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"I truly believe men and fish can coexist peacefully" – George W. Bush
5 Apr 2024, 21:08 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / If you are a human living in this world, then there's a big chance that at least once in your life you came across a concept vehicle of some sort. Whether it was a car, a bus, or a spaceship, it most definitely was meant to preview a design cu...
5 Apr 2024, 10:57 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Porsches are some of the most difficult cars in the world to improve. That's because they're almost always made to be perfect, and there usually is little one can do to better what the German factories birth on a regular basis. But that d...
5 Apr 2024, 09:46 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Back in 1985 Japanese bike maker Suzuki introduced a motorcycle that would go on to change the face of the sportbike category forever. Called GSX-R750, the model evolved in 2001 into something ever more extraordinary, the GSX-R1000. And now it'...
5 Apr 2024, 07:54 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Because of the advancements made in the field of air defense, present-day missiles are finding it increasingly difficult to reach their targets. As a result of that, defense contractors have begun investing heavily in new weapons systems capable of...
5 Apr 2024, 07:00 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / This was a big week for the space exploration industry, as NASA finally announced the finalist companies that will compete to build the crew-rated Moon rover for the later Artemis missions. We discussed two of the entries in our previous coverage, ...
4 Apr 2024, 10:20 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Generally speaking, planetary rovers, be they meant for remote use or to carry people, are not pretty things. And they don't have to be, because no one will ever admire their looks, but rather value their skills. And yet the crew-rated Moon ro...
4 Apr 2024, 07:51 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / This week marked the moment when NASA finally made up its mind who to trust with the assembly of the rover the astronauts of the Artemis program will use on the Moon later this decade. The competition is fierce, and the machines chosen for the task...
4 Apr 2024, 06:48 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The crew-carrying Artemis missions to the Moon are expected to start next year with the second flight of the program, the one that will not actually land humans on the Moon. The following year, Artemis III will do just that, followed in 2028 by Art...
3 Apr 2024, 19:53 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / They call it the Pearl 10X, and it's a business engine so exciting it might just as well have been fitted on a fighter jet. Produced by Rolls-Royce, the Pearl 10X just entered the final stretch to become fully operational. The name Pearl 10...
3 Apr 2024, 18:34 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / There are several goals humans are presently pursuing with a lot more fervor than they do others. We have a push for the electrification of cars and motorcycles, but also an accelerated race to achieve the human expansion into the solar system. In ...
3 Apr 2024, 17:03 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / I'm pretty certain that at one point in your life you thought about what a robot takeover of the world would look like. The most likely scenario probably involves weapons-wielding, bipedal metal creatures shooting humans left and right until t...
2 Apr 2024, 18:06 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / If all goes according to plan, American space agency NASA will launch at the end of the year its very first uncrewed rover meant for the exploration of the Moon. They call it VIPER, and for all intents and purposes, it will also be the world's...
2 Apr 2024, 13:19 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / There's a good chance that if you blinked these past two years, you missed a couple of very important developments when it comes to military drones: some of these things can now fly themselves, with no need for ground controllers, and on top o...
2 Apr 2024, 12:42 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The motorsport world has several major competitions, but few of them are as visible on a global level as Formula 1 and MotoGP. Created for the purpose of racing vehicles on four and two wheels, respectively, the two racing series have long been con...
2 Apr 2024, 11:29 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Aircraft maker Gulfstream has been in business since all the way back in 1958, and it has probably made thousands of airplanes since. So when the company says it completed "the most rigorous certification program in company history," that...
2 Apr 2024, 10:47 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Although at some level one could say it's business as usual in the world, there's a palpable tension in the air. It is constantly spreading from the two major conflicts in Europe and the Middle East, slowly engulfing everything and everyo...
1 Apr 2024, 13:06 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / For some of us humans the thought of living up there in space (or perhaps on another planet) is not just a thought, but a dream. A dream some of us might see come true soon enough, thanks to the many people and organizations working towards establi...
1 Apr 2024, 12:35 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / One doesn't have to be an aviator to understand how an aircraft works. In simplistic terms, engines push it through the air, the wings provide lift, and various control surfaces like stabilizers, rudder, flaps, ailerons, and slats allow the pl...
1 Apr 2024, 11:29 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / It was kind of a hot weekend over in Hawaii, where the U.S. Navy and three of America's prime defense contractors (Raytheon, Northrop Grumman, and Lockheed Martin) came together for an impressive weapons test. The star of the exercise was t...
1 Apr 2024, 10:25 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Ever since Keanu Reeves had the "breathtaking” exchange with one of his fans at E3 in 2019, one has to take extra care in what context the word is used, as the bar was set pretty high. Yet that's the only word I'd use to descri...