Good morning EUROAVIAns!The applications for the new EUROAVIA Forlì-Bologna Local Board opens tomorrow, the 10th of May at 09:00 CEST. Got any doubts?Read our article to know the available positions in the Board and their responsabilities, and to find out about the application process. Being part of the Local Board will allow you not only to …
Good morning dear Euroavians,today we talk about the unit conversion error that made NASA lose a 327 million dollar mission to Mars. Have you ever struggled on a physics exercise only to realise at the end that the force was given in pounds instead of in newtons? Well, that’s not so dissimilar to what happened …
Flight is a film about an expert pilot, William “Whip” Whitaker and an accident that occurred. Thankfully, the pilot managed to land in a field saving the most of the passengers’ lives. William, played by Denzel Washington, is an alcoholic and drinks one too many the night before the accident. In the following morning, as …
Good evening EUROAVIAns,in today’s Fact Friday we will talk about Dyson spheres! What is a Dyson sphere? First of all, it’s not some kind of toy for your home pet, neither is it some peculiar ball! The concept of a Dyson sphere was developed in 1960 by Freeman Dyson, a British-American mathematician interested in astrophysics. …
The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke is a massive compendium that brings a total of 116 short science fiction stories written by Arthur C. Clarke throughout his life together. Variety is the keyword for this collection; in fact, the stories’ original publication dates range from 1937 to 1999 and their length is also rather …
Good evening EUROAVIAns,in today’s Fact Friday we will talk about Engineers and Formula1 Being part of a Formula1 team is the dream of a lot of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering students. But what does it take to be chosen among the number of candidates applying every year? Today we’ll talk about Andrea Stella, now a …
Gattaca is one of the most provocative sci-fi movies ever. Imagine a world in which a child could literally be created in a test tube. He could have perfect health, high IQ and a long life expectation. In a future world where it is possible to be born practically perfect, humans that are born naturally …
Good morning EUROAVIAns,in today’s Fact Friday we talk about biomimicry in engineering. Biomimicry is a study that solves human problems with models, systems and elements of nature. Living beings have evolved multiple times by creating structures and mechanisms which are efficient and well-built, so when we build or design something we can be inspired by …
Flatland is a satirical novel, written by Edwin Abbott Abbott, that depicts a nightmarish dystopia in a two dimensional setting, populated by living geometrical figures. A mathematician, called A. Square, describes his world, Flatland, a society that is strictly divided in social classes, resembling Victorian England. The government of Flatland is administered by a cabal …
Good morning EUROAVIAns,in today’s Fact Friday we talk about space medicine. Space medicine is a term first used in the 1950’s when commercial aviation grew rapidly and big steps were made towards the first space missions. This makes it hard to imagine that, after all that time, the main medical equipment aboard the ISS was …
When talking about space, the most famous saga in the history of cinema is probably Star Wars. In this review we will focus on the first film produced: “A new hope”. This film was released in 1977 and won seven Oscars, among them best visual effects, best original score and best costume design. The film …