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I am a materials scientist working in the Center for Functional Nanomaterials at Brookhaven National Laboratory. My work focuses on self-assembled nanostructures, and structural characterization using x-ray and neutron techniques (small-angle scattering, reflectivity, etc.). I manage the CFN involvement in the X9 beamline at Brookhaven's National Synchrotron Light Source, an instrument capable of small- and wide-angle x-ray scattering in both transmission and reflection mode (SAXS/WAXS/GISAXS/GIWAXS).
I obtained my Ph.D. from McGill University, Department of Chemistry, in 2006. I then spent 3 years as a guest researcher in the Polymers Division at NIST. This page summarizes my scientific work. (See also my other abilities and interests.)
Research Interests
My research focuses on materials science and nanotechnology. Currently I'm most interested in stimulated and directed self-assembly. I work in the Soft/Bio Nanomaterials group in the CFN. My current research focuses on block-copolymers, and investigating how processing effects can control the morphology and orientation of these self-assembled nanostructures. I am actively developing reflectivity and scattering techniques (off-specular neutron reflectometry, small-angle neutron scattering (SANS), grazing-incidence x-ray scattering (GISAXS), etc.) as characterization methods for quantitatively determining the three-dimensional order in nanostructured soft materials.
Research Experience
2010-present Materials Scientist, Center for Functional Nanomaterials, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, USA. Currently studying topics in stimulated self-assembly, and structural determination using x-ray scattering methods. Co-managing the X9 SAXS/WAXS/GISAXS beamline at NSLS.
2006-2009 Guest Researcher, Polymers Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, USA. Awarded a NSERC Canada Postdoctoral Fellowship to pursue studies of soft materials. Researched focused on directing self-assembly of nanostructures, and quantifying three-dimensional order using scattering techniques (neutron and x-ray).
2004-2006, Collaboration with the Canadian Neutron Beam Centre, Chalk River, Canada. Studied water localization in polyelectrolyte thin films, and photo-response of azo-polymers. Helped design and test prototype sample environments.
2001-2006 Graduate Researcher, Department of Chemistry, McGill University, Montreal, Canada. Conducted advanced research on photo-responsive azobenzene polymers, characterizing their photo-mechanical response to holographic laser irradiation. Also studied self-assembly of polyelectrolyte multilayers.
Further details on my research experience are available.
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|Ph.D. Chemistry. Thesis on photo-responsive polymers successfully defended October 2006.
|McGill University
|Montreal, QC
|B.Sc. Honours Chemistry, Minor Computer Science with First-Class Honours. Elective courses in Mathematics and Physics were also completed.
Recent Awards
- NIST MSEL Associate Award: Given in recognition of a significant individual scientific achievement (2008).
- MSED/LANXESS Graduate Thesis Award: Awarded to the most outstanding thesis in polymer science in Canada (2008).
- Sigma Xi Postdoctoral Presentation Award: Awarded for the best poster presentation (2008).
- NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship: Prestigious national award given on the basis of research excellence (2007).
- CSC Energy Materials Presentation Award: Awarded for the best oral presentation in the Energy Storage and Conversion Materials Symposium of the 89th CSC (2006).
- Robert Zamboni Chemistry Prize: Conference travel grant awarded for research excellence (2006).
- CINS Chalk River Laboratories Student Travel Award: Awarded based on quality of completed research, to cover research travel costs (2006).
- Alma Mater Student Travel Grant: Awarded to an accomplished graduate student for presentation of research results (2005).
- Udho, Parsini, Diwan Award in Chemistry: Awarded for the best research paper published by a graduate student in the Department of Chemistry (2005).
- CSC-Montreal Graduate Award: Awarded to a distinguished student to cover expenses for travel to an international conference (2005).
- MSED National Graduate Research Presentation Award: Awarded for best presentation at the CSC Conference, MSED division (2004).
- David J. Simkin Award in Physical Chemistry: Awarded for the best graduate student research in the physical chemistry division (2004).
- T. Sterry Hunt Teaching Award in Chemistry: Awarded for excellence in undergraduate teaching (2003).
- FCAR/FQRNT B2: Provincial scholarship, given on the basis of current and projected research excellence (2003).
- Department of Chemistry Scholarship: A supplemental award given to graduate students in recognition of scholarships awarded (2003).
- NSERC PGS B: National scholarship for continued research excellence (2003).
- FCAR/FQRNT B1: Provincial scholarship, given on the basis of research potential and undergraduate performance (2002).
- R.F. Robertson Award in Physical Chemistry: Awarded to the student with the highest performance in the physical chemistry laboratory (2001).
- CSC National Conference Undergraduate Poster Award: Awarded for best divisional poster presentation (2001).
- Undergraduate Honours Poster Competition: Awarded to the best honours project presentation (2000).
|57. Kim, C.-H.; Hlaing, H.; Payne, M.M.; Yager, K.G.; Bonnassieux, Y.; Horowitz, G.; Anthony, J.E.; Kymissis, I. "Strongly Correlated Alignment of Fluorinated 5,11-Bis(triethylgermylethynyl)anthradithiophene Crystallites in Solution-Processed Field-Effect Transistors" ChemPhysChem 2014, ASAP, ASAP. [ summary – doi ]
|56. Li, F.; Yager, K.G.; Dawson, N.M.; Jian, Y.-B.; Malloy, K.J.; Qin, Y. "Stable and Controllable Polymer/Fullerene Composite Nanofibers through Cooperative Noncovalent Interactions for Organic Photovoltaics" Chemistry of Materials 2014, 26, 3747–3756. [ summary – doi ]
|55. Smith, K.A.; Stewart, B.; Yager, K.G.; Strzalka, J.; Verduzco, R. "Control of all-conjugated block copolymer crystallization via thermal and solvent annealing" Journal of Polymer Science Part B: Polymer Physics 2014, 52, 900–906. [ summary – doi ]
|54. Srivastava, S.; Nykypanchuk, D.; Fukuto, M.; Halverson, J.D.; Tkachenko, A.V.; Yager, K.G.; Gang, O. "Two-Dimensional DNA-Programmable Assembly of Nanoparticles at Liquid Interfaces" Journal of the American Chemical Society 2014, 136, 8323–8332. [ summary – doi ]
|53. Lin, Y.-H.; Yager, K.G.; Stewart, B.; Verduzco, R. "Lamellar and liquid crystal ordering in solvent-annealed all-conjugated block copolymers " Soft Matter 2014, 10, 3817–3825. [ summary – doi ]
|52. Huang, H.; Yoo, S.; Kaznatcheev, K.; Yager, K.G.; Lu, F.; Yu, D.; Gang, O. Fluerasu, A.; Qin, H. "Diffusion-based Clustering Analysis of Coherent X-ray Scattering Patterns of Self-assembled Nanoparticles " Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing 2014, 29, 85–90. [ summary – doi ]
|51. Kiapour, M.H.; Yager, K.G.; Berg, A.C.; Berg, T.L. "Materials discovery: Fine-grained classification of X-ray scattering images " Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) 2014, 1, 933–940. [ summary – doi ]
|50. Zhang, X.; Yager, K.G.; Douglas, J.F.; Karim, A. "Suppression of target patterns in domain aligned cold-zone annealed block copolymer films with immobilized film-spanning nanoparticles" Soft Matter 2014, 10, 3656–3666. [ summary – doi ]
|49. Krejci, A.J.; Yager, K.G.; Ruggiero, C.; Dickerson, J.H. "X-ray scattering as a liquid and solid phase probe of ordering within sub-monolayers of iron oxide nanoparticles fabricated by electrophoretic deposition" Nanoscale 2014, 6, 4047–4051. [ summary – doi ]
|48. Chul-Ho Lee, C.-H.; Schiros, T.; Santos, E.J.G.; Kim, B.; Yager, K.G.;Kang, S.J.; Lee, S.; Yu, J.; Watanabe, K.; Taniguchi, T.; Hone, J.; Kaxiras, E.; Nuckolls, C.; Kim, P. "Epitaxial Growth of Molecular Crystals on van der Waals Substrates for High-Performance Organic Electronics" Advanced Materials 2014, 26, 2812–2817. [ summary – doi ]
|47. Johnston, D.E.; Yager, K.G.; Hlaing, H.; Lu, X.; Ocko, B.M.; Black, C.T. "Nanostructured Surfaces Frustrate Polymer Semiconductor Molecular Orientation" ACS Nano 2014, 8, 243–249. [ summary – doi ]
|46. Yager, K.G.; Zhang, Y.; Lu, F.; Gang, O. "Periodic lattices of arbitrary nano-objects: modeling and applications for self-assembled systems" Journal of Applied Crystallography 2014, 47, 118–129. [ summary – doi ]
|45. Smith, K.A.; Pickel, D.L.; Yager, K.G.; Kisslinger, K.; Verduzco, R. "Conjugated block copolymers via functionalized initiators and click chemistry" Journal of Polymer Science Part A: Polymer Chemistry 2014, 52, 154–163. [ summary – doi ]
|44. Li, F.; Yager, K.G.; Dawson, N.M.; Yang, J.; Malloy, K.J.; Qin, Y. "Complementary Hydrogen Bonding and Block Copolymer Self-Assembly in Cooperation toward Stable Solar Cells with Tunable Morphologies" Macromolecules 2013, 46, 9021–9031. [ summary – doi ]
|43. Zhang, Y.; Lu, F.; Yager, K.G.; van der Leli, D.; Gang, O. "A general strategy for the DNA-mediated self-assembly of functional nanoparticles into heterogeneous systems" Nature Nanotechnology 2013, 8, 865–872. [ summary – doi ]
|42. Xue, J.; Singh, G.; Qiang, Z.; Yager, K.G.; Karim, A.; Vogt, B.D. "Facile control of long range orientation in mesoporous carbon films with thermal zone annealing velocity" Nanoscale 2013, 5, 12440–12447. [ summary – doi ]
|41. Kim, S.; Dura, J.A.; Page, K.A.; Rowe, B.W.; Yager, K.G.; Soles, C.L. "Surface-Induced Nanostructure and Water Transport of Thin Proton-Conducting Polymer Films" Macromolecules 2013, 46, 5630–5637. [ summary – doi ]
|40. Vial, S.; Nykypanchuk, D.; Yager, K.G.; Tkachenko, A.V.; Gang, O. "Linear Mesostructures in DNA–Nanorod Self-Assembly" ACS Nano 2013, 7, 5437–5445. [ summary – doi ]
|39. Singh, G.; Batra, S.; Zhang, R.; Yuan, H.; Yager, K.G.; Cakmak, M.; Berry, B.; Karim, A. "Large-Scale Roll-to-Roll Fabrication of Vertically Oriented Block Copolymer Thin Films" ACS Nano 2013, 7, 5291–5299. [ summary – doi ]
|38. Lu, X.; Yager, K.G.; Johnston, D.; Black, C.T.; Ocko, B.M. "Grazing-incidence transmission X-ray scattering: surface scattering in the Born approximation" Journal of Applied Crystallography 2013, 46, 165–172. [ summary – doi ]
|37. Kelly, J.G.; He, W.; Somarajan, S.; Yager, K.G.; Dickerson, J.H. "Wide angle x-ray diffraction studies of nanocrystalline lead europium sulfide" Materials Letters 2012, 89, 198–201. [ summary – doi ]
|36. Singh, G.; Yager, K.G.; Berry, B.; Kim, H.-C.; Karim, A. "Dynamic Thermal Field-Induced Gradient Soft-Shear for Highly Oriented Block Copolymer Thin Films" ACS Nano 2012, 6 (11), 10335–10342. [ summary – doi ]
|35. Eastman, S.A.; Yager, K.G.; Kim, S.; Page, K.A.; Rowe, B.W.; Kang, S.; Soles, C.L. "Effect of Confinement on Structure, Water Solubility, and Water Transport in Nafion Thin Films" Macromolecules 2012, 45 (19), 7920–7930. [ summary – doi ]
|34. Singh, G.; Yager, K.G.; Smilgies, D.-M.; Kulkarni, M.M.; Bucknall, D.G.; Karim, A. "Tuning Molecular Relaxation for Vertical Orientation in Cylindrical Block Copolymer Films via Sharp Dynamic Zone Annealing" Macromolecules 2012, 17, 7107–7117. [ summary – doi ]
|33. Allen, J.E.; Ray, B.; Khan, M.R.; Yager, K.G.; Alam, M.A.; Black, C.T. "Self-assembly of single dielectric nanoparticle layers and integration in polymer-based solar cells" Applied Physics Letters 2012, 101, 063105. [ summary – doi ]
|32. Johnston, D.E.; Yager, K.G.; Nam, C.-Y.; Ocko, B.M.; Black, C.T. "One-Volt Operation of High-Current Vertical Channel Polymer Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistors" Nano Letters 2012, 8, 4181–4186. [ summary – doi ]
|31. Kang, S.J.; Kim, J.B.; Chiu, C.-Y.; Ahn, S.; Schiros, T.; Lee, S.S.; Yager, K.G.; Toney, M.F.; Loo, Y.-L.; Nuckolls, C. "A Supramolecular Complex in Small-Molecule Solar Cells based on Contorted Aromatic Molecules" Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2012, 34, 8594–8597. [ summary – doi ]
|30. Mahimwalla, Z.; Yager, K.G.; Mamiya, J.-i.; Shishido, A.; Priimagi, A.; Barrett, C.J. "Azobenzene photomechanics: prospects and potential applications" Polymer Bulletin 2012, 69 (8), 967–1006. [ summary – doi ]
|29. Schedel, M.; Yager, K.G. "Hearing Nano-Structures: A Case Study in Timbral Sonification" International Conference on Auditory Display 2012, 18, 95–98. [ summary – doi ]
|28. Kulkarni, M.M.; Yager, K.G.; Sharma, A.; Karim, A. "Combinatorial Block Copolymer Ordering on Tunable Rough Substrates" Macromolecules 2012, 45, 4303–4314. [ summary – doi ]
|27. Allen, J.E.; Yager, K.G.; Nam, C.-Y.; Hlaing, H.; Ocko, B.M.; Black, C.T. "Implementing nanometer-scale confinement in organic semiconductor bulk heterojunction solar cells" Journal of Photonics for Energy 2012, 2, 021008. [ summary – doi ]
|26. Schiros, T.; Mannsfeld, S.; Chiu, C.-y.; Yager, K.G.; Ciston, J.; Gorodetsky, A.A.; Palma, M.; Bullard, Z.; Kramer, T.; Delongchamp, D.; Fischer, D.; Kymissis, I.; Toney, M.F.; Nuckolls, C. "Reticulated Organic Photovoltaics" Advanced Functional Materials 2012, 22, 1167–1173. [ summary – doi ]
|25. Schedel, M.; Fox-Gied, N.; Yager, K.G. "A Modern Instantiation of Schillinger's Dance Notation: Choreographing with Mouse, iPad, KBow, and Kinect" Contemporary Music Review 2011, 30, 179–186. [ summary – doi ]
|24. Allen, J.E.; Yager, K.G.; Nam, C.-Y.; Ocko, B.M.; Black, C.T. "Enhanced charge collection in confined bulk heterojunction organic solar cells" Applied Physics Letters 2011, 99, 163301. [ summary – doi ]
|23. Hlaing, H.; Lu, X.; Hofmann, T.; Yager, K.G.; Black, C.T.; Ocko, B.M. "Nanoimprint-Induced Molecular Orientation in Semiconducting Polymer Nanostructures" ACS Nano 2011, 5, 7532–7538. [ summary – doi ]
|22. Wolcott, A.; Doyeux, V.; Nelson, C.A.; Gearba, R.; Lei, K.W.; Yager, K.G.; Dolocan, A.D.; Williams, K.; Nguyen, D.; Zhu, X.-Y. "Anomalously Large Polarization Effect Responsible for Excitonic Red Shifts in PbSe Quantum Dot Solids" Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 2011, 2, 795–800. [ summary – doi ]
|21. Forrey, C.; Yager, K.G.; Broadaway, S.P. "Molecular Dynamics Study of the Role of the Free Surface on Block Copolymer Thin Film Morphology and Alignment" ACS Nano 2011, 5, 2895–2907. [ summary – doi ]
|20. Galley, W.C.; Tanchak, O.M.; Yager, K.G.; Wilczek-Vera, G. "Excited-State Processes in Slow Motion: An Experiment in the Undergraduate Laboratory" Journal of Chemical Education 2010, 87, 1252–1256. [ summary – doi ]
|19. Zhang, X.; Yager, K.G.; Fredin, N.J.; Ro, H.W.; Jones, R.L.; Karim, A.; Douglas, J.F. "Thermally Reversible Surface Morphology Transition in Thin Diblock Copolymer Films" ACS Nano 2010, 7, 3653–3660. [ summary – doi ]
|18. Song, L.; Feng, D.; Fredin, N.J.;Yager, K.G.; Jones, R.L.; Wu, Q.; Zhao, D.; Vogt, B.D. "Challenges in fabrication of mesoporous carbon films with ordered cylindrical pores via phenolic oligomer self-assembly with triblock copolymers" ACS Nano 2010, 1, 189–198. [ summary – doi ]
|17. Song, L.; Feng, D.; Campbell, C.G.; Gu, D.; Forster, A.M.; Yager, K.G.; Fredin, N.; Lee, H.-J.; Jones, R.L.; Zhao, D.; Vogt, B.D. "Robust conductive mesoporous carbon–silica composite films with highly ordered and oriented orthorhombic structures from triblock-copolymer template co-assembly" Journal of Materials Chemistry 2010, 20, 1691–1701. [ summary – doi ]
|16. Zhang, X.; Yager, K.G.; Kang, S.; Fredin, N.J.; Akgun, B.; Satija, S.; Douglas, J.F.; Karim, A.; Jones, R.L. "Solvent Retention in Thin Spin-Coated Polystyrene and Poly(methyl methacrylate) Homopolymer Films Studied By Neutron Reflectometry" Macromolecules 2010, 2, 1117–1123. [ summary – doi ]
|15. Yager, K.G.; Fredin, N.J.; Zhang, X.; Berry, B.C.; Karim, A.; Jones, R.L. "Evolution of block-copolymer order through a moving thermal zone" Soft Matter 2010, 1, 92–99 . [ summary – doi ]
|14. Zhang, X.; De Paoli Lacerda, S.H.; Yager, K.G.; Berry, B.C.; Douglas, J.F.; Jones, R.L.; Karim, A. "Target Patterns Induced by Fixed Nanoparticles in Block Copolymer Films" ACS Nano 2009, 3, 2115–2120. [ summary – doi ]
|13. Yager, K.G.; Berry, B.C.; Page, K.; Patton, D.; Karim, A.; Amis, E.J. "Disordered Nanoparticle Interfaces for Directed Self-Assembly" Soft Matter 2009, 5, 622–628. [ summary – doi ]
|12. Zhang, X.; Berry, B.C.; Yager, K.G.; Kim, S.; Jones, R.L.; Satija, S.; Pickel, D.L.; Douglas, J.F.; Karim, A. "Surface Morphology Diagram for Cylinder-Forming Block Copolymer Thin Films" ACS Nano 2008, 2, 2331–2341. [ summary – doi ]
|11. Tanchak, O.M.; Yager, K.G.; Fritzsche, H.; Harroun, T.; Katsaras, J.; Barrett, C.J. "Ion distribution in multilayers of weak polyelectrolytes: A neutron reflectometry study" Journal of Chemical Physics 2008, 129, 084901. [ summary – doi ]
|10. Barrett, C.J.; Mamiya, J.; Yager, K.G.; Ikeda, T. "Photo-mechanical Effects in Azobenzene-containing Soft Materials" Soft Matter 2007, 3, 1249–1261. [ summary – doi ]
|9. Yager, K.G.; Barrett, C.J. "Confinement of Surface Patterning in Azo-Polymer Thin Films" Journal of Chemical Physics 2007, 126, 094908. [ summary – doi ]
|8. Yager, K.G.; Barrett, C.J. "Photomechanical Surface Patterning in Azo-Polymer Materials" Macromolecules 2006, 39, 9320. [ summary – doi ]
|7. Yager, K.G.; Tanchak, O.M.; Godbout, C.; Fritzsche, H.; Barrett, C.J. "Photomechanical Effects in Azo-Polymers Studied by Neutron Reflectometry" Macromolecules 2006, 39, 9311. [ summary – doi ]
|6. Yager, K.G.; Barrett, C.J. "Novel Photoswitching using Azobenzene Functional Materials" Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A: Chemistry 2006, 182, 250. [ summary – doi ]
|5. Tanchak, O.M.; Yager, K.G.; Fritzsche, H.; Harroun, T.A.; Katsaras, J.; Barrett, C.J. "Water Distribution in Multilayers of Weak Polyelectrolytes" Langmuir 2006, 22, 5137. [ summary – doi ]
|4. Yager, K.G.; Tanchak, O.M.; Barrett, C.J.; Watson, M.J.; Fritzsche, H. "Temperature-controlled neutron reflectometry sample cell suitable for study of photoactive thin films" Review of Scientific Instruments 2006, 77, 045106. [ summary – doi ]
|3. Harroun, T.A.; Fritzsche, H.; Watson, M.J.; Yager, K.G.; Tanchak, O.M.; Barrett, C.J.; Katsaras, J. "Variable temperature, relative humidity (0%–100%), and liquid neutron reflectometry sample cell suitable for polymeric and biomimetic materials" Review of Scientific Instruments 2005, 76, 065101. [ summary – doi ]
|2. Yager, K.G.; Barrett, C.J. "Temperature Modelling of Laser-Irradiated Azo Polymer Films" Journal of Chemical Physics 2004, 120, 1089–1096. [ summary – doi ]
|1. Yager, K.G.; Barrett, C.J. "All-Optical Patterning of Azo Polymer Films" Current Opinion in Solid State and Materials Science 2001, 5, 487–494. [ summary – doi ]
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Brookhaven National Laboratory
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Anyone who's anyone knows The Firm's partners, as evidenced when Farber returned a call via his cell phone just as he was going through a metal detector Tuesday. Flying out of DIA for an overseas celebration? No, just heading into the Denver City & County Building for more business as usual, including a meeting and lots of casual schmoozing--complete with greetings from councilmembers Susan Barnes-Gelt and Sue Casey heard by a nosy reporter (who will not be at the luncheon) as the cell phone went through the X-ray machine.
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Vendors were few and far between. Lew Cady, a fan of both beer and baseball, kept track of their visits to section 136 between home and third base. Bob the Beerman, a former New York stock analyst at Salomon Brothers and today the ballpark's most notorious vendor (order his self-published book at 1-800-FULLMUG), came by once before the game and once more during the game, as did another vendor. Although both were selling Bud--the subject of a labor protest outside Coors Field--B the B says that's nothing personal, despite the suit the Beerman recently filed as Robert Donchez in U.S. District Court in Denver against the Adolph Coors Company. Donchez claims Coors's $100 million "Beer Man" ad violates the concept he trademarked in 1993--and discussed with the brewer two years later. Coors "realized the value of plaintiff's mark and character and believed that they could, through their wealth and resources, take such property," Donchez charges in the suit.
Still, at Monday's game, Bob said he'd be happy to sell Coors to the thirsty fans--he just didn't have any of the homegrown brew. A vendor selling Coors finally arrived in the seventh inning, making a single foray down the aisle between sections 136 and 137. Sadly, her supply was gone before she reached Cady.
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More than two dozen would-be publishers showed up to learn specifics about the proposal, which calls for the winning bidder to not only assume all costs of publishing the magazine--set to debut a mere six weeks after the contract is awarded--but to potentially share revenues with the airport, as well. The publisher would bring in those revenues, of course, by selling space to advertisers eager to reach this with-any-luck-not-completely-captive audience. The purpose of the magazine, according to DIA guidelines, is "to create a dynamic blend of existing public information and create a marketing tool that promotes DIA services, assets and destinations for free distribution to DIA customers."
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I'm willing to bet anybody my mortgage(which will be paid off by then) on Nasa not achieveing this on time and on budget (don't know what the budget is but I bet they dont meet it).
Any takers!???
PS- This bet will be declared null and void should teleporting be discovered in the next 25 years! For mission success, crew must return to earth and the mission must cost it's initial budget.
I chose Paris Hilton as my avatar as if I was stuck on a space ship for 300 months I'd want a photo of her in my bedroom.
2031 - a little late?
What a terrible waste we have made of the opportunities offered us by the early space race, we should be out amongst the stars now instead we've wasted trillions and killed millions in wars.
Why don't I have my flying car?
Why can't I retire on the moon yet?
Phasers on stun
"NASA says shielding still has to be developed"
so, who's been sitting on the tech for force-fields then? coz they sure aint gonna haul tonnes of lead sheeting up into space.
Still, $450bn.
The yanks may have a lot of issues (and people may have a lot of issues with them) - but they are still our best hope (and our worst nightmare).
If they get us into space then all will be forgiven :D
Back by Christmas, 2063
Let's see - six months out, sixteen months relaxing on the red sand, and six months back. What are the 'nauts going to be doing for the remaining 362 months of their 390 month mission? That's a long time to be seeking out new life and new civilisation.
But if someone were to send amanfrommars back home, it'd be worth it.
radiation protection
2031! Cripes, I wonder if I'll be around that long...
So far as radiation shielding during the trip. a fair amount of water will need to be hauled along for the crew, even with a closed loop system, so having a "fallout shelter" inside the water tank would work nicely. Think of a cylinder within a cylinder, the inner area would be sleeping quarters or fallout shelter, and the area between the outer casing and the inner would contain the water supply. Water shields against radiation quite nicely, and such a design should be easy to build.
What a waste of money
But it's better than spending the money on bombing people and invading other countries, I suppose.
whatever the chinese can do...
methinks this is a nice american salute to the press the chinese have been getting for their 'Moon mission'.
Nothing like a 'superpower-ed space race'
Capricorn Two ?
Didn't they do this charade already?
Bah! What about the moon?
Surely it would be prudent to setup a base on the moon? You know iron out all those pesky little problems for long term survival in an alien environment whilst been (relatively) close to home. Not to mention the numerous benefits from establishing an off planet colony so close to home, which include making it easier to build big space ships, plunder yet unknown resources and other wonderful things (space tourism). The only humans to get close to Mars in the next 50 years are those who like a chocolate treat from nestle.
Flash Ahhash - Survivor of the Economy
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Stop focusing on US economic meltdown and look at the pretty monkey.</whitehouse>
What could possibly go wrong?
NASA has to get four of the largest payloads ever launched into orbit on a new rocket design, then assemble the Mars craft itself. Anything goes wrong, they have to have a spare waiting to go to the launch pad. To that monster they're going to add a nuclear power plant and the absolutely vital radiation shielding which hasn't even been imagined let alone designed.
The whole lot will be shot into the radiation-soaked environment between Earth and Mars for six months in the hope that nothing too-vital breaks or no one gets sick. On arrival, a good chunk of the ship has to enter the Martian atmosphere behind a brittle cold-soaked thermal shield and descend through the notoriously fickle Martian atmosphere before landing in the middle of a boulder-strewn desert.
It then sits, deep-frozen, for sixteen months on a surface with the chemical composition of bleach bathed in the sort of UV that gives your bones a nice healthy tan.
The lander then has to return to orbit, mate with its booster and endure the six month rotisserie back to Earth.
Give NASA one thing - they're ambitious. If they can pull this off they'll have finally matched the ambition of Apollo, but sadly, I don't think it'll happen - the NASA budget is easy pickings for Congressional opponents and the orbiting dodo of the ISS will always find ways to vacuum up more money.
I for one..
..welcome our new Martian masters - once they capture the NASA space podule and return to Earth in human bodies in preparation for their great invasion fleet hidden under Syria Planum..
Loved the amanfrommars idea!
But why spend $450bn on a 400,000Kg space ship when an welded shut oil drum strapped to a booster rocket would suffice?
Coming from a planet with little atmosphere and no magnetosphere, I'd expect him to survive the trip, though the landing may be a little bumpy.
400,000kg ?!?
Are we seriously discussing sending 440 English tonnes of spacecraft to Mars? In how many launches? The existing Shuttle is only around 100 tons, and NASA can barely get that into fairly low orbit.
I'm very much in favor of manned space exploration, but I really don't think NASA can pull this off. Either that, or our journalist has gotten his figures confused.
Sadly the one small problem being overlooked is that since George Bush has given the US taxpayers the insoluble problem of funding an endless oil war and incrementing the US National Debt by a minimum of two trillion dollars per annum !
Thus by 2031 , those pesky Yankees will have either totally bankrupted the country into absolute insolvency with a National Debt of well in excess fifty trillion dollars ! So by then the average insolvent American could not even afford a paper clip let alone lift one gram into orbit thus sending a manned mission to Mars would be literally impossible in those circumstances !
By the way given the duration and the mission work load requirements for a three to four year round trip , we would be looking at a minimum crew of at least twenty four or more individuals at least !
The other aspect has been shown in reality that unmanned robotic missions like Mars Rover are the most cost effective way of doing things as they are fully capable of providing the same information for the least amount of risk !
To end with a quote from Rockhound in the 1998 movie Armageddon "You know we're sitting on four million pounds of fuel, one nuclear weapon and a thing that has 270,000 moving parts built by the lowest bidder. Makes you feel good, doesn't it?"
No comment from amanfrommars?
We're waiting....
To those that think this is an enormous waste of money. Well, first, it is far better than spending money on a useless war. But beyond that, eventually we'll have used up this lil' ball's resources and need to branch out. And where's everyone's spirit of exploration? The sad fact is that a lot of the high-tech stuff we take for granted and that has at least marginally improved life has come as a bonus from the space program (and unfortunately the military's quest for better ways to kill) --the internet being a direct example.
they've already had some advice on this..
from a bloke named Kim Stanley Robinson.. Was their 'special advisor' for 15 years according to the biog in the back of his Mars books..
pure fiction but as real as the proposal from NADS..
So my space ambitions are truly dead, as I might be 40 when the first manned mission reaches Mars, and still be that much far away from Mars colonization. I still hope for a Lunar Base, but I just don't see that happening unless the Chinese do it. I think my best bet would be to buy a ticket to the ISS with the Russians... except I don't have that kind of $. :(
The chances of anything going to Mars...
Are $450bn to one he said...!
I have a cunning plan...
Why not strap a rocket to the ISS and point it at mars?
You could fill it with 'celebrities' and make a reality tv show -the person with the least votes each week is evicted.
If enough people voted then in 16 months you could even send a rescue ship for the winner.
Back in reality... they should set up base camp on phobos - much easier to land on - then they could pop down to mars.
Hope I live to see it.
And the obvious...
Can we send Paris?
We can tell her it's a humanitarian mission, we know how much she loves those - when in fact she'll have heard about the 28-month-or-so tan, and will agree whole-heartedly.
And the thought of the mission becoming jeopardized due to radiation poisoning / lack of repair skills / malfunction / someone pigging all the oxygen would mean nobody back on Earth would have a problem putting her on the craft.
Only one way to launch that kinda payload, Orion, or ol' boom-boom as Larry Niven/Jerry Pournelle nicknamed it, cheap(ish) to build, just don't worry about the fallout.....
I find it absolutely bizarre...
...that NASA still continues to implement the biggest possible project it can under the guise "we need to design a whole bunch of new technology to get this working!", especially in today's technological environment.
Bob Zubrin is right... NASA is an oversized, mal-managed money pit filled with aerospace engineers and managers who aren't interested in progress of space flight; they simply want to get their hands on all that ca$h so they can develop exotic solutions.
Using Zubrin's Mars Direct program, the goal of landing humans on Mars is much easier and MUCH cheaper than any of NASA's hair-brained schemes. If only NASA's administrators, top management guys and technical advisors would stop trying to bring back the Apollo glory days...
In theory, with a government that was willing to fund space exploration instead of country invasion, NASA could have put humans on Mars more than a decade ago.
I bet...
The Chinese get the first. And do it for about $20m.
Cracking idea
Sod the Chinese, I hear Wallace and Gromit's latest design is ready for flight testing next year, complete with Wensleydale radiation shields.
@Curtis W. Rendon - Radiation protection
Doesn't practically all the bad radiation come from the sun? If so then you just need a metre or so of water between you and it. Your spaceship / safe area can be a long thin cylinder with the dense end end always facing the sun. Multiply water depth by the "floor" area in square metres to get metric tonnes of water.
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Watch out for the rock-snakes, and whatever you do, don't shell the building complex when you stumble across it!
We don't want those pesky Mysterons getting the hump.
If they do, we'll end up with Captain Black running around the planet doing a one-man Al-Qaeda job, and only good old Captain Scarlet to keep a lid on things.
slight of hand
what we should all be worried about is what NEED someone would find to spending 450bn on a manned space flight to mars, while we have been bombarding this planet with all type and frequencies of waves searching for water etc. ALL civilizations geat greedy right before their downfall!
Everyone is talking about force fields, while this technology has been available since 1904. Look up Tom Beardon and Nikola Tesla is you have questions :p
You would have had your flying car too, but Tesla lost the industrialization war with Edisson
We have to go to Mars and beyond; at least at some point in time (our sun demands it), but I would rather see a colonized moon base, small asteroid colonies or even floating space stations all along the way to wherever and whenever mankind is going. You don't throw an infant off of a crab boat in the middle of the Alaskan ocean and expect it to swim. So why then is a floating dead rock almost 100 million miles away a good place for mankind to get our feet wet in the cosmic ocean?
If the whole reason for this is just to prove that we can do it, umm why, and to whom are we trying to prove it to? What will we learn by sending a manned space mission to Mars? It won't benefit us much more than if there were only robots and monkeys on board the spaceship. There is no habitat for us to live; there is no terraformed Marshin soil or a protective breathable atmosphere for our fragile human bodies. Any tests on rocks, gathering samples we can do with robotics. If we need to test living subjects on Mars, take a few rats, bugs, and monkeys. If the mission is to prove man can sustain life for 30 plus months in space; fine, but lets do it a little closer to home; like on our neighborly tide generator; the moon.
What we should focus on is spending the $450 billion on better ways of leaving the earth, you know with out strapping ourselves in a tube pushed by millions of gallons of highly explosive rocket fuel. If that was the risk you had to take to pick up some eggs at your local Wal-Mart, I think we would have a lot more people buying chickens. It wasn't until The National Interstate and Defense Highways Act of 1956 that the US became truly accessible for you and me and with that; came the ability for Joe Nobody to travel where he wanted and when he wanted; which also evolved the car from a luxury to a necessity. Once we have a vehicle to safely leave and enter the earth without the threat of being incinerated by a faulty 30 cent o-ring, and a shield to shelter us from becoming a blistering puddle of our former selves thanks to cosmic radiation. Then let's start exploring our celestial siblings.
In just over 400 years we went from the center of the universe being underneath our (understandably so) egocentric feet to realizing our humble, somewhat pathetic and tiny place in the known universe, but that's okay, someday we will explore it, not you and I but we as mankind will explore it. As for the pace at which we are starting to explore and occupy space, we are cruising at lightning speed, especially when you compare our progress in the past 60 years to the rest of the time humans have inhabited this planet. It just seems slow, and unfair that your child hood dreams of being on a different planet, or walking on the moon, will most likely never be realized by you and probably not even by your grandchildren's grand kids, but one day there will be a human on Mars pointing out to their child a tiny blue star in the night sky, and telling them the stories of a Christopher Columbus, George Washington, Neil Armstrong, and how their great, great, great, great grandfather was just like them…..an explorer.
Good Luck
Why not send some retired Geologists / Scientists / Doctors etc. who would be prepared to spend the rest of their lives, researching the planet for all mankind, thus saving the return journey, they could of course receive supplies as required, Obviously they would have to be fit for the arduous journey !
I bet you would have many voluntary people
@Count Ludwig
And for added protection, a 30 month's supply of gay sheep to help soak up the residual rays.
how utterly silly
... we already have the technology, funding and know-how to create a reasonable facsimile of travelling from the Earth to Mars in the guise of the device we use to browse "El Reg". Let's face it, if the human race was gullable enough to believe that America got to the moon 'sans incident' on it's first attempt all those years ago then why shouldn't a trip to Mars be just as easy with all the enhanced computer graphics (oops, silly me - "technology") available today.
And just think of all the extra missiles and guns we can spend the funding money on?
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We're looking for mature, reliable raiders who understand that if they miss a raid they are affecting 9/24 other people and find that unacceptable. Who research their class and perform their role at a high level. We want raiders that can take feedback, who are tough enough to be called out for making a mistake and respond by getting better not by making excuses or pointing the blame at someone else.
Particularly for raiders aspiring to join our progression group excellence is expected. Everyone in this group is expected to know their class inside and out. We also expect a reliable internet connection with a computer that can handle the content without issue. Due to the small size of this group attendance in this group is extremely important and missing raids is something that is expected to happen only on extremely rare occasions.
We want raiders who understand that loot is not something worth getting mad about. Drama over loot is not tolerated.
Finally we're looking for people who can take a joke and give as good as they get, who just like to hang out play WoW and have a good time.
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Applications to Burn Phase can be submitted on our website
If you have questions feel free to whisper Palthus or Meene in game for more information.
For anyone not currently on Mal'Ganis who is interested we'll do a vent interview where we discuss your knowledge of your class and just generally get to know you.
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Kent Fuller's last, fast, crowdfunded ride
Photos courtesy Kickstarter.
For a guy who's famously taciturn, Kent Fuller is one of the most powerful thinkers in the world of drag racing and land speed competition. He built his first dragster in 1956, and soon revolutionized that category by pioneering the horizontal-loop three-point roll bar, which obsoleted the earlier "skidbar" configuration favored by the likes of Scotty Fenn. That started a journey that led Fuller to a collaboration with Tommy Ivo, the discovery of Don Prudhomme, and his chassis as the basis for the most dominant Top Fuel dragster in history, the Greer-Black-Prudhomme dragster.
Since then, Fuller went on to design the radical Magicar dragster of 1963, a frame-within-a-frame innovation that allowed the driveline to be suspended. Later, he went into business building Volkswagen-based replica hot rods. At 79, he's still at it. Fuller's last stand, assisted by 14-year-old grandson Greg, is to build a new Bonneville streamliner with an even newer method of financing it: Fuller is using social media to fund the car via Kickstarter, an online funding platform that has seen more than 3.9 million people pledge more than $591 million, funding more than 40,000 creative projects ranging from books and film to technology, since its launch in 2009. The practice is known as crowdfunding, and Kickerstarter says Fuller's LSR project will be the world's first crowdfunded competition vehicle. Spec-wise, the Fuller car is a radical monocoque streamliner, designed so the pilot, ex-Indy Lights driver Andy Davis, will have to lie flat, his only view of the course coming via the mirrors on a periscope. Using an unblown flathead on nitro, the team aims to topple the current SCTA XF/FS record at 280 MPH and change.
For more information about the project, visit Kickstarter.com.
Hemmings Find of the Day – 1956 Kurtis-Kraft midget
Even if this 1956 Kurtis-Kraft midget racer for sale on Hemmings.com – also known as the Le Claire Special – didn't currently hold the record in M/MVOT, didn't have any Bonneville race history, or weren't in shape to return to Bonneville and do better, it's still an authentic Kurtis-Kraft midget powered by an Offy four-cylinder, making for one awesome combination. From the seller's description:
Bonneville Record Holder – Currently holds the World Record and in the history books at 136.10mph and still has more to prove on the salt. Car should run in the 140′s.
1956 Kurtis-Kraft Midget. 110 Offy – 97c.i. (best of everything): Carillo Rods, Moldex Crank, J&E Pistons, Dema Elgin Cams, New Springs. All Aluminum Body with full nose to tail belly pan. Custom Built Brass Radiator. Cage is 4130 and comes with an extra bolt on cage. Custom Paint and Graphics. On Board Fire Supression System. Streamlined for the salt where possible. This car has passed tech 5 times at Bonneville and will again. Registered car number is #714. Construction photo album and tech papers included with sale.
Status: No Longer Available
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Four-Links – Toronado styling, electric BMW, Seagrave's car, monster Fiat replica
* Over on Dean's Garage, GM stylist Dick Ruzzin shared his memories – and some photos and sketches – from the genesis of the Oldsmobile Toronado, which was designed and developed alongside the Buick Riviera and Cadillac Eldorado and which apparently took inspiration from the Ferrari 330 GT 2+2.
* While experimentation with EVs has been ongoing in pretty much every automotive era, the late 1980s isn't generally known as a golden age of electric vehicles, yet as Ronan Glon at Ran When Parked pointed out, it's when BMW developed and built a handful of electric 325iXs for testing purposes.
* Yes, indeed, Seagrave – the fire apparatus company – considered building a fiberglass-bodied car in the early 1960s. Geoff Hacker at Forgotten Fiberglass found a 1961 Car Life article with the dirt on the tiny but well-proportioned car.
* Yes, those are two adult men behind Duncan Pittaway's massive Fiat S76 replica project, a 1,729-cu.in. four-cylinder monster that Duncan plans to run in Belgium at up to 132 MPH this December. The Old Motor's got more on the project.
* Finally, over on Modern Mechanix, a September 1955 Popular Mechanics article on a Le Sabre-inspired dream car, apparently a Spohn-bodied custom Chevrolet.
Safety first, speed second: Lessons from a 200-plus MPH crash
Photo courtesy KP Racing.
"Safety first, speed second." That's a founding principle of the modern sport of land-speed racing – after the chills and thrills of the wild early years of go-fast pursuits, the sport settled down into a more regulated, controlled, and above all, safe way to get your kicks. Today, timing associations regulate the need for speed, carefully tech-inspecting all race cars and mandating safety precautions for different levels of competition.
All of that paid off this past weekend at the Texas Mile, a twice-yearly test of speed held at an airstrip in Beeville, Texas. A regular competitor there, the KP Racing team out of Houston, suffered a horrific setback to their quest to create the fastest Camaro in the world: Driver Joe Huneycutt lost control of the 2,800hp 441-cu.in. twin-turbo behemoth halfway through his run and went off the strip, rolling eight times before coming to a stop.
Joe, remarkably, suffered only a concussion and lacerations. The car's mandatory rollcage, fabricated by John Harrison of Specialty Metal Craft, and the required personal safety gear worn by all drivers in the so-called 200 MPH club saved him from serious injury, although the car is decimated.
And yes, Joe plans to take the wheel again, aiming to get the team's Camaro past their 263.2 MPH best, set last year.
All of this is a testament to the care and seriousness with which the land-speed hobby takes safety. As we point out in the May 2013 issue of Hemmings Muscle Machines, anyone can join in with land-speed racing – all you need is a well-maintained vehicle and an approved helmet, plus nonflammable clothing. So yes, you can jump in your Z/28 or 'Cuda and go put the pedal to the metal at any of the airstrips around the country that host timing events. But if you want to exceed about 135 MPH, safety precautions start getting serious.
It's all about "safe, fun, and fast" – timing association officials say, "It is not our mission to ruin your weekend. Instead, it is our mission to keep you from ruining your weekend" with a crash like what happened in Texas, only without the walkaway ending. Because of that, every single car, no matter what the vintage, gets tech inspected… and the drivers get checked for gear compliance, too. Everybody – even professional race car drivers – has to take proficiency runs before they can ditch their rookie stickers, too.
And then there's the equipment.
According to the Loring Timing Association, which runs events at northern Maine's Loring Air Force Base, drivers seeking to exceed 135 MPH must wear a driver's suit, gloves, headsock or helmet skirt, and boots. Cars capable of exceeding 175 MPH must have provisions for restricting head movement both forward and laterally – something that probably helped save Joe Huneycutt's life. Ditto the rollcage requirements: Over 135, cars have to have a roll bar; between 135-150, a four-point bar is mandatory, while between 150-175, it's a six-point bar. Over 175 MPH and you need a full cage. Race seats, belts, and restraints are also required.
Yeah, all of that can add up to a significant investment in bringing your car to timing association spec (although you can often find an ex-SCCA car that already has a racing harness and cage installed, ready to shoot for 150 on the mile). But go look at those photos of the KP Racing Camaro again. Worth it, don't you think?
Camaro images courtesy of KP Racing; diagrams courtesy of Loring Timing Association; racer image by the author.
Hot off the press: A revived racer keeps revvin' in Hemmings Muscle Machines
Muscle cars are meant to be used. Unfortunately, that often means that the specimens we find today have been abused – run hard and put up wet. Not so with this amazing 1969 Chevelle SS 396, which was put back on the road – and on the track – by its original owner, who also raced it back in the day.
Also in this issue, we go behind the scenes with the King himself, Richard Petty, as he talks us through photos from throughout his storied racing career. Then we give you the low-down on how to buy a 1979 Trans Am, screaming chicken and all, and check out another original-owner car: a 1968 Dodge Super Bee.
And keeping with the "use it!" theme, we take to the track for a different kind of competition – land-speed racing. It's easier to get involved than you might think!
On newsstands now, the May 2013 issue of Hemmings Muscle Machines is also available through Hemmings.com, in digital format or by calling 800-CAR-HERE (800-227-4373). Subscribe to Hemmings Muscle Machines now to start with this issue.
Ruby dragster estimated to bring up to $200,000 at auction
Images courtesy Bonhams.
Why exactly somebody crafted a scale model of one of the world's most famous dragsters out of ruby, we can only guess. After all, aren't there any yellow gems that would work well? Historical accuracy aside, it stands to become perhaps the world's most expensive gemstone-based model dragster (a bustling market, we're sure) later this year when it crosses the block in Los Angeles.
According to Bonhams, which will include the ruby dragster at its Gems, Minerals, and Lapidary Works of Art sale, designer Luis Alberto Quispe Aparici created the model with ruby for the panels; obsidian for the tires; gold vermeil for the engine, wheels and chassis components; and rock crystal for the windscreen. Quispe Aparici based the model on the Greer-Black-Prudhomme dragster, a car funded by Tommy Greer, powered by a Keith Black-built blown Chrysler 392 Hemi, built by Kent Fuller, and painted and shoed by legendary drag racer Don Prudhomme. Granted, it didn't always wear its signature yellow paint – when it debuted in June 1962, it was red and the team hadn't yet adorned its engine with that unique scoop – but with eight-second runs at 190 MPH and a win rate of about 90 percent over the next two years, did it really matter what color Prudhomme painted it?
Bonhams estimates that the 60-centimeter-long model will sell for $150,000 to $200,000 at the auction, which takes place May 21 to 22. The real Greer-Black-Prudhomme dragster, by the way, is currently owned by collector Bruce Meyer.
As if the dragster model weren't enough noteworthy automotive art crossing the block in coming months, Bonhams will also offer a print of Malcolm Campbell's land-speed record-setting Bluebird found hanging in a garage that's expected to sell for up to $90,000. According to Bonhams, the owner of the Cyril Edward Power print titled "Speed Trial" had it for 25 years and thought little of it other than that it'd make good garage decor, worth no more than £20, before he showed it to Bonhams representatives, who recognized it as much more valuable. They estimated its value to be between £40,000 and £60,000 (about $60,000 to $90,000); Bonhams noted that a similar image sold last year for £96,000 (about $145,000). The print will go up for sale at the Bonhams Grosvenor School and Avant-Garde British Printmaking sale, scheduled for April 16.
For more information, visit Bonhams.com.
UPDATE (24.May 2013): The gemstone dragster sold for $146,500.
Four-Links – better than Brock, Derham Bugatti, the science of NASCAR, Yellowstone's Snowcats
* Disco Quinn, the Speed Hero, has a grand plan. Not only is he going to sell everything he owns to go live and work in Australia for a year (jealous!), but he intends to break Peter Brock's Bathurst lap record of 2:20.5 while he's there. Now stop using the term YOLO, Quinn.
* Most Bugattis received coachwork in Europe, so it's a rare opportunity to see one draped with an American body, as was the case with the Derham-bodied Bugatti T43 that Tim Martin at The Old Motor recently highlighted.
* Whatever your opinion of modern NASCAR, Diandra Leslie-Pelecky's blog Building Speed, which focuses on the science behind NASCAR, is good reading for anybody interested in the automotive applications of science. (via)
* Paul d'Orléans of Oily Rag recently took a winter trip to Yellowstone made possible by the fleet of Bombardier Snowcats still in use in and around the park.
* Finally, Jesse at justacarguy did a good job of rounding up some of the more spectacular purpose-built land-speed cars from throughout the 20th century, showing not only the diversity of the cars that have competed for the record, but also the sheer number.
Lost and Found Redux – Thunderbowl Comet
What we've been calling the Thunderbowl Comet has appeared a number of times in Hemmings Classic Car's Lost and Found department (#66, #85, and #87), and through those appearances, we've learned quite a bit.
According to Ohioan Ron Carbaugh, it was built by Harlan Fengler in the 1930s for the Metro film studio, specifically for use in the 1936 Jimmy Stewart film Speed. In the film, the car – known as the Falcon – is taken to Muroc Dry Lake for a land-speed record attempt, but Fengler apparently believed that the car was actually competitive and devised a plan to switch out several different engines for different land-speed record classes. The only drivetrain we know that powered it was one from a front-wheel-drive Cord L-29. To the best of anybody's knowledge, Fengler never proved the car's competitiveness, and it instead spent the next couple of decades promoting different venues around Southern California. At one point, it promoted the Carpinteria Thunderbowl, a quarter-mile dirt track, and later it promoted The Village Inn outside Palmdale, California.
Thanks to our friend Charles Beesley over at motor life.blog, we see that the Thunderbowl Comet had one other guise, promoting Speedway Carburetors of Glendale. This apparently took place before the Carpinteria Thunderbowl pressed it into service, though we don't know really anything about Speedway Carburetors in Glendale. Beesley also located a couple of photos of Alex Tremulis with the Thunderbowl Comet sometime during its tenure in Palmdale, a natural pairing given Tremulis's interest in streamlining.
Coincidentally, at about the same time Beesley found the lead photo, reader Robert Frumkin of Los Angeles sent us this photo that reportedly shows Fengler (on the right) along with Lucien Hubbard (producer of Speed), Stewart, Wendy Barrie (Stewart's co-star), Edwin Marin (director of Speed), and the Golden Eagle Special, as Fengler apparently called it.
And yes, as Beesley noted, we have spoken with the owner of the Falcon/Golden Eagle Special/Thunderbowl Comet, and it's in good hands. Will we keep finding photos of the car in previously unknown guises, or do we have its history largely sorted out now?
Four-Links – Viking guest bedroom, 2CV Selecta, 1975 Columbus auto show, Tremulis and the Tucker/K-F sports car
* For an instant guest bedroom, an unnamed Maine resident decided to convert a 1959 Chevrolet Viking short bus. (via)
* Responding to our call for more Selectas, some guy in France has created the 2CV Selecta. Still waiting for a Gremlin Selecta. (via)
* While researching another story this week, came across some photos of the 1975 Columbus auto show on PontiacsOnline.com. Nowadays they do the auto show at the convention center, but I believe they held it at the Franklin County Veterans Memorial back then.
* From Steve Tremulis at Gyronaut X-1 comes the story of Alex Tremulis's sports car concept, designed while he was with Tucker, considered for production just after Tucker folded, and then revised for Kaiser-Frazer. Though Tremulis didn't re-reintroduce it while he was at Ford, we do see some of its elements in Tremulis's Mexico and in his original sketch for the DePalma.
* Car collector extraordinaire Bruce Meyer shared some photos and video of his recent 200 MPH excursion at Bonneville with Mike Gulett at My Car Quest.
Four-Links – baby Black Widow, the Japanese pony car, Oz jet car, Curtiss-Wright air car
* Weathering remains in vogue among car modelers, and this 1957 Chevrolet Black Widow over on the Model Junkyard blog wears the treatment well.
* Autopolis this week took a look back on the 1970-1977 Toyota Celica, the so-called Japanese pony car.
* Think you know your ultimate land-speed cars? This jet-powered car, which Charles Bayer spotted at the recent Motorclassica in Australia, was built in the early 1970s for a go at breaking the world land-speed record and has only been displayed in public a couple times since then.
* What if we were all driving around in hovercraft instead of cars nowadays? Laughable, perhaps, but Curtiss-Wright explored the concept with its Model 2500 air car. David Greenlees at The Old Motor has more.
* Fireball Tim found a bunch of photos of long submerged cars that have since become reefs. See, old cars really are green.


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Opening statements held in Bujak's fraud trial
Prosecutors in a federal bankruptcy fraud trial say a former Idaho prosecutor hid his then-wife's Rolex watch when the couple filed for bankruptcy in late 2010.
But John Bujak in opening statements Tuesday says his former wife told him that she'd given the watch to her mother years earlier, and that's why he didn't include it when filing bankruptcy papers.
The former Canyon County prosecutor is charged with bankruptcy fraud, concealment of assets, making a false statement under oath, money laundering and obstruction of justice.
The Idaho Statesman reports that the trial is expected to last about a week at the federal courthouse in Boise.
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The Otter Valley Otters softball team, behind the pitching of senior hurler Ashley Sanderson, improved to 3-1 last Saturday with a 4-0 shutout over the visiting Mount Anthony Patriots.
Sanderson, who wants to be a professional chef, proved she can cook on the mound as well as in the kitchen. If not for a seventh inning throwing error Sanderson would have thrown a perfect game. Instead she had to settle for a no hitter, in which she recorded an amazing 18 strike outs, including the first 15 hitters she faced. It was Sanderson's first varsity no hitter, but probably won't be her last before she hangs up her Otter cleats at the end of this season. Offensively the Otters were led by Michaela Harrington who pounded out an RBI triple and a solo homerun off Patriot hurler Ashley Glanvosky. Glanvosky, who gave up four runs on five hits, took the loss for Mount Anthony.
Minutemen Close, But Not Quite
In high school baseball action last Saturday the Mill River Minutemen were defeating the Windsor Yellow Jackets 4-3 with two outs in the seventh inning, but they couldn't get that final out. Tyler Kibling delivered a two out single that drove in James Nolan, who had walked, tying the game at 4-4.
The duo paired up again two innings later to deliver Windsor a win. With two outs and the bases empty in Windsor's ninth inning Nolan smacked a double, and Kibling delivered yet another run scoring two out single.
This time the run he drove in proved to be the winning one in a 5-4 Windsor win. Brian Holloway, Alex Drost, Nolan and Kibling had two hits each for Windsor, while Alan White paced Mill River with two hits, including a two run homerun he belted in a three run Minutemen first inning. Kibling started for Windsor before he was relieved by Drost, who picked up the win by pitching one hit baseball, and striking out four over the final four innings of play.
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To read the blizzard of commentary on Roger Clemens's indictment, you wonder why the government is even bothering to bring the ex-pitcher to trial. Clemens's guilt has already been decided in the sports media. For instance, Shaun Powell on ESPNNewYork.com, who writes as if a verdict of guilty is a ... More >>
Following in the not-so-great tradition of Barry Bonds, former Yankees pitcher Roger Clemens has been indicted by federal authorities on six charges, including perjury and making false statements to Congress, about his use of performance-enhancing drugs.
Long left off the list of performance-enhancing drug abusing "athletes," poker players are finally having their day in the sun. A new study from Nova Southeastern University found that 80 percent of the 198 players interviewed reported using drugs and other substances to enhance their perform ... More >>
JunkieCyclist Floyd Landis has finally admitted to doping, four years after he was caught red-handed and was stripped of the 2006 Tour de France championship. But that news is quickly being overshadowed by Landis's reported accusations against his former teammates, Levi Leipheimer, George Hi ... More >>
In the latest medical dispute between Mets players and management, Jose Reyes, who was sent up from spring training for a thyroid check, told the world his thyroid was fine, while the Mets said it was overactive. Later they all got together, and Reyes' agent clarified, saying Reyes' thyroid ... More >>
Yes, McGwire was one of the models for the "Got milk?" ad campaign. Mark McGwire's confession Monday that he used steroids was ludicrous. The disgraced baseball slugger says he used steroids to heal his body but not to hit home runs. He adds that the steroids didn't help him break home-run records ... More >>
Lawyers have leaked that Manny Ramirez and David Ortiz, stars of the Red Sox teams that won the World Series in 2004 and 2007, tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs in 2003, the first year Major League Baseball tested for steroids. Other previously-revealed members of that class of ... More >>
Let's take the issues connected with the outing of Sammy Sosa's 2003 drug test results one at a time: -- First, the New York Times broke the news on June 16 with a story stating that Sosa had tested positive "according to lawyers with knowledge of the drug-testing results from that year."   ... More >>
If you were planning on dropping 50 cents to pick up Thursday's Daily News because of the headline - "A-Rod Book Bombshell" - let us save you the change. The first of two front page revelations, supposedly taken from Selena Roberts's upcoming Rodriguez biography, that "Slugger may [Emphasis ou ... More >>
UPDATE: Armstrong responds to the controversy. See end of post.George Vecsey has an interesting column today about something that apparently has the French press in a tizzy: when Lance Armstrong was surprised last month by a French cycling official who showed up and asked for samples for a drug test ... More >>
It isn't so much that the use of steroids and performance enhancing drugs in the NFL gets less attention than it does in baseball -- it's more like it's invisible. On Wednesday, the Jets announced they had signed Larry Izzo, three-time Pro Bowl linebacker and special teams player for the New E ... More >>
We see Newsday is thinking the same way we are, and asks an expert if the cyst on A-Rod's hip has to do with his steroid abuse back in his Mariners days. Not likely, says Gary Wadler, "an internist and member of the World Anti-Doping Agency." The cyst was discovered after Rodriguez experienced some ... More >>
What a strange reunion is taking place for three cycling legends this weekend in California: --Lance Armstrong, the 7-time Tour de France winner who is staging a comeback at 37 in part to prove that he's a clean rider and no doper, despite a controversial 2005 report claiming that he'd used th ... More >>
After his admission that he used performance enhancing drugs from 2001 to 2003, Alex Rodriguez received the support of the Yankees organization ("Although we are disappointed in the mistake he spoke to today, we realize that Alex -- like all of us -- is a human being not immune to fault"). Fans and ... More >>
Allegations having been brought by Sports Illustrated that Alex Rodriguez used steroids in 2003, the Yankees third baseman will make a statement about it on ESPN, perhaps as soon as today. The Daily News' Bob Raissman says the ESPN statement, done in interview format with reporter Peter Gammons, "is ... More >>
Pictured above: Nobody who's in the story below. By the way, kids, don't try this at home without your parents' help. In news fresh off the server that should set the Hot Stove League blazing, The Smoking Gun unravels the tale of one Mike Bogdan, allegedly the previously unnamed FBI informant who ... More >>
Cases worked on by cops ensnared in narco and steroids probes have been dismissed
Is there something slightly unseemly about the juxtaposition of a story about Viagra's off-label use by baseball players underneath a "OUR GREAT YANKEE DVD DEAL A BIG HIT!" panel? Is this a perfect example of the separation of "church and state" for advertising/promotions and editorial, or just a wa ... More >>
The Mitchell Report on steroid use in baseball joins the game's literary classics. But how good is it?
How else to describe the rage in Clemen's eyes when he hurled a broken bat at the Met's Mike Piazza in the 2000 Subway Series. Former Yankee hurler Roger Clemens became the first played to be connected with steroids and human growth hormone in the Mitchell report, according to various news organiza ... More >>
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