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Why not? Add a fin to a baloon and you can steer it. And once the baloon can hold direction in the wind with the help of the fin, you can add sail to actually get some propulsion i…

Next week?

http://silelis.com projectors and http://snaige.lt refrigerators are the first ones that come to mind.

It has a name - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalassophobia

-70C can be expected in Arctic.

And in this particular case the underlying text is visible even with naked eye.

Strictly speaking every 10m under water increases pressure by one bar. So elastic bag 10m under water would take up 2x less space.

Actually steam and fog are different things. Fog is already condensed steam that consists of small water droplets. This technology captures the condensed water droplets and at this…

These types of attack are known as Van Eck phreaking https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Eck_phreaking

Apparently ballpoint pen manufacturing requires some precision technology - China acquired it only in 2017 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/01/18...

At one time Pepsi actually owned several USSR military vessels https://www.businessinsider.com/how-pepsi-briefly-became-the...

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 believ…

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 reflecti…

That happens in Olympic Games https://www.olympic.org/news/double-gold-medal-joy-as-oleksi...

He is referring to Lost Cosmonauts conspiracy theory https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Cosmonauts

Most striking "non-invention" to me seems heliograph. We could have had telegraph communications 2000 years ago.

Are you thinking of Machiavelli?

There are many already existing HVDC transmission lines, e.g.: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:HVDC_Europe.svg

I'm wondering whether this applies nowadays with all the modern safety equipment available. And it is also possible to run pulsating DC.

Actually most long-range high-voltage transmission lines are DC.

It also might be off-site construction. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off-site_construction