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United Airlines Doubles Down on Electric Flying Taxi Fantasy
Several of the country’s largest airlines have made long-term wagers on the direction of commercial passenger aviation’s future. Both United Airlines and American Airlines have orders for at least 50 aircraft from Boom Supersonic, a startup promising to revive supersonic airliners sustainably by the decade’s end. While the potential value of airlines offering much shorter…
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Canada Wants to Build a Fully Electric Tube Train That Travels at 1,000 KM Per Hour
A company in Canada is planning to build a network of tube trains that could make high speed rail look downright pokey, and even outrun planes. Canadian company TransPod recently announced the FluxJet, a “plane-train hybrid” that the company claims will travel at up to 1,000 kilometres per hour, or roughly 999 km per hour,…
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Count Along with NASA as Number of Exoplanet Discoveries Takes Off
The running tally of exoplanets discoveries is up to 5,005 in 2022, but NASA researchers expect the number to increase exponentially now that the James Webb Space Telescope has started its 10-year mission to peer into the cosmos and remind us of how truly small we are in this universe.
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European Water Levels Are so Low Carmakers Will Cut Back River Shipments
Carmakers in Europe are monitoring low water levels in major rivers, which are making companies reduce shipments across the continent. In Germany, the Rhine River is at critically low levels below one metre, or 1.01 m. Ford has already reduced the number of Ford Fiesta models shipped over the Rhine by 40 cars per vessel,…