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Asteroid simulator for before the big one hits

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Set the material, size, speed, impact angle, and location, and see the effects from the resulting crater, fireball, shock wave, wind, and earthquake. Tags: asteroids , Neal Agarwal , simulation. Good thing Neal Agarwal, based on research from Gareth Collins and Clemens Rumpf, made an asteroid simulator.

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Search and rescue after an earthquake, illustrated

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After a big earthquake, such as the 7.8 Tags: earthquake , illustration , Reuters that hit Turkey and Syria, it is important that search and rescue be carried through in an organized way when everything around is chaos.

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5 Incredible IoT Applications In Civil Engineering

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Many nuanced tasks need to be completed, whether they involve tracking and measuring building supplies or tagging field equipment and dividing it up properly. Soil and ground movement, earthquakes, changes in water levels and similar events can impact the project. Real-time solutions also provide faster time-to-action.

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Driving Business Value and ROI from a Hybrid Cloud Data Lake

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earthquake, flood, or fire), where the data collected does not need to be as tightly controlled. Since an earthquake event can generate gigabytes of data, a company can spin up extra computing nodes, process the data, and spin down the nodes once the processing is complete. Users can also collaborate through social curation.