What’s six meters tall, composed of 1,500 individual bricks and assembled with nary a human hand? This new art installation in Orléans, France — it’s the handiwork of an industrious swarm of airborne robots.
The French are great at lots of things: bread, cheese, wine, shrugging. Sadly, their nuclear power stations aren’t so amazing. They’re unsafe and need a massive overhaul.
Whether peering towards the centre of the Earth or searching for Jupiter’s “warm dense matter”, our understanding of a planet’s core remains largely theoretical. Europe’s newest new laser array, however, can recreate those same intense conditions here on the surface — using diamond anvils and X-ray beams.
French newspaper Le Figaro has unearthed an incredible development from the first world war, revealing that French authorities built a life-size replica of Paris to the north of the city to trick German bombers.
Stereotypes: vicious, unfair and hurtful. And perpetrated by malicious onboard guidance systems like this one, which assumes you’re a Francophone just because you make the nasally laugh-moan of a Frenchman cliché. You ought to be ashamed of yourself, voiture vilain.
