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Familiar to most Jeep historians is the fact that early military Jeep prototypes from Ford and Willys came in well above the maximum weight targets. The U.S. Army wanted the Jeep to be as lightweight as possible, and though Willys and Ford got the contracts to produce the MB and GPW, the Army didn’t abandon the idea of an even lighter Jeep. So in 1942-1943, prodded by the brief test program for the Crosley Pup, the Army began a search for an extra-lightweight Jeep, a search that Major Fred Crismon…
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TrES-2b, the Blackest Planet We’ve Ever Seen David A. Aguilar (CfA)
Kepler has found the darkest known planet in universe–a Jupiter-sized exoplanet some 750 light-years away that is so black that it reflects just one percent of the light that reaches it. TrES-2b is so black that it’s darker than coal, or any other planet or moon that we’ve yet discovered. It’s less reflective than black acrylic paint. To summarize: it’s really, really black.
But TrES-2b is not completely black. It emits an extremely fa…
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The First Animal to Produce Artificial Amino Acids Jason Chin/Sebastian GreissMeet the 21st amino acid
Researchers at Cambridge claim they’ve engineered the first animal with artificial information embedded in its genetic code in such a way that it generates biological molecules that have never been seen before in nature. That is, it churns out an amino acid that is wholly new, rather than one of the 20 found in natural living things.
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You know what I could really go for? A turbocharged Astro modified to, er, “look like a Lamborghini”. A show called “Ultimate Car Build” created such a vehicle a year or so ago. The “Astroghini” ran from 0-60 in 6.2 seconds thanks to a turbocharger sitting in place of the passenger seat. It sold on [...]
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From Meteorites, the Building Blocks of Life NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Chris Smith
In what appears to be seriously big news from a team of NASA-funded researchers, scientists have found evidence that some building blocks of DNA–including two of the four nucleobases that make up our genetic code–found in meteorites were created in space, lending credence to the idea that life is not homegrown but was seeded here by asteroids, meteorites, or comets sometime in Earth’s early lifetime.
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Photos courtesy of Cars In Depth About a year ago TTAC ran a two part piece of mine on Carroll Shelby’s Cobra and Bill Thomas’ Cheetah, which some say could have been Chevy’s parry to Ford’s Cobra. The formula was pretty much the same, put a big block engine in a lightweight tube frame car, [...]
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Humongous Fungus The giant fungus was found living under a fallen tree. The entire fungus weighs between 800-1,100 pounds. via BBC
A half-ton, 33-foot-long fungal fruiting body was discovered growing under a felled tree in China, researchers said. It’s the most massive fruiting body – equivalent to a mushroom, in other fungal species – ever discovered.
The giant fungus is estimated to be 20 years old, according to the BBC. It was feeding on rotting wood, which allowed it to reach its prodigious size.
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Photos courtesy of Cars In Depth Jack Baruth called the 1976 Cadillac Fleetwood Sixty Special Talisman that he delivered to Sajeev’s brother “majestic”. While Jack and Sajeev have been playing with a big Caddy, lately I’ve been seeing a lot of Dearborn’s favorite luxury brand and it’s given me a lot of opportunity to think [...]
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Neptune, Showing its ‘Great Dark Spot’ NASAThe sun’s most distant planet has completed its first full orbit since humans first laid eyes on it 165 years ago
It’s been a long year for Neptune. A full 165 Earth years ago, German astronomer Johann Galle first spied the icy blue giant giving wide berth to the sun some 2.8 billion miles from the solar system’s center. Today, it’s right back where we found it again, marking one full Neptune year since the planet’s discovery.
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Gonorrhea Infection CDC via Wikimedia Commons
A new strain of the gonorrhea bacteria can resist all available antibiotics, doctors say. Gonorrhea is one of the world’s most common sexually transmitted diseases, so this could portend a major threat to public health.
This should actually not be surprising, because for some time now, just one class of drug has been able to successfully treat the infection.
Now researchers in Sweden and Japan identified a new variant of Neisseria gonorrhoeae, the bug that c…
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