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GoMentum Station is like an Area 51 for autonomous tech: The base is still guarded by the military and closed to the public. Because of this intense security, the old San Francisco-area navel base has become a perfect spot for auto and tech companies to test their driverless four-wheeled creations in secrecy, and thats exactly why Apple engineers came calling, asking for ways they could schedule tests to avoid any prying eyes. Heres a video from Honda testing its automated tech at GoMentum Station:  Companies like Google and Mercedes-Benz test aut stanley mug onomous cars on public roads, but to do so, theyve had to divulge tech specs on their projects to pass inspection. If Apples known for one thing, its secrecy; the idea that it would open up its autonomous car playbook this early in the game seems extremely unlikely. So an old nearby naval base would serve as the perfect tempo stanley canada rary substitute for the real thing. When questioned by The Guardian on whether Apple was indeed a client at GoMentum Station, the owner Randy Iwasaki remain tight-lipped:  We had to sign a non-disclosure agreement with Apple. We cant tell you anything other than theyve come in and theyre interested.  Of course, an early negotiation for room to conduct secretive testing and an actual road-ready car are two very different things鈥攖he bookends to what will likely be a years-long journey. But Apple entering the auto business now seems all but certain. Lets just hope they dont call it the iCa stanley travel mug r. [The Guardian] Image by  Jhui Venus Express Blasts Out One Last Message From Beyond The Grave
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Kwtu Honeybee friendships may shed light on human social life
GoMentum Station is like an Area 51 for autonomous tech: The base is still guarded by the military and closed to the public. Because of this intense security, the old San Francisco-area navel base has become a perfect spot for auto and tech companies to test their driverless four-wheeled creations in secrecy, and thats exactly why Apple engineers came calling, asking for ways they could schedule tests to avoid any prying eyes. Heres a video from Honda testing its automated tech at GoMentum Station:  Companies like Google and Mercedes-Benz test aut stanley mug onomous cars on public roads, but to do so, theyve had to divulge tech specs on their projects to pass inspection. If Apples known for one thing, its secrecy; the idea that it would open up its autonomous car playbook this early in the game seems extremely unlikely. So an old nearby naval base would serve as the perfect tempo stanley canada rary substitute for the real thing. When questioned by The Guardian on whether Apple was indeed a client at GoMentum Station, the owner Randy Iwasaki remain tight-lipped:  We had to sign a non-disclosure agreement with Apple. We cant tell you anything other than theyve come in and theyre interested.  Of course, an early negotiation for room to conduct secretive testing and an actual road-ready car are two very different things鈥攖he bookends to what will likely be a years-long journey. But Apple entering the auto business now seems all but certain. Lets just hope they dont call it the iCa stanley travel mug r. [The Guardian] Image by  Jhui Venus Express Blasts Out One Last Message From Beyond The Grave
1  No Mart stanley quencher ian Civilization Just over 100 years ago, many people still believed there might be intelligent life on Mars 鈥?with Percival Lowell claiming there were canals on Mars that were created by intelligent creatures, based on a mis-translation of the Italian word canali in astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli   writing. Soon, H.G. Wells, Edgar Rice Burroughs and a ton of other authors were writing about Martian civilizations. michael-chabons-17-year-quest-to-write-a-mars-adventure-5889432 The discovery: We figured out by the late 19th century that the atmosphere stanley de  of Mars probably couldn ;t support life, and the canals were debunked roughly a century ago. But it wasn ;t until we were sending space probes to Mars and getting really good images of the surface, around 1971, that the Mars invades Earth and Mars has civilizations on it stories just dried up. 2  There   no Ninth Planet  so no Tenth Planet  Remember how there used to be tons and tons of stories about the previously unknown Tenth Planet in our solar  stanley kubek system  This seemed to be inspired by the discovery of Pluto, the ninth planet, in 1930. Maybe we all just liked the idea that the solar system had ten planets, because ten is a nice round number. For example,  there   the Doctor Who episode The Tenth Planet. In The Puppet Masters  by Robert A. Heinlein, the planet after