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.
NASA Breaks All Norms in Space Comms, Beams Data Down to Earth at 200 Gbps
22 May 2023, 11:19 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Space exploration is such a fragile human activity that if a single piece of this large puzzle didn't exist, or didn't work as advertised, we wouldn't even be able to engage in dreams of alien worlds. Take communication systems, f...
Harley-Davidson Stonewash Is As Sharp and Rugged as a Knife Blade
22 May 2023, 09:56 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Stone washing is a term used in the clothing industry to describe one of the processes used there. More specifically, we're talking about using actual stones, on purpose, in the washing process of fabrics, as a means to get a softer material a...
Cessna Citation Ascend Revealed as a New Take on an Old Business Jet Breed
22 May 2023, 09:30 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Unlike in the auto industry, where premieres of new models take place on a constant and predictable basis, in the aviation industry such events are much rarer and abrupt. That's why most of us with interest in this field of human activity get ...
Argonaut Is the Hi-Tech Space Truck Designed to Carry Cargo to the Moon
20 May 2023, 23:34 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / On Friday, May 19, NASA announced who will be working on the Moon lander for the Artemis V crewed mission to the Moon - Blue Origin. It's an important piece of equipment for the future of space exploration, one that, together with the SpaceX S...
You'll Never Guess How Much the Harley-Davidson Orange Bullet Cost to Make
20 May 2023, 22:12 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / In the current lineup of new motorcycles Harley-Davidson is offering, the Sportster S is perhaps the meanest looking, aggressive one in stock form. Short and stubby, it looks like it's ready to punch the competition out of the way through simp...
Huge Liquid Telescope Can Heal Itself While Unlocking the Mysteries of the Universe
19 May 2023, 23:20 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The still-young James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has proven in the few years it has been up there, almost a million miles away from home, that a large telescope positioned just right is the perfect tool to spy on the Universe and unlock its secret...
Harley-Davidson Black Mustang Is a Wheeled Wild Horse Snapped in a Last of Us-Like Setting
19 May 2023, 22:06 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / A few decades ago, a carmaker going by the name Ford slapped the name Mustang onto a muscle car. The moniker is supposed to be a nod to the World War II fighter plane known as the P-51 Mustang, but for some reason people keep associating it with th...
Main Asteroid Belt Comet Confirmed to Have Water, And That's Huge
19 May 2023, 15:55 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / We're long past the days when we believed all the wonderful things that make up planet Earth were somehow born here, and that we're the center of the Universe. We now know everything from life itself to the elements that support it may ju...
F/A-18 Hornet Joins NASA-Owned F-15 to Chase After the X-59 Supersonic Aircraft
19 May 2023, 13:21 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / For several years now NASA has been working on something called the X-59 QueSST. We're talking about an experimental aircraft meant to test a new design and new technologies for civilian supersonic flight. The X-59 is still being put togeth...
Munro MK_1 Electric Pick-Up Unveiled With Over 190 Miles of Range, 0-60 MPH Takes 4.9s
19 May 2023, 12:29 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / It's very easy to get lost in the multitude of carmaking startups that have surfaced all over the place. As if EVs are here not only to help us cut back on the harm we're doing, but have also made carmaking easier (they have, but that...
U.S. Navy Getting $3 Billion-Worth of New Submarine Hunters, Here They Are
19 May 2023, 11:34 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / All of America's military branches have some kind of impressive modernization program currently being run, but few are as impressive and spectacular as those of the U.S. Navy. After all, we're most of the time talking about programs that ...
Carey Hart Does the Indian Sport Chief Again, This Time for a Famous Freestyle Rider
19 May 2023, 11:03 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The past month has been relatively quiet in the motorcycle industry. Aside from a few releases by the likes of KTM, not much has happened in the way of bike makers releasing new products. That is, if you don't take into account Indian's F...
Unity 25 Mission to Open or Close the Door on Expensive, Short Trips to Space on May 25
18 May 2023, 18:52 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / I don't know about you, but for me the title above comes a bit like a deja-vu. After all, it was just two short years ago when the royalty of private space exploration companies (Blue Origin, SpaceX, and Virgin Galactic) were performing their ...
USMC Amphibious Combat Vehicle Goes to Spain, Shown Outside the U.S. for the First Time
18 May 2023, 18:10 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / It's been more than a year now since Russia invaded Ukraine and kickstarted the deadliest conflict on the Old Continent since the end of the Second World War, and things don't seem to be letting up. If anything, they kind of appear to mov...
Earth-Like Alien World Is Drowning in Volcanos, But May Still Have Liquid Water
18 May 2023, 13:19 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / With the James Webb out and about up there is space, doing some wonderful science, it's easy to forget there are other pieces of hardware that helped our race advance our knowledge of the Universe. Some of them are even decommissioned, but the...
Harley-Davidson Rocker Turns From Boring and Debatably Beautiful Into Stunning Obsession
18 May 2023, 12:50 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Harley-Davidson is a very old bike maker. That may have some people believe everything the company ever did was successful, otherwise it wouldn't have made it this far. But the reality couldn't be further from the truth. Both as a busines...
1970 Ford Mustang Boss 429 Orange Blossom Is a $250K Piece of IMSA Racing History
18 May 2023, 12:06 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / It's almost impossible to find any car out there that's more appealing than a homologation model. But within their own ranks, these special vehicles have their own stars, examples that stood out over the years through achievements, fittin...
With 'The Flash' Just Around the Corner, What Better Time to Own a Desk-Mounted Batcave?
18 May 2023, 11:05 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / In the second week of June, The Flash movie will hit theaters around the world. No matter how you feel about Ezra Miller and his off-screen shenanigans, the flick is shaping up to be at least an interesting DC creation, far better than what rival M...
Deployable and Reusable Spacecraft Heat Protection Is Named After King Arthur's Shield
17 May 2023, 16:37 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Space exploration is generally a dangerous business by design, but the different stages of a spacecraft launch and recovery come with different grades of danger. And at the top of the list sits something called re-entry. Re-entry is the procedur...
Lunar Lander for the Artemis V Mission to Be Announced on May 19
17 May 2023, 16:11 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Although so far, in the six years or so since the Artemis Moon exploration program was announced, there has been only one actual mission (and that, with no humans on board), plans concerning the trips to come are accelerating. And the latest develo...