Many have trouble making decisions about objects and fear they'll later regret discarding something.
It contains about 173 million objects, of which about 84 million have been confirmed as stars.
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They were engrossed in a cheerful family discussion about why objects fall at different speeds.
The reason, he said, has more to do with Capone's notoriety than anything special about the objects themselves.
She was learning everything she could about those objects and how they worked.
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Art-O-Matic teaches beginners about 3D objects, and advanced users will appreciate its capabilities to add lighting effects and adjust image attributes.
Dr Waibel said it would be a place that would teach robots about the objects that fill the human world and their relationships to each other.
There is something very unusual about these objects, however.
When he wanted to find out if Aristotle was wrong to say that a small body would fall at a different speed from a large body, he didn't look the answer up in an old book about falling objects.
Alex (his name supposedly an acronym for Avian Learning Experiment) eventually learned the names of about 50 objects, knew the numerals from one to six, could perform simple addition and used categories such as similarity and difference, shape, colour and material.
About 70 everyday objects which were sent 18 miles (30km) into space from a Somerset school have gone missing.
When asked directly about hosting controversial objects on Thingiverse, Pettis tenses up.
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According to Google, there are currently more than 500 million objects about which they can display information from a database of 3.5 billion facts.
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It is wrist mounted and senses objects from about 1 inch (2 cm) to 10 feet (3.5m).
And when American forces discovered enormous caches of looted cultural materials, they set about ensuring that these objects were treated with the greatest respect.
That also has some humor attached to it, but it also revealed that some judgments were being made about me by inanimate objects who were changing my online experience.
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"We thought initially that the shoe and other objects were about 600-700 years old because they were in such good condition, " said co-author Dr Ron Pinhasi from University College Cork in Ireland.
He explained that ground-based radars are able to track objects of about 10cm (3.9 inches) and sometimes smaller, depending on altitude above the earth, while other sensors can detect particles down to about 5mm (0.2 inches) in low earth orbit.
She does the ghostly casts of buildings and objects which are about memory and the absence of presence.
"This way, we are both learning important things about our past and preserving objects for future generations, " he said.
It's not about levitation or multiplication of objects -- those are just tools I happen to use to convey deeper concepts I find to be interesting.
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The image was discovered by the Wide-Field Infared Survey Explorer (WISE), which scans the night sky for lights in the infrared range to discover more about different aspects of astronomical objects.
It would be great, he said, if a robot could enter a location that it had never visited before, consult RoboEarth to learn about that place and the objects and tasks in it and then quickly get to work.
According to Reviel Netz, a classicist at Stanford University who is working on the palimpsest, the original uncorrected diagrams suggest that Archimedes was more concerned with the mathematical arguments his geometry gave rise to than with the real-world behaviour of the objects he wrote about.
Or they can move about the living room to bat objects around on the screen, such as virtual lions and monkeys.
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The flooring is dark, the passageways plain and the lighting democratic, giving shards of earthenware as much attention as finely woven rugs from Iran, a jewel-encrusted dagger from Mughal India or 14th-century enameled blown-glass lamps from Egypt and Syria that are about as close to numinous as objects can get.
She and Coz had talked at length about why she kept the stolen objects separate from the rest of her life: because using them would imply greed or self-interest, because leaving them untouched made it seem as if she might one day give them back, because piling them in a heap kept their power from leaking away.
But the best part, of course, is that while you're watching YouTube vids and walking about you'll avoid stumbling into objects and passersby.
Kelso and Schonberg say it's likely there are other "junk to junk" collisions involving unmonitored objects that no one knows about.
The proposition of itself seems absurd given the forces wrought upon and about our slight presence by forces and objects without us.
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