Today I Learned:
1) 1 Chopped-up habanero pepper, minus about half the seeds, is a perfectly appropriate amount of hot pepper to spice up a jar of tomato sauce.
2) A "carrier hotel" is essentially a router for the internet -- it's a big server complex where big data networks are switched together. Apparently they're pretty mundane-looking places once you get past the loads of server towers and gobs of wires. For some nifty photos of a carrier hotel in New York, check out http://ift.tt/1UxeSRm.
3) The in-development F-35 fighter plane is planned to have a really advanced helmet. The fighter has a thing called the Distributed Aperture System (DAS). DAS is a network of cameras and computers that captures 360 degrees of vision in every direction (indlucing up and down), tracks objects of interest in the air and on the ground, and relays all of this information to the pilot's helmet. This gives the pilot total visibility in every direction -- they could look down between their legs and see a tank directly beneath them, highlighted by the DAS.
The US navy is also keen on adopting DAS technology. Among other things, some folks in the navy think it could help track crew who have fallen out of the ship, which has been a notoriously difficult problem ever since there were boats on the open ocean.
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