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You Don’t Have To Panic If This Submersible Drone Crashes In A Lake
YouTube is filled with videos of drone pilots desperately trying to get their quadcopters back to dry land before the battery dies and it plummets into a lake. One solution is to just not fly your expensive toy over water; the other is to design and build a drone that works just as well when…
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Why The Calorie Is Broken
Calories consumed minus calories burned: it’s the simple formula for weight loss or gain. But dieters often find that it doesn’t work. The calorie is broken — and this is why.
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Sink Into The Beauty Of This Frozen Mountain Lake
Image Cache: Our planet can be too beautiful to be plausible some days. This frozen lake in the Himalayas is shockingly deep blue set against the slightly-oxidized rusty landscape. And it’s completely real, photographed from the International Space Station.
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Spaceport America Wants $2 Million More From US Taxpayers For Its Space Tourism Fantasy
If you build it, the space tourists will come. That was the promise to the taxpayers of New Mexico back in 2009 when Spaceport America broke ground. Seven years and roughly $US220 million later, New Mexico has little to show for it. And now the private space facility is asking for even more money.