DAILY INNOVATION BRIEF by Edward Kane, Journalist
DAILY INNOVATION BRIEF
By Journalists Edward Kane & Maryanne Kane
PLANE TO FLY LONDON TO SAN FRANCISCO IN 1 HOUR
- Venus Aerospace just successfully tested a demonstrator drone/plane designed to fly passengers at incredible speeds. Here's what we know:
- Texas-based Venus Aerospace is developing a passenger aircraft called Stargazer to fly at Mach 9
- That is 6,900 mph or 9-times the speed of sound
- At that speed, you could travel from London to San Francisco in 1 hour
- The rocket engine in the aircraft is revolutionary and hypersonic
- It's called a "rotating detonation rocket engine"
- The 1st flight test of the Venus drone demonstrator was successful
- The "supersonic" drone flew 10 miles, hit an altitude of 12,000 feet and a top speed of Mach 0.9 or 680 mph
- It flew on a hydrogen peroxide monopropellant engine for the inaugural test
- The startup company says the test has given them highly valuable data for continued development of Stargazer.
BACKSTABBED BY GEN Z SLANG
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- Are my Gen Z daughters using video slang to insult me behind my back? Here's what we know:
- Gen Zers (those born between the late 1990's and 2012) seem to have their own language
- A Harvard linguistics expert has revealed how video game terms have become part of their language, much as sports metaphors became prevalent in the past
- Here are some Gen Z terms:
- NPC - non-player character; someone lacking spontaneity or genuine feelings; boring; lacks independent thinking
- Sideguest - a task that is a side issue to the main goal
- NERF - to make it worse
- My daughters aren't big on video games
- When I disagree with them, they look at each other with raised eyebrows and say "NPC!".... maybe they mean Nice Parent Character.
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