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Geek Trivia: The Quibble of the Week for December 18

If you uncover a questionable fact or debatable aspect of this week's Geek Trivia, "And called them by names," just post it in the discussion area. Every week, yours truly will choose the best quibble from the assembled masses and discuss it in a future edition of Geek Trivia. ...

Tags: Barrier, Quibble, Aircraft, SpaceShipOne, Jay Garmon

Blog posts 2007-12-18

Geek Trivia: (Sonic) boom or bust

On Nov. 26, 2003, a unique and complex era of civilian air transport came to a close when the Concorde retired from service, thereby grounding the last commercial supersonic airliner after 27 years of almost continuous operation. The fact that the Concorde flew at all, however, is still something of...

Tags: U.S., Flight, SpaceShipOne, Jay Garmon

Blog posts 2007-12-04

Geek Trivia: First in (space)flight

Who was the first person to achieve astronaut status through aerodynamic flight? In France, they call them spationauts, while the Chinese sometimes call members of this exclusive club taikonauts. Those who achieve the distinction in service to the Russian Aviation and Space Agency go by cosmonauts,...

Tags: Jay Garmon, Aerospace & Defense, Federation Aeronautique Internationale, SpaceShipOne, Geek Trivia Newsletter, TechRepublic Inc., Flight, Mike Melvill

Technical articles 2006-07-18

Geek Trivia: Space ship, too

What is the planned name for the first Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo passenger spacecraft? Two years ago, outer space finally went public when a crazy bunch of entrepreneurs (well, a billionaire and a genius aerospace engineer, anyway) took spaceflight private. On June 21, 2004, Scaled Composites' SpaceShipOne...

Tags: Aerospace & Defense, Jay Garmon, SpaceShipTwo, aerospace, Virgin, Virgin Galactic, Geek Trivia Newsletter, Spacecraft, Microsoft Visual SourceSafe, SpaceShipOne, Passenger, Manufacturing

Technical articles 2006-06-20

Geek Trivia: Star(ship) of the silver screen

What impending motion picture will feature a cameo from Richard Branson and a Virgin Galactic spacecraft? It's time to send out belated birthday wishes to a milestone moment in aerospace history: June 21 marked the one-year anniversary of SpaceShipOne's first manned spaceflight. In the intervening 380...

Tags: SpaceShipOne, Jay Garmon, Aerospace & Defense, Virgin, Tier-One, Virgin Galactic, Richard Branson, Geek Trivia Newsletter, TechRepublic Inc., Spacecraft

Technical articles 2005-07-01

Geek Trivia: Too cool for fuel

Test your command ofuseless knowledge by subscribing to TechRepublic's Geek Trivia e-newsletter. Automaticallysign up today!Yuri Gagarin… Neil Armstrong… Mike Melvill?One of these three is not like the others, but it isn'tbecause Melvill isn't a bona fide figure from space history. On the morning ofJune 21, 2004, Melvill assumed his place...

Tags: first human, Jay Garmon, Mike Melvill, SpaceShipOne

Technical articles 2004-07-06

Additional Resources

(Fly and fold)

Hell no!I'm already running out of excuses for being late for work, I don't need this to make my life more difficult! :) JK, looking forward to reading the real-life reviews on this one.PS Does that come with fluffy dice?Burt Rutan & SpaceShipOneThe comment on the last photo says that...

Tags: aircraft, aviation, DuckFart, flying car

Discussion threads 2006-09-15

Geek Trivia: All-stars in the sky

Test your command ofuseless knowledge by subscribing to TechRepublic's Geek Trivia e-newsletter. Automaticallysign up today!Richard Branson, founder and head of the sprawling VirginGroup business empire, actually managed to increase his already formidable Qrating by appearing on a reality television show that described him anditself as the "The Rebel Billionaire." So...

Tags: Jay Garmon, Richard Branson

Technical articles 2005-02-22

Microsoft to expand Redmond headquarters

Stay on top of the latest tech news with our free IT News Digest newsletter, delivered each weekday. Automatically sign up today!By ReutersMicrosoft said Monday that it would expand its Redmond, Wash., headquarters to accommodate the hiring of more than 10,000 new employees over next 10 to 20 years. ...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Brad Smith

Technical articles 2005-01-11