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Football field. listen, that s enough space for me. i don t need a lot of space for a vacation home. nasa s probe sent spectacular pictures home. and there is the best picture in the sky, tabby star, getting inexplicably brighter and dimmer. sign of intelligent life sthp. i m sure there are. there are probably, you know, other lives out there in outer space, but i won t know parts of it. closer to ground, the solar impulse 2 powered entirely by the sun touching down ironically in the dark. and on earth, self-driving cars are now logging millions of miles and production cars could be widely available in a few years. i am against it. i like to have control of the will for myself. we have cell phones that explode and now they want to go to self-driving cars? i think that s a leap future. take your time. fair point. ....
Nations military intelligence assistance. an airplane that runs on zero fuel has just flown across the pacific. it s called the solar impulse 2. it landed in the u.s. state of hawaii after making a historic trip from japan. the aircraft completed the longest and most difficult part of an attempt to fly around the world using only the power of the sun. as we have been mentioning it is a vote ahead for greece. voting begins at 7:00 a.m. sunday. the country s european creditors warn that a vote of no will jeopardize greece s membership in the eurozone. prime minister alexis tsipras says they are bluffing. right now, polls show an outcome that is too close to call. our richard quest is on the ground in athens and he gave us an update late friday night. reporter: it is very close. they re just about neck and neck 43-47, but that s within the margin of error, according to the latest polls, and there are 12% undecided. ....
The economy s stronger than ever before and consumers are more confident about it. and gasoline is fairly cheap. a gallon almost $1 less than this time last year. hotels and airfare, though, are slightly up. i filled up in new jersey. you did. $2.59. that s a bargain. good deal. yeah, yeah. and you didn t have to pump it yourself in new jersey. that s right. that s the big plus. okay, so not gasoline but talking about solar power. and a solar-powered plane attempting to circle the globe without a drop of fuel has taken off once again. the solar impulse 2 is finally heading for hawaii this morning after an unscheduled month-long stop in japan because of bad weather. there s only one pilot on board for the 120-hour flight to hawaii. the journey originated in china, and this is the longest leg so far. it s considered risky because there is no place to land in case of emergency. it s actually powered by more than 17,000 solar cells on its wings. that s how it gets its ....
That we would fly in typically for trans continental nights, that s roughly 9,000 pounds. the weight of the solar impulse 2 is only 2,300 kilograms, significantly less. so you can imagine what that means in terms of any kind of wind and how that would impact this particular plane. so it actually have to wait for any kind of cross winds to be less than 4 knots or about 7 kilometers an hour in order for this aircraft to actually fly. and by the way, for the cockpit, where the pilots actually sit, if their insulation was to fail, they could experience temperatures in the range from 40 degrees celsius above 0 to negative 40 degrees celsius. unbelievable stuff. okay, they are starting in abu dhabi. quite a check to eastern china. but they still have a long way go. as they travel across the pacific which is the next long duration travel, the true test of this particular lane, they ....