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I live right next to this tree. Interestingly, the city of Palo alto also has some electrical plumbing attached to this tree. Not sure if it's for the tree's health or just some co…

While the technological feat seems logical, I wonder how viable is a business model built around retrofitting human-controlled planes with human out of the loop software. Given the…

Misleading headline. No recent breakthrough has been mentioned in this article, except one made in 2016.

The video says 1000 km of hybrid range. Is that then only 4 refuels from NYC to LA?

From the model showing in the video, the aircraft has 2 vertical stabilizer mounted engines ala trijets ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trijet ). Barring some smaller jets, this de…

Common risks are Aircraft skidding of the runway, fire in the wheel well. Mitigating factors: Rear wheel brakes should still work. Reverse thrust can further help slow down the air…

The flyer has lot of anti-intuitive designs for example 6 massive fans whirring around the pilot. What if there is bird strike or the blades somehow dismantle from the fan and fly …

Hassle-free international retail trade of equities. A middle class Joe sitting in Maldives being able to buy Beyond Meat stocks on the day of it's IPO. Also stock markets getting f…

Lot of people ignore this, but NATO ally and a bigger Arctic stakeholder of the western world, Canada has a bigger and pretty capable Arctic Icebreaking fleet: http://www.ccg-gcc.g…

The NIIP (Net International Investment Position) measures whether a country is net debtor vs net creditor. This wikipedia list from 2017: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_internat…

Being able to detect which lane of the road you are on is still challenging enough for self-drive technology. A cheap phone sensor most likely doesn't have such spatial resolution.…

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