for whatever reason, it resists nuclear explosions

China has just landed a project that has been on the table for a decade: that of the first floating island of deep sea research of the world. It looks like an oil well, but it is actually a megastructure that is prepared for everything. And, when we say “everything,” we include the end of the world. Because it is a research center, but also a command center and a nuclear bunker. And it has already raised concerns about possible dual use by China. In short. A few months ago we echoed the China’s plan to formalize this project that has been in the oven for years, but that has not materialized. It was now when, according to the state channel CCTV Newsthe country will begin the final phase of design and construction of the platform. The name by which it has been known until now is the “Deep-Sea All-Wather Resident Floating Research Facility”, and it will basically be a facility that can do everything. The installation. Jio Tong University in Shanghai is in charge of the bulk of the project, a platform that will have a double twin hull of 78,000 tons and scandalous dimensions. We are talking about 138 meters long, 85 meters wide and a main deck located 45 meters from the waterline. He Fujianthe brand new new generation aircraft carrier from China, has a displacement of 80,000 tons. To contextualize. It is semi-submersible and, from the University, they have detailed that it will come to fill a gap that they have detected in the country’s arsenal: that of a research facility that can navigate quickly and remain in an area of ​​operations for prolonged periods. “And, if it reminds us of an oil well, it is because they have been inspired by those facilities, they have combined the design with that of the research vessels and what has come out is… well, what we see in the conceptual image. Investigation. The idea is that the facility can house almost 240 people for months thanks to the backup energy systems and the main objective set out by CCTV News and Jiao Tong University is to explore deep waters and serve as a research field. mining system testingoil and gas prospecting, as well as research into that unexplored ocean floor. Bombproof. But there is a twist. The structure is designed to be a fortress capable of withstanding nine-meter-high waves and category 17 typhoons, the highest for this type of cyclones. It is normal since it will be in areas where the hull can suffer, but what is no longer so normal is that the armor has been designed to resist nuclear explosions. Instead of conventional steel armor, the walls of the complex will be like a sandwich with several layers that will dissipate the shock wave from a nuclear explosion. For construction, it is proposed to use a metamaterial that, under pressure, compresses to create a denser structure than thicker steel panels. The simulations indicated that these walls will resist more pressure than that of a submarine. And that, together with the fact that it will have a command center, has raised some doubts about the possible dual use of the facility. Mapping the terrain. Because the ocean floor has become the new battlefield. We don’t even talk about space, since the United States claims that There has been a war with China and Russia for months for control of space, but the launch of this platform project comes shortly after the publication of some information that reveal how China has deployed dozens of research vessels to map the ocean floor. According to reports published in Reutersdozens of ships have been studying the terrain for years, mapping it and deploying sensors in a strategy to be able to monitor in real time data such as water temperature, salinity, the best prospecting areas and… also everything that moves in that territory. From the United States it has already been raised the voice pointing out that these civilian research vessels “can” collect military intelligence, which represents “a strategic concern.” This systematic mapping, for some military analysts, has a single objective and it is not to find oil wells: it is to erode the advantage that the United States had in the oceanic battlefield.” And a facility like the one they are now preparing with their sights set on 2030 can be a true marine fortress. Image | SJTU In Xataka | Japan has dozens of “forgotten” islands off the coast of China: it is now preparing for the worst scenario

The teleworking is falling in all of Spain. In all? No, an village resists the invader: the officials

Far from the rise that He lived during 2020the teleworking has entered into A downward trend In the private sector. The face -to -face consolidates as the model preferred by companieswith offices that recover prominence. Given that reduction, a model has gained prominence: the Hybrid Day. However, there is an area in which teleworking seems to resist this setback: Public administration. Companies return to the office. Companies seem to have spent page with teleworking, and bet on the return to the face -to -face. According to the report ‘Digital Society in Spain 2024‘ Published by the National Observatory of Technology and Society (ONTSI), 69.9% of employed people always work away from home, compared to 30.1% that telework to some extent. Of that percentage of teleworking, only 9% of the total does so permanently from home (something that also confirms INE data), while 21.1% apply it under a model of Hybrid Day with between two and four face -to -face work day. The public sector walks in the opposite direction. Despite the tendency towards the face -to -face of the private sector, the General State Administration maintains much higher figures of employees that telework, and this trend does not seem to have come to an end. According to 2024 data publishedby The economist49.15% of the officials and employees of the State Administration are welcomed to teleworking. This percentage is equivalent to about 87,618 public workers who carry out their work remotely, mainly, with a maximum of three weekly days. This difference in approach to the teleworking of the State Administration adds points, Next to the salary or labor stability, so that public employment has become the Preferred Labor Alternative For many employees, in the face of the temporality, precariousness and face -to -face of the private sector. More public teleworking. The Digital transformation The administration has allowed progress in the implementation of teleworking, especially in those positions that do not require direct contact with the citizen. A recent example is starred by the Basque Government, which has reached an agreement with the unions to increase teleworking two days a week to both officials and labor personnel, such and As you collect The Basque newspaper. However, the most relevant thing about these teleworking measures that are being adopted in the administration is that the criterion ceases to focus on the nature of the job, to focus on the tasks that can be done remote. This task approach opens a new way when organizing public employment, traditionally face -to -face and bureaucratized. Unique criteria. The great “but” of this commitment to maintain and even expand teleworking in public administrations is the lack of a unique criterion for the different administrations. The General State Administration has its own norms included in article 47 bis of the Basic Statute Law of the Public Employee. However, each autonomous community and municipalities have power to regulate the work model of its officials, so there is no unique rule that regulates it, although tasks can be similar. For example, the Junta de Andalucía has just regulated the remote day of its officials, limiting it to 40% of its day. That is, two days, in front of The three days which are allowed in the General State Administration. Teleworking in state administration. As It is established In the basic statute of the public employee, the State Administration allows to telework up to three days per week, “provided that the nature of the position allows and the adequate provision of the service is guaranteed.” This formula has been mainly implanted in those bodies that They perform technical tasksof analysis or information management. General Bodies of State Administration. Formed by administrative or administrative assistants who carry out tasks related to the management of documents or databases. Digital and Informatics Administration. Those officials in charge of software development, management of networks or computer systems of the administration. Department of Justice. Officials who work in the procedural and administrative management and processing of the judicial documentation, provided that their position does not require face -to -face attention. Finance staff. Administrative or tax analysis technicians, in charge of preparing files, economic-financial analysis and tax management and finance inspectors, when they must perform a more technical task. Statistics officials. Those officials assigned to the General Corps of State Statistics or Statistics Technicians who carry out data, reports and studies. Department of Culture. Higher auxiliary or technical technicians of libraries and archives dedicated to documentary digitalization or content management. In Xataka | The public sector as a refuge for employees undervalued by private companies: 45% of opponents already have a job Image | Unspash (Susanna Marsiglia)

The hunt that still resists in Iran more than 40 years after his arrival. It is not Russian or Iranian. It is the American F-14

While the missiles cross the air between Israel and Iran, the Israeli Air Force has confirmed A new attack on facilities close to Tehran. According to its version, among the objectives there were at least a couple of fighters F-14 Tomcat. In one of the available videos, the impact on what would be one of the few units that are still in service, almost half a century after having been manufactured. That an American hunt retired in 2006 Keep flying today in one of Washington’s great adversaries is no accident. The explanation is in the convoluted – sometimes contradictory – that history can be. An order, a revolution and a war The History of F-14 in Iran begins in the 70s. The SHA, still strategic ally of the United States, decided to incorporate Dozens of Tomcat fighters to its Air Force, in a military package valued at approximately 2,000 million dollars. To do this, he sent his pilots to train in California. But everything changed in 1979, with the Islamic revolution. The relationship between Iran and the United States deteriorated quickly. Ayatolá Ruhollah Jomeiní ordered the arrest of many of those pilots and left the F-14 on land. But the situation took a new turn in 1980, when Iraq invaded Iran. The authorities decided to free the aviators, and began a career to counterreloj for reactivating a fleet for which there were no longer spare parts. An Iranian pilot next to an F-14 Now, keeping an F-14 in flight is not an easy task. Every flight hour required many more maintenanceand many of its components were impossible to manufacture locally. No access to Western technology, Iran resorted to smugglers, to the black market … And also, in a maneuver as surprising as documented, to the United States. During the 80s, within the framework of the scandal Iran-contextsthe Ronald Reagan administration He secretly authorized The sale of weapons to Tehran in exchange for the release of hostages. Iranian Tomcats equipped with multiple missiles in full flight Today, almost half a century after that SHA request, the F-14 Tomcat It continues to appear In Iran. There are no official figures on how many are or how many are really operational. Some have seen in parades. Others, in blurred videos. And now, according to Israel, at least two would have been destroyed in a recent attack near Tehran. Israeli Air Force announced the impact on Iranian F-14 with this publication That an F-14 is still present in 2025 is not just a technical rarity. It is a string of how convoluted the story can be. A hunt designed for US carriers, designed to face the Soviet Union and retired almost twenty years ago, still appears – in one way or another – in one of the most serious military tensions of the moment. Tomcat was a technological feat. But he is also an unlikely survivor: he went from ally to enemy, he sustained thanks to improvised engineers, to clandestine networks, and the carelessness of those who tried to leave him on the ground forever. Images | Nasim News Agency | Iriaf | Shahram Sharifi | IIAF 2 US Navy (via Wikimedia Commons) In Xataka | If the question is how much the iron dome of Israel can endure, the answer is simple: much more than Iran’s defenses

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