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Extreme Engineering: A Floating City
Name: Oasis of the Seas Where: Florida Cost: $1.2 billion Estimated Completion: This year The Challenge: Build an 18-story-tall superliner with more outdoor space When the Oasis of the Seas sets sail later this year, it will claim the record for biggest passenger ship, with space for 6,300 passengers, 2,000 more than any other ship. But it will also claim the most rooms with balconies, the biggest onboard swimming pool, and the first at-sea, tree-filled, outdoor park.
3.2.2009 at 01:04pm - Comment by sakalava47Siress, I thought your comment was very funny.
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Fly Me to Mars, Shuttle-Style
NASA plans to donate or lend three of its space shuttles to museums in 2010 -- but the co-founder of a rocket launch firm thinks the shuttles could help send humans to Mars.
1.10.2009 at 02:17pm - Comment by sakalava47Maybe they could be used to send the supplies to mars, while the humans go in a different vehicle.
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Tartan Racing Boss
“Boss,” the brainchild of Tartan Racing (a collaboration between Carnegie Mellon University and General Motors), was the winner of the 2007 Darpa Urban Challenge, a competition of autonomous vehicles. The mission: execute tricky merging, passing and parking maneuvers as quickly as possible, while obeying California-state traffic laws. More than a dozen lasers, cameras and radars feed information about Boss’s surroundings into its “brain,” a computer that uses 500,000 lines of code to make decisions about the best way to reach its destination.
12.6.2008 at 07:13pm - Comment by sakalava47actually supergrover (love the name btw) there are tons of imortant urban applications. Did you know that a leading cause of death in america are car accidents? A lot of those are due to tired or drunk drivers. Robotic cars, could conceivably drastically reduce this problem making the cost worth it.
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