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



                                        Source:  Venus Aircraft

  • 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


                                                Source:  Stock


  • 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:
  1. NPC - non-player character; someone lacking spontaneity or genuine feelings; boring; lacks independent thinking
  2. Sideguest - a task that is a side issue to the main goal
  3. 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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