Resistance is futile, your life as it has been is over, from this time forward, you will service us. There is a saying, that you may well know and although not technically correct goes along these lines. If you put a frog into a pot of boiling water it will …
Is Your Private Internet Data Being Harvested From Undersea Cables?
99% of all the internet traffic and most probably the video you are watching now has traveled over an undersea cable somewhere along the route. It is estimated that the finance sector alone sends some $10 trillion dollars per day of financial transactions over these cables. And as a whole …
What Would Happen if you fell into a Black Hole?
Imagine we are at some point in future on a mission to study black holes and orbiting near the photon sphere, an area just far enough away where photons of light travel fast enough to settle into an orbit and don’t get pulled into the event horizon. However, through no …
How The MIT Ideas Factory Revolutionised the Future
It’s said that if the combined income of all the 120,000 MIT alumni, living and dead, were put together it would be equal to the 10th largest economy in the world, which as of today is Canada at about $2.2 trillion. I did a video about Bell Labs a while …
Will NanoBots be worse than A.I?
Whilst I was researching for the last video about inertial guidance, I came across the miniaturization of what were basically large spinning flywheels down to parts that could be fabricated on a silicon chip just millimeters in size and yet did the same overall function. But how small can we …
How Inertial Navigation Changed Air, Sea & Space Travel for Ever?
On the 8th Feb 1953, a B-29 took off from Hanscom Airforce base near Boston, Massachusetts to fly to Los Angeles, California, a journey of approximately 2600 miles or 4290 km and 12 hours in flight time. But this would be no ordinary flight, this flight would be the first …
How Two Dive Bombers Altered the Course of WW2
The first bombs of WW2 were dropped by Junkers Ju-87 Stuka dive bombers, during the invasion of Poland, and the last Luftwaffe ground-assault mission against Soviet tanks took place on the 5th May 1945 as part of the defence of Berlin was also by Stukas dive bombers. This “little Bomber“ …
Lost for decades, How Sonar is revealing the secrets of the sea, lakes and rivers.
What is the link between the wreck of the Titanic and the solving of missing persons cold cases in the USA? Well, both were found with sonar, a technology that uses sound to locate objects and measure distances in water. We currently know more about the surface of Mars and …
Could NASA 3D Print a New F-1 Rocket Engine?
When NASA was looking to go back to the moon, it did look at resurrecting the Saturn V rocket, after all, it had delivered men to the moon from 1969 to 1972 with no failures of the rocket itself, barring apollo 13 which was a failure of an oxygen tank …
Was the B29-Superfortress a failure?
It was the single most expensive military project of world war two costing 50% more than the Manhattan project to build the atomic bomb and is the only aircraft to drop nuclear weapons in combat. The B-29 was the most sophisticated propeller-driven bomber of the world war 2 that …