But when the unfamiliar, artificial objects were referred to as "human-made," the younger children tended to classify them as owned.

但当提及到这些不熟悉的人工物品是“人类制造的”时，较年轻的小孩倾向于把它们归类为“被拥有的”。

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Solar flares threaten all of the artificial objects orbiting our planet including GPS and telecommunications satellites occupied spacecraft and the International space Station.

太阳风暴威胁着所有的围绕地球运行的人造天体，包括GPS定位和通讯卫星，载人航天飞机和国际空间站。

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Radar sightings, while in certain respects more reliable, fail to discriminate between artificial objects and meteor trails, ionized gas, rain, or thermal discontinuities in the atmosphere.

在某种程度上更为可靠的雷达观测无法区别大气中的人造飞船、流星轨迹、电离的空气、雨滴和热断层。

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"By using natural crystals for the first time, rather than artificial metamaterials, we have been able to scale up the size of the cloak and can hide larger objects, thousands of times bigger than the wavelength of the light, " said Shuang Zhang, the University of Birmingham physicist who led the research.

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From wearable devices such as those being pioneered by sportswear manufacturer Nike, and Jawbone to digital tattoos and "things that you can swallow that will check you out from inside, (such as) a project that adds an artificial organ to help the body use water more sparingly", Fairs believes the future could well be defined by objects almost disappearing entirely.

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