Articles tagged with "station"

When Bronwyn told me a couple of days ago that she planned to write about Spirit Boxes, a part of many ghost hunters' arsenal, I was reminded of the fact that a few years ago I'd started a project to write a browser-based software version of a spirit box. The idea was to stream a handful of internet radio stations, switching between them rapidly to emulate the scanning of a spirit box. However, the project was never finished, and the code had been left in a semi-working state.

The hyperloop, one of Elon Musk's grand ideas, was slated back in 2013 as a way to beat traffic in heavily congested areas, with the first planned route being from Los Angeles to San Francisco. This plan was documented in the 2013 document Hyperloop Alpha, which is still available on the Tesla website and was written by Musk and some of the engineers he employed.

Okay, this one has me stumped, so I'm looking for some help. Robin Capper, from the Auckland Skeptics in the Pub group, messaged us recently to ask about a weird thing he'd seen on Google maps recently:

It has felt this summer like we are on a highway to hell. The roads themselves have been literally melting, and we had better get used to it. We are heading to a new climate reality, with more and more records being broken around rising temperatures, fires, droughts and other extreme weather events.