BREAKING JETPACK NEWS!
A former commercial pilot has flown over the Thames at a height of 30 metres for four minutes wearing a turbine jet engine powered jetpack.
He hopes to make an electric version of it available in 2019 - but at a price of nearly £200,000, you may have to wait a little while before putting it on your Christmas wish list.
Hitomi wasn’t hit by a stray meteor or a piece of space junk. The satellite was doomed by short-cuts and human error.
It wasn't a meteorite or a piece of space junk, says a major report—it was human error on multiple levels
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Send this along to your friend who won't stop asking "It's 2016, why don't we have jetpacks yet?"
The pilot ejected and seems to be safe.
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satellite 1936
NOUN
1An artificial body placed in orbit round the earth or another planet in order to collect information or for communication:a communications satellitea spy satellite[MASS NOUN]: the report was sent via satellite
1.1[AS MODIFIER] Transmitted by satellite; using or relating to satellite technology:satellite broadcasting
1.2[MASS NOUN] Satellite television:a news service on satellite
2Astronomy A celestial body orbiting the earth or another planet.
3[USUALLY AS MODIFIER] Something that is separated from or on the periphery of something else but is nevertheless dependent on or controlled by it:satellite offices in London and New York
3.1A small country or state politically or economically dependent on another:the Soviet Union and its satellite states
3.2A community or town dependent on a nearby larger town:with good motorway and rail links, satellite towns like Thornbury have grown rapidly
4Genetics A portion of the DNA of a genome with repeating base sequences and of different density from the main sequence.
Origin
Mid 16th century (in the sense 'follower, obsequious underling'): from French satellite or Latin satelles, satellit- 'attendant'.
NOUN
(the jet set) informal 1951
NOUN
(Especially in science fiction) a device worn over the shoulders like a backpack and enabling the wearer to travel through the air or through space by means of jet propulsion:he strapped on a jetpack and left the safety of the space shuttle to haul a broken satellite back to the ship
VERB
[WITH OBJECT]
1.1Cause (something) to be expelled from a machine:he ejected the spent cartridge
2.1Dismiss (someone) from office:he was ejected from office in July
Origin
Late Middle English: from
Latin eject- 'thrown out', from the verb
eicere, from
e- (variant of
ex-) 'out' +
jacere 'to throw'.
jet lag noun [U]
the feeling of tiredness and confusion which people experience after making a long journey in an aircraft to a place where the time is different from the place they left:
Every time I fly to the States, I get really bad jet lag.jet lag: hastens death in aged rats, as do rotating schedule shifts (
story)
Monster founder McKelvey resigned from its board. The career-services company said he declined to be interviewed in its options probe. McKelvey's counsel said he misunderstood earlier questions due to illness and
jet lag.
jet-lagged Show phonetics
adjective
(from Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)
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