Quote Originally Posted by jhockin View Post
just one correction: it is "purling" a fringe, and this is a link to the tool:
"http://www.leclerclooms.com/twister.htm"
I timed Jerry doing this on the ferry and it takes about 2 min to do each pearl. I can do it by hand in half that time. This tool is very good if you have arthritis though.

Sunday night we sat up late to see Curiosity land on Mars and it was an exciting EDL. I found this animation about the landing AND how some of the instrumentation works. What an amazing pice of equipment.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4boy...layer_embedded