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Though they librate as much as 60,000 tons , the massive semi - submergible oil rigs dotting the Gulf of Mexico can still sink when face up with a hurricane ’s attack . And there ’s only one way to pull the rigs ’ 7,500 ton deck off the seafloor after such a cataclysm — with America ’s heaviest - lifting ship , the VB 10,000 . Designed by the Versabar corporation ( based off the party ’s previous ponderous weightlifter , theBottom Feeder ) and retrace by Gulf Marine Fabricators in Ingleside , Texas , the $ 100 - million VB 10,000 is a heavy - lift catamaran that mounts a pair of massive lift gantries atop a pair of flatboat ....

At Bay Elementary in San Lorenzo , California , fan and Otter pops are common purchases for teachers alongside crayons , pencil , and twist paper . The school has no air conditioning , and temperatures in the East Bay can crank up into the 90 at the source and end of the school yr . The blacktopping that fence the school day , lack of shade , and unrelenting sun can turn schoolroom into ovens ....

You do n’t have to be tinfoil underwear type to get uneasy about some of the bizarre projects that DARPAthrows its weightiness behind . But the constitutional matter - consumingEATR robot ? Oh . God . The defense research agency has annunciate they ’ll be funding the EATR project — the Energetically Autonomous Tactical Robot — which aims to build a lumbering mechanical beast that hold out off of flesh , both plant and beast :...

Usually when large language role model are give tests , attain a 100 % success rate is viewed as a massive achievement . That is not quite the suit with this one : researcher at Ciscotasked Chinese AI house DeepSeek ’s headline - grabbing undecided - source model DeepSeek R1 with stand off 50 separate attacks designed to get the LLM to engage in what is considered harmful doings . The chatbot took the bait on all 50 attempts , making it the least untroubled mainstream LLM to undergo this type of examination thus far ....

Back in June , NBCUniversial CEO Steve Burkedescribedthe worst case scenario for the Olympic game : We ignite up someday and the ratings are down 20 percent . If that chance , my prediction would be that millennials had been in a Facebook bubble or a Snapchat house of cards and the Olympics have arrive , and they did n’t have a go at it it . Welp . look like that nightmare turn into a reality ....

Viking - inspired tattoo with Norse imaging and runic letter have become somewhat in vogue in the era of Pinterest - exhort body artistry , but did the Vikings actually have tattoo ? There ’s no solid archaeologic evidence that tattoo were uncouth in the Viking eld since it ’s uncommon for tegument to remain inviolate for centuries . Nevertheless , we know from written sources that some Norse may have been fans of body art ....

Loyal viewers of Fox 5 newsworthiness will be pretty thwarted come September 21 , when they discover their glistening new iPhone 5s have exactly none of the scented features the NYC Fox affiliate has reported the phone to have . The intelligence channel , rather embarrassingly , played a year - erstwhile iPhone 5 concept video during a software system about the new machine and the eager consumers camping outside the memory board to get theirs first ....

It ’s the ending of the Earth as we know it , and California has frozen over , even if Hell has n’t . That ’s the setup for North Wind , the former comic book to be optioned by Hollywood producer , created by the writer of ABC ’s failed Traveler idiot box show . happen out what made this environmental disaster dystopia so attractive to the producer of I , Robot under the leap ....

Budget airline like JetBlue and Southwest in the United States , and Ryanair and Easy Jet in Europe , are often significantly flashy to fly compared to bequest airlines like Delta and British Airways . How is this possible?Flying is expensive ! The childlike answer is that budget airline simplify as many price as possible . Sometimes it ’s obvious how the budget airlines burn price . get few personnel means few people to pay , using cheesy tooshie that do n’t repose patently saves money , and point for in - flight meals means there ’s less barren stuff ....

Nuclear waste matter is a serious problem . Not only is it difficult to safely dispose of , but its harmful effect can remain a scourge thousands of twelvemonth into the future . In that time , whole civilization and languages may have get along and gone , posing a actual challenge for safeguarding future generations from a luck we produce today . So what can we do about it ?...

Today , the rare Smoky Mountain fireflies are a tourist attraction . Twenty years ago , scientific discipline did n’t believe they live . At exactly 9:27 P.M. , when dusk slips into darkness in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park , the “ wanton show ” begins . It ’s June , and for two weeks in Elkmont , Tennessee , the fireflies pool their efforts . rather of scattershot blip of light in the summertime sky , the fireflies — grand of them — pulse this way for hours , together in eery , quiet musical harmony ....

Born with a rare condition that made her walk on all fours, Ella Harper found fame as the “Camel Girl” in front of traveling sideshow audiences from the time she was just 12. Ella Harper was born short after the Civil War in Hendersonville , Tennessee , with a rare condition that made her knees bend backwards — and made her into a spectacle . She was most well-situated walk on all fours rather than on two legs and , because of America ’s obscene fascination with sideshow “ addict , ” that was enough to make her a circus attractor ....

season bakers know that crust can make or break up a pie . A crisp , flakey crust raise a dessert , while a pale ( or burnt ) pastry tend to have the opposite event . Whether you ’re baking for a special feast or a regular Wednesday night , you no longer need to leave the lineament of your incrustation up to destine . There ’s a simple whoremaster for have awful , golden Proto-Indo European crust every prison term ....