Most Expensive math error. Someone put a decimal point in wrong place, Spain’s submarines S-80 facing weight imbalance problem. It was discovered about 100 tons heavier than it needed to be. It mistake cost a reported 2.2 billion euro that buoyancy could be improved by lengthening the boat. It got delayed for another 7 years. Cost overruns to fix that is 2.2 billions euro
Kapal selam ini dijadual memulakan perkhidmatan pada 2015
Source : Not What You Think
Generetad by high pressure steam from nuclear reactors built in the aircraft carrier
Each carrier has 2 to 4 catapults
Tenaga Catapults biasanya dihasilkan melalui nuklear reaktor yang dibina di dalam kapal induk
Setiap kapal induk mempunyai 2 hingga 4 catapults
Setiap peluncuran mengambil masa kurang dari 1 minit
source : Interesting Engineering
Nissan has developed robotic office chairs that tidy themselves away when people clap their hands
The McLarent F1 engine is coated with a layer of gold foil to reduce engine heat
Hamza Bendelladj, a 27-year-old Algerian (2015), hacked more than 1.4 million computers, allegedly transferred more than 400 million dollars to Africa and Palestine, involving 217 American banks and financial institutions.
Read more : https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/9/21/hamza-bendelladj-is-the-algerian-hacker-a-hero
Roads in Sweden have a lane, electrified road to charge electric vehicles passing through will be charged while being driven
Von Braun Station, will be turned into a space hotel in the future
Four teenage girls in Africa have invented a generator to produces electricity using urine as fuel. Six hours electricity using a single liter urine.
Rudolf Diesel committed suicide in 1913 because he didn’t think his Diesel engine invention would be successful
Koba Superdeep Borehole reached 12,262 m in 1989, was expected to reach 15,000 m in 1993 but fail due to unexpected higher temperatur, 180°C in this depth location
The longest tunnel in the world is 57km, it took 17 years to build in Switzerland, second Japan 53.85 and France/UK 50.43km
Sterile Cockpit is a critical phase when operating an aircraft. It is an offense and can be prosecuted if the pilot talks about something that is not related to the operation of the flight
Source : Air Crash Investigation, National Geographic Channel
Qatar uses blue roads to reduce heat radiating from the asphalt
The Eiffel Tower get taller 6 inches when the iron heat up due to thermal expansion
