This picture was taken by IBM scientists recently. What is it of?

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These two did something (independently) that someone else got the whole credit for. These people have gone down history remaining relatively obscure. Who are they, what did they do, and who got the credit?

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1 has a rating of 1, 2 has 2 and 3 has a rating of more than 4 on a scale of 4. What rating are we talking about?

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No need to identify the insects, very workable answer.

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Densely interconnected mess is supposedly a small bit, of what?

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What is the claimed specialty of this color?

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@sidsen: sir, please post the answer, we’ll give you a point.

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Key elements of what recent contest?

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Welp, turns out this question is unintentionally a guest question. Shrik thought some other question was this, and answered this to some other question. Although that wasn’t where we got the question from, he does get first credit. So Shrik get’s a GQHero badge !, that we’ll be pushing into the system shortly :-)

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Identify famous astronomer duo:

“Were no strangers to love You know the rules and so do I A full commitments what…”

Yes, it was a rickroll :)

The algorithm was very simple. The color was X-Axis, the number was Y-Axis and the other character was.. well, a character form the message. When you saw a -1, it meant it was a space. Arranging these letters row/column wise will give you the message above.

As soon as you crack the algo, you can run 4 lines of perl to decode the message. Like this one

Let us know if you liked it, we will start transmitting something else soon!

Another esoteric hardware question. Identify.

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Identify engineer + super nerd of WW2 era (1). One of his less serious contributions in (2)

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