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How Is NASA Still in Contact With The Voyagers?
The Voyager spacecraft are more than 20 billion km away from us. Launched in 1977 to explore the solar system’s outer planets, Voyager and Voyager 2 continued their journey after completing their primary missions. Today, Voyager 1 is the farthest … Continue reading
What Happened to the Giant Hovercraft SR-N4? – The Concorde of the Seas
They were once known as the ‘Concorde of the Seas’: mighty flying boats that ferried their passengers with speed and style. Hovercraft was a symbol of national innovation and represented the future of transport in the 20th Century. And yet, … Continue reading
Why the Hybrid Workforce of the Future Depends on the ‘Geriatric Millennial’
Millennials born between 1980–85 know how to work across generational divides The first time I heard “geriatric millennial” I thought it was an oxymoron. Sarcastic, even. But as I thought more deeply about it, I realized how perfectly it describes … Continue reading
Chinese spacecraft successfully lands on surface of Mars, says state media
China’s “Zhurong” rover successfully landed on Mars Saturday, state media reported, a triumph for Beijing’s increasingly bold space ambitions.[…]
Why captchas are getting harder
[…] It’s not you — captchas really are getting harder. The worst part is that you’re partly to blame. A captcha is a simple test that intends to distinguish between humans and computers. While the test itself is simple, there’s … Continue reading
Renewable Energy Is Suddenly Startlingly Cheap | The New Yorker
By Bill McKibben April 28, 2021 Now the biggest barrier to change is the will of our politicians to take serious climate action. Earth Week has come and gone, leaving behind an ankle-deep and green-tinted drift of reports, press releases, … Continue reading
How Astronauts Poop | Answers With Joe
[…]They’ve got the right stuff, but how do they take care of business? The solutions for waste disposal in space are both low and high technology – and it’s still a work in progress. Let’s talk about the dark side … Continue reading
The World’s Most Powerful Supercomputer Is Almost Here
The ENIAC was capable of about 400 FLOPS. FLOPS stands for floating-point operations per second, which basically tells us how many calculations the computer can do per second. This makes measuring FLOPS a way of calculating computing power. So, the … Continue reading
Despite Failure, NASA Helicopter Completes Its Official Mission!
[…]Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about major updates from the NASA Perseverance mission. Images and videos: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU 3rd flight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNx9h… NASA stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAlXe… Github announcement: https://github.blog/2021-04-19-open-s… […]
Recycling in the UK
Watch our video to understand some of the basics on recycling in the UK. From understanding how much waste is exported outside of the UK to how to throw a material away. Spoiler alert: recycling is complex and not always … Continue reading
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I Made A Water Computer And It Actually Works
[…]Computers add numbers together using logic gates built out of transistors. But they don’t have to be! They can be built out of greedy cup siphons instead! I used specially designed siphones to works as XOR and AND gates and … Continue reading
