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It’s long past time to start to plan for the future. We may soon have soybean tires?How about soybean fuel…and a jet plane that runs on algae?
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Collisions with flocks of birds, which recently caused a jet in New York to have to make an emergency water landing in the Hudson River after losing both its engines, are a danger that investigators want to figure out how to prevent in the future.

The first step towards controlling these birds is to figure out what species they are. Researcher Travis DeVault says, “It is very important to get IDs on species that are struck. If we don’t know which birds are struck then we don?t know how to prevent it. I don’t think that we’ll totally eliminate bird strikes. The goal though is to reduce that frequency as much as we can.”
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In Germany, this time! – The Austrian Times reports that on Thursday, January 29, German fighter pilots scrambled because a UFO was spotted over that country’s airspace. At least they didn’t try to shoot it down!

The UFO was spotted by German air traffic controllers on January 19 moving at high speed across the entire country. The Austrian Times quotes military spokesman Axel Raab as saying, “When it vanished from the radar we believed that whatever it was had crashed?but there was no crash site to be seen. It is a complete mystery. It confused radar operators because it kept flicking on and off the screen as if some of the time it just wasn’t there. Then it simply vanished completely into thin air.”
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