You know…sometimes velcro’s just entirely too weak sauce for my taste. Little cloth hooks that hold things together, no thank you. I need something with a bit more testosterone. Something a bit more MANLY.
Heyyy…I know. How about velcro…made out of METAL?
It already exists, folks–it’s called Metaklett, and it promises to indeed be Velcro 2.0. Engineers at the Technical University of Munich developed the super-strong material which supports a maximum of thirty five tons, and yet can be pulled apart without tools.
Now, that’s got me a little taken aback. It supports thirty five tons of weight but you can pull it apart with a single pull? That seems like such a gross contradiction in terms that it’s not even funny. But I do look forward to seeing Metaklett in action–this could be something interesting!
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Here’s the full quote from Mr. Rutan, Richard Branson’s head of Virgin Galactic space flight operation: “Don’t believe anyone who tells you that the safety level of new spaceships will be as safe as the modern airliner”. That’s probably exactly what you DON’T want to say when trying to sell the-yet-released million dollar-a-ride commercial space flight program. Nonetheless, Virgin Galactic already has over 200 “firm reservations” and $30 million in deposits. More importantly, and hence the true purpose of this article, is that Rutan revealed Virgin Galactics new space craft today (as seen above) called SpaceShipTwo. Although flights won’t begin until 2009 or 2010, Branson’s space planes are more then half way to completion. Space PLANES you ask? SpaceShipTwo will carry the actual passenger in space, while WhiteKnightTwo, a glorified carrier plane, will carry SpaceShipTwo high into the sky for release. Currently, Virgina Galactic is putting some of it’s tentative passengers through G force testing as I recently saw on MSNBC.
