engineering
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Let The Calm Wash Over You As This Dam Opens Its Spillway For The Very First Time
Video: Behold the majestic Banja Dam in Albania. It’s a huge hydroelectric project that hit a big milestone last weekend — its reservoir reached over 550m above sea level. To release some of the excess water, dam operators opened the spillway for the very first time and filmed the event from the air. The dang…
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Small Groups Of Satellites Are More Accurate Because Of Teamwork: Study
Different points of view are valuable when discussing any event or describing an object. Sure, you might have your own analysis, but somebody else is going to have seen something different. By combining all angles, a clearer picture emerges.
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Scientists Found A Possible Deal Breaker In The Quest To Build A Space Elevator
Carbon nanotubes have been pegged as the wonder material that could finally allow us to build a space elevator. A discouraging new study suggests these microscopic strands aren’t as resilient as we thought — and all it could take is a single misplaced atom to bring the whole thing crashing down.
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This Might Be How Workers Moved The Stones Of Stonehenge
Archaeologists have long puzzled over how ancient workers moved the stones of Stonehenge. Now, a new experiment shows it might not have been that hard after all.