Science!! Fucking magnets, how do they work?

spronk_sl said:

one step closer to being able to go fuck yourself
Engineering Body Parts: Lab-Grown Vaginas Successfully Implanted

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At 300?ft long, the Airlander 10 is the world?s biggest aircraft and its most advanced airship...The Airlander 10 is not an airship in the classical sense, in that the (non-inflammable) helium within its envelope supplies just 60 per cent of its lift, the other 40 per cent being provided by its wide, wing-shaped hull. The craft therefore requires a rolling start to get airborne, but can land without having to be dragged down to earth by large groups of people. Its cushion undercarriage means it can touch down on the sea, tundra, anything.

The prototype will make its maiden flight in Britain later this year and is intended to be the first in a family of airships that could one day carry hundreds of tons of cargo point to point, requiring no runway and costing far less to operate than a conventional aircraft or helicopter.

...Privately owned by a small group of venture capitalists, HAV calculates the global market for a 50-ton lifter at 600 to 1,000 vehicles. It has the United States defence department to thank for much of its development budget. The Americans pumped ?60 million into the business after the airship was selected as a surveillance platform, intended to loiter for weeks at a time over Afghanistan, providing constant coverage of the battlefield.

The Airlander first flew in 2012 in America, but trials ceased when the programme fell victim to the sequestration crisis on Capitol Hill and was cancelled. ?We retained intellectual property rights over the design and like to think we are number one in the world,? says Mr Durham. ?We are at least three years ahead of any competition.?

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Astronomers have discovered what they say is the most Earth-like planet yet detected - a distant, rocky world that's similar in size to our own and exists in the Goldilocks zone where it's not too hot and not too cold for life.

The find, announced Thursday, excited planet hunters who have been scouring the Milky Way galaxy for years for potentially habitable places outside our solar system.

"This is the best case for a habitable planet yet found. The results are absolutely rock solid," University of California, Berkeley astronomer Geoff Marcy, who had no role in the discovery, said in an email.

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