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Filmmaking team The Timewriters put together a really beautiful timelapse of footage taken by a boat traveling from Rotterdam to Amsterdam through the Dutch waterway system in The Netherlands. The camera was placed from above, showing the aquatic intricacies of such travel, including a number of bridges. The footage was taken in 2013 but was only released in 2020 due to certain restrictions.

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Scientist with motor neurone disease who transformed himself into the world's first cyborg says he has 'exceptional' quality of life and is no longer 'one of the living dead'

 

A scientist who transformed himself into the world's first cyborg due to a muscle- wasting disease says his quality of life is 'exceptional'. 

 

Dr Peter Scott-Morgan, 62, from, Torquay, Devon, decided to challenge what it meant to be human when was diagnosed with motor neurone disease in 2017, using robotics to extend his life.  

 

Appearing on This Morning today with his partner Francis, 65, Peter said that after fully transitioning to 'part human, part machine' into November 2019 he's 'not just surviving, but thriving'. 


He said he's always believed he could 'change everything whatever the odds' with knowledge and technology after being inspired by sci-fi programmes Doctor Who and Star Trek as a child. 

 

The world-renowned roboticist has had to undergo a series of incredibly complex and risky operations during his journey.

 

This has included developing a remarkably life-like avatar before he lost any of the muscles in his face used to create expressions. The avatar is designed to respond using artificially intelligent body language.

 

Dr Scott-Morgan has also explored the use of eye-tracking technology to enable him to control multiple computers using only his eyes.

 

And the final procedure in his robot transition saw him successfully trade his voice for potentially decades of life.

 

He underwent a laryngectomy, meaning he lost his physical voice, but in doing so, he will avoid the added danger of saliva potentially entering his lungs, due to his condition.

 

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Navy Seabees build Kamala Harris a Resolute Desk of her own

 

Navy Seabees built a desk for Vice President Kamala Harris made of timber from a historic warship as part of an effort to craft a desk of comparable historical significance to the president's Resolute desk.

 

The U.S. Naval Construction Force built the desk using wood from the USS Constitution, the world's oldest commissioned warship still afloat. The Constitution was first launched in 1797 in Boston as one of the U.S. Navy's first six frigates.

 

An eagle and stars drawn from the Constitution's stern are carved into the desk, which Harris received in February.

 

 

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"The desk project was initiated to deliver a desk of comparable ... provenance, history, and heritage as the president’s HMS Resolute desk," according to the U.S. Navy. Crafted from the wood of the British HMS Resolute, that desk was as a gift to President Rutherford B. Hayes from Queen Victoria in 1880.

 

A second desk, built for the Secretary of the Navy, was made using materials from the frigates USS Constitution, USS Chesapeake, sloop of war USS Constellation, and battleships USS Texas, USS New Jersey, and USS Arizona.

 

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'High status' Roman villa and bath house found in England

 

Remains of a complex of "high-status" Roman buildings have been uncovered during construction work on a new housing development in northern England.


The rare remains were discovered in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, according to a statement from Historic England, a public body that looks after the country's historic environment, published Thursday.


Archeologists were drafted in to work on the project because Iron Age and Roman remains had been found at the site, but the findings "were far more significant than anticipated," said Historic England.


They include a circular central room with various rooms built off it, as well as a bath house. Archeologists believe the large complex of buildings could have been a luxury villa, a religious sanctuary or a mixture of both.

 

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9 minutes ago, Larry said:

Popped up in my YouTube suggestions, when I was looking at something else.  

 

 

Hard to make out, but I think one of the people says it idles at 20,500 RPM.  

 

In one of the related videos that popped up, it goes to Jay Leno's garage (where he has one, of course), and in the video he drives it and points out that it's idling at 22,000 rpm.

 

 

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