As usual, once I landed at the airport, I made my way to the customs area where
Long lines in airport customs is not unusual. But as I waded through this 45-minute process
Since there were two separate customs areas at the Istanbul airport, my rough calculations came out to well over 10 million man-hours a year wasted at this one single airport.
It s not unusual for governments to waste people s time over what they like to phrase asthe greater good.
The same goes for TSA-like security agents on the front end of airports. Within the next decade, 90%of those jobs will be gone as well.
Some of the positions he mentioned were commercial pilots, legal work, technical writing, telemarketers, accountants, retail workers,
They operate above the fray, independent of the frenetic energy of today s highways, airports, train, and bus depots.
Airport Security systems Dismantlers 144. Airport Customs Dismantlers Living on the edge of tomorrow! Extreme Innovation Outside of the multiple categories listed above are a number of unusual jobs, many still decades away.
Here are just a few to whet your appetite. 145. Extinction Revivalists People who revive extinct animals. 146.
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(which later became famous as'Twas the Night Before Christmas). ) The poem is credited to Clement Clarke Moore an aristocratic academic who lived in New york city.
These little blood vessels act like water balloons inside the lower rectum and help people control bowel movements.
At the same time the tiny bird's hippocampus balloons by 30 percent as new nerve cells pop up in this part of the brain which is responsible for spatial organization
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when researchers estimated(<a href=http://www. pnas. org/content/110/48/19273. abstract target=blank>PNAS Nov 26 2013</a>)that there could be 8 billion or 9 billion stars in our galaxy
and adjacent areas by a Twin Otter airplane that collects ecological measurements with state-of-the-art remote-sensing instruments.
#Can a Tornado Blow Straw Into a Tree? There are a lot of tall tales surrounding tornadoes some rooted in fact and others based on fiction.
One popular story suggests that the strong winds of a tornado can blow a single piece of straw straight into a tree trunk.
But how does this legend hold up in the real world? According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) Storm Prediction Center the old straw story is just a lot of hot air.
However NOAA does concede that the intense winds generated by a tornado are capable of twisting trees
And since the most severe tornadoes in recorded history have reached only wind speeds of 205 mph (330 km h) it's unlikely that a twister could ever re-create this damage.
Imagine what it would be like to be stuck in an area equivalent for humans to the size of an airplane seat for virtually your entire life.
#Can We Protect Against The next Moore Tornado? The scenes of devastation in Moore Okla. after a possibly 2-mile-wide tornado tore apart schools and homes on Monday (May 20) led to an inevitable question:
Could anything have been done to save buildings and lives? The answer according to tornado experts and building engineers is yes though there are roadblocks in the way.
Some are scientific because meteorologists have yet to fully grasp why tornadoes form when they form
and how to predict their paths. Others are economic: Building a tornado-proof building for example is already completely possible albeit very expensive.
There's no doubt we could engineer something that could withstand an EF4 or EF5 tornado said Darryl James a professor of mechanical engineering at Texas Tech University.
The question is who could afford it? Despite these challenges researchers are working to make sure future tornadoes wreak less destruction
whether that means getting a better grip on where tornadoes are likely to form and move or protecting property
and people once the tornadoes have arrived. Â Â Predicting twisters The Moore Okla. tornado touched down at 2: 56 p m. CDT (3: 56 p m. EDT) on May 20
and spent 40 minutes on the ground carving a 17-mile-long (27 kilometers) path of destruction through the Oklahoma city suburb.
The National Weather Service pegged the tornado as an EF5 on the Enhanced Fujita scale meaning winds reached more than 200 mph (322 km h).
) See images of the Moore tornado damage Tornados as strong as the one that ravaged Moore are relatively rare.
About 95 percent of tornadoes in the United states are EF2S or below according to the National Climatic Data center.
Only about 1 percent reach EF5 status. Predicting which storms will generate monster tornadoes or any tornadoes at all remains a challenge.
The basics of tornado formation are simple enough. When wind and humidity conditions are right thunderstorm systems can begin to rotate
and become what are called supercells. Supercells are marked by the presence of a mesocyclone a rotating updraft of air that can sometimes create a funnel cloud.
Exactly why this happens in some storms and not others is a key mystery. We're trying to be able to figure out why of two pretty much identical supercells one will generate a tornado
and one won't said Amy Mcgovern a computer scientist at the University of Oklahoma in Norman. Mcgovern and her colleagues are among the researchers trying to improve tornado predictions.
Using supercomputer simulations she and her team are working to model tornadoes on a very fine scale tracking their movements to within 165 to 245 feet (50 to 75 meters).
On-the-ground observations can only take researchers so far Mcgovern said. Radar can't sense every component of the wind's movement for example.
or temperature to see whether and how each influences tornado formation. At the 165-to 245-foot level of precision building a stable realistic simulation is difficult.
The team has done similar work to predict airplane turbulence with great success so once the database of simulated storms is built using them to predict real-world weather should be said successful she.
when a tornado is bearing down. On Monday the National Weather Service office in Norman Okla. gave residents 16 minutes of warning before the tornado even formed based on radar indicators that the storm clouds were circulating in such a way that a tornado was likely.
That 16 minutes is 3 more minutes than the average tornado warning time of 13 minutes.
The actual time most residents had to seek shelter was been longer because it took the tornado time to reach them.)
Ultimately researchers want to get quicker. Mcgovern's work could help meteorologists look for clues in storms that make tornado conditions more likely.
The eventual goal said William Gallus a meteorologist at Iowa State university is warn-on-forecast.
In other words meteorologists would be able to forecast tornadoes and issue warnings rather than waiting to see rotation
Using tornado simulators Gallus and his colleagues are working on understanding how local topography affects the way a tornado might move
and strengthen. For example they've found that ridges cause tornadoes to deviate left as they climb up
and right as they descend. Narrow valleys can also funnel wind into tornadoes from a mile
or so away Gallus said causing damage far afield from the actual funnel cloud. 50 Amazing Tornado Facts Moore in particular has been hit by three violent tornadoes in less than 15 years:
One in 1999 one in 2003 and one on Monday. Most scientists see that as a coincidence
Statistically that should not happen for about a million years to have a violent tornado pass by the same spot three times
Gallus isn't the only researcher looking to get a hyper-local look at how tornadoes work.
Tornado protection Once a tornado is on its way though saving lives can be a matter of having a place to Go in Moore students at Plaza Towers Elementary huddled in interior hallways
and bathrooms but a direct hit by the tornado collapsed most of the building. Likewise homes in neighborhoods hit by the tornado were destroyed completely.
As of Wednesday the death toll stood at 24 10 of whom were children. Video:
War Zone Sad experience is teaching that some old tornado safety tricks aren't as effective as hoped particularly
when buildings aren't designed with tornado safety in mind. In Joplin Miss. a 2011 tornado killed 158 according to the National Weather Service (the city of Joplin pegs the death toll at 161.
Among the devastated buildings was a local high school and some of the spots disaster experts would normally suggest people go for shelter turned out to be among the most badly damaged there.
Building in tornado country Even in Tornado Alley buildings are designed to withstand only 90 mph (145 km h) straight-line winds said Partha Sarkar who studies wind engineering and aerodynamics at Iowa State university.
and doesn't take into account even the most common types of tornadoes. An EF1 tornado can sustain gusts of up to 110 mph (177 km h).
) What's more Sarkar said rotational tornado winds can put even stronger stresses on buildings than straight-line winds.
A 90-mph tornado can be much more damaging than a 90-mph straight gust.
The buildings are designed simply not to withstand that level of wind he told Livescience. The Deadliest Tornadoes in U s. History Designing a tornado-proof building is said expensive Sarkar.
You need reinforced masonry steel or composite materials instead of timber and enhanced connections between walls foundations and roofs
and that will certainly help to make them stand up to most medium-intensity tornadoes EF2S EF3S maybe Sarkar said.
Another option would be tornado shelters another feature frequently missing from Tornado Alley construction. The storm shelters today are designed for 250 mph (402 km h) wind speeds
and we feel that is higher than will ever be experienced at the ground level in a tornado said Ernst Kiesling a mechanical engineer at Texas Tech and the executive director of the National Storm Shelter Association.
Shelter from the storm Unfortunately cost prevents homeowners in even tornado-prone areas from installing these shelters.
For Sarkar tornado-ready construction is a national issue. It's not going to go away he said.
During the war The british Royal air force developed a new type of radar technology that helped pilots shoot down German enemy planes at night according to Smithsonian Magazine.
But in order to keep the new technology a secret the government said carrots were behind the pilots'success. Advertisements during the war touted the benefits of carrots for nighttime vision including one that read Carrots keep you healthy
and trafficked wolf pelts from Greece at Beijing's Capital International airport for example was a commendable act by China's General Administration of Customs.
and even tinier brains yet they are capable of flying swiftly and agilely through even turbulent air.
and his team at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard university have created a robot the size of a penny that is capable of remote-controlled flight.</
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It was developed from 2010-2011 by teams of students in summer engineering boot camps at Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland according to a release from NASA.</
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lore has suggested that the Vikings used special crystals to find their way under less than-sunny skies.
Though none of these so-called sunstones have ever been found at Viking archaeological sites a crystal uncovered in a British shipwreck could help prove they did indeed exist.</
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which may have played a role in the evolution of flight scientists report in a study published today (March 14) in the journal Science.</
SAN MATEO Calif. The word drone tends to conjure up images of planes that kill terrorists or of creepy surveillance tools.
But tiny drone airplanes made of foam may be more useful in rural environments one researcher says.
There the fliers could revolutionize agriculture reducing the need for pesticides and improving crop production. Because drones can fly cheaply at a low altitude they can get highly detailed images of cropland said Chris Anderson the CEO of 3d Robotics
Photos of Unmanned Aircraft Vast unknown The automation of farming has led to fewer farmers tending massive plots of land.
 Plane power Drones provide a potential solution to this problem because they can provide high-resolution images of crops are cheap to make
Anderson is developing tiny foam drone airplanes that fly using a $170 autopilot essentially a brain for the plane that works in any kind of automated vehicle.
That information allows the planes to stitch pictures together more accurately getting a better image of
and near-infrared images which could be captured in drone airplane imagery. More precise imagery could also allow farmers to target pesticides just to the plants that need them reducing how much ends up in the food supply Anderson said.
The origin of flight is debated by many experts. In the oetrees down theory it is thought that small reptiles may have evolved flight from gliding behaviors.
In the oeground up hypothesis flight may have evolved from the ability of small Theropods to leap high to grasp prey.
Feathers probably evolved from early body coverings whose primary function at least at first was thermoregulation. At any rate it is clear that Avians were highly successful
when trapped at airports or in a small city there can be very few options.
When confronted with a raging wildfire such as the Rim Fire now threatening California's Yosemite Valley the U s Forest Service has several weapons in its firefighting arsenal including ground crews who create firebreaks and aircraft that dump water
In 2002 a plane inadvertently dumped thousands of gallons of fire retardant into the Fall River in Oregon causing the immediate death of roughly 21000 trout whitefish
By contrast in the NOVA exercise it was like an airport runway Stevenson said. And the replica the team moved is on the small side for statues some
or jacks and females are called does flyers or jills. Females can get pregnant immediately after giving birth.
and some airplanes don't have a 13th row. There's a reason why the Beijing Olympics began at exactly 8: 08:08 p m. local time on 8/8/08:
or frequency of these understory fires Doug Morton a researcher at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt Md. and the study's lead author said in the statement.
and stands in the foremost spears relentlessly all thought of foul flight completely forgotten and has trained well his heart to be steadfast
Landing is arguably the most nerve-racking element of any flight. To execute a safe landing a pilot needs to know the plane s speed and its distance from the landing surface.
The pilot s challenge is to bring the aircraft s speed close to zero at the exact moment
and analysed the speed and trajectory of the flight and landing. They found that the closer the bee got to the target the slower she flew.
and velocity so one day soon we may even use this relatively simple algorithm to land aircraft on many types of surfaces without the need to know the exact distance from the aircraft to the landing zone.
and landing one day we may be able to land remotely piloted aircraft on uneven vertical surfaces such as part of a collapsed building allowing us to locate potential survivors.
and stayed for an oddly long time in the atmosphereforcing widespread flight cancellations for days. Serendipitously marine biogeochemist Eric Achterberg at the University of Southampton in England and his colleagues were taking part in a series of research cruises in the Iceland Basin region of the North Atlantic ocean both during and after the eruption.
Organisms are built not of continuous matter like plasticine we are made up of tiny balloons called cells.
So each block is more like a smartphone than a balloon each block has its own computer code or DNA genome.
 Locusts are passive fliers and can't get far flying into the breeze; however under the right conditions they can fly up to 90 miles (150 kilometers) per day Cressman said.
Researchers are launching javelin-shaped devices out of airplanes to help answer that question and find out what's going on in some of the frozen continent's most inaccessible places.
I flew over the boreal forest in a small four-seat airplane and watched colossal tree-cutting operations clearing thousands of acres of trees flying over miles of virgin forests that had already been leased for new mines.
But soon there would be millions more acres of clear-cut trees and millions more gallons of toxic waste that would leach into the rivers from tailings ponds
Elkins and his team flew over the rain forests in an airplane shooting laser pulses at the ground in a method called light detection and ranging (Lidar.
Elkins Fisher and their team are planning an on-the-ground expedition to the ruins by the end of the year (they'll reach the area by helicopter and bushwhacking.
The researchers located the bears from a helicopter and flew in close to dart the bears.
5 Animals With a Moral Compass The researchers then investigated what happens when both actors have a container.
U s. Marines were then called upon to help with oeoperation Volcano Buster by flying cargo helicopters to drop huge concrete blocks at the edge of the lava tunnel.
Additional blocks suspended underneath the helicopters were used like croquet mallets to knock the grounded blocks into the mouth of the tunnel.
Keith put the plane into a steep dive to gain the speed to outrun the cloud of incandescent gas;
Dorothy continued to photograph the eruption through the rear windows of the plane as they made their escape.
Some of the rocks contained grains of iron called magnetite and showed magnetic properties by deflecting a compass needle.
Hotels motels airports movie theaters hospitals and many more public and private spaces have been affected. What's worse the bugs demonstrate increasing pesticide resistance.
The 10 Most Controversial Psychiatric Disorders Jobs Lindbergh and other high-fliers are the subject of Kendall's recent book America's Obsessives:
High above Earth's surface extreme ultraviolet radiation from the sun reacts with air molecules to produce gigantic jets of lightning up to 56 miles (90 kilometers) tall that shoot up to the edge of space.
In 2001 scientists discovered these jets of lightning arcing from clouds in the lowest portion of the atmosphere the troposphere up to the ionosphere.
Based on its analysis of the colors of individual items on the belt it controls air jets that blow bad grapes and detritus off the belt and sorts the remaining berries into grades for production of various qualities
or banqueting hall Overall the palace was built to impress. oeversailles is a mirage a sumptuous and theatrical entertainment.
and holding a thunderbolt like a projectile Louis sits godlike on a silver chariot pushed by Hercules while riding roughshod over female personifications of nearby enemy towns.
That information is combined with multi-spectral images of fields taken by advanced camera systems from satellites and airplanes.
The research team created a sonar map of the area and analyzed two samples Raines took from trees Delong is planning her own dive at the site later this year.
#Radar Plane Scans South american Landscapes NASA's globetrotting remote-sensing plane wrapped up a month-long trip to Central
and soil moisture constrains a lot of ecosystem processes Yang Zheng UAVSAR operational processing lead told Ouramazingplanet during a UAVSAR demo at NASA's Dryden Flight Research center in January.
Its GPS SYSTEM flies the plane in a line with real-time corrections via satellite phone providing global coverage.
We can fly within a 10-meter tube said Naiara Pinto UAVSAR science coordinator at the Dryden flight demo.
#Radar Plane Scans Volcanoes, Archaeological Sites NASA's globetrotting remote-sensing plane wrapped up a month-long trip to Central
and soil moisture constrains a lot of ecosystem processes Yang Zheng UAVSAR operational processing lead told Ouramazingplanet during a UAVSAR demo at NASA's Dryden Flight Research center in January.
Its GPS SYSTEM flies the plane in a line with real-time corrections via satellite phone providing global coverage.
We can fly within a 10-meter tube said Naiara Pinto UAVSAR science coordinator at the Dryden flight demo.
Essentially slow-flying planes send constant laser pulses groundward as they pass over the rain forest imaging the topography below the thick forest canopy.
Past research has suggested that dinosaurs may have evolved first feathers for show not flight. Persons and his colleagues found that at least four known oviraptor species separated by 45 million years had pygostyles.
when they sense a bat's sonar clicks. Earthworms flee the vibrations of oncoming moles.
a longstanding cooperative agreement between UMD's Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center and the NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center;
 In the meantime Seidman worries that e-cigarettes simply assist smokers who wish to bring e-cigarettes into places such as airports where the smoker would
It s a pyramid-like structure that has more than 2000 glyphs embellished on a flight of 63 steps the longest ancient Maya inscription known to exist
With everything from printed metal airplane wings to replacement organs on the horizon could printed food be next?
The Sugar Lab had adapted 3d Systems'Color Jet Printing (CJP) technology to print flavoured edible binders on a sugar bed to fabricate solid structures.
What can you see from treetops that you could never see from the ground or even from high up in an airplane?
The moms aren't just being helicopter parents they stand to pass on their genes if their efforts result in grandkids researchers say. 8. Frog taxi service The strawberry poison arrow frog pulls out all the stops
Foods that may pose a greater choking risk to children include those that are similar in shape to the child's airway (such as hot dogs) those that are difficult to chew (raw fruits
In addition sonar mapping revealed that the vast majority of the forest is buried still under the sediment
and even tornado tracks Hansen said. There are a ton of stories here he said. Some of the information that comes from forest maps is unexpected entirely he added.
and that at some point in the future groundwater pumping rates are going to have to decrease study lead author David Steward a professor of civil engineering at Kansas State university said in a statement.
10 Health Status Signs Taking water measurements Steward and his colleagues collected data on past and present groundwater levels in the Ogallala Aquifer and developed statistical models to project various
It would take an average of 500 to 1300 years to completely refill the High Plains Aquifer Steward added.
if we're able to save water today it will result in a substantial increase in the number of years that we will have irrigated agriculture in Kansas Steward said.
Steward and his colleagues anticipate future technologies will help farmers irrigate their land more efficiently.
which means that every year we're growing about 2 percent more crop for each unit of water Steward said.
The balance between incoming and outgoing radiation keeps Earth's overall average temperature at about 59 F 15 C). This exchange of incoming and outgoing radiation that warms Earth is referred often to as the greenhouse effect because a greenhouse works in much
Almost all cars trucks ships trains and airplanes run on gasoline or diesel fuels. Manufacturing and other industries contribute about 20 percent of U s. greenhouse gas emissions followed by residential and commercial sources (11 percent) and agriculture (8 percent.
and militarism anthropologist Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney wrote in her book Kamikaze Cherry Blossoms and Nationalisms:
when they were painted on the side of kamikaze warplanes. Follow us@livescience Facebook & Google+.+Original article on Livescience. com m
New york city launched a successful pilot curbside food-waste collection program this year and plans to require residents to separate food scraps for composting starting in 2016.
and low air density conditions of such high elevations to determine the limits of the bumblebee's flight capacity
All of the bees were capable of flying in conditions equivalent to 13000 feet (4000 m) and some even made it past 30000 feet (9000 m) the height of the peak of Mount everest the team reported Tuesday (Feb 4) in the journal Biology Letters.
The findings could also help inform aeronautical engineering projects working to design aircrafts capable of flying at high elevations Dillon said.
Helicopters currently struggle to perform rescues on top of Mount everest due to the low air density. The team is currently following up their study to determine
whether bees living at lower base elevations are also capable of flying at simulated high elevations
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