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Saturday, May 12th: Shoes Are Not Bowls & Other Fun Facts.
Netanyahu Dinner Serves Shinzo Abe Insulting Dessert In A Shoe
In case you weren't aware, shoes are a bit of a cultural thing in Japan. You always remove your street shoes when entering a residence or office. Period. It's considered one of the rudest offenses in Japanese culture to wear street shoes indoors. I don't think any culture has a particular fawning of shoes either, so the choice to use shoes as a dessert dish is a rather baffling one.
https://www.rt.com/news/426094-japan-dessert-shoe-netanyahu/
Trump Thinks Planes Are Helicopters
To his credit, I even said helicopter to myself on accident when I saw what the A-29B Super Tucano looks like; mainly because I didn't know we even made prop fighters anymore... I thought we got rid of those a while ago. Turns out, we at least still make and sell them to Nigeria. I said it once in a duh moment (probably from reading his statements), he said it through a whole press briefing about them.
https://www.defensenews.com/air/2018/04/30/trump-trips-up-on-attack-aircraft-sale-to-nigeria/
There Will Be Helicopters On Mars
In 2020 NASA plans on sending an autonomous drone helicopter to explore the surface of Mars. It will contain solar cells, heating mechanisms, and other things it will require to be functional in the harsh terrain. They even say it might go as high as 100,000 feet into the air on mars! (Thanks to mars atmosphere.)
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=7121
Robot Dogs Are Going On Sale In 2019
While not yet the sci-fi RoboPooch you might be thinking, Boston Dynamics will be releasing a small number of their now famous SpotMini for companies that would like to test them out. Right now it looks more like a construction site assistent than a faithful companion, but it's only a matter of time now.
https://www.cnet.com/news/boston-dynamics-spotmini-robot-dog-goes-on-sale-in-2019/
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