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Gossamer
Gossamer most commonly refers to: * Fine spider silk used by spiderlings for Ballooning (spider), ballooning or kiting * Gossamer (fabric), very light, sheer, gauze-like fabric Gossamer may also refer to: Technology * Gossamer Condor, the first human-powered aircraft capable of controlled and sustained flight * Gossamer Albatross, a human-powered aircraft built by American aeronautical engineer Dr. Paul B. MacCready's AeroVironment * The code name of the motherboard used in Power Macintosh G3, first-generation Apple G3 Macs Culture * The Gossamer Project (or Gossamer Archive), a large ''X-Files'' fan fiction archive * Gossamer (Looney Tunes), a character in the ''Looney Tunes'' cartoons * Gossamer, alias of two different DC Comics superheroes, Ayla Ranzz and Jay Nakamura Literature * ''The Gossamer Years'', an English title for the Japanese classical work of literature ''KagerÅ Nikki'' * Gossamer (novel), ''Gossamer'' (novel), a 2006 novel by Lois Lowry * Gossamer, a 1995 s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gossamer (album)
''Gossamer'' is the second studio album by American electropop band Passion Pit. It was released on July 20, 2012, by Columbia and Frenchkiss Records. Recorded in 2011 in Los Angeles and New York City, the album was produced by Chris Zane, who also produced the band's debut album ''Manners'' (2009), and lead singer Michael Angelakos. In an August 2010 interview with ''NME'', Angelakos stated that work had already begun on the follow-up to ''Manners'', and that the band intended to release the album in the spring of 2011. "It's gonna be a really fantastic, exciting, beautiful, gorgeous record. An absolutely beautiful record. I'm so excited", he said. The album's title and release date were announced on April 24, 2012. Singles " Take a Walk" was released as the album's lead single on May 8, 2012. The accompanying music video, directed by David Wilson and supported by The Creators Project, was shot in Philadelphia from the perspective of a bouncing ball using helicam technology. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Gossamer Project
The Gossamer Project is a group of specialty archives that, combined, contain the vast majority of '' X-Files'' fan fiction on the Internet. In the mid to late 1990s, the Gossamer Archives/Project was one of the "big three" single media fandom-focused archives on the Internet, and remained the largest single fandom fan fiction archive until the emergence of various Harry Potter archives in the early 2000s. As of April 2007, the archive contains 35,192 database entries, with stories dated from May 1995 through April 2007. History First archive The original Gossamer Archive was opened on May 4, 1995 by Vincent Juodvalkis after mirroring files from all the older FTP sites which collected stories from ''alt.tv.x-files.creative'' (ATXC) Usenet newsgroup. He began collecting/archiving all fan fiction posted to ATXC, and later, from the X-Files Fan Fiction mailing list. In early 1996, an FTP mirror site was set up at the Free University of Berlin, maintained by Vera. In April 1996, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gossamer (Looney Tunes)
Gossamer is an animated character in the Warner Bros. ''Looney Tunes'' and ''Merrie Melodies'' series of cartoons. He is a large, hairy, orange or red monster. His body is perched on two giant tennis shoes, and his heart-shaped face is composed of only two oval eyes and a wide mouth, with two hulking arms ending in dirty, clawed fingers. The monster's main trait is his uncombed, orange hair. He originally was voiced by Mel Blanc and has been voiced by Frank Welker, Maurice LaMarche, Joe Alaskey, Jim Cummings, Kwesi Boakye, Eric Bauza and currently Fred Tatasciore. The word ''gossamer'' means any sort of thin, fragile, transparent material. In particular, it can refer to a kind of delicate, sheer gauze or a light cobweb. The name is meant to be ironic because the character is large, menacing, and destructive. History Animator Chuck Jones introduced the unnamed monster in the 1946 cartoon '' Hair-Raising Hare''. In it, Bugs Bunny is lured to the lair of a mad scientist (a carica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ballooning (spider)
Ballooning, sometimes called kiting, is a process by which spiders, and some other small invertebrates, move through the air by releasing one or more gossamer threads to catch the wind, causing them to become airborne at the mercy of air currents and electric fields. A 2018 study concluded that electric fields provide enough force to lift spiders in the air, and possibly elicit ballooning behavior. This is primarily used by spiderlings to disperse; however, larger individuals have been observed doing so as well. The spider climbs to a high point and takes a stance with its abdomen to the sky, releasing fine silk threads from its spinneret until it becomes aloft. Journeys achieved vary from a few metres to hundreds of kilometres. Even atmospheric samples collected from balloons at five kilometres altitude and ships mid-ocean have reported spider landings. Ballooning can be dangerous (due to predators, and due to the unpredictable nature of long-distance ballooning, which may brin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
