Things to come … X-ray eyes for roadmenders
First published in Management Today, May 2003Holes in the road dug by public utility firms can be a headache for traffic and pedestrians. But thanks to a new backpack for roadmenders, getting at underground pipes and cables will be a lot faster in future. That could save the country about pounds 2 billion of social and economic disruption.
At Nottingham University’s Institute of Engineering, Surveying and Space Geodesy, Gethin Roberts and others have linked virtual-reality binoculars, complete with inertial navigation systems, to a backpack containing a GPS receiver and a laptop. Roadside engineers who don the binoculars see pre-stored 3D video images, based on local data, of what lies beneath them; and the images change as they move. It’s accurate to 1cm, if the underlying data is correct.
Fmr President of Kenya on Trump cutting off foreign aid:
“Why are you crying? It’s not your government, he has no reason to give you anything. This is a wakeup call to say what are we going to do to help ourselves?”
America first is good for the world.
Our entire Green Socialist establishment should be banged up under the ‘Online Safety’ laws, for spreading demonstrable lies (the ‘climate crisis’), causing non-trivial harm to the industrial working class, ordinary drivers, farmers, taxpayers etc, etc.
#Chagos? #Mauritius PM Navin Ramgoolam "is reported to want Starmer to pay £800m a year, plus ‘billions of pounds in #reparations’." (14 January) https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/01/14/the-chagos-islands-deal-is-an-embarrassment/
Now the Torygraph wakes up https://telegraph.co.uk/gift/1ff8abbb462cd609
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Innovators I like
Robert Furchgott – discovered that nitric oxide transmits signals within the human body
Barry Marshall – showed that the bacterium Helicobacter pylori is the cause of most peptic ulcers, reversing decades of medical doctrine holding that ulcers were caused by stress, spicy foods, and too much acid
N Joseph Woodland – co-inventor of the barcode
Jocelyn Bell Burnell – she discovered the first radio pulsars
John Tyndall – the man who worked out why the sky was blue
Rosalind Franklin co-discovered the structure of DNA, with Crick and Watson
Rosalyn Sussman Yallow – development of radioimmunoassay (RIA), a method of quantifying minute amounts of biological substances in the body
Jonas Salk – discovery and development of the first successful polio vaccine
John Waterlow – discovered that lack of body potassium causes altitude sickness. First experiment: on himself
Werner Forssmann – the first man to insert a catheter into a human heart: his own
Bruce Bayer – scientist with Kodak whose invention of a colour filter array enabled digital imaging sensors to capture colour
Yuri Gagarin – first man in space. My piece of fandom: http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/10421
Sir Godfrey Hounsfield – inventor, with Robert Ledley, of the CAT scanner
Martin Cooper – inventor of the mobile phone
George Devol – 'father of robotics’ who helped to revolutionise carmaking
Thomas Tuohy – Windscale manager who doused the flames of the 1957 fire
Eugene Polley – TV remote controls
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