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Robot babies

Will this be the moment humanity looks back at and says, “What on earth were we thinking?”

Self-replicating robots

Bullet Elevators

There is a rumor going on around about an elevator hack to speed things up. Apparently while riding an elevator, if you simultaneously press the “door close” button and the button for the floor you are trying to reach, the elevator skips all the intervening floors en route to the target floor.

For someone who does not live or work in tall buildings, this is difficult to put to the test. A search on the Internet reveals mixed results of those who did experiment and an unanimous denial by those who maintain or work on elevators (“nonsense”, they say).
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