Science in the News 5

The article I read this week is called: FUTURISTIC FLIGHT, and the link to it is the following: http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?vid=8&sid=20033cec-866a-463a-aacd-7f1898d155ae%40sessionmgr112&hid=118&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=ulh&AN=90208453

This fascinating article is about how a highly advanced technology plane makes the first solar-powered flight from coast of San Francisco to New York's coast. The issue relates to science because it shows us how technology in advancing more and more everyday. The position taken by the author is "futuristic" just like the article's title because it tells makes us realise how much technology has advanced to present day and what to expect for the future. Since solar-powered means without using a single drop of fuel, the plane gets all its energy from the Sun. The way it works is that when the Sun is bright and shiny, the plane, called Solar Impulse charges a set of batteries that allows it to work day and night and that way the need of fuel was never needed. 

This article is very amusing to me, since it is incredible how technology is advancing, and how it will become much more easier in the future to travel. It also makes me very happy because if scientists keep working on improving this plane, in the future, planes like this will be used to transport people saving tons of fuel. I absolutely agree in the author's position because technology is advancing so fast that we don't know what the next invention will be. I think the author did showed us enough evidence to support his position because it tells us how we will be able to save fuel in the future and how many things that need fuel will no longer be in need of it. The implications with the future are really good since this article is all about the future. We all have seen how technology advances everyday, like the telephones, they have become much more advanced from the first one they invented. this means that for the future, we can expect anything to happen, even the things you least expect.