South hams, Devon – UK
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June 11, 2022
Camp Perpetua Trail , Yachats – Oregon
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June 2, 2022
Over Bentonville, AK
A very exciting thing happened this week…
Our company http://beta.team successfully flew one of our electric Alia aircraft from Plattsburgh NY to Bentonville , Arkansas last week. The flight was made in 7 hops each of about 200 miles.. The plane recharged from a truck that was following along on the ground. As far as I know it’s the longest all electric trip of an aircraft of our size and weight. .. The plane performed beautifully and was piloted alternately by my friends Lochie and Arlo .
I’m only able to talk about it now that its been publicly disclosed. (see this story in Popular Science today and this short video about the trip )
My friend Kyle (our CEO) flew down to be there for the last leg . He took a samstone for us to be aboard for this historic flight. Lochie was piloting and he sent me these pictures of his Samstone above Arkansas and in the hanger in Bentonville.
Here’s a video from the cockpit
Whats so cool about having a samstone on board is that in addition to doing freight logistics for some of the worlds biggest shippers, one of Beta’s primary missions is to deliver genetically engineered organs for transplantation. Sam was an organ donor and anyone who’s ever been involved in human organ transplantation knows just how hard it is to match donors and receivers. There just aren’t enough organs to go around. One of Beta’s first and principle investors is Martine Rotheblatt . Martine is an amazing inventor and visionary. She formed United Therapeutics.
to engineer live saving therapy for her daughter who had a rare disease. Since that time UT has pioneered many lifesaving therapies including human lung rehabilitation for transplant and the creation of genetically engineered animal organs that are designed to be suitable for human transplantation (eg see here)
Congratulations and thanks to all the folks at Beta who made this possible.. and huge thanks to Lochie , Kyle for taking Sam along for the ride !
nite all, nite sam
-me
May 27, 2022
Sam in Orbit !
My good freind Naeem is my favorite space freak… He’s been working very hard with a group from Bulgaria to build a small “cube sat” satellite which will be an orbit for the next three or so years. He’s going to be using it for cloud computing from space experiments. So cool
And when Naeem told me about the project I mentioned how much I would love to get a samstone in orbit. (There was already one in space.. but not in orbit see http://samstones.org/WordPress1/?p=1827)
We explored different options but it turns out that the satellites are very space and weight constraint so instead of putting a real Sam stone on it I created an image from a 3-D scan of a real stone and gave it to the manufactures. They etched into the side of one of the struts inside the small satellite.
Anyway.. Naeem was told that the space launch was today. 2 PM specifically… And then the satellite itself would be deployed around 2:30. Here’s a picture of it…
Sam is now in orbit!
April 16, 2022
Westpark – Aachen – Germany
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April 11, 2022
Mont de Arts Garden , Brussels – Belgium
| Name |
| Eda Alpar |
| Address |
| Mont des Arts Garden Brussels 1000 BE |
| eda-alpar@hotmail.com |
| Where did you place the SamStone ? (please be as specific as you can e.g.: near a landmark, an address or a long/lat) |
| Mont des Arts Garden |
| Please tell us more about where and how you placed it |
| inside the garden, right corner |
| Upload a picture if you have one to share
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| Upload picture 2 if you have one |
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| Upload picture 3 if you have one |
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April 10, 2022
Whipp’s Ledges Metro Park, Hinkley – Ohio
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April 2, 2022
Meteor Crater – AZ
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January 31, 2022
Antartica
| ame |
| Dustin Peters |
| Address |
| 4542 CABRILLO ST. SAN FRANCISCO, California 94121 US |
| thedustinpeters@gmail.com |
| Where did you place the SamStone ? (please be as specific as you can e.g.: near a landmark, an address or a long/lat) |
| The Antarctic Peninsula |
| Please tell us more about where and how you placed it |
| I was lucky enough to receive an invitation to visit Antarctica during the winter of 2021. The Antarctic ecosystem is very delicate, so leaving the stone permanently wasn’t possible. But may this photo be proof that Sam has visited the elusive 7th continent! |
| Upload a picture if you have one to share |
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Boston – MA
| Name |
| Arthur Daehn |
| Address |
| 293 Commonwealth Avenue Boston, MA 02115 US |
| attieboo83@yahoo.com |
| Where did you find the SamStone ? (please be as specific as you can e.g.: near a landmark, an address or a long/lat) |
| Near the Domingo F. Sarmiento Statue on Commonwealth Ave. |
| Please tell us about where and how you found it |
| Our 1-year-old son, Arrhur, picked up a rock that looked a little different than the ones around it from the path we were walking home. We saw that it was a SamStone and came to this website to learn Sam’s story. This experience touched our hearts and we are so amazed how you are keeping Sam’s spirit thriving. Thank you all. |