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hey guys my name is Steven Meacham and here's what's happening this week on me that's Craig a solar-powered plane will embark on a flight around the world in a few months and you can tag along for the trip the Solar Impulse 2 airplane will begin its journey on march first taking off from Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates and it's scheduled to return in late july or early august 2015 the Solar Impulse 2 team claims that the plane will be able to fly continuously for five days and nights without fuel the plane weighs two thousand three hundred kilograms or five thousand seventy pounds the aircraft has 17,000 248 solar cells across its 230 6-foot wingspan along the fuselage and the tail of the plane these cells collect up to 340 kilowatts per day from the Sun and distribute the power to for 17.5 horsepower electric motors while simultaneously charging 633 kilograms of lithium polymer batteries so that the plane can fly during the night the trip will take several months to complete and is estimated at around 500 flight hours the pilot seat doubles as a reclining bed to the plane to remain in the air while the pilot sleeps and it triples as a toilet because pit stops will not be an option occasionally for four to five days at a time you can follow the planes history-making journey starting march first on the Solar Impulse website at Solar Impulse calm and in some quick hit crave news George Lucas says that Disney was not interested in his ideas for Star Wars Episode 7 in a recent interview with cinema blend in fact they didn't want to really do those according to mr. Lucas so they made up their own the ones that I sold the Disney and everything they can up to the decision that they didn't really want to do though so they made it their own so it's not it's not the ones that I originally wrote I hope does he knows what they're doing speaking of guys who may not know what they are doing like crashing drones full of drugs The Associated Press reported that the Tijuana police department announced that they found a drone crash near the San Ysidro border crossing which was carrying three kilos of methamphetamine police believe the drone is a DJ I spread wings s900 which can fly autonomously making it more difficult for law enforcement to track down the responsible party it's a whole new bird is evil calm creator and user experience Directorate Electronic Arts visceral Studios Dino Ignacio known for his work on the graphic user interface design in the dead space video game series has put together this supercut of every user interface in the movie star wars episode for a new hope a lot of the graphic user interfaces in the movie are impressive considering that the film was released in the late 1970s in a month before steve jobs and steve wozniak introduced the world to the Apple tube personal computer you can watch the video in its entirety on Dino Ignacio Vimeo channel vimeo.com / Dino I alright guys that's your show thank you very much for watching as always you can find all these news stories that cnet's crave blog and crave cnet com make sure you follow crave on Twitter at crave and check out this week's crave giveaway this week's crave giveaway is a bounty of CES 2015 swag there's some useful stuff like some headphones some phone cases and a t-shirt go to vlog and enter to win you