ZZakk's Lab: Closing The Lab Door

Collected Quotes

First is one of my own
since it goes well with
the title pic.
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"These safety glasses are
being worn for your
protection, not mine"

-KenKzak
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"No amount of
experimentation can ever
prove me right, a single
experiment can prove me
wrong."

-Albert Einstein
re; Theory of Relativity.
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"I have been impressed
with the urgency of doing.
Knowing is not enough;
we must apply. Being
willing is not enough;
we must do."

-Leonardo daVinci
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"Logic is an organized
system of thought that
enables you to be wrong
with confidence."

-Charles F. Kettering
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"Can't ya see, you're not
making Christianity
better, you're making
Rock'n'Roll worse!"

-Hank Hill
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"War without fire is like
sausages without mustard"

-Jean Juvénal des Ursins
on Henry V's firing of
Meaux in 1421
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"You can do anything if
you have enthusiasm.
With it, there is
accomplishment.
Without it, there are
only alibis."

- Henry Ford
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"Light travels faster than
sound. This is why some
people appear bright until
you hear them speak."

- unknown
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"Research is what I'm
doing when I don't know
what I'm doing."

-Wernher von Braun
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"You can't be a real
country unless you have
a beer and an airline.
It helps if you have some
kind of a football team, or
some nuclear weapons,
but at the very least
you need a beer."

--Frank Zappa
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"The thing about quotes
on the internet is that
you cannot confirm their
validity."

--Abraham Lincoln
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Sunday, January 26, 2014

Closing The Lab Door

On December 21, 2013 my big brother Ken--the creator and author of Zzakk's Lab as shown in my photo above--was in an accident while Christmas shopping. He got thrown from his 1987 Harley Sportster 883 and when his helmetless head hit the pavement that was pretty much it. Despite heroic efforts, he was gone. I hope you enjoyed his writings and ideas on rockets and monocopters, etc. My plan is to keep this site online in perpetuity as a testament to his weird and brilliant mind, and will add photos and stories when I can. A service is planned for Sunday March 2nd. If you are near San Antonio and would like to attend, check back here for details.

4 comments:

rstaffJanuary 26, 2014 at 2:42 PM
Keith,

So sorry to hear the sad news. I only knew Ken from the web but will miss our dialog. My thoughts are with you and your family.

-Dick Stafford
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Sascha GrantJanuary 29, 2014 at 8:52 PM
Hi Keith,
I'm really sorry to hear this :(
Zzakks Lab was one of the blogs I started following when I got back into rocketry a few years ago and always enjoyed seeing a new post. He will be missed.
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Keith Alan KFebruary 3, 2014 at 1:07 AM
Thanks, y'all. Didn't realize I still had admin powers on this blog until recently, and I'm glad I was able to let people know what happened to Ken. I get pissed-off when decent blogs just stop updating without explanation.
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DustinMay 26, 2014 at 1:13 AM
I will miss Ken's innovative non-mainstream rocket ideas.
I had a lot of fun discussions with Ken about moon-burners and TiO2 as a propellant opacifier .
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Quirky sugar rocketeer minds think a lot alike.
Fly High Ken
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Closing The Lab Door

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