Day: November 4, 2017

The management interface called the cause of the collision of the American destroyer and the tanker Before the collision the helmsman lost in the transfer of control to the backup console. Poor training of the crew of the us destroyer “John McCain” was the reason the ship collides with tanker “Alnwick” near Singapore. This is stated in the report on the results of the investigation of the incident, prepared and published by the Ministry of the Navy of the United States. As ArsTechnica writes, although the document is not explicitly specified, it should still be that an additional cause of the collision of the destroyer and the tanker could be errors in the interface, that is, the arrangement of elements on the main console. The collision of a U.S. destroyer “John McCain” and oil tanker “Alnwick” registered with the state of Liberia took place on 21 August 2017. The collision

In the death of mammoths, the males accused their bachelor lifestyle Russian, Swedish and Dutch scientists have found that male woolly mammoths are more often females fall into natural traps, such as in swamps, and died. Scientists have suggested that such negligence was caused by the lifestyle of these mammals. Probably, like modern elephants, the young males mammoths lived the “bachelor” groups or singly. Therefore, they are more likely to fall into traps due to lack of experience, and to get them out of there often was none. A study published in Current Biology. Woolly mammoths inhabited the North of Eurasia and North America in the Pleistocene and early Holocene. About ten thousand years ago on the mainland mammoths became extinct; a small population continued to live on the island of St. Paul in the Bering sea, and on Wrangel island near Chukotka. But about 5.6 and four thousand years

Laika: the heroine of the cosmos, which had no chance to return 60 years ago, the earth being first left their home planet. November 3, the second Soviet Earth satellite was thrown into orbit, the dog Laika. Back four-legged lady who discovered the Universe is not returned by opening a list of the victims of the space, first animals and then people. In 1948-1961 years in the way space man paved 48 dogs, 15 monkeys and two rabbits. 27 animals died due to accidents and various unforeseen circumstances. Laika was the only one who deliberately sent into certain death. “What will surprise?” Khrushchev was so pleased with the triumph of the first satellite, which he called the Queen and asked for a memorable date – the 40th anniversary of Soviet power is to run something. Korolev proposed using the multi-million dollar missiles to kill a dog.Alexander Nakanowatari, publicist Nikita Khrushchev