I am not sure that this news relates to passing the content of telegram messages to any authority. If i read it correctly it is just about sharing personal information such as ip adress, phone number etc.

Nice range!

The best distance is the one you can practice at frequently ;)

Except wolfram alpha is able to correctly explain step by step solutions. Which was an aid in my education.

On a planet as diverse as ours, there should be plenty of room for both regular sports and e-sports.

The effort required to keep increasing resistors in a chip is just too high at some point. And the power required to run all the chips is becoming unsustainable. Besides that, hardware companies are way over valued if you look at earnings / market cap

Pretty creative problem solving!

Nice bonus that the hole you needed to drill was sized similarly to the central hole for the bar.

Sometimes making things is not about the most fancy stuff, just making something fit for your purpose can be great too.

Its a mass produced bearing type. Most likely the cheapest option for both devices. Optimizing a bearing for a gerbil wheel seems like the real overengineering in my opinion.

In Dutch: ant football

My understanding is that in a true vacuum light will not be reflected or bent by particles. However, due to gravity bending space time itself, light will follow the curvature of space. It would depend on the observer if the path if light is straight. If you look at the light passing by, it would not be straight under influence of gravity. If light itself is the observer, it will travel in a straight line :)

In the case of gravitational lensing the observer is looking at light coming in. An outside perspective.

Well, chances are pretty low. There is not so much out there except the oord cloud. Even if something does hit, it would only punch a hole in the craft. Most of if would continue on.