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space.stackexchange.com 3y ago

Propellantless Propulsion in Gravity Field

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www.bbc.com 5y ago

5k-year-old man was 'oldest plague victim'

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www.bbc.com 5y ago

Microsoft files patent to record and score meetings on body language

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www.bloomberg.com 5y ago

Berlin Now Has a City-Run Recycling Department Store

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remfulness.com 6y ago

Show HN: Rapid Eye Movement Exercises

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www.bbc.com 6y ago

Neanderthal 'skeleton' is first found in a decade

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www.bbc.com 6y ago

The Zambian agri-tech app making farming cool

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arstechnica.com 8y ago

Facebook’s quest for fleet of solar-powered Internet drones grounded forever

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amp.businessinsider.com 8y ago

Flamethrower drone used to clear debris from power lines

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amp.theguardian.com 8y ago

Asteroid from another star system found orbiting wrong way near Jupiter

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www.bbc.com 8y ago

Golden State Killer suspect traced using genealogy websites

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www.reddit.com 8y ago

How I ended up with $55,000 in Crypto for free because of a hack

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www.sciencealert.com 8y ago

Google's AI Has Learned to Become “Highly Aggressive” in Stressful Situations

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electrek.co 8y ago

Tesla motor designer explains Model 3’s transition to permanent magnet motor

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interestingengineering.com 8y ago

Spinlaunch: Who Needs Rockets When You Can Use Space Catapults?

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venturebeat.com 8y ago

California could see self-driving cars with ‘remote drivers’ in April

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www.space.com 8y ago

SpaceX Launches First Test Satellites for Starlink Internet Constellation

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electrek.co 8y ago

This small electric car made by GM’s Chinese joint-venture can cost just $5,600

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www.engadget.com 8y ago

Airbus' drone taxi takes to the skies for the first time

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www.helsinkitimes.fi 8y ago

Finland to propose that EU abolish daylight savings time

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www.bbc.com 8y ago

The robot that races motorbikes

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www.youtube.com 8y ago

Falcon Heavy Demo – Static Fire

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www.thehumanitystar.com 8y ago

Humanity Star

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spaceflightnow.com 8y ago

Rocket Lab delivers nanosatellites to orbit on first successful test launch

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arstechnica.com 8y ago

Google Chrome extensions with 500,000 downloads found to be malicious

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www.scmp.com 8y ago

China builds ‘world’s biggest air purifier’ and it seems to be working

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www.bbc.com 8y ago

ISS: Japanese astronaut Norishige Kanai worried by growth spurt

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www.teslarati.com 8y ago

SpaceX recovery boat spotted with huge claw-like “fairing grabber”

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www.bbc.com 8y ago

New approach promises early warnings of soggy summers

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thenextweb.com 8y ago

Amazon extends olive branch to Google by relisting the Chromecast

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I often have trouble with claimed cognate words without any references or analysis. This very often applies also to Wiktionary.

E.g. even the given example - I would find it believable that "muscle" cognates with Latvian "miesa", Russian "мяса" and English "meat", but "mouse" seems sketchy.

There exists an entire industry for counting and sorting things(e.g. optical bean sorting).

There also are rather cheap optical tachometers(measuring rotations by applying reflective tape on rotating surface). I would guess such devices could also be tailored for counting falling objects.

And also there are multiple old- school tricks for similar tasks. E.g. if you need to count nails, weight them all, then weight a single nail, then divide the weights to get count.

Immobilizer chip is probably only required to start driving.

I can't imagine any car would stop if it lost signal with immobilizer chip- that would be a safety problem. That is how relay attacks work- signal is required only for a brief period.