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This Giant Shaking Table Will Ensure The Orion Capsule Survives Launch
When the Orion spacecraft makes its maiden voyage into space, it will do so upon an unproven rocket design that’s bigger than and more powerful than anything we’ve built before. To ensure that the precious capsule survives liftoff, NASA is shaking it down with the help of this ginormous jitter table.
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Monster Machines: UK Sending Fleet Of Supersonic Tornadoes To Take On ISIS
The US has already conducted more 150 airstrikes against ISIS since September 10th and governments from around the world are gearing up to join in. The UK’s Royal Air Force is just brought their contribution to the table with a fleet of low-flying penetrators.
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Monster Machines: This 3D Camera Rig Records Renewed Life On A Canadian Reef
Unless samples and specimens are brought up from the seafloor, or researchers hop aboard a submersible, a significant portion of underwater exploration is done in 2D, but that could soon change thanks to the recent installation of a revolutionary new scientific camera rig. We’ll never look at the ocean’s depths the same way again.
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Old SARS Iso-Tubes Are Keeping Ebola Patients Alive On Planes
When doctors are stricken by the infectious disease they are fighting — the recent and ongoing West African Ebola outbreak, for example — you can’t very well stick them on a commercial flight back to the states for treatment. Instead, highly infectious disease (HID) patients must instead be transported under complete biological isolation inside one…