Me When These Losers Don’t Like Being Forced To Fight For Their Lives Every Thirty Seconds

Athletes Go for the Gold with NASA Spinoffs

NASA technology tends to find its way into the sporting world more often than you’d expect. Fitness is important to the space program because astronauts must undergo the extreme g-forces of getting into space and endure the long-term effects of weightlessness on the human body. The agency’s engineering expertise also means that items like shoes and swimsuits can be improved with NASA know-how.

As the 2024 Olympics are in full swing in Paris, here are some of the many NASA-derived technologies that have helped competitive athletes train for the games and made sure they’re properly equipped to win.

The LZR Racer reduces skin friction drag by covering more skin than traditional swimsuits. Multiple pieces of the water-resistant and extremely lightweight LZR Pulse fabric connect at ultrasonically welded seams and incorporate extremely low-profile zippers to keep viscous drag to a minimum.

Swimsuits That Don’t Drag

When the swimsuit manufacturer Speedo wanted its LZR Racer suit to have as little drag as possible, the company turned to the experts at Langley Research Center to test its materials and design. The end result was that the new suit reduced drag by 24 percent compared to the prior generation of Speedo racing suit and broke 13 world records in 2008. While the original LZR Racer is no longer used in competition due to the advantage it gave wearers, its legacy lives on in derivatives still produced to this day.

Trilion Quality Systems worked with NASA’s Glenn Research Center to adapt existing stereo photogrammetry software to work with high-speed cameras. Now the company sells the package widely, and it is used to analyze stress and strain in everything from knee implants to running shoes and more.

High-Speed Cameras for High-Speed Shoes

After space shuttle Columbia, investigators needed to see how materials reacted during recreation tests with high-speed cameras, which involved working with industry to create a system that could analyze footage filmed at 30,000 frames per second. Engineers at Adidas used this system to analyze the behavior of Olympic marathoners' feet as they hit the ground and adjusted the design of the company’s high-performance footwear based on these observations.

Martial artist Barry French holds an Impax Body Shield while former European middle-weight kickboxing champion Daryl Tyler delivers an explosive jump side kick; the force of the impact is registered precisely and shown on the display panel of the electronic box French is wearing on his belt.

One-Thousandth-of-an-Inch Punch

In the 1980s, Olympic martial artists needed a way to measure the impact of their strikes to improve training for competition. Impulse Technology reached out to Glenn Research Center to create the Impax sensor, an ultra-thin film sensor which creates a small amount of voltage when struck. The more force applied, the more voltage it generates, enabling a computerized display to show how powerful a punch or kick was.

Astronaut Sunita Williams poses while using the Interim Resistive Exercise Device on the ISS. The cylinders at the base of each side house the SpiraFlex FlexPacks that inventor Paul Francis honed under NASA contracts. They would go on to power the Bowflex Revolution and other commercial exercise equipment.

Weight Training Without the Weight

Astronauts spending long periods of time in space needed a way to maintain muscle mass without the effect of gravity, but lifting free weights doesn’t work when you’re practically weightless. An exercise machine that uses elastic resistance to provide the same benefits as weightlifting went to the space station in the year 2000. That resistance technology was commercialized into the Bowflex Revolution home exercise equipment shortly afterwards.

Want to learn more about technologies made for space and used on Earth? Check out NASA Spinoff to find products and services that wouldn’t exist without space exploration.   

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cc • )___\ General things I hope you enjoy this pride month. (In no particular order.)

• Gays that your agendas are well organized.

• Lesbians that Aphrodite strikes you with love like she struck Sappho.

• Aces that your garlic is tasty.

• Bis that your sunsets invoke the bisexual lighting.

• Trans that your blåhajs are soft.

• Nonbinarys that your outfits further your confusion factor 10 fold.

• Gender-Fluids that you stay comfortably in between boiling and freezing point.

• And to everyone I hope you find that one thing you accidentally lost about a month ago and still haven't found.

cc ^ )___\ If any of these happen for you, I am glad!

It is shameful that after months of pain and despair, Gazans now have to deal with being humiliated on tumblr. The way it is so easy to otherize a whole population because they cannot navigate tumblr like every other average blogger ; please remember that they have been forced onto this unfamiliar online space because they have to fundraise through a genocide! They are being bombed! They have no desire to go blog to blog and reduce themselves by begging to people, who might try to be a racist cracker to them.

There is no doubt that there are good people here. And it is with their help that Siraj Abudayeh ( @siraj2024 ) has reached his short term goal of $20000 CAD. I am requesting you to not to turn away now! Siraj still has a long way to go! He was so happy yesterday, thinking that soon he would be able to start rebuilding his home. Today however he is a bit sad to hear that there are people who are accusing his community of being scammers. He is not surprised though

This is why I am telling you to not turn away. To not treat Gazans as Zionists treat them! Do not humiliate them.

Thanks to you Siraj has raised 20k!! But this is not the end! Pease keep boosting and donating!! Let us get him to 30k

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Siraj is on Hussein and nabulsi's list at 219

( also yeah fuck the crackers who went "Oooooo we whiteys know better how to vett than diaspora Palestinians" )

Le sserafim mercy the gem that you are

You love and support trans women!

Here's a new fic! I call it my zombie AU🥰 I've had the idea for a bit, and was only able to recently sit down and write. On a roll💯💯

https://archiveofourown.org/works/62711134

Make your own proseka OCs. Make your own proseka unit. By god, make it. If you have an idea, go with it. Proseka lore allows for boundless opportunities. They don't even have to be musicians to have a Sekai. They don't even necessarily have to be in Japan. Project Sekai as a game is a love song to art and artists. You are one. Go nuts.

whether you come as a lover or an executioner, i am ready to receive you

OMG YOU'RE THE PERSON THAT WROTE THAT VOS POSSESION AU FIC I LOVE IT :DDDDDD

My prized fic ever! It makes me so happy some of y’all are tuned in to my silly AUs and such! 💙

Apologies there’s only two chapters out atm; I am VERY good at getting VERY sidetracked. The story will be picked back up next month along with some other AU content I’ve been hoarding. The next three chapters are drafted (snippets below) and still need some work, but I’ll have those out as soon as I can! ^^

Actual footage of chapter 4-

Chapter 3 will be Vos’ POV and some… uh temple aftermath. Just the EMBODIMENT of the song the fic is named after-

Chapter 4 is Romeo’s POV. More silly Sea Temple shenanigans there :] I wonder what he’ll say to our favorite doomed adventurer.

Chapter 5 will be about Nurm! I mean SOMEONE has to comfort Jack after that expedition-

The chapters after that are still up in the air; I’m considering chap 6 to be a split POV to show the passing of time, but again this is my first fic so no promises if I can even begin to convey that-

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