Testing the emergency exits and evacuating the Airbus A380 in less than 90 seconds.
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A tugboat (tug) is a boat that maneuvers vessels by pushing or towing them. Tugs move vessels that either should not move themselves, such as ships in a crowded harbor or a narrow canal, or those that cannot move by themselves, such as barges, disabled ships, log rafts, or oil platforms. Tugboats are powerful for their size and strongly built, and some are ocean-going. Some tugboats serve as icebreakers or salvage boats. Early tugboats had steam engines, but today most have diesel engines. Many tugboats have firefighting monitors, allowing them to assist in firefighting, especially in harbors.
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From late 1986, here is a Headline News story on 1 1/2 million balloons launched in Cleveland, Ohio!
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In October of last year Motherboard gained access to a massive, secretive Bitcoin mine housed within a repurposed factory in the Liaoning Province in rural northeast China.
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These are fascinating and amazing things found in outer space.
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The U.S. will be destroying its largest remaining stockpile of artillery shells. The Pueblo Chemical Depot in southern Colorado plans to neutralize 2,600 tons of mustard agent starting in March. This is due to a Chemical Weapons Convention deadline that was set in 1997 to destroy the weapons by 2012.
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A mission proposed this week would send a probe to Jupiter’s moon Europa, one of the best candidates for alien life in our solar system.
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For those of us who grew up in the age of CGI, green screen is just “a thing that computers do”. But how did effects like this work before the age of pixels? With the help of some suitably shiny graphics, here’s a quick summary.
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An eye-opening new animation (above) really puts things in perspective. It shows that even if you travel at the speed of light (186,000 miles per second), the trek from the sun to the Earth and other planets takes a really long time.
The 45-minute video, created by Los Angeles-based artist Alphonse Swinehart and posted on Vimeo on Jan. 26, starts at the sun and zooms out into the solar system. You reach the Earth and our moon at around 8:20, and the journey ends after reaching Jupiter and its moons (at around 43:20). The distance traveled and time elapsed is visible in the frame’s upper left corner.

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Video of accumulated gas under the ice, and to make coffee on the flame.
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Veritasium takes on the question of cell phones and brain tumors.
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surreal video shot by director Julie Gautier featuring free diver Guillaume Néry running under the water at an impossible speed thanks to the powerful currents of the Tiputa Pass, near Tahiti.

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Steve Jurvetson, Partner at Silicon Valley venture firm DFJ (Draper Fisher Jurvetson) introduces the potential power of Quantum Computing.
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This is the Orrb. The futuristic pod is just large enough for one human to sit and stare at a screen in total isolation for the sake of “wellness and learning.” It’s like one of those nap pods you might find at Google, only more private and, somehow, more alien-looking. You know you want one.
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Ephesus Lighting installed their Stadium Series LED lighting solution at the University of Phoenix Stadium, home to the Arizona Cardinals, this past fall. University of Phoenix Stadium was the first NFL stadium to be lit by LED lighting, and will also be hosting the upcoming Super Bowl.

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