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When the first powered flight occurred was it seen as an inevitability at the time, it was just a matter of when? Or was powered sustained flight by humans still seen as unknown even theoretically?
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In Lord of the Rings the men often hold hands, kiss each other's brow, express love, cradle another's head on their lap while they sleep... were these behaviors typical of Western men from Tolkien's time? Were men acting this way seen as atypical at the time of publication? What changed?
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On Modern Marvels there was a statistic that stated traffic delays cost the US Economy $78.2 billion a year... How are statistics like that figured out?
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Why can we only see stars when looking at the night sky with our eyes, but observing with a telescope for a long time will have entire galaxies show up (such as Hubble deep field)?
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How far away, realistically, are we away from having universal translators that could possibly be ear implants?
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What exactly does your computer do when it changes the power scheme from "high performance" to "balanced"?
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