View full post on YoutubeOne of the world’s largest domed stadiums in now a pile of rubble. This morning the Georgia World Congress Center Authority set off 5,000 lbs. of explosives to implode the Georgia Dome, the former home of the Atlanta Falcons.In the video you can see the blasts go off in a spiral around the stadium. It took only 15 seconds to flatten the dome, which opened in 1992....
Media Platforms Design TeamQ: My wife and I are tired of being left in the dark when the power goes out around here, which is often. We want to buy a portable generator, but I’ve read conflicting advice about sizing and installing it. My wife has a home-based business, so getting this system right and making it safe is important. A: The most common backup generator in the United States is the portable type powered by a small gas engine....
A small, unmanned spacecraft launched last weekend for ostensibly peaceful purposes could have a more secretive use. According to the South China Morning Post, analysts believe the Aolong-1, could be used to attack enemy satellites. The Aolong-1, or “Roaming Dragon” was developed by the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation, a government-controlled company and the main contractor for China’s space program. The company developed the spacecraft to clean up space, intercepting space debris capable of harming satellites or crewed craft and sending it crashing back to Earth, burning up in orbit....
Ever since the iPhone made a slab of pure screen the smartphone norm, the next step off in distance has been a slab of pure screen that can fold. Part throwback to the flip phone days, part sci-fi vision of flexible displays, these theoretical gadgets have been floating around in concept and prototype form for years. Now, the CEO of Samsung’s mobile division says it’s finally coming this year. We’ll see....
You can extend the life of your favorite leather boots or oxfords by years with five minutes and basic shoeshine know-how. So we talked to a Hollywood cobbler to the stars, Pasquale Fabrizio, and award-winning shoe repairman Jim McFarland, to find out what you can do at home, and when to visit an expert.The Essential Leather Tune-UpClean and apply conditioner to your shoes and boots once a month. First remove dirt with a nylon medium-bristle brush and a capful of Woolite diluted in a bowl of warm water, says Fabrizio....
A main engine burn on the Juno spacecraft scheduled for Wednesday October 19 has been postponed until Juno completes another orbit around Jupiter, a trip that currently takes 53.4 days. The engine burn was intended to accelerate the spacecraft so it could orbit Jupiter in just 14 days, after which the main science phase of the mission was going to begin and the majority of the data taken. According to NASA, the Juno mission team decided to postpone the burn after two valves on the spacecraft’s main engine failed to properly open....
The sun, a giant fusion engine 93 million miles away from us, seems like a great way to glean near infinite energy down here on Earth basically by using thermal panels to create energy. But if you ask some voters of Woodland, North Carolina, it’s quite finite. So finite, in fact, that they urged the town council to reject a proposed solar plant because it would steal sunlight that plants might otherwise use for photosynthesis....
Distracted driving is one those things that is kind of inevitable when you put a human being in charge of a 3,000 pound death machine and give them a supercomputer that can fit in the palm of their hand. While some acts of distracted driving are decades old—like brushing your teeth or second-guessing your entire life—texting has emerged as the most common reason for forgetting you’re on the road, hands down....
It’s an idea with Jurassic Park-level ambitions: cloning a mummified 40,000-year-old horse to bring the extinct species back to life. Many experts are highly skeptical, to put it lightly. And at the center of the controversy is Woo-suk Hwang, a research who was part of a major scientific fraud scandal about cloning a decade ago. The story begins back in the Ice Age, when a baby horse died at the the approximate age of two months in what scientists suspect was an accident, likely a drowning....
A new investigation from Reveal claims Tesla is actively seeking to minimize the number of work-related injuries that appear on official records by limiting injured employees’ access to care. This follows a report from April that alleged a lack of sufficient safety measures at Tesla factories—claims Tesla and Musk vigorously pushed back against.The report, which draws on the accounts of both named and anonymous sources, details specific practices such as sending employees to the emergency room via Lyft instead of ambulance, prohibiting employees from calling 911 from the factory floor without permission, removing certain kinds of medical equipment from the on-site clinic, and turning away injured temp workers....
Media Platforms Design TeamIncipio iPhone 5 Bespoke CasePrice: $30The first choice is whether or not to cover up your iPhone in a case. Sport a naked iPhone and you maintain the purity of the status symbol, but with an industrial design that’s prettier than it is durable. A case on an iPhone makes it bulkier and uglier, but also probably longer lasting—and, if you use Incipio’s bespoke case service, more personalized....
Russia tested a new hypersonic weapons program on Wednesday, December 26th, designed to sneak under U.S. ballistic missile defenses. Avangard is a winged glider weapon boosted high into the atmosphere by a ballistic missile, which then descends on its target at speeds in excess of 15,000 miles an hour. Avangard will reportedly enter Russian service in 2019. Avangard is one of several new nuclear weapons programs announced in 2018 in a grim speech by Russian President Vladimir Putin....
Media Platforms Design TeamDark and stormy nights: Excellent at setting the scene for a horror movie, but horrendous to drive through. While those wipers you should have replaced six months ago are furiously trying to keep up with the downpour, your headlights are not helping matters at all. Rather than lighting up the road they’re just illuminating the raindrops, making the already terrible visibility worse. Smart headlights would shine through the drops, lighting up the road, not the rain....
The screens in our cars can be frustrating—slow, confusing, hard to read, impossible to sync with our phone. Infotainment systems definitely have plenty of room for improvement, but as any software engineer will happily reminder you, they are unbelievably complex. From controlling the car’s many functions to smartphone compatibility and ensuring all of the various applications can run concurrently, the displays in our dash are much more complicated than the phones in our pockets....
Right up there with its model economy and education system, six-hour workday, 99 percent waste recycling record, and IKEA meatballs, there’s another enviable Swedish achievement: the Kalk&, a super-light, high-performance, off-road electric motorbike from the company Cake, headquartered in Stockholm. The Kalk& debuted at Outdoor Retailer 2018 in Denver in the L.E.O. (light electric off-road) category, though full specs, availability, and cost won’t hit until next month. Its big brother, the Kalk OR, released last year, runs about $13,000 and has an estimated top speed of 46 mph....
Once N7001U takes off from Paine Field in Everett, Washington , the crew won’t even retract its landing gear. Makes sense. It’ll only be airborne for just over 10 minutes. You can watch the flight live right here: View full post on IframeThe first 727 ever built rolled off the line in 1962 and hasn’t flown in 25 years. But it made a trip to Boeing Field (King County Airport), where it will become a permanent exhibit at the Museum of Flightin Seattle....
The long wait is over. Here is your first close-up of the surface of Pluto, taken by the New Horizons craft yesterday during its approach to the dwarf planet. “This is such a fascinating body, beyond my wildest dreams,” NASA planetary science head Jim Green said.At 8:52 PM Eastern last night, NASA got the signal that New Horizons had cleared the Pluto system. But that downlink sent back only telemetry and engineering data—more or less an “I’m safe” radio message sent at 12 watts from 4....
The centerpiece of the American Pavilion at the next world’s fair, which will be held in Dubai in 2020, will be the hyperloop. Earlier this week, Pavilion USA 2020, a public–private partnership between the State Department and businesses working on the exhibition, announced the theme of the pavilion—“What Moves You: The Spirit of Mobility”—as well as its main feature: an experiential demo of Virgin Hyperloop One’s vehicle. The pavilion will not only provide a demonstration of how a hyperloop’s pods may look and feel, VHO’s head of marketing and communications Ryan Kelly stressed in an interview with Popular Mechanics....
The Opportunity rover just passed the 26.2-mile mark on its odometer. The plucky little bot became the first vehicle to drive a marathon distance on another world, NASA says, crossing the finish line in about 11 years and two months. But, you know, it doesn’t like to make a big deal about its time.“This mission isn’t about setting distance records, of course; it’s about making scientific discoveries on Mars and inspiring future explorers to achieve even more,” said Steve Squyres, Opportunity principal investigator at Cornell University, in JPL’s press release....
When it comes to embarrassing public relations fiascos, the NSA just can’t help itself. Today we learned that the spy agency has a program it named SKYNET, thanks to a report by The Intercept. SKYNET. Really. Because that’s not going to raise alarm bells with an already jaded American public.Unlike its Terminator namesake, the real SKYNET is not involved with creating AI that will one day try to rise up and kill all humans....
