April 27, 2005
- NASA invests $11 million over four years with Rice University to develop an experimental power cable (quantum wire) with 10 times better conductivity than copper at one-sixth the weight. It would be made with carbon nanotubes and would help reduce the weight of the next generation shuttle; but can have wide ranging applications. (Wired)
- The new Airbus A380 lifts off in Toulouse to its maiden flight. The A380 replaces Boeing's Jumbo Jet (Boeing 747) as largest passenger plane. (BBC)
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“I, Alphonso, live and learn,
Seeing Nature go astern.
Things deteriorate in kind;
Lemons run to leaves and rind;
Meagre crop of figs and limes;
Shorter days and harder times.
Flowering April cools and dies
In the insufficient skies.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)