Alex Thatcher

Award winning Writer, Futurist, Ideator, Autodidactic Polymath Generalist Problem Solver. I dream positive futures to create.

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[Alex Thatcher @Lexthatch]

50,000 years in the future, give or take. A starving, barely functional Man O' War finds himself stuck on a world he's tentatively called "Dinnertime", where instead of him finding sustenance, everything wants to eat him, including what he realizes very quickly, is not a planet. Check out my first entry in the EggShell series: Fall. At Amazon and other bookstores. https://t.co/PjxoGgRwX2

[Alex Thatcher @Lexthatch]

More silliness I accidentally created. Please follow my work page @Mechatek_13x

[Popular Mechatek 🇺🇸 @Mechatek_13x]

Wait! Come back! Also...rocks don't bounce, knock it off. And why did you add weird pirate ship kibble to my ship???

[Alex Thatcher @Lexthatch]

World's largest snowball, verified with pictures.

[Black Hole @konstructivizm]

Saturn’s Moon Mimas – Raw Preview #1Captured: 30 January 2017 | Received on Earth: 1 February 2017A stunning, unprocessed raw image of Saturn’s iconic “Death Star” moon, Mimas, taken by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft during its final years in the Saturn https://t.co/jqshmt9HAG the moment the photo was snapped, Cassini was flying just 42,933 kilometers from Mimas’ surface, using its clear and green filters. The image shows the heavily cratered, icy world in crisp detail — most famously dominated by the enormous Herschel Crater, which gives Mimas its unmistakable resemblance to the Imperial Death Star from Star Wars.This is raw, uncalibrated data — the refined and scientifically validated version was later archived with the Planetary Data System.
Mission: Cassini Solstice Mission
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

[Alex Thatcher @Lexthatch]

Seriously. I did not have that anywhere in the instructions.

[Popular Mechatek 🇺🇸 @Mechatek_13x]

Sir. That is not a parking space.

[Popular Mechatek 🇺🇸 @Mechatek_13x]

Related to it is #WonderStudiosOpenArtChallenge
Which I'm going to try too.

[Popular Mechatek 🇺🇸 @Mechatek_13x]

Doing the X Prize this year. Since it's video based, I'll post the work I do when it majes sense and all the silly AI interpretations.

[Alex Thatcher @Lexthatch]

Hey everyone, follow me under my other profile, @Mechatek_13x I'm competing in the X Prize this year along with #WonderStudiosOpenArtChallenge

So, I'll post all the silly stuff over there that is bound to happen and may repost it here if I remember. I can really use the followers over there. And if you don't follow, you may miss something fun.

[Alex Thatcher @Lexthatch]

@slashgear They torque almost to their fail point where the threads start to plasticize so they won't back off. No lock washers or loctite required, debatable on whether it is better or not. Easier from a manufacturing perspective, not easier from a repair/rebuild one.

[Alex Thatcher @Lexthatch]

@philthatremains Yes, but I bet the weather can change his mind.

[Alex Thatcher @Lexthatch]

Help keep what the Stargate fans want! Remind MGM who used to and will pay their bills. Show Amazon who's boss and sign the petition to get them to make the show as is, like fans would want, instead of canceling it before it evechance. chance. https://t.co/SabvUmk6Bf

[Alex Thatcher @Lexthatch]

@philthatremains Heh, what was really funny was we took them to school and as long as we only played with them on break, no one cared. Somehow I doubt that would work now.

[Alex Thatcher @Lexthatch]

Did someone say super suits? Well they should. Super.

[Space and Technology @spaceandtech_]

MIT researchers have developed new artificial muscles called Electrofluidic Fiber Muscles for robots and wearable devices.

These flexible muscles can be woven into fabric and work silently without bulky equipment.

The system is lightweight, portable, and uses tiny fiber pumps smaller than 2 millimeters to generate powerful movement directly from electricity.

[Alex Thatcher @Lexthatch]

Wicked cool.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Russia’s “Flying Brick,” a custom 1930s hot rod, built by Alexander Opanasenko and Sergei Kabargin.

[Alex Thatcher @Lexthatch]

Detail in abundance.

[Marcel Deneuve @MarcelDeneuve]

Exploring the Star Ocean

[Alex Thatcher @Lexthatch]

Seems like a bit too much of a trip hazard to me.

[Space and Technology @spaceandtech_]

This is evoBOT, a robot helper developed by Germany’s Fraunhofer Institute for Material Flow and Logistics.

It can grasp and carry goods to support cargo workers in transporting packages.

evoBOT can also move smoothly across uneven terrain, including bumpy surfaces and sloping ground.

[Alex Thatcher @Lexthatch]

Their shells do the crackin'.

[MA5K CEO @Nobbie_OCs]

"Desert Crabs"

By @DarekZabrocki

[Alex Thatcher @Lexthatch]

Wicked.

[iamVisual @visual_iam]

Monster! @spacex @starlink #megastarship

[Alex Thatcher @Lexthatch]

Captured dreams.

[Owen Lewis @is_OwenLewis]

"Science fiction is reality ahead of schedule."

–Syd Mead

[Alex Thatcher @Lexthatch]

Love the scale of that.

[Rui Huang @RuiHuang_art]

Artist show your most popular work!

[Rui Huang @RuiHuang_art]

Artist show your most popular work!

[Alex Thatcher @Lexthatch]

Back when companies just did stuff.

[Art of Battletech & Mechwarrior @ArtofBattletech]

Rolling Thunder artwork by Jim Holloway, published in 1988