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.
Harley-Davidson Super Fly Is Proof of How Extreme a Well Baked Dyna Custom Can Get
21 Apr 2023, 22:14 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / It's hard to find a single Harley-Davidson motorcycle family that doesn't seem primed, right off the factory floor, for customization work. And I'm not only talking about current models, but about past ones as well. And it doesn'...
Fancy New Heat-Resistant Alloy Was Used to 3D Print This NASA Logo. Next Up: Spaceships
21 Apr 2023, 12:41 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / We often get word of new technologies and pieces of hardware being developed for the aerospace industry, and these things do tend to steal the headlines most of the time. Because of this, we almost always forget that none of our achievements, no ma...
Supernovae Can Kill Life on Planets 160 Light Years Away, Our Sun Will Do Something Worse
21 Apr 2023, 11:29 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / One of the most spectacular events we know is regularly taking place in our Universe is the explosion of stars. Officially called supernovae, these events are so massive they affect not only their immediate solar systems, but also places located so...
Production LiveWire S2 Del Mar Is Cheaper Than Launch Edition, Europe Rollout Coming Soon
21 Apr 2023, 08:33 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / It’s been about eight months since Harley’s spin-off LiveWire opened the reservation books for the S2 Del Mar Launch Edition electric motorcycle, but we only now get the full details on how much owning the two wheeler in production form...
The Contrast New Age Bobber Is the Kind of Harley-Davidson We Rarely Get to See
21 Apr 2023, 07:51 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / There are few Harley-Davidson motorcycle families as appreciated by custom garages around the world as the Softail. The old range of bikes has had over the years a lot of high-profile members, many of which still are being reinterpreted today, desp...
Boeing Starliner 360-Degrees Interior Video Is a Monument of Confusion for Non-Astronauts
20 Apr 2023, 15:28 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / I’m not sure how many of you still remember this, but there’s another brand-new, privately-funded spacecraft that’s just itching to enter operational service and take astronauts up into space. In fact, it should have done so ever ...
This Is How Miserable the Ingenuity Helicopter Looks After Two Years on Mars
20 Apr 2023, 13:17 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / We all have this image in our head of the pieces of hardware we’ve sent to Mars going about their business there with their shiny metal skin glittering in the blue-ish shade of Martian light. We imagine the rovers, for instance, as they were ...
This Is How America’s Orbital Docks for Spaceship Repair and Assembly Are Born
20 Apr 2023, 11:46 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Almost every self-respecting sci-fi work of literature, cinema, or even gaming features some kind of space dock, a place where ships of all sorts and sizes and from all sorts of imagined worlds are assembled, repaired, and refueled. It’s some...
Blended Wing Cargo Drone Named Like a Hyundai Takes Flight for the First Time
20 Apr 2023, 10:45 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Sooner rather than later, we'll have to get used to autonomous drones carrying cargo to and fro over our heads. Using drones instead of crewed aircraft for moving freight is significantly less expensive, and both start-ups in the business of m...
Starship Is Not Even Flying Yet, And It's Already Docked with the ISS. In Imagination Land
20 Apr 2023, 08:21 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / After the botched launch attempt from a couple of days ago, SpaceX is getting ready to finally place the mighty Starship in orbit around our planet for the first time. As per the latest update we’ve received, that could happen as soon as toda...
2020 Harley-Davidson Fat Boy Has Double the Price of a Stock One and All the Right Gear
20 Apr 2023, 07:26 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The Fat Boy is one of Harley-Davidson's most popular models these days. In factory form, it starts at an affordable $20k or so, comes in four of the most classic colors of the American bike maker, and offers enough punch from the 114 engine to...
Spot Robot Needs Just a Minute to Make Chat AIs Eat Their Algorithms Out
19 Apr 2023, 14:13 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / We live in a time when talk of robots and artificial intelligence (AI) is gaining increased momentum, not in small part thanks to the advancements in their respective fields made by companies like Boston Dynamics or OpenAI. We’re not yet ...
Earth Is Diving Head-On and Blind in a Sea of Deadly Asteroids and You Didn't Even Know It
19 Apr 2023, 12:50 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Like it or not, believe it or not, it’s only a matter of time before a smaller or bigger rock from space comes crashing down on the surface of our planet. It’s an inescapable event, because the numbers are against us, but one whose effe...
3D-Printed Hypersonic Drone Meets Its Launch Vehicle, It's Called HASTE
19 Apr 2023, 11:10 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The U.S. is presently engaged in a global effort to ensure foes still regard it as the dominant nation of our planet. One way it does this is by literally throwing millions into defense programs and weapons development, with a major focus on hypers...
This Is the Shape of Aircraft Wings to Come if NASA Has Its Way
19 Apr 2023, 08:24 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / For more than a century now, humanity has had the ability to take to the sky. The aviation industry, one of the most dynamic of any field of human activity, has progressed greatly during this time, often with what seem like incredible leaps. Yet so...
Harley-Davidson Trending Topic Is an Unlikely Bobber and One Badass Corporatist
19 Apr 2023, 07:53 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / There are instances in the custom motorcycle industry when a Harley-Davidson is not modified just for the sake of it, but as a means to send a message or as a nod to whatever the bike’s owner holds dear. These instances don’t come along...
Interior Shots of the Nautilus Yacht Submarine Show a New Dimension of Rich Life
18 Apr 2023, 10:06 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Back when I was a little younger, my TV screen showed from time to time something called SeaQuest DSV. It was a TV series depicting a future when humanity did not expand into space, but underwater, living in incredible submerged structures and movi...
Firefighting Robots Are So Cool We Definitely Need More, And More Are Coming
18 Apr 2023, 09:11 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Firefighting robots are so cool they should make one of those calendars with the machines as the main protagonists. Sure, people might need help finding enough of them to fill an entire 12-page calendar, but my bet is it would definitely be worth i...
Webb Captures Titanic Fight Between Merging Galaxies 250 Million Light Years Away
18 Apr 2023, 08:15 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Although we can't really grasp the size of the place with our puny minds, most of us humans know the Universe is so large it borders infinity. Yet even in this incredibly vast space, there are places where real dramas unfold. And few such dram...
Harley-Davidson Iron Cross Plays a Risky Game With Military Symbols From a Dark Past
18 Apr 2023, 07:24 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The military history of our world is filled not only with suffering and operational triumphs, but also with various symbols that can bring back memories of either glorious deeds, or painful figments of a past we wish we didn't experience. I�...