Just as certain computer scientists and engineers dream of doing better garbage collection in computers (for a dream come true, see Microsoft’s “Fundamentals of Garbage Collection“), scientists and engineers at Ecole Polytechnique de Lausanne dream of doing better garbage collection in space. Dead satellites. Detritus from collisions between now-dead satellites and whatever slammed into them. Junk that […]
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Invention of the day: Collision-protection for motorcyclists
This Vietnamese news report shows a new invention: a system of armor intended to protect a motorcycle rider in the event of a collision. The video appears to demonstrate that the invention works well for collision speeds of less than one mile-per-hour.
Railway-collision ejection-capsule
In case two trains were about to collide head-on, this emergency ejection capsule would allow at least one person, likely the train engineer, to escape. The scheme was described in a magazine article in 1915. The blog Technologia Obsoleta spotlighted it recently. BONUS: An alternate solution, devised by Flann O’Brien
Head-on train collision: A solution
Flann O’Brien devised a way to minimize the damage that results when trains collide head-on. This diagram, with an accompanying explanation, is reprinted in the book The Best of Myles (it originally appeared in The Irish Times):
