time travel, parallel universes, and other useful illusions
China’s Xinhua News Agency, alongside the Chinese search engine Sogou.com, have revealed what they call the “world’s first artificial intelligence news anchor.” Its appearance, facial expressions, and voice were modeled after the real news anchor Zhang Zhao, using machine learning algorithms that essentially “taught” it to recreate his likeness. The final product, what you see …
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Hundreds of people have reportedly witnessed a “city” appear in the skies above China, first on October 7 over Foshan in the Guangdong province, then later in Jiangxi. The above video briefly shows the peculiar phenomenon – strange dark pillars like skyscrapers materialized in the clouds, then vanished a few minutes later.
China has a time travel tunnel. Did you know that? Some locals of GuiZhou Province, China claim that a 400-meter-long tunnel can distort time. Those who drive through the tunnel, located in Zunyi City’s Honghuagang District, find the time on their cell phones — and only their cell phones — inexplicably reversed by exactly one …
Before we talk about China’s problem with time travel, I have a simple question. Why do we find time travel so fascinating? Is it the science? The simple ability to say, “Screw you, laws of physics!” and go on a wild adventure through the ages? Or maybe it’s a desire to relive our past, to …
We look up to the sky. We see stars. Birds. Planes. The occasional unidentified craft. And dragons. A man in the Jiangxi Province of eastern China claims to have captured a photo of just that — a dragon — flying in the skies above Fuzhou. He was driving home when he noticed several people staring …
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China has released a composite image of the entire moon, the highest resolution map ever created. The composite images were taken by the Chang’e-2 Lunar Orbiter. We’ve seen higher resolution images of areas on the moon before, but this is probably the best full image to date. According to PhysOrg.com: In fact the maps are …