Tallahassee Regional Airport played host to a demonstration of a new fire fighting tool. The converted 747 dropped its payload of 20,500 gallons of water at an altitude of 500 feet, flying at 180 MPH. The super tanker can fly faster, higher and farther than current planes in use and drop seven times more water.
How many times have you walked up to a building and thought, “I wish I could just catapult myself onto the roof?” Apparently, someone at DARPA did and designed and patented a “controllable launcher”. The patent abstract reads: “A controllable launcher for propelling a payload through a predictable and repeatable trajectory to a desired height. [...]
<July 29th, 2003, saw the official announcement of the discovery of a celestial body which many hope will be named and granted status as the 10th planet in our solar system. Temporarily named “Xena”, the body cataloged as 2003 UB313 was discovered with the Samuel Oschin Telescope at the Palomar Observatory. Michael E. Brown of [...]
Recently scientists from Conservation International and Disney’s Animal Kingdom started out on a two month expedition into six regions of the Tibetan “Sacred Lands” in the mountains of Southwest China and Nepal. They have found and rediscovered many species; one of which is called the “Yak Killer” by locals. The Vespa Mandarinia, or giant Asian [...]