St. Louis, with a 99-percent-partial eclipse, is another near miss. Too bad, because a shot of the event behind the Gateway Arch would be gorgeous. On the other hand, Indianapolis is right in the middle of the path. Fans of motor sports might want to capture the event with the India...
The result is a NASCAR racer that is slightly slower and a bit more controllable for the driver. They now average around 180 to 190 mph (290 to 306 kilometers per hour) on the track, while the previous design was capable of well over 200 mph (322 kilometers per hour). But one ...
Of course, as HSR has become faster over the years, the outward limits of that range increase.11 Still, most specialists believe that a journey above 900 kilometers makes air travel the more viable option.12 It is not simply speed that makes HSR so attractive to travelers, however. It is...
where it breaks with the ghats, harte was able to scale up from survey plots of a quarter of a hectare to the range’s full area of 60,000 square kilometers. in his latest, still unpublished work, he and colleagues use survey data from a dozen 0.04-hectare plots in the san lorenzo ...
At the first Indianapolis 500 in 1911, broken steering knuckles were a serious problem. But in the next year, knuckle quality improved greatly -- at the 1912 Indy, not one knuckle broke, even when pushed for more than 500 miles (805 kilometers) on a brick surface, at speeds of more th...