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...
New York's well known Empire State Building facilitated new visitors on Saturday night as pictures of imperiled creatures were flashed over its veneer. The one of a kind presentation, on one of the world's most conspicuous structures, was gone for starting discussions about mass eradication. Pictures of snow panthers, tigers and different ocean animals were indicated. A 350ft (106m) picture of Cecil, the well known lion killed in Zimbabwe not long ago, likewise appeared.Organisers said the occasion was a "first-of-its-kind" live feature projection. It drew tremendous hordes of onlookers, who ceased to look at the presentation and catch their own particular pictures.
In every one of the 160 animal groups were demonstrated, including marine warm blooded creatures, creepy crawlies, and even the shadow of King Kong moving up the building.
Up to 40 vast projectors were utilized to sparkle the striking pictures on to its veneer.
The occasion was composed as a component of an advancement for another Discovery Channel narrative, Racing Extinction, which is situated to air in December.
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