Te Radar: My story, as told to Elisabeth Easther
26 Apr, 2021 05:00 PM
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Comedian, writer and presenter Te Radar. Photo / Jason Oxenham
Te Radar is the moderator of The Great Comedy Debate, a live battle of wits between two teams of Aotearoa s sharpest comedians arguing Technology Will Save Us . A one-night-only event on May 18, part of the NZ Intl. Comedy Festival with Best Foods Mayo, April 30 - May 24.
I had a very rural upbringing and although Ōhinewai was right by State Highway 1, it never occurred to me, with that great thoroughfare running right past my school, to think of that road s significance. That it provided a passage both north and south. I never imagined leaving that part of the world, even though I was wedged in between SH1 and the main trunk line. I had no desire to head north to the bright lights of Auckland or south to the even brighter lights of Hamilton. I ve never thought about that till now.
There’s no doubt that radar has played a large role in the study of the UFO phenomenon. For decades, strange and mysterious craft have been recorded on radar-screens by personnel at numerous military facilities. But, we get further, though, here’s a bit of background on radar: As the people at
ExplainThatStuff! state: “An airplane’s radar is a bit like a torch that uses radio waves instead of light. The plane transmits an intermittent radar beam (so it sends a signal only part of the time) and, for the rest of the time, “listens” out for any reflections of that beam from nearby objects. If reflections are detected, the plane knows something is nearby and it can use the time taken for the reflections to arrive to figure out how far away it is. In other words, radar is a bit like the echolocation system that “blind” bats use to see and fly in the dark.” With that said, now let’s take a look at some fascinating cases. In September 1952, NATO held a large-scale mili
Is an intact piece of protoplanet Theia locked away inside the Moon?
Scott Sutherland
mercredi, 11 mars 2020 à 11:30 - New research may solve a persistent mystery about how Earth s Moon formed.
New clues to the origin of the Moon surfaced this week, which reveal that the Earth and Moon are not as similar as previously thought, and part of the protoplanet that helped create the Moon may still be preserved deep under the lunar surface.
The current theory of how Earth and Moon came to be, as we know them today, is called the Giant-Impact Hypothesis. Essentially, billions of years ago, proto-Earth was all alone as it circled the Sun, until a fateful collision with a Mars-sized protoplanet scientists named Theia. The cataclysmic impact blasted both planets apart, and while much of Theia mixed together with proto-Earth, a cloud of debris that was blasted out into space eventually coalesced and cooled to form the Moon.
April 13, 2021
The British Royal Navy has tested cutting-edge software to map the seabed close to shore in hours – not days or weeks. Survey vessel HMS
Magpie was able to chart the waters around Plymouth purely using regular radar installed on shipping the world over and a specialist computer programme which measures wave height.
Using that data and information about currents, the software can produce a detailed profile of the seabed in a matter of hours – without the ship or boat having to physically sail over the area being surveyed.
Radar Bathymetry
All the system needs is wind and a swell to generate waves – plus computing power. It is not as detailed as the scans that