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From Mars

2005-04-19T19:06:00.000-07:00

Martian salutations,

Crew Leonardo is fully active and busy on the human outpost of Mars.
Please follow daily updates:

http://monalisaleonardo.isunet.edu
http://www.marssociety.org/mdrs/fs04

On Mars

2005-04-17T23:23:00.000-07:00

Crew 39 - Leonardo Project - has landed on Mars. Keep posted for info and pics!

NY Batman´s steam & behind bars scene

2005-04-14T14:35:00.000-07:00

Houdy all, folks!

yup, Manhatan has filled my vision in the past hours. I most impressed with the movie-type of smoke coming of the roads. OK, OK, the motion pictures overreact a bit, but it´s not a Batman´s director invention... NY is still a bit of a new era / industrial age town. Steam power, cast iron, old yellow cabs, etc ;)
And it does really never sleep. I actually found more people hanging around in Times Square at advanced night hours than during the day.

Another cool thing is the inmates working out as the prison gangs we see on TV. Damn, that´s scary from the other side of the bars, imagine being one of them!!!

I meet a middle age woman on a bus tour... knowing I was in my way to Utah she told me about this one time she was driving around in the desert with some friends when they saw an energy ball building up from the ground and speeding across the car path. As car and ball crossed they felt the temperature drop and cold spears penetrate their chests. Her friend´s spear crossed her heart... she died one month later!

On the NY - Slat Lake flight I meet some dudes all post masters in small US towns. One of these US Postal Service local bosses was from Hanksville, the closet town to, errr..., Mars! They interviwed me and want to have an article in the USPS journal.

On to Mars...

a single temporal week separates me from distant MARS

2005-04-09T16:25:00.000-07:00

I´ll be travelling to a far far far away, distant planet. The Red Planet. April 16 is the kick-off. I´ll be sending martian posts, so keep tuned!

D(e)utch

2005-04-04T05:08:00.000-07:00

Ya! Ich bin bij The Netherlands and Germany these days. Last minute work mission threw me at a weekend in Hamburg. Nice city - I´m enjoying it; I just haven´t catch up with that many bikers yet.

Where are the BMX and dual tracks???

That's it!

2005-03-23T07:48:00.000-08:00

Genial. Enorme.

Sequence = 1G - 2G - 0G - 2G - 1G;
Repeat sequence 31 times;

And you pretty much have a parabolic flight campaign. Now, 2Gs is pulling you down to Earth with a force you probably never experienced! You feel really heavy... amazing.

However, 0G you must have felt instantaneously on that fligh when your plane was caught in an air pocket - imagine that feeling on your stomach for 22 secs: can you? Well, i've just tryed and i can´t describe it either!!!

Between the two feelings, adrenalin rushes all over you body. I feel like a punching box bag... sored! Check my Parabolic Flight pictures here.

T minus 14 hours

2005-03-22T10:26:00.000-08:00

yep... tomorrow morning i´ll fly west of la bretagne performing what i hope to be 40 free fall loops.

yeah: the plane pulls up to an attack angle of 47º with an entring speed of around 870km/h with 1.8g acceleration. For about 20 secs thrust and drag cancell each other out anf lift is kept close to 0. Speed is minimal at 350km/h! We should be getting 0.05g before picking up the nose from 37º downwards... All this in a 'regular' A300 Airbus. Chouette.

Repeat 40 times!

Cool...

Parabolic Flight Campaign

2005-03-18T11:39:00.000-08:00

In a couple of days i´ll be experiencing micro-gravity... the thrills and, er... 'spills'!

In the meanwhile, my road trip 'stop overs' include INTA - Madrid, CNES & INTESPACE - Toulouse, EADS - Bordeaux.

Also is Toulouse you may find la Cité de l'Espace. Words don´t describe it: visit it you must . Take a look at the Cité de l'Espace here.

Hello World

2004-11-15T11:24:00.000-08:00

I finally managed to get my act together... I´m blogging! Sort of...