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Solar plane lands in New York City

A solar-powered airplane finished crossing the United States on Saturday, landing in New York City after flying over the Statue of Liberty during its historic bid to circle the globe, the project team said.  The spindly, single-seat experimental aircraft, dubbed Solar Impulse 2, arrived at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport at about 4 a.m. local time after it took off about five hours beforehand at Lehigh Valley International Airport in Pennsylvania, the team reported on the airplane's website.  Such a pleasure to land in New York! For the 14th time we celebrate sustainability," said the project's co-founder Andre Borschberg on Twitter after flying over the city and the Statue of Liberty during the 14th leg of the trip around the globe. The Swiss team flying the aircraft in a campaign to build support for clean energy technologies hopes eventually to complete its circumnavigation in Abu Dhabi, where the journey began in March 2015. The solar cr...

Prof Stephen Hawking listen for telecast signals from a million of the stars nearest to Earth

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The endeavor is said to be the greatest yet in backing of the quest for additional physical knowledge. The 10-year exertion will listen for telecast signals from a million of the stars nearest to Earth. 
The £64m ($100m) activity was propelled by the Breakthrough Initiatives bunch at the Royal Society in London. Talking at the dispatch, Prof Hawking said: "Some place in the universe, maybe, smart life may be watching these lights of our own, mindful of what they mean. "Alternately do our lights meander a dead universe - concealed signals, declaring that here, on one stone, the Universe found its presence. In any case, there is no greater inquiry. It's chance to focus on discovering the answer - to hunt down life past Earth. "We are alive. We are astute. We must know." 

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Those behind the activity claim it to be them greatest investigative hunt ever embraced down indications of smart life past Earth. They plan to cover 10 times a greater amount of the sky than past projects and output five times a greater amount of the radio range, 100 times quicker. It will include access to two of the world's most intense telescopes. - the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia and the Parkes Telescope in New South Wales, Australia. Among those included in the hunt is Lord Martin Rees, the Astronomer Royal."The hunt down additional physical life is the most energizing mission in 21st-century science. The Breakthrough Initiatives mean to put it on the same level as the other extreme experimental inquiries," he said. People in general will be welcome to partake in endeavors to locate a sign from a different universe through the SETI@home venture. 

Image result for Prof Stephen Hawking backs venture to listen for aliensYuri Milner, a cutting edge US based-tycoon and author of the activity said innovation had created to a point where it was conceivable to put listening for indications of additional physical knowledge on a fitting investigative balance. He said: "Current innovation gives us a genuine opportunity to answer one of mankind's greatest inquiries: Are only we?  "With Breakthrough Listen, we're focused on conveying the Silicon Valley way to deal with the quest for savvy life in the Universe. Our way to deal with information will be transparent point of interest of the critical thinking force of interpersonal organizations. Prof Hawking included that he accepted the hunt was one of humankind's most imperative investigative tries. 

"To comprehend the Universe, you must think about iotas - about the strengths that tie them, the forms of space and time, the conception and demise of stars, the move of cosmic systems, the privileged insights of dark gaps," he clarified. "In any case, that is insufficient. These thoughts can't clarify everything. They can clarify the light of stars, however not the lights that sparkle from planet Earth. 
"To comprehend these lights, you must think about existence. About psyches.

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