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MIT Media Lab Rolls Out Folding Car 222

Posted by samzenpus from the sub-sub-compact dept.
kkleiner writes "You think European cars are small now, wait till the Hiriko takes to the roads in Spain's northern Basque country. The two-seater is about the size of a SmartCar, but when parked, the car can actually fold. After folding, the car takes up about a third of a normal parking space. The Hiriko, Basque for 'urban car,' folds as the rear of the car slides underneath its chassis. Every square foot counts."
Space

Submission + - Russian scientist sees Life on Venus from 1982 lan (yahoo.com)

Submitted by flergum
flergum writes: Leonid Ksanfomaliti, an astronomer based at the Space Research Institute of Russia’s Academy of Sciences, analyzed photographs taken by a Russian landing probe during a 1982 — and while the 30 year lag in analyzing the data hints at some Vodka holidays, is there life out there? Ksanfomaliti says the Russian photographs depict objects resembling a “disk,” a “black flap” and a “scorpion.” This news can rock you like a hurricane.

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