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.
American Kamikaze Drone Gets Upgraded to New Badass Level
29 Mar 2023, 13:07 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / There must be nothing scarier for a soldier than to know a drone is not only watching from above, but it’s also capable of following and chasing its target until it makes sure it is destroyed. Yet this is the reality of our time, and we get p...
NASA Running Out of RS-25 Engines for the SLS, Starts Rolling Out New Ones for Testing
29 Mar 2023, 12:18 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Weirdly enough, the most powerful space rocket NASA has ever designed is powered by engines born more than four decades ago: the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, the backbone of the Artemis Moon exploration program, relies on hardware originally d...
This Airboat-Like Contraption Fights to Become a U.S. Army Drone for Future Wars
29 Mar 2023, 11:30 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Just a quick glance at all the defense projects America is currently undertaking would have one believe a new age of military hardware is upon us. And that belief would be spot on, as new types of threats require new types of hardware. For years...
Webb Telescope First to See the Infrared Light of a Rocky Planet 40 Light Years Away
29 Mar 2023, 09:20 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Now that we know there are countless planets spread throughout our galaxy, the race to learn more about them is on. And with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) out there looking at some of them, it’s going to be a very interesting race. ...
1969 Chevrolet C10 “Albino” Gunning for $100,000, Apparently With Little to Show For
28 Mar 2023, 14:30 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / It’s not at all uncommon for well-baked custom vehicles to sell for six-digit sums at auction or elsewhere, so the fact someone is hoping to get $100,000 for this 1969 Chevrolet C10 is not out of the ordinary. But as it happens, $100k is also...
Piece of Asteroid Heading for Utah Onboard Spacecraft Has Scientists Scrambling
28 Mar 2023, 12:06 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / It’s not long now until a piece of asteroid Bennu becomes the first piece of alien rock to be delivered to American soil by means of a spacecraft. With an arrival date set for September 24, the OSIRIS-Rex mission already has scientists across...
AI Flies Drones in Close Proximity to an Aerial Tanker and Nothing Bad Happens
28 Mar 2023, 11:15 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / In the military world drones are already a constant and reliable presence. Having arrived not so many years ago, they now come in a variety of shapes and sizes, and are used for multiple purposes both on battlefields and away from them. But capable...
Custom Harley-Davidson Breakout Has Ferrari Cues Where You Least Expect Them
28 Mar 2023, 08:29 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / It’s not uncommon for custom motorcycle shops to go for some sort of association with prestigious carmakers when it comes to their projects. True, it doesn’t happen all that often either, but there have been instances when even custom H...
Tom Selleck’s 1953 Dodge Power Wagon Selling With Rifle Rack in the Cab, But No Rifles
27 Mar 2023, 12:14 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / To the current movie-hungry generation, the name Tom Selleck may not mean all that much, but just a few short decades ago the Detroit-born was all the craze in television. Especially during the 1980s, when the Magnum PI series held everyone hooked ...
NASA Is Sending a Drone-Like Piece of Hardware to Titan, And It’s Now One Step Closer
27 Mar 2023, 10:47 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The European Cassini spacecraft approached the second-largest planet in the solar system, Saturn, back in 2005, with the goal of studying it. Besides looking at the gas giant from up close, it also dropped a probe on one of its 80-plus moons, Titan...
NASA 3D-Printed a Piece of Mars Here on Earth, Volunteers to Be Locked Inside for a Year
27 Mar 2023, 09:48 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Using artificial habitats to simulate the conditions in remote and even alien locations is not something new for human explorers. But that doesn’t stop us from getting all worked up when hearing about new, simulated missions kicking off. L...
Harley-Davidson Red Baron Is a Nod to Both an Ace Pilot and a Rock Band
27 Mar 2023, 08:06 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The name Red Baron has come to represent several things over the years, but the most prominent of them have to do with an ace pilot of the First World War and a Spanish rock band. But maybe as of today, you can add a custom Harley-Davidson motorcyc...
HyTEC Is the NASA Way to More Fuel-Efficient Jet Engines
26 Mar 2023, 08:47 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / No one can question the fact NASA is the world’s leading space exploration organization. Knowing this would have one believe NASA became that because it focuses long and hard on its main area of expertise, space. But that’s far from the...
Harley-Davidson Solid Disc Is a Rolling Chunk of Beautifully Shaped Metal, Keeps to Itself
26 Mar 2023, 08:23 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Like it or not, the harsh reality is that custom motorcycles are not created equal. The end result of the build depends on the platform used, on the custom elements added and modified, and even on who is responsible for the project. Ultimately thou...
The Dark Twin of a Solar Cell Generates Electricity at Night From Thermal Radiation
25 Mar 2023, 09:52 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Things are getting really bad here on Earth, as we humans keep generating the power our society needs through the most harmful of means. And things are about to get a hell of a lot worse in a very short time. Earlier in March, a United Nations g...
Harley-Davidson Young Rebel Has Devil Horns for Wheels and They Look Amazing
25 Mar 2023, 08:59 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / There are only a handful of Harley-Davidson motorcycle families out there, but scores of custom shops fighting to give each of them interpretations so varied they surely are worthy of being remembered down the years. And we’re pretty certain ...
Second Bagger Racing Series Kicks Off in May, Much Poorer Than King of the Baggers
24 Mar 2023, 12:50 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / There is no doubt bagger racing is becoming a major source of weekend excitement for American motorcycle lovers. Especially given how both King of the Baggers and the Bagger Racing League (BRL) pit against each other two of the most high-profile mo...
Israeli Rampage Missile Is Bigger Than the Target It Destroys, And That’s Disturbing
24 Mar 2023, 12:00 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Despite civilians being constantly flooded with news and details about military pieces of hardware, it’s extremely difficult for us to create an accurate mental image of what the weapons being discussed are capable of without seeing them in a...
Here's the First Ever Glittery Rivian R1T, Only Exists in an Unreal Engine Jungle
24 Mar 2023, 10:57 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Despite Tesla being on the market for two decades now, its inability to get a fully-fledged electric pickup truck in customers' hands, despite showing one in 2019, meant that rival Rivian became the first to create from scratch such an EV and ...
Custom, Factory-Backed Indian FTR Tokyo Connection in the Works, to Be Shown in May
24 Mar 2023, 08:56 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Harley-Davidson and Indian have been at each other’s throats for more than a century now, fighting to become not only America’s premier motorcycle brand, but also the world’s. And whereas the fight in the factory-made motorcycle s...