When NASA Has a Pumpkin Carving Contest Expect Over-Engineered Goodness

This is what happens when engineers take a break from building space robots
It’s the first RNLI lifeboat designed and built entirely in-house
It all started when robotics engineer Tianqi Sun came across a dead sunflower
Philip Frenzel of Aalen University was awarded first prize in a national design contest in Germany for his ‘Mobile Airbag’
This is straight up bananas
The castings of the 15-metric ton, off-axis mirrors for the Giant Magellan Telescope forced engineers to push the design and manufacturing process beyond all previous limits
It can split a watermelon in half
Sometimes you just want to give a little courtesy beep. And sometimes you want to unleash the sound of 1000 jet engines
The 1.7 mile (2.73 km) tunnel in downtown Seattle will house a double-decker highway
The team at Warped Perception built a glass head for a Briggs and Stratton engine to make the combustion process visible
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