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| Aug. 22, 1962: First Nuke-Powered Cargo Ship Docks 1962: NS Savannah, the world’s first nuclear-powered cargo-passenger ship, completes its maiden voyage.
In a world terrified by the prospect of nuclear war, the Savannah was meant to demonstrate the peaceful use and positive potential of nuclear power. President Eisenhower conceived the idea as part of his “Atoms for Peace” program in 1955, a time when [...] [..] |
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| Aug. 5, 1962: First Quasar Discovered 1962: A nearly botched observation of a distant radio source leads to the identification of the first-known quasi-stellar astronomical object, or quasar.
Until the development of radio astronomy in the 1940s, our knowledge of the universe outside our own solar system was pretty much restricted to objects that emitted light in or near the visible spectrum. [...] [..] |
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| July 10, 1962: 3-Point Seat Belt Patented 1962: Swedish engineer Nils Bohlin receives a U.S. patent for the three-point, lap-and-shoulder, vehicle safety belt. It’s considered one of the most important and widespread safety innovations of all time.
Bohlin designed pilot-ejection systems for Saab Aircraft before Volvo hired him as its first safety engineer in 1958. The automobile seat belts of the time were [...] [..] |
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| Blighty’s nuke-power push stalled as EDF buy falls through Pension funds affect all our futures
The British government plan to build a new generation of nuclear power stations is on hold, after French energy giant EDF’s bid to buy the UK’s existing nuke base was rejected at the last moment. Reports have it that the deal fell through after existing shareholders in British Energy - [...] [..] |
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| Speculating on a Beatles Set List [The Beatles] So Variety reported that the terms of the deal between Apple Corps and MTV gives Harmonix access to 45 songs from the albums spanning 1962 to 1969 ? the prime cut of the Beatles' catalog ? for a Beatles music game. That tidbit's useful information, because [..] |
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| Ofcom plays precog on tomorrow’s wireless world Nuke war, meteorite hit could disrupt your signal
Ofcom put healthcare and transport at the top of the agenda in its annual research and development report, released today.
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| Week in Games: Fall In [New Releases] Ten years of waiting come to an end Tuesday for fans of Fallout. The third installment of life in post-nuke America finally arrives on the big boy platforms. Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 also stops flapping its yap and comes to PC. Those with the Wii ca [..] |
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| EDF circles British nuclear powerplant sites Buys farmland to secure juice futures
French nuclear energy colossus EDF, which also operates various types of non-nuclear generation in the UK, has been buying up farmland close to existing British nuke plants.
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| Boeing chuffed with latest raygun-jumbo ground tests Nuke-nobbling 747 hasn’t exploded or melted so far
US aerospace colossus Boeing has informed the world that everything continues to be fine with its plan to build an enormous nuclear-missile-blasting laser cannon inside a jumbo jet. According to the company, the business part of the ray weapon has now begun ground checks using its deadly, poisonous, [...] [..] |
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| Greenpeace: UK gov trying to strangle wind power Won’t hand over nuke plants’ grid connections
The British government has been accused by Greenpeace of trying to strangle development of renewable power in Europe, and in particular in the UK. Greenpeace say they have obtained draft documents from negotiations in Brussels, which amount to a ’smoking gun’ exposing the UK’s anti-renewables agenda.
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| US nuke boffins smash petaflop barrier with ‘Roadrunner’ Cell/Opteron chimera supercomputer whups 44 mouse brains
The US nuclear weapons programme has revealed a new supercomputer made from consumer processors, which has broken the petaflop barrier just about in line with projections. The machine, known as “Roadrunner”, uses both Cell and Opteron based technology.
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