Meet the future.
Travel to Europe or Asia at vastly reduced times to get there!The problem of lowering the cost of sending people and cargo into low Earth orbit has vexed engineers since the dawn of the space age.
Currently, the only way to go into space is on top of multistage rockets which toss off pieces of themselves as they ascend higher into the heavens.
The Conversation touted a British project, called Skylon, which many believe will help to address the problem of costly space travel.
According to IEEE Spectrum, both BAE Systems and the British government have infused Skylon with $120 million in investment.
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Remember the old "church-key?"
Well here is the new present day version...
Made out of aerospace-grade titanium.
“Now, the brand has created a pair of polarized, titanium sunglasses that not only shield your eyes from the sun, but will also pop the top off a brewski."
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Always, since I was a kid, a trip to the San Diego Zoo meant seeing those wonderful Peacocks.
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A report from the LA Times about proposed regulations that could disrupt the cable industry's hold on consumers by targeting set-top boxes.
The rental fees add up to almost $20 billion in revenue for the industry each year. Yet the technology within these boxes is nothing special, and alternatives could easily arise if there was incentive to create them.
"The changes aren't coming fast enough for some lawmakers and consumer advocates as well as tech companies such as Google Inc., which are eager to jump into the set-top box market.
They want the Federal Communications Commission to require that pay TV providers make their services more easily compatible with third-party set-top boxes or similar devices. ...
Such a mandate could allow consumers to access their pay TV and streaming services through one device instead of having to switch between two or more.
And it could lead to innovations such as an ability to search for programming across services to determine, for example, whether a movie is available on Netflix or on-demand via a pay TV provider."
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According to a new climate study the Persian Gulf may become so hot and humid in the next 30 years that it will reach the threshold of human survivability.
However, a new paper published by Jeremy Pal and Elfatih Eltahir in Nature Climate Change presents evidence that this deadly combination of heat and humidity increases could occur in the Persian Gulf much earlier than previously anticipated."
It is a very real threat.
Not to be ignored.
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