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Tuesday 21st July, 2015

Word for the Day:

Hallucination NOUN /hlusnen/
[countable, uncountable] the fact of seeming to see or hear somebody/something that is
not really there, especially because of illness or drugsto have hallucinationsHigh
temperatures can cause hallucination.She was admitted to hospital suffering from
hallucinations.
[countable] something that is seen or heard when it is not really there.

Origin:
The word 'Hallucination' itself was introduced into the English language by the seventeenth
century physician Sir Thomas Browne in 1646 from the derivation of the Latin
word alucinari meaning to wander in the mind.

Think about It:

The Best way to predict the future is to design it Buckminster Fuller

Top News: NASA assisted drone

delivers drugs to remote clinic

NASA has assisted a drone to successfully deliver pharmaceuticals and other medical supplies to
patients in an outdoor free clinic in Virginia.A NASA aircraft
assisted an unmanned aircraft system (UAS), operated by
startup

company Flirtey Inc, to deliver medical supplies to the

clinic
tests,
pounds

that serves more than 1,500 patients. During the

a

NASA Langley fixed-wing Cirrus SR22 aircraft picked up 10

of

pharmaceuticals and supplies from an airport in Tazewell

County in southwest Virginia.

The plane, which always has a safety pilot on board, delivered the medicine to the clinic at the
Lonesome Pine Airport in Wise County. This first unmanned aerial delivery gave us the chance to do
some critical research and mission exploration with our Cirrus SR22, said Frank Jones, deputy
director of NASA Langleys Research Services Directorate that oversees all Langley aircraft. We flew
the aircraft remotely beyond visual line of sight for the first time from a portable ground station, he
said in a statement.
They remotely piloted it a number of times at NASA Langley using their permanent ground
station. This allowed us to demonstrate a new capability that we can use to test unmanned mission
concepts and aircraft technologies in a remote location, Jones said. The crew separated the supplies
into 24 smaller packages so they could be delivered by small, unmanned drone to the free clinic
during a number of flights over two hours.