Harry Potter As A Teen Comedy…

I knew homesickness was a really thing, but no one ever told me how much it hurts.

It's funny how...

Teens these days can probably name more mass/school shootings than presidents. Ha.

Engineers fly first-ever plane with no moving parts

Since the first airplane took flight over 100 years ago, virtually every aircraft in the sky has flown with the help of moving parts such as propellers, turbine blades, and fans, which are powered by the combustion of fossil fuels or by battery packs that produce a persistent, whining buzz.

Now MIT engineers have built and flown the first-ever plane with no moving parts. Instead of propellers or turbines, the light aircraft is powered by an “ionic wind” – a silent but mighty flow of ions that is produced aboard the plane, and that generates enough thrust to propel the plane over a sustained, steady flight.

Unlike turbine-powered planes, the aircraft does not depend on fossil fuels to fly. And unlike propeller-driven drones, the new design is completely silent.

“This is the first-ever sustained flight of a plane with no moving parts in the propulsion system,” says Steven Barrett, associate professor of aeronautics and astronautics at MIT. “This has potentially opened new and unexplored possibilities for aircraft which are quieter, mechanically simpler, and do not emit combustion emissions.”

He expects that in the near-term, such ion wind propulsion systems could be used to fly less noisy drones. Further out, he envisions ion propulsion paired with more conventional combustion systems to create more fuel-efficient, hybrid passenger planes and other large aircraft.

Barrett and his team at MIT have published their results in the journal Nature.

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//following back tons//

*every december*

me: mom we need soap 

mom: that’ll be part of your christmas presents

Remember, if you keep pulling, today you have the best hair you will ever have.

I just saw a bull get stabbed to death for entertainment and I am traumatized.

This is litterally the craziest thing I've seen during a wc game so far

When you choosen in the squad as goal keeper but you wanna be defender. 😰😰😰😅😅😅😅😆😃😃😃

If peanut oil is from peanuts,

canola oil is from canolas,

And olive oil is from olives,

Where does baby oil come from?