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Tesla Tells California DMV that FSD Is Not Capable of Autonomous Driving

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a35785277/tesla-fsd-california-self-driving/ 

• Tesla’s Auto Pilot is in fact Full (by yourself) Driving feature
• The key correspondence comes from December 28, 2020, between Tesla’s associate general counsel Eric C. Williams and California DMV’s chief of the autonomous vehicles branch, Miguel D. Acosta

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All the coronavirus in the world could fit inside a Coke can, with plenty of room to spare

https://theconversation.com/all-the-coronavirus-in-the-world-could-fit-inside-a-coke-can-with-plenty-of-room-to-spare-154226 

• Christian Yates, Senior Lecturer in Mathematical Biology, University of Bath
• Author of  The Maths of Life and Death
• My wife suggested it would be the size of an Olympic swimming pool
• this is an approximation based on the most reasonable assumptions
• rough estimates for peak viral loads range from 1 billion to 100 billion virus particles. 
• Take a value in the middle, 10 billion. 
• add up all the contributions to the viral load of each of the 3 million people who became infected on each of the previous days (assuming this 3 million rate is roughly constant) 
• then there are roughly two hundred quadrillion (2x10¹⁷ or two hundred million billion) virus particles in the world at any one time.
• roughly the same as the number of grains of sand on the planet.
• remember that SARS-CoV-2 particles are extremely smal
• the diameter range from 80 to 120 nanometres
• gives us a total volume of about 120 millilitres (ml)
• He considers close sphere packing, spheres take 26% more space when filling a space
• Even taking the upper end of the diameter estimate and accounting for the size of the spike proteins all the SARS-CoV-2 still wouldn’t fill a Coke can.

SPACE-X & AEROSPACE

A quickie, science story. To a lot of folks science is too slowly progressing and boring, but here we have a giant leap seen from in a grain of rock from an asteroid pretty much everyone is unaware of! 

SCIENTISTS SHOCKED AT WATER AND ORGANIC MATERIAL FOUND ON ASTEROID FOR THE FIRST TIME

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/space/water-asteroid-hayabusa-mission-space-b1812285.html

• Finding could rewrite our understanding of how the Earth developed
• Scientists have found water and organic matter on the surface of an asteroid sample collected an asteroid.

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