From 1951, over four decades, the US government carried out almost a thousand nuclear tests at this test site, earning it the nickname of the “most bombed place on Earth”. Here, they took the crude nuclear weapons that had been dropped over Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 and honed their destructive power.
The islands mainly deal with fish and gardens powered by solar panels. The development has assured farmers an extra mass of floating 2.2 million square feet of farming space. The multidimensional barges-like farms are created by the Forward Thinking Architecture, a firm in Barcelona.
There are some more surprising findings, however. The British attachment to rail travel is clear. It has the world’s 17th largest rail network, at 17,732km, despite being just the 78th largest nation by land area. That figure was once as high as 34,000km.
Romania’s 22,298km network is also impressive, putting it 15th on the list, even though it is only the world’s 81st largest country.
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It’s a statistic so mind-blowing that it stunned Bill Gates and inspired haiku. But can it be true, and, if so, how?
Topography, architecture and traffic routes give every city a unique structure.
These conditions create the typical and individual inner structure of a city.via Luis Dilger
The automaker ceased production of its Wankel motors in 2012, but Mazda president Masamichi Kogai told Autocar that he still has a team working “very enthusiastically” on the technology in an effort to make it viable for future use.
“We can’t say the move is directly responding to our project, but it’s safe to suspect they are related. It’s great that they’re making the guidelines available to the public, we think they should be. That said, we don’t think that having an online PDF is the easiest way to engage with the information.”