This is an absolutely damn impressive piece of engineering (1:59 for the good part). It is difficult to believe that FLIP, or Floating Instrument Platform, owned by the US Navy, was designed after a baseball bat. First launched 50 years ago, the bizarre research vessel can go from a horizontal to vertical position while staying
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Proof that Giant Squids were Killed by Sound
Can sound really kill? According to experts, giant squids that were found dead off the coast of Spain nearly 10-years ago were murdered by powerful sound pulses from nearby ships. According to Michel André, a marine bioacoustician at Barcelona’s Technical University of Catalonia, noise pollution in the ocean is having a much broader effect on
The Electronic Ticket for people travelling on Cruise Ships
I have always wanted to take a two week cruise to the Bahamas; unfortunately, I have yet to do so. For those of you who have been on a luxury liner, you know why they call them a city on water. The complexity of a ship’s layout can confuse passengers, as not all of them
