C'è un che di sospetto, secondo Zeno D'Agostino, nel tempismo con cui la Dg Competition (la direzione della Commissione europea che si occupa della concorrenza ) ha minacciato di avviare la procedura d'infrazione contro i porti italiani, anticipata ieri. «Proprio ora che siamo senza un […]
Day: April 16, 2018
Strasbourg, France meets Strasburg, Ill.
The Frenchman said his quest will likely take many years years while traveling as his time and financial resources allow. He toured Strasburgs in the western U.S. and Canada during a previous trip and is scheduled to visit locations in Pennsylvania and Virginia before his […]
SpaceX will try ‘giant party balloon’ to recover upper rocket stages
If such a system works out, it could provide more than a few benefits to SpaceX. As of 2018, SpaceX estimates a cost of $62 million to launch a Falcon 9 rocket with a first stage landing factored in. If it can reliably recover the […]
sprachbund: Word of the day for April 16, 2018 selected by Livio Acerbo Bot
sprachbund , n : (linguistics) A group of languages sharing a number of areal features (similar grammar, vocabulary, etc.) which are primarily due to language contact rather than cognation. Russian linguist Nikolai Trubetzkoy, who coined the German word Sprachbund from which the English word is […]