http://www.eminentbrain.com Tue, 08 Jan 2008 23:29:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Wow, a secret BSC/SpaceDev project? Sweet. No, I had no idea... http://www.eminentbrain.com/2007/05/24/skunkworks/ For those of you visiting my website for the first time, here’s the story so far. I’m Brian Emmett, and in late 2004 I entered a contest setup by Oracle that required me to answer sets of questions on some of their software development tools. The Grand Prize ... http://www.eminentbrain.com/2007/04/25/benson-space-company-engineering-trades/ Let's be honest with ourselves a moment. It's an extraordinarily rare event in ones life to essentially be handed a clean slate and be allowed to take a do-over. I've made tons of decisions about the direction of my life, and while I have always wondered what would ... http://www.eminentbrain.com/2007/02/22/spaceflight-take-two/ Every so often, I Google my name just see where I show up in the Page Rank. Interestingly enough, Oracle's site still has me listed as a Grand Prize Winner of their Space Sweepstakes. For those of you who I haven't told yet, this is no longer the ... http://www.eminentbrain.com/2006/09/04/clipped-wings/ As of this posting, there's an interesting thread going on over at Slashdot discussing a recent statement by NASA Administrator Michael Griffin in which he said he thought that the Space Shuttle and ISS were mistakes. I say "as of this posting" because as of 0946 PST the discussion is relatively ... http://www.eminentbrain.com/2005/09/28/shuttle-and-iss-are-mistakes/ Yes, I'm actually being given a ride into space. News at 11. http://www.eminentbrain.com/2005/09/15/the-rumors-are-true/ Anyone with a rudimentary knowledge of celestial mechanics should appreciate this. A scientist at JPL has mapped the Lagrange points (the point where one body's gravity balances another's) for every planet and moon in the solar system and then mapped those Lagrange points against possible spacecraft trajectories. The ... http://www.eminentbrain.com/2002/07/17/interplanetary-superhighway/