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Trust me—you really don’t know what you’re missing.
In case you missed it, I’ve updated the page covering Bill’s helicopter minesweeper. New additions include links to the patent, letters Bill has written about the device, and background on the Navy’s 35+ year helicopter minesweeping program.
CNN article: Mine-sniffing tech improves, but expensive—No mention of Bill’s mine-clearing inventions, but it highlights the problems in even detecting mines, and the last paragraph has the sobering report that “The United Nations estimates that it will take at least a decade to clear Afghanistan of mines and that hundreds of civilians will be killed or maimed before the job is finished.”
A teacher wanted to know why the day of the winter solstice was not also the day with the latest sunrise. USA TODAY has a great description—basically this occurs because the earliest sunset and latest sunrise don’t occur on the winter solstice because the sun is not highest in the sky at precisely noon each day. A related description with pictures is also available, and why day and night are not equal on the equinox. You may also be interested in why the longest days are not the warmest.
This simple $500 gadget can foil hijackers of trucks with hazardous cargo. More details on Bill’s latest solution related to stopping terrorists. Includes links to newspaper articles in the SF Chronicle and NY Times, and a response by Bill to the critics who say it won’t work.
New insight on the role of asbestos in the buildings’s collapse. Also read: Asbestos Could Have Saved WTC Lives, Asbestos Column Raised Awareness and Terrorists 1,000 and Enviros 5,000. Counterpoints and additional info: Asbestos and the WTC Collapse and More on asbestos in WCT.
This page was last modified on Monday, 19-Feb-2007 06:02:18 PST.
