2020

  1. Grey Havoc

    Pixar pioneers win 'the Noble prize of Computing' (BBC News)

    https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-52169444
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    Venezuelan Navy vs Cruise Ship

    https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/32853/this-venezuelan-patrol-ship-sunk-itself-after-ramming-a-cruise-liner-with-an-reinforced-hull
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    • 2020 bolivarian navy of venezuela columbia cruise services gc-23 guaicamacuto class opv rcgs resolute
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    Project Aura

    https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/29/business/coronavirus-us-ventilator-shortage.html On a side note, there are growing calls for FEMA to be restored as an independent Cabinet-level agency and for the Strategic National Stockpile to be permanently placed under it in the future.
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    • 2010s 2019 2020 barda centers for disease control and prevention covid-19 late 2000s strategic national stockpile u.s. department of health and human services united states ventilators wuhan coronavirus
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    Thank you to those who do their duty...

    After a year in the UK which had seemed like amateur hour, it is a relief to see people like medical officers and scientists taking centre stage. But also everyone from NHS staff to harassed shop workers and delivery drivers. I remembered Gregory Peck as the Submarine Commander in the old film...
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    Coronavirus precautions in effect at Star City

    https://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Astronauts_grounded_in_Russias_Star_City_over_virus_999.html
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    Project Pele

    https://www.defensenews.com/smr/nuclear-arsenal/2020/03/09/pentagon-to-award-mobile-nuclear-reactor-contracts-this-week/
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    • 2020 department of defense department of energy idaho national laboratory mobile reactor nuclear microreactor remote operating bases small nuclear reactors strategic capabilities office u.s. army
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    Powered JDAM

    https://www.flightglobal.com/fixed-wing/boeing-resurrects-effort-to-turn-jdam-bomb-into-cheap-cruise-missile/137046.article https://www.airforcemag.com/power-jdam-boeings-new-alternative-to-cruise-missiles/...
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    Gulfstream G700

    https://newatlas.com/aircraft/gulfstream-g700-new-flagship-business-jet/ https://newatlas.com/aircraft/gulfstream-g700-business-jet-maideon-flight/
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    Lunar Pathfinder (United Kingdom)

    https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-51378320
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    Turns out that today's date is a palindrome (02/02/2020)

    https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-the-papers-51345055
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    • 2020 21st century 22nd century bbc leap year palindromes sunday the 2nd of february 2020 sunday times
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    Luftwaffe Ace Erich Brunotte

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    Aegean Sea Barrier (2020)

    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-51308506
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    • 2020 boom european migrant crisis european union greece hellenic armed forces lesbos ministry of national defence syrian civil war turkey
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    Wuhan Virus

    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-51235105 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-51259649 https://www.bbc.com/news/business-51262450 https://www.bbc.com/news/51245373 https://www.bbc.com/news/business-51239745...
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    Russian 'Flying Train' (2018 onwards)

    This is back in the news again. Via SNAFU - Reminds me of a few projects from the 1920s and 1930s. Also, McDonnell Douglas had a project around the early 1990s for cargo, likely inspired by a Japanese project begun in the 1980s. Original promotional CGI video from 2018 (looks pretty much the...
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    75th Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz

    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50743973 https://www.theholocaustexplained.org/the-camps/ss-concentration-camp-system/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_concentration_camps https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS-Totenkopfverb%C3%A4nde
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    Dead Spacecraft on Mars Spotted in New Photos (Space.com)

    https://www.space.com/14526-dead-mars-spacecraft-photos-spirit-phoenix.html
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    • 2003 2004 2020 mars mars reconnaissance orbiter nasa phoenix mars lander spirit
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    NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope to be retired

    https://www.space.com/why-spitzer-space-telescope-must-end.html https://www.space.com/11985-spitzer-space-telescope-photos-infrared-universe.html
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    Controversial Titanic artifacts salvage scheme

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/01/21/plan-take-serious-treasures-inside-titanic-angers-mps/ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/01/21/us-firm-plans-salvage-titanics-voice-controversial-expedition/
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    2020 'Wolf Moon'

    https://abcnews.go.com/US/full-moon-2020-wolf-moon-coincide-lunar-eclipse/story?id=68167969 https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/1144/the-next-full-moon-is-the-wolf-moon/ https://www.accuweather.com/en/space-news/moon-to-pass-through-earths-shadow-during-fridays-wolf-moon-eclipse/657251...
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    An alternative to Soylent Green?

    ;) https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-51019798
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