Indeed. Remember Jedward.This is a bit troubling . . .
http://newatlas.com/crispr-gene-editing-causes-mutations/49762/
For all the advances we've made in genetic engineering, I suspect we've barely scratched the surface, and a lot of nasty surprises await us.
Thanks - I was just trying to forget them! Mindbleach needed now.Indeed. Remember Jedward.
The aircraft, developed by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen's aerospace firm Stratolaunch Systems , has a wingspan of 385 feet - the longest wingspan of any aircraft ever built.
It measures 238 feet long from nose to tail, stands 50 feet tall from the ground to the top of the vertical tail, and rolls around on 28 wheels.
The Stratolaunch aircraft is powered by six 747 aircraft engines and is designed to act as an airborne rocket launcher, carrying rockets weighing up to 550,000lbs (250,000kg) to an altitude where they can be fired into space.
The rockets attach to the wings of the plane, between the two fuselages. When the plane reaches altitude, it releases the rockets, which then fire their boosters and launch into space from the air.
Launching rockets in this way requires a lot less fuel than launching them from the ground, because at that altitude they only need a small boost to escape the Earth's atmosphere.
Stratolaunch has already signed a deal with aerospace company Orbital ATK to carry its Pegasus XL rockets, which are used to launch small satellites into low Earth orbit.
The flight controls are all located on one side ...What happens if the fella on the left hand side turns left at the same time as the fella on the right turns right?
So the guy on the other side just gets to put his feet up and read the paper?The flight controls are all located on one side ...
The single flight deck is in the right / starboard fuselage.So the guy on the other side just gets to put his feet up and read the paper? ...
I'm rewatching this now on iPlayer, and although the earlier stuff seemed familiar, it became less familiar as the programme went on. But anyway it's well worth watching again. It celebrates a great British achievement and a great scientist. Enjoy!Here's another version of Bernard Lovell and the Jodrell Bank radio telescope. I almost didn't bother to watch it, thinking I must have seen it before, but it is new to me, so perhaps to you too:
Timeshift - Series 15: 6. How Britain Won the Space Race: The Story of Bernard Lovell and Jodrell Bank
The unlikely story of how one man with some ex-WWII army equipment eventually turned a muddy field in Cheshire into a key site in the space race. That man was Bernard Lovell, and his telescope at Jodrell Bank would be used at the height of the Cold War by both the Americans and the Russians to track their competing spacecraft. It also put Britain at the forefront of radio astronomy, a new science which transformed our knowledge of space and provided the key to understanding the most mind-bending theory of the beginnings of the universe - the Big Bang.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod...-the-story-of-bernard-lovell-and-jodrell-bank
That was fascinating & somewhat sobering at the same time when it comes to the rarity of some of these elements, many of which I'd never heard of. It makes it apparent the technology & materials involved in the gadgets which we now take for granted & how scarce some of them are.Secrets of the Super Elements
Forget oil, coal and gas - a new set of materials is shaping our world and they're so bizarre they may as well be alien technology. In the first BBC documentary to be filmed entirely on smartphones, material scientist Prof Mark Miodownik reveals the super elements that underpin our high-tech world. We have become utterly dependent on them, but they are rare and they're already running out. The stuff that makes our smartphones work could be gone in a decade and our ability to feed the world depends mostly on a mineral found in just one country. Mark reveals the magical properties of these extraordinary materials and finds out what we can do to save them.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b08rv9r6/secrets-of-the-super-elements
Educational and entertaining!
That's a good idea. I wish I had the space in the garage for doing that myself...It's being demonised for its NOx emissions rather than particulates. Diesel additive (e.g. Adblue) removes the particulates...
Using a high percentage of biodiesel also drastically reduces these emissions. I use it myself at around 50% when I can be bothered making it. Always just before the MOT test.
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The Wonkavator is real! Behold the maglev Multi lift that goes up, down and left to right
The Wonkavator can go sideways, and slantways, and longways, and backways, and square ways, and front ways. More than 45 years later, multinational conglomerate ThyssenKrupp is turning Roald Dahl's fiction into fact.
In Rottweil, 100 kilometres south-east of Stuttgart, stands the Tower of Light – a 246-metre concrete tower that houses a €4,000-a-day conference room, a 360-degree viewing platform (Europe’s highest), and a series of 12 shafts built specifically for testing elevators.
The £43 million tower was designed by architects Helmut Jahn and Werner Sobek. Due to be completed in July, the final step is to put an elegant corkscrew sheath of nearly indestructible, translucent material that changes colour as the sun moves across the sky.
They don't.Question.
A tower block has, say 100 families. Each has a car.
How do they recharge the batteries ?
A million electric cars is very roughly a whole power station's output.They don't.
The whole idea of a complete switch-over to electric cars is just not going to work.
This could be 'bye-bye Volvo' as well.
Yes. And we're not building power stations very fast. Also, forget solar panels - not enough output to run a charger. Also...don't work at night.A million electric cars is very roughly a whole power station's output.
Where they park them. Provision for charging should now be a consideration in town planning.I don't know the Swedish for 'Vorsprung Durch Teknich' but it probably applies to Volvo's announcement that they are switching to all electric and hybrid cars in two years.
And Hanoi to ban motorcycles by 2030.
It's all change folks. will be interesting to see what happens to the cost of electricity in various parts of the world when all this kicks in.
Also some countries already have power supply problems as it is.
Question.
A tower block has, say 100 families. Each has a car.
How do they recharge the batteries ?
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