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Aiken Standard

Location

Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America

Date

Nov 08, 2009

Page

5

Insect cyborgs and Titanic blamed in Q and A era piece

The piece notes UC Berkeley engineers building a remote controlled beetle cyborg for reconnaissance, DARPA funding insect-augmented flight, and speculation on future insect driven missions. It also asks whether human hubris or design flaws sank the Titanic, citing Adam Werner’s book on Hollywood physics.

U.S University of California At Berkeley Engineers Spencer Ornes Discover Magazine Italy Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency DARPA Adam Werner

Strange rue Grand ship fails despite watertight design flaw

The Titanic type vessel boasted 16 buoyant compartments but flooding occurred after six sections flooded near the bow. Bulkheads rose only 10 feet, allowing water to spill over and doom the ship in 1912.

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