Flock Safety, known for its drones, has built technology that can chase thieves fleeing retail stores or intruders at factories. With a button, somewhere, the chase begins. #Drones#Aviation#Shoplifting
@elonmusk To make government more efficient, we must abolish tenure for professors in all community colleges, starting with those under CUNY. Not only will that save taxpayers a ton of money, it will also tell these academics that money is "earned" for doing "work." #Academia
A lot of peeps think that if you support #MAGA, you're just a terrible human being. That's no true. There are heaps of rude folks in New York, who didn't vote Red.
I had excellent apple cider donuts, wood-fired pizza at @DuBois_Farms I also picked some delicious apples there and met a few very cute goats.
#NewYork
Ethanol has about 1/3 the energy of gasoline.
So, cars will typically experience a 4% decrease in miles per gallon when running on E10 (10% ethanol blend) and a 5% decrease, with E15 (15% ethanol blend) compared to pure gasoline. #Cars
It doesn't matter how tall you are. What matters is how tall you SEEM.
James Madison, the fourth president of the U.S. who was known for his contributions to the Bill of Rights, stood only 5 feet 4 inches tall.
#Thoughts
Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works has been working on building a nuclear fusion reactor that will replicate the power of the sun in a structure compact enough to fit on a truck.
Nuclear fusion offers clean, risk-free energy. #Science#Energy
In the 1968 movie, “2001,” the name of the spaceship’s on-board sentient computer is HAL. It’s a Caesar cipher of HAL, with a shift of one. #Science#Movies
At this time of the year, the average temperatures in Antarctica are typically between -58 F and -76 F. But now, they’re between -13 F and -22 F. An increase of 50 degrees is tantamount to a heat wave in the coldest place on Earth. #Environment#Climate_Change
New York City’s population is declining.
It lost nearly 78,000 residents in 2023. Between April 2020 and July 2023, the city lost almost 550,000 residents (about half the population of Maine) or more than 6% percent of its population.
#NewYorkCity
Over the past 10 years, automakers have phased out halogen light bulbs and replaced them with LED light bulbs and high-intensity discharge light bulbs.
The latter are better for the environment and they illuminate the roads better. The former are easier on the eyes. #Cars
I thought it was just me, but drivers are increasingly complaining about the intense glare from the headlights of oncoming cars.
Headlights are indeed much brighter today than they were even a decade ago. #Cars
Each year, some 1.3 billion ink cartridges are sold globally.
They contain toxic, oil-intensive and non-biodegradable materials that can take over 1,000 years to break down.
#Environment