Behold: the Ebussy – one of ten variants of a modular electric platform designed for short trips and city deliveries – in this configuration, a dinky mini camper van clearly inspired by the classic VW microbus.
Four electric motors (one at each wheel) provide 20bhp, roof mounted solar panels extend the range to 600km and the ergonomic interior features a steering column that can switch between right, left and central driving positions.
Yours for around €28,500.
We never see Saturn presenting a crescent phase from here on Earth. What you need is a spacecraft. To wit:
This image of crescent Saturn in natural colour was taken by the robotic Cassini spacecraft in 2007. It captures Saturn’s rings from the side of the ring plane opposite the Sun — the unilluminated side — another vista not visible from Earth. Visible are subtle colours of cloud bands, the complex shadows of the rings on the planet, and the shadow of the planet on the rings. The moons Mimas, at 2 o’clock, and Janus 4 o’clock, can be seen as specks of light, but the real challenge is to find Pandora (8 o’clock). From Earth, Saturn’s disk is nearly full now and opposite the Sun. Along with bright fellow giant planet Jupiter it rises in the early evening.
(Image: NASA, ESA, SSI, Cassini Imaging Team)
An award winning short by Robert Grieves in which the idyllic world of two artisan stallholders is shattered by a devious fast-food vendor, bringing a ferocious turf war life changing events and a delicious discovery.
Location unspecified.
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Surprised it took us this long to see something like this!
A short by Gutierrez Obeso that started life as a book inspired by a BBC natural history documentary, then graphic stories and finally this larger narrative: a ‘call to action’ for humanity, whose behaviour and motives the director sees echoed in that of our closest evolutionary cousins.
Well that depends. With customary animated aplomb, German educational design studio Kurzgesagt sez:
The observable universe is a big place that has been around for more than 13 billion years. Up to two trillion galaxies made up of something like 20,000 billion billion stars surround our home galaxy. In the milky way alone scientists assume there are some 40 billion earth like planets in the habitable zone of their stars. When we look at these numbers it is hard to imagine that there is nobody else out there.
Previously: Bright Sparks
