Instinct makes you brave

 

Loved the book. The movie's pretty well made too.

 

 

 

 

 

When the Galileo spacecraft's main antenna failed to unfurl on the way to Jupiter, engineers salvaged the mission by rewriting its software across deep space, compressing its data and squeezing a flagship science return through a low-gain antenna never meant to carry it.


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The gap between the two antennas was not a modest shortfall. The high-gain antenna had been designed to transmit up to about 134,000 bits per second from Jupiter. Through the low-gain antenna, the unmodified rate would have been closer to 10 bits per second.

 

 

 

 

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Better than Battle Bots!

 

Rappelling pizzas from three stories up, he turned his Oslo balcony into a viral food spot

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Open for business for just two hours a week, 16 weeks a year, the pop-up alerts fans about selling times via social media. Orders are first come, first served in the truest sense of the phrase: customers must physically shout up their choices to have their name added to the waiting list.

 

We used Chlorine Trifluoride to clean PVD process chambers. It saved a huge amount of time per clean.

"It [chlorine trifluoride] is, of course, extremely toxic, but that's the least of the problem. It is hypergolic (spontaneously ignites with) with every known fuel, and so rapidly hypergolic that no ignition delay has ever been measured. It is also hypergolic with such things as cloth, wood, and test engineers, not to mention asbestos, sand, and water—with which it reacts explosively. It can be kept in some of the ordinary structural metals—steel, copper, aluminum, etc.—because of the formation of a thin film of insoluble metal fluoride that protects the bulk of the metal, just as the invisible coat of oxide on aluminum keeps it from burning up in the atmosphere. If, however, this coat is melted or scrubbed off, and has no chance to reform, the operator is confronted with the problem of coping with a metal-fluorine fire. For dealing with this situation, I have always recommended a good pair of running shoes.

-- John Clark, Ignition!: An informal history of liquid rocket propellants"

 

World's oldest football in Miami for Scotland's game against Brazil

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Stirling Smith curator Aoife McKenna said: "Somebody in the 1540s must have kicked the ball quite high into the ceiling and it got stuck.

"The timeline aligns with Mary, Queen of Scots residing in the castle and of course it was discovered in the Queen's Chambers.

 

Mind blowing.

 

There is a language on a small Spanish island in the Canary archipelago that is made entirely of whistles

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