You’d never guess what this contraption was if you didn’t know already, or the title of the post didn’t give you an inkling. It’s not the newest wackyboard. Take your best shot and get the answer after the jump.
[Source: AL.com] – Thanks to Eric Cherry (again) for the tip.
NASA is developing small, relatively cheap robotic landers for use on moons and asteroids. As part of one part of the testing process they needed a track that restricted movement of of the prototype to a two dimensions. Scientists took a garage/ DIY approach and rigged up a money saving system using slightly modified off the shelf skateboards.
At first I was cracking up over all the hair nets in the testing facility, until I realized it was probably to protect their scalps from the melamine leaching out of the cheap Chinese skateboards they probably used when something else might have been more appropriate. You can tell they are dimestore boards because they are the kind with the shrinkwrap applied before the trucks are mounted.
8 comments
masterochicken
Those are some sick rain grooves.
masterochicken
I was hoping for skateboarding robots.
Roger
and in latest news, Christian Hosoi pulls a christ Air from the moon to the next asteroid….in spandex. Meanwhile Jeff Grosso is the first dude to pull off and invert on a crater.
Gavin
Jupitairs, moon-rock and rolls and, uh, spacewalks.
Pool Punx
“Sweet ‘hundred-foot Judo, Houston. Over”
CCKEN
Just think of the Big Airs and the lack of gravity! Oh sh*t there’s no air up there, what would you call them?
mikeD
there’s an “air in space” museum.
Miguel C
So they are going to try to carve some of the craters on the moon?