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Watch: Boston Dynamics robots challenge K-pop stars BTS to a dance-off - The Boston Globe

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You've seen the vaguely terrifying Boston Dynamics robots climb stairs , open doors , and march in formation while pulling a box truck . Now the four-legged robots are on the dance floor and grooving with special guests: the members of K-pop boy band BTS. In " Spot's On It ," a video released Tuesday by the Waltham-based robotics company to celebrate its recent acquisition by Hyundai Motor Company, seven dog-like "Spot" robots shimmy to the BTS song "IONIQ: I'm On It" in a highly choreographed number. Publisher: BostonGlobe.com Date: 2021-06-30T23:17:32.489Z Twitter: @BostonGlobe Reference: (Read more) Visit Source Giving robots better moves | MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology For most people, the task of identifying an object, picking it up, and placing it somewhere else is trivial. For robots, it requires the latest in machine intelligence and robotic manipulation. That...

Alien view of Earth and deleted coronavirus sequences

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Alien view of Earth and deleted coronavirus sequences An illustration of Earth from space illuminated by the Sun. Stars with a past or future view of Earth as a transiting exoplanet appear brightened. Credit: OpenSpace/American Museum of Natural History Those aliens would be the natural choice for Earthlings to look for, say the scientists — because they could have already had a chance to spot us, and thus might be primed to receive communications from Earth. Date: 2021-06-30 Twitter: @nature Reference: (Read more) Visit Source International Asteroid Day is June 30 | University of Nevada, Reno Happy Asteroid Day. Yes, there is such an annual event. International Asteroid Day is observed each year on the June 30 anniversary of the largest extraterrestrial impact in modern history, which was the 1908 Tunguska event. So, how does that compare with what happened in Nevada? Frankly, the Tunguska event was minor league by southern Nevada...

Facebook UFO group moderators want to know why no one new cares about UFOs

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"You've got this huge report coming, and I just have a feeling that it's going to change the conversation," Fanning, a 54-year-old who works in IT in Los Angeles and runs the Alien UFO Sightings Video Group on Facebook , told Mashable. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence released a highly anticipated 9-page report on Friday afternoon that, plainly, doesn't say much. Publisher: Mashable Date: 2021-06-29T17:44:14 00:00 Author: Christianna Silva Twitter: @mashable Reference: (Read more) Visit Source From Pandemics To Aliens: The Evolutionary Narrative Towards Global Order – OpEd – When enforced narratives fail, abrupt U-turns are inevitable. The global Ministry of Truth is now openly promoting the Wuhan lab leak theory when they are not savaging the darlings of yesteryear's "coronapocalypse".  The "unity through crises" model of the ruling class is backfiring; and the credibili...

Here’s How Space Travel is Becoming a Part of the Travel Industry | TravelPulse

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A futuristic dream made real, eager explorers will soon be able to travel to space and back, reimagining the "final frontier" of travel with Space Perspective. Space Perspective was created by couple Jane Poynter and Taber MacCallum, space travel experts and entrepreneurs. Their goal for Space Perspective was to make space travel more accessible to people who aren't astronauts. Publisher: TravelPulse Date: 2E3295FF72AE65A6453451718C4918F6 Twitter: @TravelPulse Reference: (Read more) Visit Source Civilian Space Flight: Cost, Risks, & When We Can Join Bezos We're at the dawn of a new era for space exploration, with thrill-seeking civilians boldly going where no tourist has gone before. Here's everything you need to know about the rise of space tourism, from which billionaires are leaving Earth imminently to when the rest of us might be able to join them. Publisher: Intelligencer Date: 2021-06-2...

NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity could keep flying the Martian skies for months | Space

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NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity , which landed inside Mars' Jezero Crater with the agency's Perseverance rover in February, has now completed eight Red Planet flights. That's three more than the maximum targeted for the 4-lb. The little rotorcraft's current extended-mission activities, which center on showcasing the potential of Mars helicopters to serve as scouts for rovers, will "continue for at least a few more months, with a cadence of a couple of flights a month," Perseverance project scientist Ken Farley, a Publisher: Space.com Date: 2021-06-29T11:06:36 00:00 Author: https www facebook com spacecom Twitter: @SPACEdotcom Reference: (Read more) Visit Source First video and sounds from China's Mars rover intrigue scientists A detail of Zhurong's undercarriage from a video, with its lander seen in the distance. Credit: CNSA A series of videos from the Zhurong Mars rover have been rele...

Brand new Bedworth leisure centre at risk if £15m bid is not successful - CoventryLive

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Brand new Bedworth leisure centre at risk if £15m bid is not successful - CoventryLive The new Conservative-controlled council has said that the project is reliant on them securing cash from the Government's Levelling Up Fund (LUF). This is a claim that has been refuted by the new leader of the Labour group councillor Chris Watkins. "Before we took control of this council, we were told by the previous controlling group and by members of the cabinet that both the Pingles and Bedworth physical activity hub were going ahead, they were fully costed and full budgeted for and it was definitely going to happen," he said. Publisher: CoventryLive Date: 2021-06-27T04:00:00Z Author: Claire Harrison Reference: (Read more) Visit Source Star Wars: 10 Legends Characters Who Should Show Up In The Bad Batch Star Wars: The Bad Batch is yet another hit for Star Wars on Disney+, telling the story of Clone Force 99 and their defect...