Space Station

Mon, Jun 10, 2019
With multinational input, the ISS is currently the largest single structure humans have put into space. Constructed between1998 and 2011, and continuously occupied since November 2000, it now weighs 391 tonnes. The first module, the Russia Zarya, was launched by a Proton rocket 20 Nov 1998. Two weeks later, STS 88, a space shuttle flight, added the NASA Unity, or Node 1 module. Astronauts from STS 88 then connected the two parts of the station together. The truss, solar panels and airlocks were launched in stages throughout the ISS lifetime and in 2017 new docking adapters were added for future commercial spacecraft arrivals. Current plans are to operate to 2024 and maybe 2028.
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Ultimate Cargo Ship
GPO AMETHYST is a Heavy Lift Vessel built in 2018, currently sailing under the flag of Marshall Islands. With a carrying capacity of 63581 t DWT and a draught of 8.7 meters, her length overall is 225.01 meters and her width is 48.02 meters. Her four 9600Hp diesel engines drive generators to produce 8000Kw for the electric stern drive motors, which turn her variable pitch twin propellers.
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Monster Plane - Antonov 225
Designed by the Antonov Design Bureau in the Ukrain, Soviet Union during the 1980s, the Antonov An-225 Mriya is a strategic airlift cargo aircraft. With a maximum takeoff weight of 640 tonnes, it is powered by six Progress D-18T turbofan engines and is the heaviest aircraft ever built.
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Tallest Building - Burj Khalifa
In Dubai, United Arab Emirates stands the Burj Khalifa. Completed in 2009, at a total height of 829.8 m it is the tallest structure and building in the world. It also holds the records for the highest number of floors, tallest service elevator, highest outdoor observation deck and highest number of stories amongst others.
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Biggest Dome - Singapore's National Stadium
Situated in Kallang, Singapore, the new National Stadium was completed in 2013 and opened on 30 June 2014. It was built on the site of the former National Stadium, which closed in 2007 and was demolished in 2010. With a seating capacity of 55 000 people, it boasts the world's largest retractable domed roof.
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Giant Car Plant - Volkswagen at Wolfsburg
With an area of almost 6.5 million m², the Volkswagen Factory situated in Wolfsburg, Germany, is one of the largest manufacturing plants in the world. The Headquarters of Volkswagen, has produced 45 million cars since 1945. Believe it or not the plant also manufactures Volkswagen Currywurst, a brand of sausage.
7.8 /10

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Porto il velo, adoro i Queen

Porto il velo, adoro i Queen

The Islamic world it's quite diverse. Throught this film we wanted to get to know the female side of it. The picture you'll get is: Muslim women as you have never seen them, to debunk prejudices and oversimplifications. This film portraits the new identities existing in my country, through the eyes and words of the new generations born here after the immigration that took place during the 70ies and the 90ies. The film pose us a question: what does in means to be Italian/European today? The title Under Pressure underlines the feeling of a whole generation, the subtitle I wear the veil I love Queen, it pays homage to Sumaya Abdel Qader, writer born in Perugia. Sumaya is one of the protagonists, the first met by the director Luisa Porrino, after she read her book - Luisa wanted to know more and she investigated to get realistic portraits of the conditions of a generation of women, that despite the fact that they are born and raised in Italy, they still live the strange and contaminated condition of "migrants", in a country that simultaneously welcomes them and turns them down. Throught film sequences "stolen" from everyday life and interviews, Sumaya, Takoua and Batul stretches out from domestic to international issues. They retrace the most significance events of the Arab Springs, nowadays marked by the utmost uncertain outcome. The film analyzes the difficult relationships between media, public opinion and Muslim world, that starting from September 9-11 before and after with the inception of IS, it's a proof of racists drifts and growing Islamophobia. The film investigates the main incomprehension's developed during the last 15 years and it opens a window that wants to help the understanding of the new fabric of our society.

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