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Comment Re:Yes 'drones' can take out aircraft (Score 1) 368

Totally right, as a drone flyer myself I asked a friend who is a helicopter pilot currently working for the government here and his professional opinion is that drones are so lightweight they would be instantly destroyed in a collision with the tail rotor. Collision with the main rotor he says would be almost impossible from the wind turbulence pushing down, the drone would have to be very large and powerfull to sustain itself on that kind of wind, unless it came from the top on which case the tail rotor rule applies.

Submission + - How pentaquarks may lead to the discovery of new fundamental physics

StartsWithABang writes: Over 100 years ago, Rutherford's gold foil experiment discovered the atomic nucleus. At higher energies, we can split that nucleus apart into protons and neutrons, and at still higher ones, into individual quarks and gluons. But these quarks and gluons can combine in amazing ways: not just into mesons and baryons, but into exotic states like tetraquarks, pentaquarks and even glueballs. As the LHC brings these states from theory to reality, here's what we're poised to learn, and probe, by pushing the limits of quantum chromodynamics.

Submission + - Skype Translate has a filthy mouth

An anonymous reader writes: Skype Translate was supposed to be Microsoft's attempt at the "Star Trek" universal translator, offering real-time voice and text translation. It launched with one of the most challenging of languages, Chinese. And apparently, thanks to the Great Firewall, it has its problems. An American expat using it in China said 'It's nice to talk to you' was translated as 'It's f*cking nice to f*ck you,' and other synthesized profanity.

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