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by Ted Noel MD‚ American Thinker: With Donald Trump’s takeover of the Republican National Committee‚ you’d think that he’d have it going in a direction that would actually contribute to a victory. And‚ yes‚ harvesting a few ballots might compete in a small race or two. But as Jay Valentine has pointed out‚ the Presidential “election […]

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by Matt Vespa‚ Townhall: So‚ what the hell did we go through all of this for? I expected another wave of either anger or hilarity regarding the new guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued earlier this month about COVID: we can pretty much treat this viral infection like the flu. Remember‚ it […]

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Cicada season is coming up soon‚ and you’d better make sure you grab your raincoat if you’re planning on heading outside. Why‚ we hear you ask? Not because of April showers‚ it turns out‚ but because you might just get hit by a jet stream of cicada pee – and this unusual trait has helped researchers disprove widespread beliefs about how insects urinate.Researchers have long been baffled by the way that cicadas urinate and not just because it’s a pretty bizarre sight to behold. It goes against two insect pee paradigms and a team from Georgia Tech set to figuring out why. The first widely accepted theory involves how cicadas eat. Cicadas feed on sap from a plant’s xylem (the tissue that carries water through a plant) and most insects that do the same pee in droplets in order to save energy. For cicadas‚ however‚ the researchers discovered that peeing in droplets would actually be less energy efficient. When you’re a beefed-up insect like a cicada‚ you have to eat a lot‚ and that means peeing a lot too – flicking away that many droplets would be far too taxing. After all‚ they need as much energy as they can muster to make incredibly irritating levels of noise.We had to see a cicada peeing and now you do too.The second paradigm is that smaller animals also normally pee in droplets‚ because they tend to have smaller orifices‚ which aren’t energy conducive to shooting out a stream of pee at high speeds.“Previously‚ it was understood that if a small animal wants to eject jets of water‚ then this becomes a bit challenging‚ because the animal expends more energy to force the fluid’s exit at a higher speed. This is due to surface tension and viscous forces‚” explained study author Elio Challita in a statement.But because cicadas are on the larger side when it comes to insects‚ the researchers found that they actually use less energy to pee in jets. “A larger animal can rely on gravity and inertial forces to pee‚” said Challita.Since cicadas appear to be the smallest animal that urinates in such a way‚ the researchers believe that studying how they wee could have real-world applications‚ potentially informing the development of tiny robots and small nozzles.“This work shows that even the way in which organisms get rid of waste can provide new insights into fluid dynamics that spur innovation in soft robotics and ways to handle fluid at small scales in all manner of manufacturing‚” said Miriam Ashley-Ross‚ program director at the U.S. National Science Foundation‚ which provided funding for the research. Who knew we could learn so much from high-speed insect piss?The study is published in PNAS.

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A United Airlines Boeing 737 lost an external panel while it was in the air between San Francisco and Oregon on Friday with the airline crew only discovering the part was missing after the plane landed. The Boeing 737-800 — which departed around 10:40 a.m. as United Airlines flight 433 carrying 139 passengers and six crew members — landed safely over an hour later at Rogue Valley International-Medford Airport‚ the New York Post reported. Airport Director Amber Judd told the outlet that after one of the plane’s external panels was found to be missing‚ the airport’s operations were temporarily halted as it conducted a safety check on the runway. “After finding no debris on the airfield‚ normal operations at MFR resumed a few minutes later‚” Judd said. While in flight‚ there was no indication that the plane had any problem or emergency‚ the airline said. The plane‚ which is 25 years old‚ will undergo a “thorough examination‚” according to United‚ which added that it will “perform all the needed repairs before it returns to service” and “conduct an investigation to better understand how this damage occurred.” 🚨#Breaking: United Airlines Boeing 737 loses panel mid-flight after takeoff from San Francisco‚ diverts to Oregon airport. Plane lands safely‚ no injuries reported.#Boeing pic.twitter.com/MgmnLaUn5v — World News Global (@WorldNewsGb) March 15‚ 2024 The Federal Aviation Administration also said it will investigate the incident. The latest mid-air incident comes amid a string of mishaps involving Boeing aircraft. Last week‚ a tire fell off a United Airlines Boeing 777-200 as it was taking off. The tire damaged multiple cars in a parking lot‚ but no one was injured. here is video of a tire falling off a united flight today at SFO this comes one month after a wheel fell off a Delta plane in atlanta just prior to takeoff pic.twitter.com/OrednBxQ7g — Gregg Re (@gregg_re) March 7‚ 2024 Days earlier‚ a United flight from Houston to Fort Myers‚ Florida‚ was forced to turn around after one of its engines burst into flames. The FAA is investigating a mechanical issue on a United Airlines flight that caused flames to shoot from the rear of an engine minutes after takeoff on Monday. https://t.co/jrwnIglEGT pic.twitter.com/8VoCBoDHfk — ABC News (@ABC) March 7‚ 2024 In January‚ a door plug fell off of an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 Max minutes after it had taken off from Portland‚ forcing the plane to make an emergency landing. NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy testified before the Senate Committee on Commerce‚ Science‚ and Transportation last week‚ saying that Boeing was refusing to tell investigators the names of people on a 25-member team that worked on a door plug that came off the Alaska Airlines plane. CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP “Boeing has not provided us with the documents and information that we have requested numerous times over the past few months‚ specifically with respect to opening‚ closing‚ and removal of the door‚” the NTSB chair said. “It’s absurd that two months later we don’t have that‚” she added. “Without that information‚ that raises concerns about quality assurance‚ quality management‚ [and] safety management systems.” Boeing told ABC News that it has “worked proactively and transparently” to support the NTSB investigation. “Early in the investigation‚ we provided the NTSB with names of Boeing employees‚ including door specialists‚ who we believed would have relevant information‚” Boeing said. “We have now provided the full list of individuals on the 737 door team‚ in response to a recent request. With respect to documentation‚ if the door plug removal was undocumented there would be no documentation to share.”