You can say goodbye to the quadcopter. That much is obvious. But what about airplanes? Passengers on commercial airlines actually have little to worry about, as IEEE Spectrum explains today.
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Firing A Gun At Your Car Is How You Test For A Rock Strike At 1000 MPH
The team at Bloodhound SSC have to protect their driver if a rock strikes the cabin (or a wheel explodes) at their target record-breaking speed of 1000 miles per hour. Here’s how they test their safety cell.
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This Shifty USB Drive Is Rigged to Fry Your Computer
If you’re a mischief-maker of a certain age, you’ll remember the idea of the floppy disk bomb, a specially engineered floppy disk that would supposedly melt inside an enemy’s drive. This USB is that same basic concept but evolved. It’s designed to electrocute your computer from the inside out.
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NASA Successfully Launched Its Mission Into the Magnetosphere
At 10:44 PM ET last night, NASA successfully launched the United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket into space. It carries with it four Magnetospheric Multiscale spacecraft that will spend two years studying the magnetic fields between the Earth and the Sun.
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Pancake-Making 3D Printers, and Everything Else You Missed Yesterday
3D-printed pancakes, all-electric SUVs, third-party mac chargers! Ok, maybe that last one isn’t so exciting, but all the news and rumors you missed yesterday can be found right here on BitStream.
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This Amphibious Tank Sub ATV Boat Looks Like a 6-Year-Old’s Doodle
Do you remember doodling what your perfect car would look like when you were six years old? There’s a good chance it looked exactly like this amphibious tank-treaded ATV that Hammacher Schlemmer is now selling for the princely sum of $300,000.
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Learning By Looking: What Each US State And European Country Are Best And Worst At
Note: Larger version of this map HERE, but the rest after the jump should all be legible. These are some maps created by the folks at Thrillist (links to site with explanations for all of them) featuring what each…
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