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What Ever Happened to 3 Mile Island – 42 years later
When the reactor at the Three Mile Island power plant went in to a partial meltdown in March 1978, it dealt a blow to the nuclear industry that took over 20 years for it to start to recover from. However, no matter what you think of nuclear power, the truth is that until we have a much more reliable renewable supply of electricity that doesn’t stop when the sun goes down or the wind stops blowing, we will have used them as a back-up. This is the story of the Three Mile Island accident and how it changed the nuclear industry on a worldwide scale. This video is sponsored by…
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What Has NASA Done Ever for Us – The CMOS Image Sensor
Some might think that NASA only makes things for space, but their area a great deal of things that it develops that end up being used here on earth far more often. 1 in every 1000 patents in the US is awarded to someone working for NASA, so it shouldn’t come as a surprise to find out one of the most widely used devices in your smartphone, tablet and laptop, the digital camera was developed by NASA, this is the story of one of their mostly widely used inventions, the CMOS image sensor. This video is sponsored by MagellanTV : https://try.magellantv.com/curiousdroid Guest AuthorAll Guest Author Posts are submitted or additional…
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MOSFET – The Most significant invention of the 20th Century
What makes a truly world-changing invention?. Of all the inventions of the 20th century, just one could be said to have changed the world in such a way that it touches virtually everybody on the planet’s lives on a daily basis. It has enabled the most rapid development in technology in history and yet you can’t see the vast majority of them directly and their individual job is just to switch on and off. This is the story of the MOSFET and how it changed the world. Guest AuthorAll Guest Author Posts are submitted or additional content Wave Chronicle has added to the website. To be a Guest Author please…
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SkyLab – Maybe the Most Important Space Programs So Far
It was plagued with problems from the start but it turned out to be one of the most important influential space programs we have ever done. Skylab unintentionally showed us that we could fix major unexpected problems working in space and that we could survive in space for long periods of time and paved the way for the ISS. This is the story of Skylab, the first and so far only US space station. This video is sponsored by Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/CuriousDroid Guest AuthorAll Guest Author Posts are submitted or additional content Wave Chronicle has added to the website. To be a Guest Author please visit our "Post Your Article" page.More…
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How NASA’s New Spacesuit Could Stall the 2024 Artemis Moon Landings
NASA is due to return to the moon in 2024 but before they can do that they will need the new spacesuits which they have been developing for 14 years, trouble is it looks like that’s not going to happen. In this video, we look at NASA’s spacesuit from Apollo to the ISS and why they need a new one, and why that causing such a problem. This video is sponsored by Morning Brew http://cen.yt/mbcuriousdroid Guest AuthorAll Guest Author Posts are submitted or additional content Wave Chronicle has added to the website. To be a Guest Author please visit our "Post Your Article" page.More Posts - Website
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How Did Apollo Avoid a Radiation Disaster?
Neil Armstrong’s biggest fear about the Apollo missions was a solar occurring during the mission and although none of the missions was affected by such an event they were lucky through timing rather than anything else. This video looks at what might have happened if they might not have been so lucky and how we are trying to mitigate such effects happening on the upcoming Artemis lunar program in 2024. This video is sponsored by MagellanTV https://try.magellantv.com/curiousdroid Guest AuthorAll Guest Author Posts are submitted or additional content Wave Chronicle has added to the website. To be a Guest Author please visit our "Post Your Article" page.More Posts - Website
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The Wild Weasels – When Electronic Warfare Became Real
In many ways, the story of the Wild Weasels is the story of the beginnings of electronic warfare between the radar crew on the ground and the weasels in the air. This was also the first time that electronics had been used to find targets actively during a mission rather than predetermined beforehand, and of course, this was matched only by the bravery of the men required to fly down a radar beam and put the site out of action before the missile got them. This video is sponsored by Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/CuriousDroid Guest AuthorAll Guest Author Posts are submitted or additional content Wave Chronicle has added to the website. To…
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NASA’s Mega Hubble – The Roman Space Telescope
What do you do when the NRO (National Reconnaissance Office) makes you an offer you can’t refuse?. Well in the case of NASA you update an existing design to create a Hubble on steroids that can cover the same amount of sky as one hundred Hubble’s, drastically cutting down the time survey the sky and also more accurately look for Neptune sized planets around nearby stars and gather evidence to hopefully find out what dark energy really is, this is NASA upcoming Roman space telescope. This video is sponsored by Brilliant.org : https://brilliant.org/CuriousDroid Guest AuthorAll Guest Author Posts are submitted or additional content Wave Chronicle has added to the website.…
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How Safe is Nuclear Transportation?
The transportation of radioactive material is much more common than many people think because it’s not just spent nuclear fuel and warheads that need to the moved but how safe are and shipments of radioactive materials on the public transport systems. This video is sponsored by Blinkist Guest AuthorAll Guest Author Posts are submitted or additional content Wave Chronicle has added to the website. To be a Guest Author please visit our "Post Your Article" page.More Posts - Website
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Why Can’t We Find MH370 ?
Six years on and the mystery of MH370 is no closer to being solved but there is growing evidence to say that it was not an accident. But with all the technology and new information that has come to light since the disappearance, why can’t we find MH370. This video is sponsored by Brilliant.org: https://brilliant.org/CuriousDroid Guest AuthorAll Guest Author Posts are submitted or additional content Wave Chronicle has added to the website. To be a Guest Author please visit our "Post Your Article" page.More Posts - Website
