What was the problem with Concorde? Concorde was far too expensive, was not very environmentally friendly, couldn’t carry many people, and it wasn’t allowed to go supersonic over land because of the sonic boom. Concorde first flew with Air France and British Airways in 1976. The supersonic plane flew continuously for 27 years before being […]
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What is the Voynich manuscript? It is a 200 page, vellum codex, with hand drawn pictures. It is written in a language that no one knows or can read. The Voynich manuscript is named after a Polish bookseller called Wilfred Voynich, who bought it in 1912. Today, the book is owned by Yale University and
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How do weather forecasters know how hot it will be? Weather forecasters predict how hot it will be by inputting as much meteorological data into a supercomputer as they can. They also look at patterns. They look at what the weather has done in the past. And they go on the basis that a weather
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What is wind chill? Wind chill is where the wind reduces the air temperature, making it feel much colder than it actually is. Wind chill can be deadly if you are not wearing the right clothing. The temperature for the day that you say in the newspaper or on the weather forecast of the TV
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How are sellotape (Scotch tape), duct tape, stick glue, wood glue, and superglue different? All the types of glue have different chemical components and they are different in the way that they dry. They also stick or don’t stick to different things. Adhesive tape is called sellotape in the UK and Scotch tape in the
Is time travel possible? Time travel into the future is possible but time travel into the past is most likely not. It is difficult to say if something is possible or not because we can only judge the likelihood of it being possible with our current knowledge and technology. There is no way of knowing
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What happens if you get struck by lightning? If you do get struck by lightning, which is more common than you might imagine, it can cause severe burns, damage to the nervous system, cardiac arrest, a lot of other damage, and death. It is estimated that 240,000 people a year are struck by lightning, and
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Are cryonics possible? Cryonics might be possible in the future, but there is no way at the moment to imagine how it would be possible. The basic idea behind cryonics is that someone who is sick and cannot be healed by modern medicine is frozen when they die so that they can be revived at
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How many types of plastic are there? There are many different types of plastic, but they have been grouped into 7 different types of plastic. They are PET, HDPE, PVC, LDPE, PP, PS, and other. You can tell which ones they are because of their Resin Identification Code, which has a triangle made of arrows
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Why do we laugh? Nobody knows for definite, but there are several theories. One of the theories is that we laugh as an evolved response to the passing of stress to show the rest of our herd that the danger has passed. One of the most interesting things about laughter is that it is not
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