• Question: what is your favourite invention yet

    Asked by The FishFinger Killer to Stephen, Sita, Rory, Hannah, Brian, Alison on 4 Mar 2019. This question was also asked by 774speq48.
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      Sita Karki answered on 4 Mar 2019:

      I developed the techniques to process the satellite data to detect algal bloom in the coast of Florida.
      These algal bloom are the nasty things that grows on water and kills the fish.

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      Rory Scarrott answered on 4 Mar 2019: last edited 4 Mar 2019 11:36 am

      I’ve never invented anything, but my favourite invention someone else came up with is noise cancelling headphones…. I live in mine.

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      Brian OConnor answered on 4 Mar 2019:

      Probably cameras. They are now in everything from mobile phones to laptop computers. Instruments like cameras called multi spectral scanners (they see more colours than your camera can and their lenses are thousands of times more powerful) are now put on Earth Observation satellites. They are used to take images of Earth . Some can even read the licence plates on cars, even though they are 800 km high up above the Earth in space!

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      Stephen O'Connor answered on 6 Mar 2019:

      The internet. I use it every day to learn about things, to keep in touch with family and friends, read the news, watch movies on Netflix, and talk to you guys!

    • Photo: Hannah Currivan

      Hannah Currivan answered on 6 Mar 2019:

      I have made a rail with a stepping motor which flex’s data tapes! I did this as part of my Particle Physics Summer Internship at the University of Glasgow. These data tapes were prototypes for CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) home of the Large Hadron Collider, and especially for one of its detectors called the LHCb ( Large Hadron Collider beauty), its jobs is to detect slight differences between matter and antimatter. The reason I was flexing the data tapes that are to be used for the LHCb was to see if the data being read was being affected by the small flexing it will experience as the detector moves (the detectors move, but very little). This upgrade to the LHCb has been happening since 2018 and will continue for 2019. 🙂 🙂 🙂
      But my favorite invention is rockets!!! Rockets have been around as far back as the 10th century in Song dynasty China. They were used as a propulsion systems for arrows, but today we get to use rocket science to launch satellites and astronauts into space!!!! 🙂 🙂 🙂

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      Alison Dufresne answered on 6 Mar 2019:

      Computers/the internet. There’s so much we can do now thanks to computers and the internet that weren’t even imaginable before!!!

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