I suppose if we are going to build star ship factories and colonize the solar system we have to start somewhere.
And in a recent interview the Icelander responsible for destroying hundreds of endangered fin whales has announced he will literally use whale oil to fuel the ships for killing more endangered whales (also to export mass produced canned whale meat to Japan.
is reminded anyone else of the houses people have built out of cargo containers? There's a considerable similarity though the aesthetics of this design are far better.
He should be distancing himself from that train wreck. Instead he is leaning into it.
There is so much more havoc a wolf pack brings to your herds the chart doesn't even come close to painting.
The effort to replace all fuel sources with nuclear would be similar to the industrial effort required to produce Liberty ships
No one President via one or two terms can stop this train wreck of climate change cause from human industrial revolution.
How does one interpret the different size space ships? How does one compare a handset to PSY?
If NASA and Spacex were transporting wheat would the wheat NASA carries be bigger than the wheat on a Spacex ship?
#Lessons From The Panama canal, 100 Years Agowhen it opened in August 1914 the 48-mile Panama canal provided a vital shortcut between the Atlantic
We have learned two great lessons in the construction of the Panama canal. One is that with money modern machinery
The Panama canal is a wonderful feat of engineering and we can easily imagine civil engineers attempting in the near future to conserve
hell) followed by a seven hour boat trek up the Rio Tambopata. Once you pass the Malinowski ranger station where visitors must sign in civilization drops away for good with caimans
40 million people a year who when they land in the Mojave desert seek only an oasis he dancing fountains of the Bellagio the imitation Venetian canals pirate ships swimming pools and golf courses.
The most technically challenging scene in Jupiter Ascending shows the movie s hero (Channing Tatum) zipping through the city in antigravity boots fleeing a spaceship in pursuit of his cargo (Mila Kunis.
But while the lifeless rubbled surface of the inconstant moon becomes increasingly littered with the burnt-out bones of vehicles the bathyscaphe has visited the deep and unknown places of the earth only a few times.
and so has the American Navy men are learning the techniques of changing pressures. Whereas the astronauts must become accustomed to weightlessness
I want to go down in the bathyscaphe to the great black depths. I can't wait.
or organic including packaged breakfast oatmeal and shredded wheat but even bark from oak and black locust trees.
One involved a barge named Mobro 4000 which spent five months traveling between New york and Belize looking for a place to dispose of 3168 tons of garbage.
Air bubbles attach to the target plastic and float it away from the other materials. Color Particle Sorter Plastic bits pour past a photoelectric detector
and forested land as part of a large-scale land-use experiment in the Panama canal watershed initiated by STRI.
The USGS STRI University of Wyoming and the Panama canal Authority have the resources to do that.
Severe drought forced Panama canal authorities to impose draft restrictions on transiting ships in 1997. In 2010 a major December storm system examined in this study halted shipping in the canal for 17 hours.
Land use in the watershed not only affects world commerce but also water availability for Panama's major urban areas.
His discoveries have led to the development of soy-based composites used in boats tractor panels
The research was conducted on the Smithsonian's 700-hectare Panama canal Watershed Experiment a long-term research site designed to quantify ecosystem services provided by different land uses.
Many forces of nature work against their anchorage in the soil. Human intervention in coastal areas and climate change also make life difficult for mangrove seedlings.
Given the concentration of pig bones found at Philistine archaeological sites the European pigs likely came over in the Philistines'boats.
Study offers advice for owners of urban delivery truck fleetsfor owners of delivery truck fleets who may be trying to decide between electric
Originally from Sub-saharan africa Brachiaria grasses found their way to South america centuries ago--possibly as bedding on slave ships Improved varieties of the grass are grown widely on pasturelands in Brazil Colombia
then into four clusters around 200 years ago when The british Empire cut vast tracts of timber to build railroads and ships.
With PNNL's climate model Smith created more than 1400 potential scenarios to reflect the many possibilities surrounding aerosols tiny particles including soot that float in the atmosphere.
and European nations with conditions equally hospitable to fruit flies as well as similar patterns of international travel and detections of fruit flies in cargo at ports of entry do not have established fruit-fly populations.
The pests were thought to be arriving either on cargo shipments or on infested fruits carried in by travelers from regions of the world where fruit flies were had native
and the imposition of a related embargo on shipping fruits and vegetables from the state would cause an additional loss of $564 million.
or paddle steamer is steered. If you want to go one direction you speed up the track or paddle on the other side.
which seems to be stable since 1990 and the Lulworth Skipper (Thymelicus acteon) which shows an uncertain trend over the last two decades.
In contrast large regions were deforested to very low carbon levels such as in the developed regions outside the protected watershed of the Panama canal.
Ristaino believes it was introduced to Europe multiple times probably from South american ships. P. infestans caused massive and debilitating late-blight disease outbreaks in Europe leaving starvation and migration in its wake after ravaging Ireland in the mid-to-late 1840s.
As the landing place for early American colonists and continuing with the industrialization and proliferation of cargo imports the Northeast has been receiving invasive forest insects far longer than anywhere else in the nation.
It is therefore an extension of the Antarctic land ice which thins at the edges and floats on the sea.
and the fishing fleets are shrinking both gull species are finding it more difficult to find food.
The fleet is expected to shrink even more in the coming years. The problem of food shortage will continue to increase as a result but then not only at the weekend.
As the earliest merchant seafarers the Canaanites were also able to take the wine culture out across the Mediterranean sea.
Understanding potential impacts of climate change on the Amazon forest and the savannas surrounding it is one of the major challenges for scientists in the region today explains author Marina Hirota who came to work with the Wageningen team after her studies in Brazil
carbon and timbermore than 13000 ships per year carrying more than 284 million tons of cargo transit the Panama canal each year generating roughly $1. 8 billion dollars in toll fees for the Panama canal Authority.
Each time a ship passes through more than 55 million gallons of water are used from Gatun Lake
. However the advent of very large super cargo ships now more than 20 percent of the ships at sea has demanded change.
The Panama canal is being expanded to create channels and locks three times larger than at present leaving the authority to consider how best to meet the increased demand for water.
Published this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) their study--Bundling ecosystem services in the Panama canal Watershed--examines precipitation topography vegetation
The Panama canal watershed is currently being reforested to protect the dry-season flows needed for canal operations.
in revenue to the Panama canal Authority. In parts of the watershed not currently under forest they found that reforestation of areas with high precipitation rates flat terrain
In both cases these conditions potentially pose a problem for the Panama canal Authority. Even with water-saving advances in the new locks the canal is expected to need 14 percent more water
However the Panama canal Authority is not the only beneficiary of the watershed and water is not the only ecosystem service supplied.
John W. Seaman III Katie M. Binetti and John W. Seaman Jr. of Baylor University;
Ikhlas Khan and colleagues explain that cinnamon which comes from the bark of certain trees is one of the most important flavoring agents used in foods and beverages.
requiring a boat trip of two days along the region's stunning fjords to reach.
and/or microorganisms that grow in the beetle's tunnels beneath the bark of a tree explains Keeling.
We saw this big brown beach ball says Traggis who co-authored a study of their findings in the journal Botanica Marina.
Colpomenia peregrina looks strikingly similar to a native species Leathesia marina or sea cauliflower. Sea potato however is smoother thinner and greenish-light brown
The paper Southern expansion of the brown alga Colpomenia peregrina Sauvageau (Scytosiphonales) in the Northwest Atlantic ocean was published in the December 2012 issue of Botanica Marina.
They traveled the rest of the way to the continent in 1521 on the ships of later Spanish colonists.
and others may require bulky energy storage that will limit their cargo and passenger capacity.
if the on-road fleet is to meet desired performance goals. Strong policies and technology advances are critical in overcoming this challenge.
and their bark peels back he said. Buchalski and Fontaine share first authorship of the paper.
Within 25 years practically no ash trees may remain on either side of the St lawrence Seaway said Akhlesh Lakhtakia Charles Godfrey Binder Professor of Engineering science and Mechanics at Penn State.
Marina Gálvez-Peralta and Daniel Nebert of the University of Cincinnati Medical center; Ryan Pavlovicz and Chenglong Li of Ohio State's Biophysics Program (Li is also in the College of Pharmacy;
and water and provide anchorage. The researchers conducted experiments over two years growing resistant and non-resistant crops and applying five different amounts of nitrogen.
About Albatrossalbatross are legendary birds for many reasons--in Samuel Coleridge's poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner a sailor has to wear an albatross around his neck as punishment for killing the bird.
Ditches claimed only 2 percent of the marsh compared with the 70 percent affected by roads houses restaurants marinas and other hallmarks of a modern coastal community.
#New control strategies for bipolar bark beetlespopulation explosions of pine beetles which have been decimating North american forests in recent decades may be prevented by boosting competitor
A raft of control measures were introduced into the poultry industry including movement restrictions compulsory slaughter
The chicken which not only barks out orders to sneaky snackers but even tweets that person's Twitter account to publicly shame them if they stray uses a Raspberry Pi--a tiny single-board computer.
#Key to identifying spiders in international cargospiders found in international cargo brought into North america are submitted sometimes to arachnologists for identification.
and international fruit importers to provide data on specimens they found in international cargo that had been submitted to them for identification.
He also asked that they identify spiders in their museum collections that had previously been found in cargo.
Together with colleagues from Canada and Washington state Vetter identified 135 spiders taken from international cargo between 1926 to June 2014
and facilitate the proper identification of cargo-borne spiders because misidentifications can lead to costly and unwarranted eradication measures unnecessary employee health education heightened employee anxiety
The authors found that the most frequently submitted spiders were the pantropical huntsman spider (Heteropoda venatoria) and the redfaced banana spider (Cupiennius chiapanensis) and that the most common cargo from
Spiders found in international cargo especially those in banana cartons are typically harmless species they wrote.
of which were published recently in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B. For their study the scientists evaluated data from six forest censuses conducted over the past decades on Barro Colorado Island in the Panama canal.
GEDI will be a tremendous new resource for studying Earth's vegetation said Piers Sellers deputy director of Goddard's Sciences and Exploration Directorate.
#Improving how companies use technology to ship fresh producea University of Florida-led research team's development of a tracking system could change the way companies ship fresh fruits
Using a 40-meter-tall canopy crane equipped with a gondola they were able to collect leaves from the very top of trees in Panama and the United states. They measured leaf vein density in 132 species from two
Last December online retailer Amazon announced plans to explore drone-based delivery suggesting that fleets of flying robots might serve as autonomous messengers that shuttle packages to customers within 30 minutes of an order.
http://smap. jpl. nasa. gov/NASA monitors Earth's vital signs from land air and space with a fleet of satellites and ambitious airborne and ground-based observation campaigns.
Clearly there are things that you can do to reduce loss--you can put bed liners in trucks you can adjust your combine you can harvest more slowly
http://mls. jpl. nasa. gov/index-eos-mls. phpnasa monitors Earth's vital signs from land air and space with a fleet of satellites and ambitious airborne
In their new system a Remotely Operated Gardening Rover or ROGR travels around the habitat tending to a fleet of Smartpots or SPOTS
Analyses showed that total farm-to-gate-gate variable costs (the seedling liner and field production phases combined) was $37. 74 per marketable tree;
along with rising gasoline prices has led to the world's largest fleet of flex-fuel vehicles fueled by the over 36 million tonnes of sugar cane currently grown in the country.
Within healthy nerve pathways each nerve cell sends an electric pulse down itself until it reaches a synapse where it triggers the release of chemicals called neurotransmitters that float across the gap
Grasslands especially in agricultural landscapes also provide tremendous benefits to humans through erosion reduction and water filtration as well as offering habitat to numerous grassland-obligate species from black-footed ferrets to Dakota skippers.
According to one of the authors Dr Piers Mitchell at the University of Cambridge UK the discovery might be among the oldest evidence of human-made technology inadvertently causing disease outbreaks.
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when the Antarctic Geological Drilling Program (ANDRILL) sent a remotely operated submersible vehicle into holes that had been drilled into the ice.
#International standards significantly reducing insect stowaways in wood packaging materiala new international standard for wood packaging material used in international trade is significantly slowing the inadvertent export of stowaway invasive bark-and wood
Clayton says the parasitic nest fly may have invaded Ecuador's Galapagos islands via ships and boats from the mainland at an unknown time and showed up in large numbers in the 1990s.
So the birds have no history with these flies which is why they are sitting ducks.
A boat carrying students photographers and aquatic ecologist Carlos de la Rosa was passing slowing
During the Spacex-3 mission the Dragon capsule not only will deliver cargo to the orbiting laboratory
NASA monitors Earth's vital signs from land air and space with a fleet of satellites and ambitious airborne and ground-based observation campaigns.
and the Carnegie Institute for Science Stanford Calif. NASA monitors Earth's vital signs from land air and space with a fleet of satellites and ambitious airborne and ground-based observation campaigns.
The new species of bark mantises were discovered in tropical forests and also found among existing museum collections.
This group the Neotropical bark mantises are incredibly fast runners that live on the trunks and branches of trees said Svenson of The Cleveland Museum of Natural history.
They can combine into larger molecular machines that grab other molecules walk cargoes within a cell
This research was supported by the James H. Ferry Jr. Fund for Innovation in Research Education.
Simple and primitive a duckweed plant consists of a single small kidney-shaped leaf about the size of a pencil-top eraser that floats on the surface of the water with a few thin roots underwater.
which analyzed data from ranches in western Montana including 15 years of records on ranch husbandry satellite-generated climatological data spatial data on wolf pack locations and confirmed depredations on 18
and other entertainment. 3. London, England Hyde park is the city's largest, with 350-plus acres along a lake, boat rentals, horseback riding, Speakers'Corner,
Shipping by barge is by far the cheapest method, followed by rail. But much of the North american supply is too far from an inland waterway
like Maine (which sports the lowest shipping cost to Europe at $28 a ton), much of it is either too far from the feedstock supply,
Wood pellets being loaded onto a barge. Source:
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& Co. showed that the average age of the US vehicle fleet has reached a record high 10.8 years.
Build your own lifeboat As I speculated in my 2012 outlook, our path into the Great Contraction will be decline by default.
but you can build a lifeboat. And if your country doesn't sink, you'll still be an important part of the solution.)
But you don't start building a lifeboat when the water's up to your knees, and as you can probably feel,
An infographic (below) created by Float Mobile Learning suggests that a growing number of North american farmers are now using smartphones
Over seven days, Groupon plans to put a limited number onions on sale (limited to one kilo per customer) and ship them for free to customers in 78 cities throughout India.
Let's say they need to ship to a Wal-mart warehouse in California. We d likely pick it up in A j. B. truck,
Trains and planes and ships revolutionized the food market, he said. It really transformed the way people move
cities would still continue to ship in citrus to Cleveland (and other desired foods that can't grow in certain climates) to meet demand,
Store offers innovative flying hovercraft for $190, 000 Coming soon: An electric airplane for only $34, 000 Flyboard jetpack lets you perform dolphin aerial tricks video Futuristic motor home is ultra luxurious,
I grew up in the industrial boat. I've dealt a lot with the power industry,
and are greater than those of all  cars, trucks, planes, ships, and trains worldwide.
Across the fleet, average delivery times were reduced about 25 percent, Gilbert said. Route optimization: Indianapolis Fruit was able to study each of its routes more closely
Operators of small fleets, like Phoenix-based HVAC repair shop George Brazil Services, try to maximize their fuel efficiency by switching to more efficient vehicles
and increasing the size of their fleets so drivers don't have to travel as far on each call.
Larger fleet operators are turning to logistics services to optimize their fleet activities, using GPS devices to track their drivers on a minute-by-minute basis
Larger fleets, in the 1200-vehicle range, could save $1. 2 million per year. For national delivery services like UPS who have optimized already their drivers'habits
and engaged in a long campaign to upgrade the fuel economy of their fleets, the main recourse is to simply keep raising their fuel surcharges.
Every morning before work, Redzepi stops in at the Nordic Food Lab, a roomy houseboat docked in the harbor steps from Noma.
I visited the boat and met the staff. The director, Michael Bom Frã ¸st, teaches sensory science at the University of Copenhagen.
After visiting the boat, I went to the test kitchen above the restaurant, where Redzepi served
The beach is disappearing so fishermen have no space to put their boats or to spread their nets,
But one fleet of cars remains on the roads, ferrying soily of vegetables to far-flung apartment blocks.
and the space required to safely ship multiple bulbs, Celery dreamed up a modular system that can accommodate just one or up to six bulbs.
Brian Dougherty, Celery Design cofounder, says Lemnis ultimately opted to use an overseas packager that went with a different bulk shipping solution.
There are the really â Å out there â Â schemes like launching a fleet of mirrors into space
The bird made famous in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner can fly incredible distances with a single flap of the wings.
until Samuel Taylor Coleridge's seafarer got hold of one and turned it into an impediment around  your neck.
The U s. military hopes to soon use drones for cargo transportation and refueling. This is certainly a realistic hope according to Missy Cummings, director of the Humans and Automation Lab at MIT.
With support from Shell and inspiration from air-powered car concepts in Europe, the project aimed to develop a compressed air engine that would power a vehicle:
but it may possible to teleport simple materials reducing the need for cargo ships and trucks to haul so many materials around. oeis teleportation possible?
A pot for more-efficient food storage, a bicycle rigged to carry hundreds of pounds of cargo,
and is serviced by butchers who trim off steaks from it with great flensing knives like those used by whalers.
From GPS-guided tractors to fleets of weed-clearing robots, technology continues to change the meaning of a day work on the farm.
Regulatory authorities also have little control over practices on the ships: the stockpeople, vets and crew are employed by the industry so there is no independent authority to oversee the process.
the same should be true on live export boats. Markets for meat The long-term prospects for beef and sheep meat exports from Australia are good.
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