Very Interesting Junior – July 22, 2019

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GAMER GIRL
Can you imagine your parents’ reaction if you went
to them and said you want to be a gamer when you
grow up? Chances are they would start telling you
about other, more viable careers that you should
consider. The truth is, it is hard to make it in the
gaming world, but the ones who do can make it into
a real career. International e-sport superstars, like
Sasha ‘Scarlet’ Hostyn and Katherine ‘Mystik’
Gunn, earn up to $312,845 (about R4,622,700) per
tournament, and it’s a growing field. Locally, Julia
‘Bish’ Robson is hoping to encourage girls to get
more involved in the male-dominated industry and
started up the first sponsored all-female CS:GO
team in South Africa. So, if you love gaming, keep
an eye on this!

The year the world’s first traffic ticket
was issued. Walter Arnold was
travelling at a shocking four times
the speed limit! But, before you
think he was a rally driver, the
policeman who brought him to
book had caught up to him
after chasing him using a
bicycle... He was racing along
at around 12km/h. Back in
the day though, cars had to
travel at 3km/h with a man waving a red flag in
front of it. That law was abolished soon after,
but Arnold still had to pay his fine of a shilling
plus costs.

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SUPER SKA
The SKA (Square Kilometre Array) telescope
is well on its way to being ready. An
international team, headed up by the
University of Cambridge (UK), has completed
the engineering design work, which involved
designing the computing hardware, software
and algorithms it needs to process data into
images. Once it’s completed, we will be able
to monitor the sky in a way no one has ever
been able to before. How exciting that one of
the supercomputers for this telescope will be
housed right here in Cape Town (the second
one is in Perth, Australia).
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