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What is nanosecond?
Billionth of a second
What is the term used for nanosecond?
“The missed having an accident by a nanosecond”
What is nanotechnology?
Devices on an atomic scale
How big is an nanotelechnology
Few thousand atoms width
What is neutral network?
A computer to mimic human brain or activity
Why were neutral networks developed?
Deal with problems
What is offshore drilling?
The operation of oil wells on the continental shelf
Why does the public debate about off shoring drilling?
Cause it can large oil spill and damage the coastal environment
What is perpetual motion machine?
A machine that can run forever
How does a motion machine to produce energy.
Much energy it produced to use
What is a radar?
Velocity of an object by bouncing off
What does radar stand for?
Radio detection and ranging
What is radioactive waste?
Leftover a waste after commercial or laboratory process
What is “ low leveled”?
A objects that have touch the radioactivity trances
What is a “ high level”?
Waste left in nuclear reactor
Why is the public debating it?
Safest means of storing waste.
What is software?
The programs and instruction that run a computer
Why is software opposed by physical machinery?
Devices that composed hardware
What is the Spirited of St. Louis
An airplane that Charles Lindbergh flew.
What museum is The Spirited of St. Louis in today.
Smithsonian Institution
What is Sputniks?
Series of Soviets satellites launched
What were the first objects that appear in 1956?
Sputniks
What does SST stand for?
Supersonic transport
What are SST?
Commercial aircraft that faster than the speed of sound
What are stealth?
Advanced designed and specialized materials to make an aircraft
What war was stealth first appear in?
Perish gulf war
Who were the wrights brothers?
American mechanics and inventors
Where was the wright’s brothers first flight?
Kitty hawk, North Carolina
What is a Achilles’ tendon?
A tendon that connecting heel bone and the calf muscle?
Where did Achilles only could be wounded?
In the heel.
What is acupuncture?
A technique which come from China to relieve pain, disease, and for curing
Where do acupuncture needles be place at?
Specific parts of the body
What are AIDS?
Acronym for acquired immune deficiency syndrome
What happen to patients who have AIDS?
Most of them die
Where did AIDS originated from?
African
How many people died in U.S?
Over 220,000
What is acoholism?
A habitual consumption of alcohol
