit off the shelf
  • Lego just seemed like the simplest, and cheapest, way to go about things
  • researchers decided to build cranes from a Lego Mindstorms robotics kit
  • contains microprocessors, motors, and sensors that can be programmed to perform basic tasks on repeat
  • sample is tied to string at the end of the crane which then dips it in the different solutions
  • Research is a funny thing because you might think that we order everything up from scientific catalogues – but actually a lot of the things we use around the lab are household items, things that we picked up at the local home goods store – so our Lego robots just fit in with that mind-set
  • The team at Cambridge are working on hydroxyapatite–gelatin composites to create synthetic bone, and the work is generating considerable interest due to the low energy costs and improved similarity to the tissues they are intended to replace.
  • video was made in the lab at the Department of Engineering by Google to help promote their online Science Fair
  • international competition run by the company to encourage teenagers to engage with science
  • Anybody and everybody between 13 and 18 can enter
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LEGO to Roll Out Mars Rover Curiosity as Toy Model | Space.com - 0 views

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scibyte98 lego Curiosity

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  • The Denmark-based LEGO Group chose a fan-built model of the car-size rover to be the next release in its CUUSOO line of building brick toys.
  • Pakbaz designed the model to feature many of the details of the real Mars rover, including its "rocker-bogie" wheel suspension that enables Curiosity to navigate the Martian surface
  • He separately built a model of the rover's "sky crane" descent stage, which lowered Curiosity down into the crater, although whether that component will make it into the final product is not yet known
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  • The Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) Curiosity rover will be the fifth model in the LEGO CUUSOO line and the second to feature a space theme
  • In March 2012, LEGO released a model of Japan's Hayabusa asteroid-sampling probe as designed and suggested by LEGO fan Daisuke Okubo
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These Artificially Intelligent Legos Look Awesome | Popular Science - 0 views

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  • IDG News Service took a tour of Sony Computer Science Laboratories in Tokyo, and found a series of wired Legos, complete with cameras, motors, and a dash of artificial intelligence, all stuffed inside special bricks
  • a motorized Lego platform controlled by a computer squared off against a platform controlled by a human with a PlayStation controller
  • The computer's platform used a camera to locate and chase down the human's platform
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  • This project's still in the experimental phase, so it'll likely be quite a while before anyone can pick up a kit from the store
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Results of the Fall 2012 LEGO® Review - The Official LEGO® CUUSOO Blog - 0 views

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scibyte98 lego Curiosity

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  • The final product is still in development. Exact pricing and availability is still being determined
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Physicist creates scale model of LHC ATLAS experiment of out LEGO blocks - 0 views

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  • The Large Hadron Collider at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Switzerland has generated a lot of news of late, e.g. the announcement that a team had found what it believes to be a particle that traveled faster than he speed of light, an actual new particle, and of course the seemingly never-ending storyline associated with the hopeful discovery of the elusive Higgs Boson, now a physicist not associated with the project, has built a scale model replica of the ATLAS experiment; a particle detector that will likely serve as ground zero should the so-called “god particle” ever be observed.
  • a physicist with the Niels Bohr Institute took almost thirty five hours to build and cost two thousand Euros (paid for by the high energy physics group at the university). The point of building the replica, he says, is to incite interest in physics. Plus, no doubt, it was sort of fun.
  • The real ATLAS project is 44 meters long and 22 meters wide and weighs 7000 tonnes. Mehlhase’s model, at approximately 1:50 scale is approximately 1 meter long by a half meter wide. And while the real deal has millions of parts, the model has 9500 pieces, mostly LEGO blocks.
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  • first tried to model the ATLAS on computer, but then apparently found the undertaking untenable
  • Abandoning that approach, he set to work replicating the ATLAS by simply mimicking what it looked like
  • Mehlhase says he’s contacted LEGO (a Danish company) in hopes of having his model included as one of the model kits sold by the company, though he hasn’t yet made a manual. He’d like to see similar models constructed in schools all over the world.
  • To give some perspective, he modeled some tiny physicists as well.
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Feedback & Space Lego's | Jupiter Broadcasting - 0 views

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  • Feedback & Space Lego’s | SciByte 31
  • January 31, 2012
  • Dinosaur feather colors
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Researchers develop nanodevice manufacturing strategy using DNA 'building blocks' - 0 views

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scibyte49 dna NanoDevice

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  • Researchers at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University have developed a method for building complex nanostructures out of short synthetic strands of DNA
  • interlocking DNA "building blocks," akin to Legos, can be programmed to assemble themselves into precisely designed shapes, such as letters and emoticons
  • Further development of the technology could enable the creation of new nanoscale devices, such as those that deliver drugs directly to disease sites.
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  • DNA is best known as a keeper of genetic information
  • in an emerging field of science known as DNA nanotechnology, it is being explored for use as a material with which to build tiny, programmable structures for diverse applications
  • most research has focused on the use of a single long biological strand of DNA, which acts as a backbone along which smaller strands bind to its many different segments, to create shapes
  • called DNA origami
  • In focusing on the use of short strands of synthetic DNA and avoiding the long scaffold strand, Yin's team developed an alternative building method
  • Each SST is a single, short strand of DNA
  • One tile will interlock with another tile, if it has a complementary sequence of DNA
  • are no complementary matches, the blocks do not connect
  • collection of tiles can assemble itself into specific, predetermined shapes through a series of interlocking local connections
  • researchers created just over one hundred different designs, including Chinese characters, numbers, and fonts, using hundreds of tiles for a single structure of 100 nanometers (billionths of a meter) in size.
  • SSTs could have some important applications in medicine
  • SSTs could organize themselves into drug-delivery machines that maintain their structural integrity until they reach specific cell targets, and because they are synthetic, can be made highly biocompatible.
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