tomscott.com — twitter.com/tomscott — In Trinity Buoy Wharf lighthouse in London — and a few other science museums around the world — sits Longplayer, a musical composition designed to last a millennium. How do you keep something running for that long?
Thanks to Rob Blake for holding the camera through the many takes. This one took a while…
And thanks to Martin Deutsch for reminding me about Longplayer!
Gravity Industries make jetpacks. Theyre not practical. Theyre not meant for mass use. But they are a lot of fun. They asked if I wanted to try flying one. Thanks to gravity.co/ — this is not sponsored but, obviously, they did give me a flight in a jetpack.
tomscott.com — @tomscott — Remember the «dumbest dot-com», AllAdvantage? They paid you to surf the web, at least for a while. And one day, they announced that they were incredibly popular in rich Beverly Hills, California. The reason connects them to the US Postal Service… and Jason Priestley.
If youre a masters or PhD student from an ESA member state, and zero-g sounds like your thing, have a look at the Fly Your Thesis program: www.esa.int/Education/Fly_Your_Thesis — the 2017-18 submissions are closed, but that just gives you time to start planning for next year…