Back in the 1970s, the Soviet Union began an ambitious project to drill down 15 km. Whilst they didn’t succeed, the Kole Superdeep Borehole is still the deepest vertical borehole in the world.
Does this really come as a shock to anyone?
The financial behemoth privately fears that regular people have too much leverage.
🗑️ Space junk (space debris, space pollution, space waste, or space garbage) is defunct man-made objects in space (mainly in Earth orbit) that no longer serve a useful function.
👀 And here is how its number has changed over the past 60 years.
*As of January 2021, the US Space Surveillance Network reported 21,901 artificial objects in orbit above the Earth, including 4,450 operational satellites. However, these are just objects large enough to be tracked.
Can we deflect an asteroid if it were to hit Earth? Scientists launched a mission to test it out:
Circa 2019 😀 What a fun mind controlled toy drone 😗
How much more fun could drones be if you got fiddly hand controllers out of the way and flew them with your mind? That’s the question EEGSmart poses with its UDrone mini-quad, which responds to brainwaves and head movements instead of thumbsticks. It’s not perfect, but it does give a glimpse of a mind-controlled future.
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These include aquatic drones that can be programmed to scoop up floating debris from the surface of rivers, and buggies that use artificial intelligence (AI) to search for and pick up litter for use on beaches.
Scientists are also hoping to scale up the use of magnetic nano-scale springs that hook on to microplastics and break them down.
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Circa 2013 😃
News: the world’s first building to be powered entirely by algae is being piloted in Hamburg, Germany, by engineering firm Arup.
The “bio-adaptive facade”, which Arup says is the first of its kind, uses live microalgae growing in glass louvres to generate renewable energy and provide shade at the same time.
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