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Die Technik der „Solar Impulse“, die 2015 bis 2016 um die Welt flog, wird wiederbelebt – als autonome militärische Aufklärungsdrohne.

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 b...

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 hea...

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 cel...

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