An anonymous reader shares a report: The date was April 20, 1978; the scene, the Great Hall of the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art on Astor Place. On the stage where Abraham Lincoln once spoke sat two men, the Italian modernist Massimo Vignelli and the cartographer John Tauranac, constituting two sides of the Great Subway Map Debate….
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Testing a fiery reentry
What would a satellite look like as it burns up in the atmosphere? Researchers attempted to duplicate this fiery fate for a bulky satellite electronics box using a plasma wind tunnel. Source: https://phys.org/news/2020-10-fiery-reentry.html…
Woman digs 35ft tunnel to rescue son from jail
A mother in Ukraine attempted to break her son out of jail by single-handedly digging an escape tunnel. Not content to see her son spend the rest of h… Source: https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/338714/woman-digs-35ft-tunnel-to-rescue-son-from-jail…
Physicists watch quantum particles tunnel through solid barriers. Here’s what they found.
A team of physicists has devised a simple way to measure the duration of a bizarre phenomenon called quantum tunneling. Source: https://www.livescience.com/quantum-tunneling-observed-and-measured.html
CERN Makes Bold Push To Build $23.5 Billion Super-Collider
CERN has taken a major step towards building a 100-kilometre circular super-collider to push the frontier of high-energy physics. From a report: The decision was unanimously endorsed by the CERN Council on 19 June, following the plan’s approval by an independent panel in March. Europe’s preeminent particle-physics organization will need global help to fund the project, which is expected to cost…
The ‘mole’ on Mars is finally underground after a push from NASA’s InSight lander
There’s a light at the end of the tunnel for the first mole to burrow into the surface of Mars, scientists hope. Source: https://www.livescience.com/insight-mars-lander-pushes-mole-into-red-planet.html
Underground entrances to Area 51 discovered
An eagle-eyed Google Earth user has identified what appear to be several underground tunnel entrances. There are few places on Earth as notoriously se… Source: https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/337351/underground-entrances-to-area-51-discovered…
Elon Musk’s ‘Boring Company’ Finishes Digging Second Tunnel in Las Vegas
“Not all of Elon Musk’s projects have been thwarted by the coronavirus pandemic,” writes Bloomberg. Slashdot reader Charlotte Web quotes Popular Mechanics: After a year’s worth of digging, Elon Musk’s The Boring Company has completed the second tunnel for its underground people-mover system at the Las Vegas Convention Center. It’s keeping in step with an anticipated opening date in January 2021…
AMC’s Stock Is Surging On Reports Amazon May Buy It
Today, shares of AMC are up 40% (recouping about 26% of their value lost since January) solely on an unconfirmed report from the Daily Mail that Amazon is interested in buying the global theater chain. “AMC’s market capitalization was about $427 million when the news broke, down from $752 million at the end of 2019,” adds Quartz. From the report: The…
Secret tunnel discovered under train station
Archaeologists have unearthed a mysterious 19th-Century tunnel hidden beneath a station in Denmark. The passageway, which was found underneath Osterpo… Source: https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/336904/secret-tunnel-discovered-under-train-station…