I get the dummy joke, but in actual fact the US trialed RC planes as guided bombs in WWII. The bombers would be flown by pilots who would bail out and then the plane would be guided onto it’s target by radio control. Notably, JFK’s older brother was piloting one that blew up before he was able to bail out.
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Was this all because the Kennedy family was famously RC themselves?
Far out. Thanks for posting. Never seen that before (which is pretty surprising to me). Am going to do some research now.
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Article and video about new method for very fast 3D printing
Researchers find a way to 3D print whole objects in seconds
EPFL
When you think of 3D printing, you probably imagine a structure being created layer by layer, from the bottom up. Now, researchers from Switzerland’s Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) say they have developed a completely new way of creating 3D objects that offer remarkable resolution “in record time.”
As EPFL News reports, the method draws on the principle of tomography – the technique for displaying a representation of a cross section through a solid object, using x-rays or ultrasound. To make an object, a photosensitive resin is illuminated from multiple angles, with the accumulation of light helping to solidify the resin. In other words, the object forms a solid structure within the resin in one go, rather than segment by segment, as is the case with traditional 3D printing.
“It’s all about the light,” explains Paul Delrot, CTO of Readily3D, the company that has been set up to develop and market the system. “The laser hardens the liquid through a process of polymerization. Depending on what we’re building, we use algorithms to calculate exactly where we need to aim the beams, from what angles, and at what dose.”
The technology could have a wide range of uses, but its advantages over existing methods may assist medical experts. Researchers believe the process could be used, for instance, to make soft objects such as “tissue, organs, hearing aids and mouthguards.” What’s more, printing can take place inside sealed, sterile containers, preventing contamination.
“The system is currently capable of making two-centimeter structures with a precision of 80 micrometers, about the same as the diameter of a strand of hair,” EPFL News adds. However, the team believe that could be increased to 15 centimeters in the future. “The process could also be used to quickly build small silicone or acrylic parts that don’t need finishing after printing,” says Christophe Moser, head of EPFL’s Laboratory of Applied Photonics Devices.
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“The data we have so far suggest it is 100% blockage, it’s a very severe blockage of malaria,” Dr Jeremy Herren.
The researchers are now investigating whether they can release infected mosquitoes into the wild, or use spores to suppress the disease.
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Sounds like the premise of a Steven King novel.
Stand by for Trump to declare (after several failed attempts to pronounce it) that everyone needs a dose of microsporidia MB as a miracle cure against Covid.
He’d struggle to pronounce MB.
And then try, or one of his henchmen would, to patent it for himself.
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WE’RE ALL GOING TO DIE…
It’s the quiet asteroids you have to worry about.
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Not now that the makers of Preparation H have brought out Preparation Shhhh.
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This is a bit of a long video at 20 minutes but it’s intriguing to watch even if you want to see how a battery is recycled.
It’s a pity we (Australia) can’t be world leaders in high tech when we are so capable.
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Soooo,. . anyone? 
Photos?
It was damn bright last night; there’s one shot in the Photos thread.
That it was.
Tonight too. It’s a rager this one.
a few moon shots here
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As a Chippy into Green Building, …tonight’s Catalyst is really, really interesting.
So 20-30 years ago some scientists mathematically predicted there was a lot more baryonic matter in the universe than could be observed. Todays news is they still cannot observe it, but they can observe the effects of it.
A handful of atoms per cubic km of intergalactic space, turns out to be a lot of atoms !
I mean hey its not so significant except, they were able to detect the effect at all, and that it proved earlier calculations.
I feel a Nobel Prize coming up. Except, maybe it should go to the scientists that calculated the amount of baryonic matter in the universe and predicted there was more out there than we can see.
If they use such powerful telescopes why can’t they send us a picture of the moon buggy left on the moon.
Clearly you’re one of those ‘the moon landing was fake dolts’
Clearly you also don’t understand how deep space telescopes work