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A power outage at a radar facility cut communications and disrupted air travel in and out of Southern California for more than an hour Tuesday, a Federal Aviation Administration spokesman said.The outage at the Los Angeles Air Route Traffic Control Cen
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Wingsuits let humans glide through the air on Earth, but could they let us fly like birds on another world A paper suggests that humans could achieve takeoff and flight on Saturn moon Titan, but only if they get a good running start first and strap on some large wings. The paper, titled You can fly, was published in the University of Leicester Journal of Physics Special Topics, which introduces physics students to the peer-review process by having them research and write short papers, and it examines the claim that humans would be able to fly on Titan with wings strapped to their arms. Looking at the atmosphere and gravity on Titan, the authors of the study calculated the wing area and prop
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