有哪些你不知道的令人叹为观止的科技事实？（上） [美国媒体]

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What are some mind-blowing facts related to technology?


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ichard Muller ProfPhysicsUCBerkeley auth "The Instant Physicist" "Now -The Physics of Time" upxed Jan 11 2016
Your color TV uses one of the greatest optical illusions of all. It makes red green and blue dots appear to be white.

你的彩色电视机采用了最伟大的光学错觉原理之一。它可以让红、绿、蓝三种颜色的点变成白色的。

Look up really close at TV or computer screen that is displaying the color white and all you’ll see are red green and blue dots no white ones. (You may need a magnifying glass to see the tiny individual dots.) But if you sit back they blur together and make white.

凑非常近去看明明显示白色的电视或电脑屏幕时，你看到的却全是红、绿和蓝点，完全没有白点。（你可能需要放大镜才能看到这些微小的单个点。）但是如果你坐在后面看时，那些点就会模糊成一片然后变成白色。

[In a comment Tim Volkov made an excellent suggestion: No magnifying glass needed - just a drop of water on the screen! That acts an an excellent high power magnifying glass.]

在一个评论回复中，蒂姆·沃尔科夫（Tim Volkov）提了一个很好的建议：不需要用到放大镜——只需要在屏幕上滴一滴水。其使用效果跟用高倍放大镜一样。

Your eye has three color sensors: one each for red green and blue (RGB). True white light from the sun contains all the colors of the rainbow not just RGB. True white makes all three RGB sensors respond.

你的眼睛有三个颜色传感器：每一个各能看到红绿蓝三种颜色（RGB）。来自太阳的真白光包含了彩虹的所有颜色，不仅仅是红绿蓝三色。这三种红绿蓝颜色传感器都能感应到真正的白色。

Here’s the trick: when the screen wants to deceive your eye into thinking the color is white it lights up all three colors. That excites all three RGB sensors in your eye in exactly the same way they would be excited by true white sunlight. Since that is all your brain knows – that all three have detected light – it interprets it as white light. Your brain is fooled.

这里有个诀窍：当屏幕想要瞒过你的眼睛骗你说屏幕的颜色是白色时，屏幕会亮起这三种颜色。这会刺激你眼睛中的三个RGB传感器，就好比这三个传感器是被真白光刺激到的一样。这就是你大脑所知道的一切——因为三个颜色传感器都检测感应到了光线——传译给你大脑的信息是这道光是白光。你的大脑被愚弄了。

Some people are reputed to have four sensors not three so they would not be fooled by false TV white. What would it look like to them? We don’t have the words to describe the colors they see because so few of us have that ability. They probably would call us “colorblind” for getting TV White confused with True White.

有些人被认为有四个传感器，而不是三个，所以他们不会被虚假的电视白光所愚弄。那么他们看到的会是什么样子的呢？我们无法描述他们所看到的颜色是什么，因为只有极少数人有这种能力。他们或许会叫我们“色盲”，因为我们无法辨别电视白光和真正的白光。

[Disclosure: this is an excerpt from my book "The Instant Physicist". The image is also from that book drawn by Joey Manfre.]

[公示：这摘录自我着作的书《一分钟让你成为物理学家》。这幅图是书中的插画，乔伊·曼弗瑞所画。]



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Sourabh Suryavanshi Ardent techy. upxed May 10
Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard tossed a coin yes they had to toss a coin to decide the name of the company. Both the founders were dubious about the name for the company. Packard-Hewlett or Hewlett-Packard. Packard won the toss but instead they named it as Hewlett-Packard.

比尔·休利特和戴夫·佩克德抛硬币，没错，他们通过抛硬币来决定公司的名称。两位创始人都对公司的名称争执不下，到底是叫佩克德-休利特还是休利特-佩克德。佩克德猜对了硬币正反面，但他们二人最终却将公司命名为休利特-佩克德。

PH would be so weird.

如果惠普公司是叫HP的话那实在是太怪了。



Initially Skype was named as Sky-Peer-to-Peer. Then it was minimized and named as Skyper. Again they skipped the alphabet ‘r’ and changed it to Skype when they realized that ‘skyper.com’ domain was already taken!

Skype软件起初是叫“Sky-peer-to-peer”。之后，被缩减成了“Skyper”。后来，当他们了解到“Skyper.com”的域名已经被人注册之后，再一次进行缩减，舍弃了字母“r”，变成“Skype”。



Thank you for reading

感谢阅读。

Amar Minhas Business Analyst with some writing Genes upxed Sun
Single Click on Quora : 25000 KMS is what your click made data request to run & get information showed on your Laptop.

在果壳网上单击一次：单击一次发送的数据请求到数据内容显示到你的电脑上时，它需要跨越25000千米。

Yes I am talking about working of Internet. And you would be surprised your random click on quora travels several thousand miles to show you data.

没错，我想谈谈因特网是如何运作的。你将会惊讶于你在果壳网上的随机点击，是如何使得数据跨越了几千英里后，显示到你的屏幕上。

Firstly go to Search Bar.

第一步，找到搜索栏。

Enter Run -> Open CMD

输入Run->打开CMD。

Enter ‘Tracert quora.com’

输入“Tracert quora.com”。

You would be shown lot of IP address like this :

你将会看到像这样显示的几个IP地址：



Copy paste these IP’s :Trace IP Address (IPv4 & IPv6) and know the locations from where data traveled.

复制粘贴这些IP：追踪这些IP地址（IPv4 和 IPv6），你就能够知道这些数据从何而来。

IP : Location : ISP (Internet Service Provider)

IP：地点：ISP（互联网服务提供商）

192.168.1.1 : Jalandhar : Airtel Broadband (My own location)

102.168.1.1：贾朗达尔城：Airtel电信宽带（印度电信服务企业）（我自己的地点）

122.176.125.101 : Noida : Airtel Broadband

122.176.125.101:诺伊达：Airtel电信宽带

125.17.21.105 : New Delhi : Airtel Broadband

125。17.21.105:新德里：Airtel电信宽带

182.79.223.134 : Jumada New Bhagwati Maharashtra : Bharti Broadband

182.79.223.134:新马哈拉德特拉邦 ：巴蒂电信宽带

192.229.189.142 :Santa Monica (US) : EdgeCast Networks (Quora Server)

192.229.189.142:圣塔莫妮卡（美国）：Edgecast网络（果壳服务器）

Now wondering How did data travel from Jalandhar to Santa Monica (US) & came back:

现在，好奇数据是怎么样从贾朗达尔城传到圣塔莫妮卡又传回去的吗：

Guessing ? Is it by Satellite?

猜一猜？是通过卫星吗？

A BIG NO.

大错特错。

The data tavelled via the Ocean network only with the optical fibre lying & connecting the continents.

数据只通过深藏海底，连接各个大洲的光纤进行传输。

Log in Submarine Cable Map

各点分布的海底光纤网络图



Actual Distance Between : Jalandhar to Santa Monica :

贾朗达尔城到圣塔莫妮卡的实际距离是：



Cool…!!!! Isn’t it…!!!!

是不是很牛逼！！！！当然是！！！！

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Sagar Roy worked at NIIT Dhanbad upxed Apr 30
10 mind blowing facts about technology you should know.

你应该知道的10大科技趣闻。

Technology is playing a key role in our life today from hiring a car to booking a table at a restaurant every thing is being accomplished with the help of technology. It has made our life easy in every possible way. From YouTube's recommended videos to Nexflex’s recommend movies everything is possible because of the advancement of the technology so lets explore some of the unknown facts about technology which will surely amaze you.

现如今科技产品已经在我们的生活中占据关键地位，从租用汽车到预约餐厅席位，（我们已经）可以熟练借用科技产品来做每一件事情。它使我们的生活变得越来越简单。从YouTube推荐的视频到Nexflex上的推荐电影，因为科技的进步使得一切皆有可能。所以让我们来探索一些令你惊奇的科技冷知识。

1. A red panda is an animal native to the Himalayas and southwestern China. The English word for red panda is ‘Firefox’ which is where the browser gets its name from – so the Firefox logo is actually a red panda not a fox!

1.小熊猫是一种生活在中国西南部和喜马拉雅山脉地区的本土动物。在英语里小熊猫被称为“火狐（Firefox）”，这就是火狐浏览器名字的来源——所以火狐浏览器的图标其实是一只小熊猫而不是狐狸！





2. Bill Gates's house was designed using a Macintosh Computer.

2.比尔盖茨的房子是用麦金塔电脑设计的。（Macintosh，简称Mac，是苹果电脑其中的一个系列）



3. The word robot comes from the Czech “robota“. This translates into forced labour or work.

3.机器人（robot）一词来源于捷克语“robota“，其原本的意思是劳工或工人。



4. The first ever VCR which was made in 1956 was the size of a piano!

4.第一台VCR录像机于1956年制成，其大小等同于一架钢琴！



5. Ubuntu is one of the most popular distributions of Linux. The word Ubuntu comes from an African word meaning “I am because of you”.

5.Ubuntu（乌班图）是最受欢迎的Linux发行版之一。“Ubuntu”一词来源于一个非洲词汇，意思是“是你成就的我”。



6. Domain name registrations were free till 1995

6.直到1995年，域名注册都还是免费的。



7. In 1956 5 megabytes (5MB) of data weighed a ton(IBM was the first to launch RAMAC)

7.在1956年，储存5MB的数据（所用的储存器）重达1吨（IBM是第一个推出RAMAC的公司）
（译者注：RAMAC： Random Access Method of Accounting and Control，硬磁盘存储系统）



8. A 15-year old with a PC hacked NASA in 1999
Between August and October of 1999 Jonathan James used his skills as a hacker to intercept data from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency or DTRA (a division of the US Dept. Of Defense). He had access to over 3000 messages usernames and passwords of DTRA employees. He also obtained source code for the International Space Station (to control temperature/humidity).

8.1999年，15岁的少年黑客侵入NASA电脑系统。
在1999年8月到10月之间，乔纳森·詹姆斯（Jonathan James）利用他的黑客技能拦截了来自国防威胁降低局（简称DTRA，隶属于美国国防部）的数据。他获取到了超过3000条DTRA员工的个人信息、用户名及密码。他还获取了国际空间站的源代码（该代码用于控制温度及湿度）。

9. The 12 engineers who made IBM PC were named as “The Dirty Dozen”.

9.制造了IBM个人电脑的12位工程师被称之为“十二金刚”。



10. The first microprocessor 4004 which literally set the path for the modern computing era was developed by Intel. Surprisingly it was meant to be used for a calculator. And then it evolved.

10.作为开创现代电脑纪元的4004——第一台微处理器由Intel研发而成。令人惊讶的是其最初是设计用于计算器上的，不过之后它被升级（用于电脑）。



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Ankit Prajapati IBM MDM Developer at Capgemini (2017-present)upxed Apr 26
Two Minutes :

两分钟：



We will take as many photographs in the next two minutes as all of humanity took in the 1800s.

我们将在接下来的两分钟内，拍下与全人类在19世纪拍下的一样多的照片数量。

In 2014 we took 880 billion photos which is approximately 123 photos for every man woman and child on planet Earth.

2014，我们拍了8800亿张照片，这些照片相当于地球上每个男人、女人和孩子都各拍了大约123张照片。

Computer Power:

计算机能力:



It would have cost $3.56 million in 1991 to buy the computing power found inside an iPhone 5S.

在1991年需要花费356万美元才能享受到iPhone 5s自带的计算机能力。

YouTube Videos:

YouTube视频：



The world uploads 400 hours of video to YouTube every single minute (as of July 2015).

全世界每分钟会上传400小时的视频到YouTube（截至2015年7月）。

Apollo 11:

阿波罗11号：



It’s hard to believe that there is more processing power in a TI-83 calculator than the power inside the computer that landed Apollo 11 on the moon. Mind = blown!

TI-83图形计算器的处理能力比在月球登陆的阿波罗11号中的计算机内部处理能力更强大。这简直令人难以置信。让人大吃一惊！

Mobile Phones:

手机：



Only one million people across the world owned a mobile phone back in 1990. Between 5 and 6 billion mobile phones are in circulation today.

1999年世界上只有一百万人拥有手机。但是现如今有50到60亿台手机在流通中。

Data:

数据：



We will create more data information within the next two days than what was created in all of history up until 2003.

我们将在未来两天内创建比2003年之前创建的更多的数据信息。

50 million users:

5000万用户：



It took radio 38 years to reach 50 million users.

无线电广播花了38年才达到5000万个用户。

It took television a little less with 13 years.

电视用了不到13年。

The World Wide Web (WWW) reach 50 million users within 4 years.

万维网（WWW）在4年内达到5000万用户。

Toothbrush:

牙刷：



Out of more than 7 billion humans on Earth more than 4 billion of them use a mobile phone.

在地球的70多亿人中，有超过40亿的人使用手机。

How many of them use a toothbrush? Only 3.5 billion.  

他们中有多少人使用牙刷？只有35亿人。

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Ashwin Dhakal BE Computer Engineering Institute of Engineering (2018)Answered Thu
Here are the top 7 facts that i was fascinated looking into !

以下是令我着迷的七大事实！

1. New Zealand Was Once on Sale On eBay: In the year 2006 an Australian man attempted to sell New Zealand. The bidding had gone up to $3000 before eBay noticed he didn’t actually have sale rights for the country and shut the bidding down. Sounds horrible!

1. 有人曾在eBay 上出售过新西兰：在 2016 年，一名澳大利亚男人曾经试图拍卖新西兰。在被 eBey 发现他并没有销售该国的权限并关闭了该拍卖交易前，竞价已经拍到了3千美元。听起来真恐怖！



2. There is more processing power in a TI-83 calculator than in the computer that landed Apollo 11 on the moon

2.  TI-83 计算器(德州仪器 TI-83 plus 图形计算器)的处理能力比“阿波罗11号”上所搭载的计算机的性能更强。



3. Since nothing really gets removed from IT the internet will be full of pictures of dead cats in about 15 years.

3. 因为什么东西都不会被删除，大约在15年内互联网上会充满这张死猫照片。



4. The best selling mobile phone of all time was the Father -Nokia 1100 made in Finland.

4. 有史以来最畅销的手机是这个老物件——诺基亚1100，芬兰制造。



5. Scientists can now use DNA to store and retrieve images Videos images emails and other digital data up to 10000 GB in size and can be stored in a smear of DNA.

5. 科学家们现在可以用DNA来存储/读取到高达10000GB的图像、视频、电子邮件和其他数字数据，并且（这些数据）可以存储在DNA的涂片上。



6. The most dangerous virus ever created in the history was “I LOVE YOU”.

6. 有史以来最危险的病毒是"I LOVE YOU"。



主题：我喜欢你
请查看来自我的附件:LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU

7. lixedIn Youtube Yelp and SpaceX were all founded by the former employees of PayPal.

7. lixedIn、Youtube、Yelp和SpaceX 都是由PayPal的前员工创立的。



Thank you :)

谢谢观看 :)