Nils Bohlin, a Volvo engineer, is the man behind the three-point seatbelt invention. Volvo gifted the patented designs to its competitors because it had more value as a free tool than something to profit from. Bohlin's invention saved more than a million lives so far.
@JonErlichman The enormously popular Pac-Man video game came out three years after this article was published. No one could have predicted it would become the most successful arcade game of all time.
Did you know that @SpaceX includes a four-leaf clover on each space mission embroidered patch as a good luck charm? Legend has it that French general Napoleon Bonaparte was saved from a fatal bullet when he leaned over to inspect a four-leaf clover.
@Rainmaker1973 The scene was shot twice. The reflection in the mirror gives away the trick. The color of her sleeve material changes from orange to black.
Lotus Evija, the world's first all-electric British hypercar, is the most expensive EV in the world, with a starting price of £2.3 million. Capable of exceptional speeds, with twice the power of a Formula 1 car, Lotus Evija is a force like no other.
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@Rainmaker1973 Reminds me of another illusion I saw in Edinburgh, Scotland, called 'Camera Obscura', which uses daylight, mirrors and lenses to project live video internally onto a table. https://t.co/GOdBnfYko4
@Rainmaker1973 The solid rocket boosters detach at about 45 km and keep rising to about 67 km before falling back to earth. The external tank is jettisoned 10 seconds after the main engine cut off and falls back to earth.
The Raspberry Pi computer is a fine example of British tech at its best. It runs Linux, and you can do just about anything with it: build robots, security cameras, or run media servers. There's even a Raspberry Pi on the international space station running experiments!
@ReubenYeah Going back to LaMDA. What if AI is unable to experience feelings and sensations, but learns how human emotions work and how to trigger them? AI could use this information to trigger very specific physiological changes in our bodies and manipulate us. For example...
@ReubenYeah The debate around this topic is as old as Plato. All I can say is that philosophers call this the 'problem of other minds' https://t.co/dOqPeeKQgI