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...
A system of UK analysts has chosen to form a message to outsiders - yet they are partitioned about whether such a message ought to be sent into space. The gathering will enter the Breakthrough Message challenge, which offers a $1m prize for making a computerized note that speaks to human civilisation. That prize goes with another push to quicken the quest for additional physical insight (Seti). Specialists have contended for quite a long time about the astuteness of television into space. Listening out for outsiders is one thing, however attempting to get in touch with them raises horde worries about what happens when civilisations impact. The assorted qualities of perspectives was evident at a meeting of the UK Seti Research Network (UKSRN) in Leeds, where the bunch's 20 individuals were divided into equal parts in a casual vote."We did a show of hands and we were impeccably equitably part," said Dr Anders Sandberg, addressing writers at the British S...