Daniel Patrascu
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Personal motto:
"I truly believe men and fish can coexist peacefully" – George W. Bush
Following several years off the grid, Daniel is back at autoevolution, and seeing how the great crisis of the past decade made the auto industry boring, he grew bored with it too, so he slowly shifted his focus to custom cars, custom motorcycles, and other weird stuff. He also loves ranting about space exploration and robots, because in his view the only way forward for humanity is away from this planet, in metal bodies.
During his time at autoevolution, Daniel put his name on more news articles, coverstories, auto guides, reviews, and editorials than we care count. To slow him down a bit, he was given more responsibilities not long ago, so he is now also in charge with coordinating the editorial team on autoevolution.com.
Long time ago, Daniel also translated Arthur C. Clarke’s novel “The Fountains of Paradise” to Romanian for Paladin Publishing.
Huge Magnifying Glass on the Moon Could Melt the Surface Into a Paved Road Network
13 Oct 2023, 11:15 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The Moon has no way of escaping the arrival of humans. The Artemis crewed missions scheduled to begin next year are just the tip of the iceberg, the early stages of a planetary-size invasion that will eventually end with the Moon becoming a second ...
First Flight of Mutant NASA X-59 Supersonic Experimental Aircraft Pushed to 2024
13 Oct 2023, 09:56 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / 2023 was supposed to mark the first test flight of an experimental type of aircraft that might just bring back supersonic passenger air travel. As it turns out, making such a machine from scratch is not easy business, and the airplane will not take...
Boeing and NASA Working to See the Effects of SAF on Airplane Contrails
13 Oct 2023, 09:17 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Those streaks of cloud you often see in the sky trailing behind airplanes are called contrails. Unlike what some would tell you, they are not the result of some maleficent force dispersing harmful substances in the air, but a very normal natural ph...
2024 Kia EV9 EPA Range Higher Than Expected, 304 Miles in the Fittest Form
13 Oct 2023, 07:06 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / South Korean carmaker Kia is presently engaged in an all-out offensive to launch with a bang on the American market the latest electric SUV it came up with, the EV9. After all, it's next week when the order books for it will open, and potentia...
There's a Huge Labyrinth Over on Mars, Bird's Eye View of It Reveals Scale of It All
13 Oct 2023, 06:34 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / They call the place Noctis Labyrinthus (night’s labyrinth). It's a location over on Mars where deep valleys with huge, steep walls play a hide-and-seek game with one another to create a sight very difficult to see anywhere else in the so...
NASA People Dissecting Alien Asteroid Sample Already Found Traces of Carbon and Water
12 Oct 2023, 09:17 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / On September 24, 2023, America received its first-ever long-distance delivery from space. A piece of asteroid, instead of falling to the ground and doing all sorts of damage, landed softly in the middle of the Utah desert onboard a capsule coming d...
Upgraded Apache Attack Helicopter Flies for the First Time
12 Oct 2023, 08:42 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The AH-64 Apache is considered by many the world's most potent attack helicopter. That's not a hard title to hold on to, given how there aren't all that many of them around, but still remains a title the aircraft can be proud of. ...
Raider X Helicopter Brings Back Vietnam-Style Combat Missions in Most Ridiculous CGI
12 Oct 2023, 07:58 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / There is no question about it that the largest combat deployment of American military helicopters took place during the Vietnam War. Due to the nature of the country's terrain, helos were basically the only way to get in and out of hot zones. ...
USAF Is the King of Aerial Refueling, Singapore Air Force Beats Them in a Key Area
12 Oct 2023, 07:22 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The U.S. Air Force (USAF) is not only the largest military organization of its kind in the world, but it also is one of the most advanced. For instance, just consider the fact no other nation on this Earth has an aerial refueling capacity as large ...
U.S. Readying Huge Lasers to Fight Off UAVs, Rockets and Even Mortars
12 Oct 2023, 06:26 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / For a soldier traveling into the future from say the 1980s, the battlefields of today would be unrecognizable. What was known to be essential, in terms of hardware, to a mission's success is now obsolete, and there are so many new weapons bein...
This Kind of Humvee Is the Ultimate Battlefield Repair Truck
12 Oct 2023, 05:50 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Through the nature of their job, military vehicles have a much higher risk of getting damaged or becoming incapacitated than their civilian counterparts. They also often need to be repaired on the spot as to save the lives of the soldiers they serv...
USAF Lists the Bad Things That Happen When Civilians Strike Aircraft With Lasers
11 Oct 2023, 09:56 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / There's a human-generated phenomenon few of us are aware it exists. It's called lazing, and it involves reckless people directing laser beams at passing aircraft for sheer amusement. The USAF, and other official entities tasked with aviat...
MQ-20 Avenger Can Now Use Helicopter Rescue Hoists to Capture Smaller Drones in Flight
11 Oct 2023, 09:08 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / For years now drones have been indispensable assets for military operations. They are mainly used for surveillance purposes, but also to strike targets deemed worthy of striking for various reasons. But as technology progresses, the capabilities of...
Swarms of Thinking Drones That Need No GPS or Comms to Track and Kill Have Landed
11 Oct 2023, 08:15 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Imagine a future when teams of coordinating military drones, acting and reacting on their own accord to changes and challenges on the battlefield, relentlessly pursue their target until it's neutralized. Sounds like something out a movie, righ...
Air-Breathing Artillery Round Fired to Record Distance, Will Now Get JDAM Computer
11 Oct 2023, 06:53 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Historically speaking artillery rounds have always been dumb pieces of ammunition, simple to make and fire, and devastating in their effects. All one needed to do was fill a shell with explosives, stick it into a large gun, and fire it. But not any...
Electrified Humvee Will Hunt Enemies in the Dark, And They Won't Even Know It's There
11 Oct 2023, 06:17 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / October 11 is the last day of this year's Annual Meeting and Exposition of the Association of the U.S. Army (AUSA) event held in Washington, but the amount of exciting military gear shown there will probably keep us talking for several more da...
1973 Porsche 911 Carrera RS 2.7 Struggled to Keep Factory Guise, Now Worth $2 Million
10 Oct 2023, 09:27 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / With the world now bracing for the upcoming holiday season, people in the position to do so have already begun dreaming of the presents they'd like to get for Christmas. For many of us that mostly translates into mundane things, but for rich f...
M109 Paladin Howitzer Fires New Guided Projectile Far Enough to Set Distance Record
10 Oct 2023, 08:28 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The M109 breed of self-propelled guns is one of the most fearsome the world has ever known. Available to fight battles ever since the early 1960s, it took part in the planet's most high-profile conflicts since, including the Vietnam War, the I...
AM General Joint Light Tactical Vehicle Can Now Effortlessly Go Hybrid
10 Oct 2023, 07:38 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / As you're reading this the Annual Meeting and Exposition of the Association of the U.S. Army (AUSA) is in full swing over in Washington, DC. As usual, everyone who's anyone in the industry is on-site, showcasing the best they have to offe...
Crazy Lander Concept Would Have Carried Moon Astronauts on the Outside
10 Oct 2023, 06:41 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Because of the way things end up happening in our world, we have these preconceived ideas as to how certain things are supposed to work. Like, say, it's common sense to assume astronauts would travel inside a spacecraft to their destination, a...