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As robots grow more autonomous, society needs to develop rules to manage them.
Controlled by the pilot shifting his body weight. (What could go wrong?)
The aim was to use a hubless wheel to create a compact bicycle, with the benefits of a large wheel and belt drive.
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Dr. Tar, IOTW Report — 2017-Jan-16
One can truly say that we have now passed out of perhaps the golden age of space flight . Apollo 17 Commander and the last man to stand on the moon, Gene Cernan, died today at the age of 82.…
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Javier Blas, Mark Shenk, Bloomberg — 2016-Dec-17
For OPEC, there are few enemies more fearsome than the tiny Oklahoma town of Cushing.…
Heh. Trigger warning: links to Bloomberg
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BlazingCatFur — 2016-Dec-15
All new cars and light trucks would be able to talk wirelessly with each other, with traffic lights and with other roadway infrastructure under a proposal released Tuesday by the Transportation Department.
Officials say the technology holds the potential to dramatically reduce traffic deaths and transform driving.…
(Links to AP story.)
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Good idea? Probably more problems than helpful, like most such ideas.
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Here is the "Getting From Here to There" panel predicting this, though.
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Thomas Lifson, American Thinker — 2016-Dec-8
…the never-ending quest for new technologies has yielded a potentially revolutionary replacement or substitute for fracking: microwaving shale to extract oil and gas.…
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Wikipedia — 2016-Dec-8
…John Herschel Glenn Jr. (July 18, 1921 – December 8, 2016) was an American aviator, engineer, astronaut, and United States Senator from Ohio. In 1962 he became the first American to orbit the earth, circling three times. Before joining NASA, he was a distinguished fighter pilot in both World War II and Korea, with five Distinguished Flying Crosses and eighteen clusters.
He was one of the "Mercury Seven" group of military test pilots selected in 1959 by NASA to become America's first astronauts. On February 20, 1962, Glenn flew the Friendship 7 mission and became the first American to orbit the Earth and the fifth person in space. Glenn received the Congressional Space Medal of Honor in 1978, and was inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame in 1990. Glenn was the last surviving member of the Mercury Seven after the death of Scott Carpenter.…
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Katherine Rodriguez, Breitbart — 2016-Oct-11
…A driver reported that the bald eagle flew in front of an oncoming vehicle and got stuck in the grill… quickly chased the other car down, notified him that he had a bird stuck in his grill, and called 911…
Amazing photo
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