The name of the book is a ruse. Camping on Low or No Dollars, the dingy cover page reads. An older edition bears a similarly anodyne title: From Birmingham to Wendover. Both are a misdirection, intended to keep the wrong people—cops, journalists, nosy normies like me—from realizing what they’re holding. The Crew Change Guide is a set of best practices and guidelines for hopping freight trains anywhere in the U.S. and Canada. A “crew change” refers to a train’s personnel shift, a brief window of opportunity for those brave enough to take it. In the heist movie, this is that ten-second gap after the night watchman clocks out and before his replacement takes over. For a train hopper, it’s a rare chance to clamber up a wagon undetected.
Mr. Smylie, who lived five houses down from Mr. Haise, saw the news on television and called the crew systems office, according to the 1994 book “Lost Moon,” by Mr. Lovell and the journalist Jeffrey Kluger. The desk operator said the astronauts were retreating to the lunar excursion module, which was supposed to shuttle two crew members to the moon.
“I’m coming in,” Mr. Smylie said.
Mr. Smylie knew there was a problem with this plan: The lunar module was equipped to safely handle air flow for only two astronauts. Three humans would generate lethal levels of carbon dioxide.
If Nasonville Dairy built a new factory today, it would include spray dryers, like its West Coast competitors, which turn the whey into a powder and increase its protein percentage. But spending millions of dollars on spray-drying equipment doesn’t make economic sense for Wisconsin’s small cheesemakers, so nutrition companies, like Actus Nutrition, have built facilities to transform the region’s liquid whey into high-protein powder.
Over the years, veteran travel photographer Tom Parker has shot every corner of the All England Club. This year he again captured the Championships from his singular point of view.
A robot trained on videos of surgeries performed a lengthy phase of a gallbladder removal without human help. The robot operated for the first time on a lifelike patient, and during the operation, responded to and learned from voice commands from the team—like a novice surgeon working with a mentor.
The robot performed unflappably across trials and with the expertise of a skilled human surgeon, even during unexpected scenarios typical in real life medical emergencies.
What makes this turbine especially significant is not just its size or power output, but its engineering. Designed to perform reliably in harsh deep-sea environments, the floating platform is built to handle extreme maritime conditions—including waves higher than 78 feet (24 meters) and typhoon-level winds reaching level 17.
Its unique stabilization system ensures power generation even when the platform tilts significantly. “This turbine is designed with an integrated intelligent sensing system,” said Liu Xin, director of the offshore wind division at China Huaneng Clean Energy Research Institute.
