The Real Ikaros

[BloodyAngel]

So, I was watching NHK (Japanese Channel) in TV then I suddenly found something shocking. I finally Found the REAL Ikaros.

Now Lets Compare the Anime Version and the Real Version.

Anime Version:

http://media.animevice.com/uploads/0/69/161845-8e19a39158d5144ff133e6a74d2a1bb4_large.jpg

Introduced as a "Pet-Class Angeloid, Type Alpha". Ikaros displays a very submissive and melancholic personality. She weighs 48 kilograms, stands at 162cm and her wing type is listed as "Variable". Her "Variable" wings are extremely valuable and are highly desired by Synapse



Real version:

http://www.sail-world.com/photos/Alt_Ikaros%20-%20solar%20sail%20from%20Japan.jpg

The IKAROS spacecraft will be the first to attempt interplanetary travel using only solar power. It is among a package of satellites originally scheduled for launch in Japan on Tuesday but postponed until at least Friday due to thunder clouds. Also to be launched is a satellite named AKATSUKI designed to orbit Venus and study its climate.

But it is IKAROS (an acronym from "Interplanetary Kite-Craft Accelerated by Radiation Of the Sun") that is grabbing the attention of the global scientific community with its hybrid solar sail technology.

[AJjudez]

so thats the real version i thought its more humanoid

[MioAkiyama]

ahahha omg facts :D
but thnx for pointing it ahahhah

[ranmachua]

All I can say is that they're both OUT OF THIS WORLD BABY!!!!!!!!!

[Rivan]

Whoa! I thought the real thing was a cosplayer... Well its kinda like a big processor in space... What does it do?

[KipiChii]

Haha, somehow I like the anime version a lot better than the real version xD

[jadeliciousdk]

Actually the real ?karos is the one from the Greek mythology. His father invented a pair of wings made by feathers and wax, Ikaros used them to escape from Crete, but despite his fathers warnings he flew higher and higher until he came to close to the sun and the wax in the wings melted and he came crashing into his death.
As with all stories in Greek mythology this story has some point it is however eluding my mind for the moment.
http://www.denstoredanske.dk/@api/deki/files/6054/=301166.501.jpg

[Keir06]

Looks so Technical... O__O

[BloodyAngel]

Actually the real ?karos is the one from the Greek mythology. His father invented a pair of wings made by feathers and wax, Ikaros used them to escape from Crete, but despite his fathers warnings he flew higher and higher until he came to close to the sun and the wax in the wings melted and he came crashing into his death.
As with all stories in Greek mythology this story has some point it is however eluding my mind for the moment.

Thats the OLD Ikaros, This is the Present Ikaros =P

[jhai0603]

Actually the real ?karos is the one from the Greek mythology. His father invented a pair of wings made by feathers and wax, Ikaros used them to escape from Crete, but despite his fathers warnings he flew higher and higher until he came to close to the sun and the wax in the wings melted and he came crashing into his death.
As with all stories in Greek mythology this story has some point it is however eluding my mind for the moment.
http://www.denstoredanske.dk/@api/deki/files/6054/=301166.501.jpg

That would be Icarus.
But, wow, 48kg? I couldn't agree any less. *no meanings implied*
Technology sure is great!

[darkpoetry]

In English its Icarus, in Latin its Ikaros

Icarus from the movie Sunshine (2007) was pretty awesome
I would recommend watching the movie.
Scary that its got the same name and they are both run purely of solar power

Edit: Picture of Icarus II
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v116/kuni123/icarus2.png