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Silent Yachts’s “Silent 55” ship is completely powered by solar energy.One Silent 55 is complete and three more are currently being built.The yacht has unlimited range and releases zero fumes.Solar power is already taking over the land, so naturally, now it’s coming for the sea. The big ol’ boat in the photo above is the Silent 55 ship from Silent Yachts, a luxury solar panel boat company based in Austria. It uses silent electric propulsion to achieve unlimited range without noise, fumes, or any maintenance at all....

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President Trump and Boeing have struck an “informal” deal for two new Air Force One aircraft, modified from Boeing 747-8 jumbo jets. The new jets, at an estimated cost of $3.9 billion, are designed to replace the current Air Force One 747s that have been in service since the administration of George H. W. Bush. The White House is lauding the deal as a successful fulfillment of a campaign promise to lower the cost of new Air Force One aircraft by more than $1 billion....

Media Platforms Design Team Update 2/19/09: Facebook backs off Terms of Use changes…or does it? Several days worth of bruising PR have forced Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to post a response to the angry feedback from customers disturbed by a recent change to the company’s terms of use. The TOU changes seemed to give Facebook permanent permission to do whatever they wanted with material posted to the site by users, even after it had been removed....

As climate change reduces Earth’s biodiversity, a vast ecosystem of microbes is thriving beneath the planet’s surface, teeming with hundreds of millions of microscopic lifeforms. According to a consortium of researchers from the Deep Carbon Observatory (DCO), the massive subterranean biosphere contains enough organisms to eclipse Earth’s oceans nearly twice over. In a ten-year study, the DCO probed beneath the Earth’s surface at locations across the globe, finding that the underground biosphere extends some three miles deep....

Publishing a report on the danger of heat waves during the tail end of 2019’s worst one yet had a bitter sort of irony for Rachel Licker. Talking to Popular Mechanics from Washington, D.C, the senior climate scientist with the Climate & Energy Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) had just faced temperatures hovering around 100 and a heat index around 115. 🌏 You want to keep up with the latest Earth news....

Media Platforms Design TeamCounterclockwise from top: Oldsmobile Aerotech, Buick Questor, Corvette Indy, Oldsmobile Expression, Honda Pilot. (Top photo shared under GFDL license, originally posted < target=_Blank">here. Bottom row photos courtesy of their respective manufacturers).NEW YORK — Concept cars at American auto shows were once pure flights of fancy—showcases of “What if?” and experiments in “What’s that?” While our foreign friends still get to see their fancy fly higher than an Amsterdam coffeehouse, car companies have moved our shows away from the dangers of creative expression and taken a step toward the cold comfort of creamy vanilla....

On November 11, 2018, the largest offshore volcanic event in recorded history occurred, with an origin point near the African island nation of Madagascar and the island of Mayotte, which is controlled by the French government. Despite its power, however, this event went largely unnoticed by the planet—perhaps because it was so remotely located beneath the ocean that no human was directly affected. Now French scientists studying the eruption have come to the conclusion that the violence and strength of the eruption came from an entirely new volcano being born into existence....

A simple platform to raise your washer and dryer off the ground is a simple project with plenty of rewards. You’ll get a more stable surface that will reduce vibration, extra storage if you build in some drawers, and ergonomic benefits that will ease stress on your back and shoulders.You can purchase platforms from the manufacturers, but it’s easy to build one yourself. It can be as simple as securing plywood on top of a pallet, to a more complicated build that incorporates shelves or pull out drawers....

Media Platforms Design TeamInvestigators are still trying to determine the causes of Tuesday’s crash of a Bell 206 helicopter into the East River in New York City, just 50 yards of the East 34th Street Heliport. But the political fallout has already begun: Representative Carolyn B. Maloney, whose district includes the heliport, is using the accident to call attention to the regulation of helicopter traffic in the city. Under the current rules, who can fly and land a helo in the Big Apple?...

China tested a new missile that incorporates a hypersonic weapon system, an unnamed U.S. intelligence source told The Diplomat this week. The weapon, known as the Dong Feng (“East Wind”) -17, or DF-17 for short, is designed to confound existing air defenses. Intended to become an operational weapons system, the DF-17 is likely the first in a new generation of hypersonic weapons under development by the major military powers.The People’s Liberation Army Rocket Force, the arm of the Chinese military that controls Beijing’s nuclear and conventionally armed ballistic missiles, tested the DF-17 in November after more than a half dozen development tests between 2014 to 2016....

Media Platforms Design TeamSeb Lester’s home studio in Leeds, East Sussex, is built into the banks of a castle, and he believes the Latin Alphabet is “one of mankind’s most beautiful and profound creations.” So you could reasonably expect the artist and designer’s style to have a certain vintage. His fixations, however, are far from medieval. On Vimeo he posted a video compilation of his ten “favourite hand-drawn logos,” ranging from The New York Times to Led Zeppelin’s iconic emblem....

Media Platforms Design TeamA funny thing happened on the way to the 21st century: Ancient models of exchange such as trade, barter, and gift economies suddenly started popping up all over the Internet. began competing with traditional hotels, provided an alternative to existing taxi services, and enabled convenient, instantaneous, anonymous purchasing of pretty much anything. The underpinning of these new kinds of commerce is reputation. More specifically, reputation as it is manifest and documented through digital means like cryptography....

What It IsMiter saws are a valuable tool for the DIYer, and a must-have tool for a fully functioning workshop. They are designed to quickly cut crown molding, door frames, window casings, and picture frames. Related StoriesThe Best Budget-Friendly Miter SawsThe Best Cordless Miter Saws, TestedMiter saws can also make straight cuts for general do-it-yourself woodworking projects. But when faced with buying your first saw you’ll encounter a myriad of options and price points....

I don’t want to make this depressing, but the reason I can’t convince myself to bring my lunch to work is because it hurts my heart. Sitting at a desk all day is bad enough when there are people out there making a living surfing (cough North Shore lunatic Jamie O’Brien) and flying planes (cough hero Southwest Airlines pilot Tammie Jo Shults) and importing wild cumin from Afghanistan (cough Burlap & Barrel cofounder Ethan Frisch)....

Don’t be too proud of this wintry terror you’ve constructed. Actually, never mind. The Japanese soldiers who built this monstrosity should be boastful about their snowy Star Wars Mount Rushmore.The frigid sculpture is part of the annual Sapporo Snow Festival, which will include more than 200 icy creations. Lucasfilm and Disney are behind the design; it’s both a tribute to the classic trilogy and a frozen marketing extravaganza for Star Wars: The Force Awakens....

New research published in two scientific journals sheds light on the final moments of Mount Vesuvius’ famous victims. The volcano erupted in 79 A.D., shrouding Herculaneum, Pompeii, and other nearby towns in a blanket of boiling gas and ash.One of the papers suggests the brains of some victims were turned to glass, while another suggests some of the volcano’s victims were baked like buns in an oven. On August 24, 79 A....

Getting accurate data is a fundamental part of the scientific process. That process, in the case of some data sets, can have national and global ramifications. That’s why NASA studies its own research on climate change. Analyzing data going back to the 1880s, NASA now has the good (or bad, depending on how you view things) news that its warnings about man-made rising temperatures are extremely accurate—within 1/20th of a degree Celsius, in fact....

New research on shows that Mars might have been even more flush with water than previously believed.The crux of the study is based on Mars mineralogy. After creating a synthetic version of whitlockite, a hydrogen-rich mineral, scientists at the University of Las Vegas, Nevada subjected their mineral to a barrage of punishment. It emerged from this harsh treatment dehydrated and changed into something else entirely: merrillite, a mineral common on the Red Planet....

Somehow South Korean internet has gotten even better. Already known for its high-speed service, one of country’s largest broadband providers has just announced speeds of 2.5 gigabits per second. The company estimates that three users would be able to download a 90-minute HD movie in three minutes.SK Broadband, a wholly owned subsidiary of the country’s largest wireless carrier, SK Telecom, is using what’s known as a Gigabit Passive Optical Network (GPON) to get these blazing speeds....