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How Is Generative AI Transforming Engineering?

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Generative AI is becoming so artificial that it creates content without humans example text, image, audio, video, and code based on the data it was trained on, it could lead where humans are no longer needed and robot take over the work. -Jazmine E

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Business owners and managers eager to use artificial intelligence-powered tools to cut costs need to be wary of a potential AI backlash. The OpenAI's chat gpt in November was the most fast growing software platform in history, it reached 100 million user in weeks. People use and make Different AI apps everyday. “The impact on sales jobs, service jobs is remarkable and we can say that just based on the version we have now.,”Bill gates said in a fireside chat “And yet, the amount of money going into making these things better is absolutely gigantic. It’s not just GPT-4. It’s hundreds and hundreds of companies building competitive things and building on top of it.” I think by 2050 AI is gonna take over the world. Osman N

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Business owners and managers eager to use artificial intelligence-powered tools to cut costs need to be wary of a potential AI backlash.

The meteoric rise of OpenAI's ChatGPT in November made it the fastest-growing software platform in history, reaching 100 million users in weeks.

Subsequent updates have allowed developers to build on that ecosystem, flooding social media websites and online marketplaces with AI-powered tools that claim to do everything from helping organize and review meetings to making eye contact on zoom. Other platforms, such as Stable Diffusion, allow users to generate images with just a few prompts.

Surveys found a significant portion of workers are using AI on the job - with or without their manager's knowledge - while nearly three quarters of small businesses are prioritizing AI tech. Businesses are already using these tools to cut costs and replace workers and attempt to automate time-consuming tasks in order to grow in an uncertain economy.

"The impact on sales jobs, service jobs is phenomenal - and we can say that just based on the version we have now.," Bill Gates said in a fireside chat in April. "And yet, the amount of money going into making these things better is absolutely gigantic. It's not just GPT-4. It's hundreds and hundreds of companies building competitive things and building on top of it."

But the euphoric wave of enthusiasm for the technology among tech entrepreneurs and others is meeting a growing backlash - one that could create a legal quagmire for business owners - as well as skepticism that the generative AI and "large language models" these systems are built on are not so much intelligent as they are exceptionally good at predicting strings of text without the reasoning or knowledge to back it up.

Software developers who have long put their code on Github have sued to stop GitHUb's CoPilot software from using it to train its models, arguing it infringes on their copyright.

Two authors also sued OpenAI, claiming that the AI "training" on their works amounts to copyright infringement and was done without their consent, arguing its ability to produce summaries of their work meant their works had been used by the platform. On a related note, the online rollout of The AI-powered Sudowrite Sory Engine May 17 was met with deep skepticism from writers - and allegations that Sudowrite's ability to write an entire novel is based on its use of copyrighted fanfiction.

Meanwhile, the writers' strike led by the Writers Guild of America has made barring the use of generative AI one of the cornerstones of its negotiations. On Amazon, AI-generated "books" have flooded the company's subscription reading service, a seeming attempt to game their system to pay authors by the page by having bots read ai-generated works.

Even tech leaders have written an open letter urging caution with the proliferation of AI models, with billionaire and Twitter CEO Elon Musk signing on.

Recently, New York City also adopted final rules on a law it passed in 2021 that prohibits the use of AI technology to discriminate in the hiring process and to make certain hiring decisions, potentially putting business owners and managers in hot water.

"There is absolutely an AI backlash brewing. Business owners need to keep a watchful eye on legal developments. Or else they can face litigation on charges of everything from hiring discrimination to copyright infringement," said Scott Lieberman, founder of Touchdown money, who also uses ChatGPT regularly.

He stressed that business owners using AI tools to create images or articles are not generating those articles from scratch, but merely reassembling them from tiny pieces of existing works - a technique he compared to "sampling" in hip-hop music, in which producers often take small pieces of existing songs, loop them and added new instrumentals, lyrics and sounds over it.

"It took the law time to catch up but hip-hop producers had to pay millions in royalties to those original artists for using their content," Lieberman said.

News Corp. CEO Robert Thompson, who oversees Fox News, The Wall Street Journal and other media outlets, called the technology "degenerative AI" and said their content was being harvested and scraped to train AI engines.

"Our content will be synthesized and presented as distinct when it is actually an extracting of editorial essence. These are super snippets, containing all the effort and insight of great journalism but designed so the reader will never visit a journalism website, thus fatally undermining that journalism," Thompson said in an opening address of the International News Media's Association'a annual World Congress of News Media.

Ultimately, one barrier for AI is that works produced using AI tools are not able to be copyrighted, which means those same works won't have the legal protections or rights that come with art or text made by people. A recent attempt to copyright a graphic novel with AI-generated imagery ended with the creator able to copyright the text they had written and the arrangement of the AI-generated pictures and text - but not the images themselves. Infamously, a court case from years ago found that a picture taken by a monkey using a camera cannot be copyrighted since copyright protections are for humans only.

Bianca Lindau, Corporate attorney at Caldwell Intellectual Property Law, said the U.S. Copyright Office is exploring AI but has so far taken a dim view of it.

"AI can be a useful tool but if you want to protect what's been generated, I think at the moment it doesn't really seem to be possible," Lindau said. "You can use AI and incorporate it into a work, but the content that is created by AI, that is not going to be protected by copyright. You don't ultimately exercise control over what exactly is created."

Lindau is referring to a concept about creative control pushed by the Copyright Office, which has compared creative control to an artist making a painting in which they are in control of every brush stroke that makes up the artwork.

But while the output of AI generations cannot be copyrighted, much of the current debate centers around whether the act of scraping copyrighted content from the internet amounts to fair use or not. Fair use is the idea that people can use, reference or discuss copyrighted works in order to produce a legally protected work - like a movie review that uses images and dialogue from the movie. AI backers also draw parallels to humans who consume large amounts of copyrighted works in order to eventually produce their own, i.e., like a novelist reading hundreds of books that influence their eventual books.

But it can be hard to to tell AI from human work, nor does an author have to disclose that to the public, said Samuel Lewis, co-chair of law firm Cozen O'Connor's copyright practice. For example, an blog post in which three paragraphs are human created and two are created by AI still has copyright protection for the three paragraphs - and it may be impossible to tell which three.

But when AI companies use copyrighted works scraped from the internet, does that violate the copyrights of the original creators?

"If the AI is simply absorbing material from the web, even if it's copyrightable material for training purposes, that in and of itself is most likely not seen as infringement," he said. " When you run the risk of infringement is on the output end."

For example, using AI to create a sequel to the popular Harry Potter series violates J.K. Rowlings copyright to those works.

However, not all experts agree. Former Copyright Office General Counsel Jon Baumgarten disagreed with the idea that its fair use and that such decisions should come down to the specific factors in each case - and likened it to early issues regarding photocopying that eventually led to a voluntary system of collective licensing.

That being said, experts say companies need to proceed with caution when it comes to using AI to cut labor costs, as there are several important factors to consider that transcend the bottom line. Attorney Seth Price laid out some tips - and some words of caution - on how to roll out AI tools in your own workplace.

"I am looking to embrace this and use this responsibly and not burying our head in the sand and letting this pass us by - or used by rogue employees," Price said.
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Business owners beware: The AI backlash is mounting - and so are the lawsuits. - The Business Journals

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Yes smartphones can help make water safer to drink. Most people don't know which water is safe or unsafe. So some people made a smart device and an app to help us identify which water is harmful and has bacteria or if it's clean pure water. This device can also help kill bacteria in water. So people that don't have a clean water supply can easily disinfect their drinking water and not get sick. - Raven

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It is fairly simple to make a computer. The main important parts of making a pc are that you need the, CPU, PSU, Memory, Hard Drive, and a Graphics Card. These are the most important parts. And most of these you can make from scratch. If you so happen to make these, then you need to put them together with wires and operate the PC into a functional computer. The piece in having a lot of memory and playing a lot of games is the, Hard Drive, the thing is they is a shortage on making Hard Drive, large companies like, Dell have a shortage. A shortage on Hard Drives is something a gamer does not want. A gamer wants to have the most memory possible to play games. The bigger the memory, the better the quality.

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What can Termites teach us about better building materials?

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Did you know termite mounds form, when the termites mix soil with their saliva ?

Their mixture contains sugar that is just like glue just to give it stability!! there is something exactly like their mixture it's called Cassava it's a starchy root vegetable that also contains mixtures of sugar!! They teach us on how to build better because their saliva is strong to hold things together.

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Yes, most cars take a ton of work just to fix it up but it is possible but to be able to build a car from scratch is you need to know to weld, have an extreme amount of car knowledge and have a whole lot of tools such as jacks, lifts, and etc. Some people have the knowledge to build parts for them self such as spark plugs, transmission (such as a six speed) and not a lot of people can but some experienced people can make intanks mufflers and much much more. -Nico m.

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AI makes it possible for "machines to learn from experience, . Most AI examples that you hear about today is that AI could be dangerous sometimes but you don't always have to believe that cause different people think different. Also AI could enable computers, an AI system or app could be super powerful to the point where it could be dangerous and take over the world. Jason

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The idea of building a castle was born a few miles from Guédelon at Saint-Fargeau castle. the castle was developed during the 12th and 13th centuries by Philip II Construction started in 1997.

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Virtual reality is a 3d digital world that can really help construction engineers. They help them by showing them the problems easily and also they work better than the normal desktop computes when it comes to construction plans because it helps work out the order of there plan. It also helps them work and plan way faster because of the "real" life digital world around them. - Aretha.K

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In the article,"Top 10 Engineering Stories of 2023 on Tech Briefs" it states that AI is used for many things. This includes health, hiring, financial credit, and automobile decisions. So there is a big risk, if something happens to AI, a lot of things could happen to the economy. So I think that AI is a pretty big risk.

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A computer can think very well, to put it simple they think like us humans and soon will be far greater advanced they us.

We want to make a super computer that will be able to talk to us like a human and give real responses.

Computers make our life easier let us know information that is crucial and useful and computers get that by better than we humans do, so in the end a computer and think a lot and do a lot and help us a lot and we are very thankful for them.

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Should we use technology to make Football safer?

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Well that depends because the more aggressive Football is fun but,there is a lot of risk like. Some scientist have done studies on athletic injuries, and studies show that with traditional gear there is a higher risk of neck and spinal injuries. And at LSU they are making a technologically advanced Football helmet so that they can reduce the risk of injury and make the game more fun for all of us, But i personally say no i like traditional Football.

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Former Tesla executive reveals his $300K electric yacht model with plans to follow an Elon Musk strategy

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Former Tesla executive reveals his $300K electric yacht model with plans to follow an Elon Musk strategy

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John Vo, former Tesla executive and now CEO of Tampa Bay's Blue Innovations Group, plans to follow a lesson from Elon Musk's playbook after recently unveiling his company's electric yacht. The company revealed boat on during an event at the Pinellas Park headquarters on Dec 16 the price is 300k. They will be making 10 of these boats in 2024. Its going to be made out of aluminum, and its lithium-ion phosphate batteries hold 221 kilowatts of energy (Tesla's Cybertruck holds 250 kW). They will also have long solar panels, which can power small appliances but need hours of exposure to charge the battery fully. The yacht is like a electric car, it's fast and can stop instantly because of its torque control. Its is 30 feets long.

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John Vo, former Tesla executive and now CEO of Tampa Bay's Blue Innovations Group, plans to follow a lesson from Elon Musk's playbook after recently unveiling his company's electric yacht.

The company revealed the boat during an event at its Pinellas Park headquarters on Dec. 16, and the showcase signals the startup - which launched from stealth in 2022 - is preparing to start manufacturing the $300,000 yacht. Blue Innovations Group will start production slowly by making around ten boats in 2024 and learning to scale the process with tech and automation, Vo said.

The December event planned to exhibit the R30 in the water, but stormy weather postponed the maritime display to 2024.

The yacht will be made of aluminum, and its lithium-ion phosphate batteries hold 221 kilowatts of energy ( Tesla's Cybertruck holds 250 kW). It will have extendable solar panels, which can power small appliances but need hours of exposure to charge the battery fully.

The engineers of the R30 assembled in-house electronics like the internet and satellite access, a display system, cameras and other boat functions. Considering the dangerous combination of electricity and salt water, the engineers took precautionary measures to secure the batteries, so flooding and water damage aren't a concern, Vo said.

But what's it like to ride in the boat? Chris Kerzich, the chief of staff, said it's like an electric car. It's fast and can stop instantly because of its torque control.

As a product, similar yachts retail for equal to or more than the R30. Its $300,000 price tag matches his target audience's expectations because there are two types of boat buyers: One that says $300,000 is expensive and one that says $300,000 is cheap. The latter is Vo's target, he said.

Thirty-foot yachts can be priced between $100,000 to more than $500,000. The startup already has several people who put up $1,000 to reserve a boat (or $5,000 to reserve a place as one of the first 100 to receive a boat).

Greg Marlo, the president of Toronto, Canada-based Yacht Solutions, a yacht sales and management company, flew here to take a first look at the boat he reserved. He heard about the company nearly six months ago and has been interested since. It's his job to evaluate emerging products like the R30 for his customers, he said.

The price point was reasonable, and he's confident in Vo's experience, he said.

"For a boat enthusiast, it checked a lot of boxes for [weekend boating], sustainability and entertainment," Marlo said.

The waters ahead

Employees currently make each boatthat makes a boat in 30 minutes, he said.

"We have to do automation because without automation, the quality is not going to be consistent and the cost is not going to be competitive," Vo said. "We don't just want the quality, but we want it to be affordable."

It's also because the company is pursuing vertical integration and proprietary technology - taking control of the supply chain and manufacturing processes through in-house components and automation - to differentiate itself from the other electric tech companies on the market. It's following what Vo brings from his experiences with Tesla - the success shown through Elon Musk's vertical integration strategy.

Vo declined to comment on the total investment made into the company. But he said it's less than the $15 million to $20 million he's seen the automotive industry invest to create a single car part, like a headlight. He's also spent less than he planned two years ago, he said.

The company has raised more than $3 million in seed funding, according to Tampa Bay Business Journal reporting. It also has provisional patents for the yacht, Vo said.

Vo was Tesla's head of global manufacturing for six years and left in 2017. Before Blue Innovations Group, he oversaw the propulsion division at the now-bankrupt Lordstown Motors, an Ohio-based electric vehicle company Vo dumped his shares in the company in 2020 and 2021. The company went bankrupt in June of 2023.

Vo told the Tampa Bay Inno that his time at Lordstown was a learning experience and that any issues relating to his time there have been cleared.

Lordstown Motors was accused of misleading behavior in 2021. The Tampa Bay Times reported Vo violated a rule by selling company shares within six months of buying them and was required to forfeit his profits from "short-swing transactions."

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Most of the earth's fuels are fossil fuels, and they harm and pollute the planet. Water is a great resource because 71% of the earth is made of water. They created a device that can make hydrogen from water at a low cost.- aramelly

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Ocean Water to Renewable Energy - Science Journal for Kids and Teens

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A smart phone can make your water safe to drink with an app that kills harmful bacteria in your water. They made it an app because, mostly everyone has a phone so its so easy to download the app and then you can make sure you have safe water. -Janessa

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Robots are something anyone can build and they need a lot of electronics in it so it can run, walk, and charge so you can play with it every day. - Zachary

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ChatGPT thinks very well, according to the article they say that GPT-3, the first super popular version of ChatGPT, is able to answer most questions right. When the people testing it treated it like a psychology test, ChatGPT didn't do as good at researching topics as humans, it stuck with whatever information it had. Wyatt Crawford

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United Launch Alliance’s Christmas Eve gift to new rocket fans may not arrive until early in 2024 after all. It has determined that there has been a delayed and that the big launch for christmas eve won't happen for the Lunar Lander launch with the major delay.The Vulcan Centaur rocket debut is key to ULA’s future.-Bentley

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United Launch Alliance successfully launched its first Vulcan rocket to orbit overnight Monday, sending a NASA-funded commercial probe on a journey to the moon.

The Centennial-based rocket company capped nearly a decade of Vulcan rocket development with an on-time and smooth flight that blasted off from a Cape Canaveral Space Force Base launch pad just after 12:18 a.m. Denver time.

The 202-foot-tall Vulcan released the Peregrine lunar probe, made by Pittsburgh-based Astrobotic Technology, at its planned separation point 220,000 miles above the Earth just over 50 minutes after liftoff.

"Yee-haa!" exclaimed Tory Bruno, CEO and president of ULA, just after spacecraft separation during a telecast of Monday's launch. "Oh my gosh. This has been years of hard work."

The Vulcan launch was the first mission of NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Service program, which hires commercial spacecraft businesses to build spacecraft, manage the mission and act as a for-hire delivery service getting payloads to the surface of the moon affordably.

Astrobotic's Peregrine lander, carrying 20 scientific and research payloads from seven countries, is expected to try to land on the moon's surface autonomously as soon as Feb. 23.

After releasing the lunar probe, Vulcan's Centaur upper stage turned and fired its engines again to carry a payload of 234 human remains and genetic samples to a permanent orbit nearer the Sun for Houston-based Celestis Inc., which arranges deep-space interments. Its flight included remains of author Arthur C. Clarke, Star Trek creator Gene Rodenberry and the TV series actors James Doohan ("Scotty"), Nichelle Nichols ("Ohuru") and Jackson Deforest Kelley ("Bones"). Bruno and wife, Rebecca, have DNA samples on the mission.

Vulcan's debut flight, delayed and rescheduled multiple times over the past year as issues with the rocket issues were worked out, culminated in the launch vehicle development that ULA started before 2015.

Everything at ULA rides on the success of Vulcan, said Mark Peller, ULA vice president for Vulcan rocket development, given the rocket will be the only rocket ULA builds for future missions.

"It's the future of our company," he said during a pre-launch press conference Friday.
Vulcan key to national security
The rocket is key for ULA being the primary launcher of U.S. military and spy agency space missions. The U.S. Space Force has contracted ULA to launch a majority of national security space missions this decade, and those contracts are based on the company using Vulcan.

ULA is also reportedly for sale and is said to have accepted bids to buy the company, and what valuation it receives would hinge on Vulcan succeeding.

ULA was formed in 2006 as a joint venture of Lockheed Martin and Boeing Co. It employs about 2,600 people. It makes rockets at its factory in Decatur, Alabama, and handles its design and engineering and administrative functions in Colorado.

Monday's launch was the first of two missions Vulcan needs to complete successfully to be certified by the Space Force to be ready to loft critical national security payloads to orbit.

With Elon Musk's SpaceX competing to launch military missions with its Falcon 9 rockets, which are reusable and generally cheaper than ULA's expendable rockets, ULA designed Vulcan to handle the complex launches U.S. military and spy agencies buy. They're made to be price competitive while launching more straightforward missions to orbits relatively close to Earth.

Liftoff took place Monday exactly the earliest moment planners scheduled for the mission. Fueling the rocket with super-cooled fuels went smoothly, and Vulcan roared into the black Florida sky with all its systems performing as planned, ULA said.

Space Force Brig. Gen. Kristin Panzenhagen, program executive officer for assured access to space and commander of the 45th Space Launch Delta, congratulated ULA Monday.

"Today's launch marks a new space launch capability that will complete the Department of Defense's transition from foreign engines and ensure the Joint Force's ability to achieve space superiority when necessary while also maintaining the safety, security, stability, and long-term sustainability of the space domain," Panzenhagen said in a statement issued after the launch.
A launch with special meaning
Vulcan rockets replace ULA's workhorse Atlas V rockets, which use Russian-made RD-180 engines in its booster stage barred by Congress since last year from using in national security launches.

Vulcan rockets are powered off the launch pad by a pair of BE-4 engines made by Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin space company based in Kent, Washington. The methane-burning engines provide 1.5 million pounds of thrust at launch.

Before launch, Bruno said every one of the more than 400 space launches he's attended gave him butterflies, but none more have made him more excited than Monday's.

"This one's really special because of what it means to the country, to the company and our customers," he said during the company's pre-launch coverage.

Vulcan launches with small side, solid-rocket booster engines for extra lift, made by Northrop Grumman. As many as six of the solid boosters can be added to Vulcan, making the rocket more capable than the triple-booster-stage heavy lift rockets, the Delta IV Heavy and the Falcon Heavy, that are currently flown by ULA and SpaceX, respectively, for the largest missions, ULA says.

That means Vulcan is uniquely able to loft large payloads to the distant orbits that tend to be unique to military satellites as well as affordably reach low-Earth orbits that are more commonly sought after by commercial satellite makers.

"Vulcan can do all that with just a single core" stage, Peller said, adding that flexibility gives the rocket enormous appeal. "Before we've flown the first rocket, we've sold over 70 of them. That's unheard of."

A little over half of those launches, 38 of them, are purchased by Project Kuiper, a satellite Internet offshoot of Amazon.com that's planning to place thousands of satellites in orbit over the next few years.

ULA plans five other Vulcan launches this year.

The next one is scheduled to be the Dream Chaser space plane, built by Sierra Space in Louisville. That mission is expected to take off no earlier than April, ULA says.

That flight and Monday's launch are expected to yield enough data about the Vulcan rocket's performance that, if the launches are successful, the rocket will be certified to launch for the U.S. military.

ULA has four Vulcan national security-related launches for Space Force on its manifest for later in 2024 after Vulcan is certified.

In addition to Vulcan, ULA has nine 2024 launches of its Atlas V rockets and the final launch of ULA's Delta IV heavy-lift rockets scheduled this year, too.

The 16 launches planned would make this year one of ULA's busiest. It aims to launch as many as 28 missions in 2025.

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Every 8.5 Years, Earth's Core Mysteriously Wobbles. Scientists May Finally Know Why.

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Every 8.5 Years, Earth's Core Mysteriously Wobbles. Scientists May Finally Know Why.

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Jet Engines affect the Climate because the way the Jet Engines are made. The average jet engine is extremely complex and typically consists of about 40,000 parts. Jet engine technology is primarily used today to power jet aircraft and enable fast, efficient air travel.According to "The Aerospace Industry" they state that Jet engines are advanced and will change in the future because in the future there will be new technology which will have them make new and advanced aircrafts. It will also change the climate from the Past to the Future. - Reggie Hayes

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