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post #451 of 510

Just like the negroes, right Kate? 

post #452 of 510

Its interesting this came up now. I just finished watching TNGs 'Measure of a Man' episode. Where Data's status as a sentient being was fully legalized. Kate, I'd suggest seeking this out. Picard does a better job explaining why your wrong better then I ever will.

post #453 of 510

Up with Robot rights!

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Originally Posted by Dave Jarvie View Post

Its interesting this came up now. I just finished watching TNGs 'Measure of a Man' episode. Where Data's status as a sentient being was fully legalized. Kate, I'd suggest seeking this out. Picard does a better job explaining why your wrong better then I ever will.



 

I don't think they should be sentient! It's not that I am coming down on the other side of this moral debate, it's that I think care should be taken so that our robot sevants never advance to a point where we'd be exploiting beings rather than 'using tools'

post #455 of 510

LHC FUCK YEAH!

 

It seems we're half-way into pinning down the Higgs boson. By this time next year we'll either have figured mass out or we'll have to rewrite physics. So exciting!

 

Edit: According to the CERN webcast, ATLAS (one of the experiments working on the LHC) has something pegged at 126 GeV and with 2.3 sigma* while CMS (another experiment) has found something at the range between 115 and 127 GeV with a 1.9 sigma. They will need to get to a sigma of 5 to be certain but us finding the Higgs boson is very very probable right now.

 

*To make this simple, sigma is a statistical term describing how random an event is. 1 means random and the higher you go the more certain you become.

post #456 of 510

 

Hooray for Particle Physics!

 

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Originally Posted by stelios View Post

So, how about them superluminal neutrinos?

 

How cool would it be if it actually works out? 

 

Was just wondering this myself!

 

Still maybe, but probably a measurement error: 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/nov/21/faster-than-light-neutrinos-doubts

 

Dammit.

 

Also, first SpaceX capsule to the ISS due in February:

 

http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/onepercent/2011/12/america-returns-to-the-iss-und.html

post #457 of 510
Good week for space exploration, with the Earth like Keplar 22b.

And now this:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16183378

Interesting. I always thought actually landing astronauts on comets was a bit barmy.
post #458 of 510

That's fucking awesome. I'm now picturing all kinds of Moby Dick in space tales about mad captains who have to harpoon a god damn comet.

post #459 of 510


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Interesting. I always thought actually landing astronauts on comets was a bit barmy.


We've seen those movies, they always end badly for the astronauts involved.

 

Conjecture: As conditions generally worsen on here on earth, do you think popular sentiment will turn positive towards space exploration and colonization?

 

Edit: Forgot why I came here:

 

The Stratolauncher!


Edited by MrBananaGrabber - 12/15/11 at 12:17pm
post #460 of 510

Holy Shit!

 

Welcome to a brave new world: Genetic scientists create freakish man-made monster ants with huge heads and jaws

post #461 of 510
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Holy Shit!

 

Welcome to a brave new world: Genetic scientists create freakish man-made monster ants with huge heads and jaws

Maybe they should work to save the species we already have? What good are these unusual ants? Was their a public clamor for ant monsters that had somehow escaped my attention?
 

 

post #462 of 510

Kate, I believe you're forgetting about science. We can make giant mutant ants, so therefore we must make giant mutant ants!

post #463 of 510
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Kate, I believe you're forgetting about science. We can make giant mutant ants, so therefore we must make giant mutant ants!



Of course, how silly of me

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Holy Shit!

 

Welcome to a brave new world: Genetic scientists create freakish man-made monster ants with huge heads and jaws



Well, I don't see how this can go disastrously wrong. Carry on, science! 

post #465 of 510

This will only help spur on better picnic technology, so I'm all for it.

post #466 of 510
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Well, I don't see how this can go disastrously wrong. Carry on, science! 


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post #467 of 510
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Maybe they should work to save the species we already have? What good are these unusual ants? Was their a public clamor for ant monsters that had somehow escaped my attention?
 

 



Maybe they confused the public clamor for an Ant-Man Movie for actual Giant Ants!

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The Space Shuttle aint dead:
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_2084.html

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post #470 of 510

India marks one year since the last recorded polio case.

 

Thanks to a program consisting of 2.3 million vaccinators administering 900 million polio vaccines in the last year

 

News like that are the only things that give me hope for the future lately. I actually get kind of emotional. And then I think of the anti-vaccination lunatics over here and I'm overcome with the desire to bite their stupid heads off.

post #471 of 510

It makes me emotional, too. We truly live in an incredible age, and the incredible-ness is growing exponentially. Of course there are those who deny vaccines (and the moon landing, and the holocaust, and Obama's birth right, and global warming, et cetera) but we'll drag those people kicking and screaming into the future as we always have. One day we'll all be together, enslaved by our robot overlords. :)

post #472 of 510
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Originally Posted by stelios View Post

India marks one year since the last recorded polio case.

 

Thanks to a program consisting of 2.3 million vaccinators administering 900 million polio vaccines in the last year

 

News like that are the only things that give me hope for the future lately. I actually get kind of emotional. And then I think of the anti-vaccination lunatics over here and I'm overcome with the desire to bite their stupid heads off.



I just linked that to my facebook. I await the angry responses asking why I was reading Al-Jazeera,

 

This is amazing.  I went and googled 2.3 million to see what else that compares to. 2.3 million jobs created in the US since March 2010, 2.3 million IPhone 4 activated in Q2 by Verizon, 2.3 million US citizens in jail or prison. BTW, this article about the miracle of science doesn't show up anywhere in the first 7 pages.

post #473 of 510
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Originally Posted by BlackyShimSham View Post

It makes me emotional, too. We truly live in an incredible age, and the incredible-ness is growing exponentially. Of course there are those who deny vaccines (and the moon landing, and the holocaust, and Obama's birth right, and global warming, et cetera) but we'll drag those people kicking and screaming into the future as we always have. One day we'll all be together, enslaved by our robot overlords. :)


Oh, I just had a very bad thought. A vision of The Terminator where Kyle Reese comes back, but has polio and smallpox because the human resistance is totally made up of deniers.

 

post #474 of 510
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Originally Posted by MrTyres View Post
 BTW, this article about the miracle of science doesn't show up anywhere in the first 7 pages.


Speaking of which, have you seen this?

 

 

post #475 of 510
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Speaking of which, have you seen this?

 

 


That's a great presentation, thanks for sharing that.  This is important stuff.  I feel like people forget, particularly with all the hubub about SOPA, that the most powerful regulator of the Internet is Google, not the government.  What happens though when public disapproval isn't enough to get them to regulate themselves?

post #476 of 510

It is an unfortunate result of the way these algorithms work. It is on us to step outside of our comfort zones and get news proactively. Which by the way is what humanity has been doing forever. If you're a lazy son of a bitch, only depending on a single source for knowing about the world you'll end up ill-informed and living in a bubble whether you live now, in 1950, in 1900 or in 2050. 

post #477 of 510

New efficient engine!

 

The link's a few months old, but still, kinda neat, especially from my layman's eyes.

 

Shame we'll never see it! Hell, shame we'll never see the developers after a convenient "accident", nor ever hear about this again after it gets buried under a mountain of paperwork after some shady "sale".

post #478 of 510

 

Looks like all of us meatbags are doomed, It was nice knowing you all!  Wait until the figure-eight at the end.

post #479 of 510

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"Who's laughing at the premise of Runaway NOW, motherfuckers!"

post #480 of 510

Anybody entering into any kind of engineering or electronics graduate program should be required to watch the Terminator movies.

post #481 of 510
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Originally Posted by MrBananaGrabber View Post

 

Looks like all of us meatbags are doomed, It was nice knowing you all!  Wait until the figure-eight at the end.



Jesus Christ. My brain keeps telling me that can't be real and I'm processing it as CGI. Mind-blowing. 

post #482 of 510

We've officially entered the Half-Life universe.  Get out yer crowbars.  

post #483 of 510

Nothing shows up on my Ipad!!!!!

 

What scares you people, link please!

post #484 of 510

Nano Quad Rotor swarm:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQIMGV5vtd4&feature=player_embedded

 

See how they can come through windows?  Probably small enough to slip under your door, too.  Sleep well.

post #485 of 510

Jesus christ, they even sound like they're coming to kill you.

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Nothing shows up on my Ipad!!!!!



This is how it begins.

post #487 of 510

I'm waiting for the inevitable video of the nano-copters tearing apart the human techs and the camera falling over and going to static.

post #488 of 510

Oh shit!  Space Invaders aren't from space!  THEY AREN'T FROM SPACE AT ALL!!!

post #489 of 510

This is amazing:
Transistor made from single Atom.



This will end us all (or release us from dependency on fossil fuels, and then end us all in a gray goo scenario:
Nanotechnology turns plants into plastic.

 


Edited by MrBananaGrabber - 2/21/12 at 2:47pm
post #490 of 510


Double post.  Because I R Smrt.
 

 

post #491 of 510

Both links go to the atom story. Sure, that one is impressive enough, but I want to hear about plants getting plasticized by r'bots! 

post #492 of 510

Sorry, I'm having brain problems today, it's fixed, and here's the article:

 

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=nanotechnology-turns-plants-into-co

 

It's a bit misleading, since it's nano-engineered particles, and not actual tiny robots that are doing the converting. 

post #493 of 510

You know, I think we'll all be ok, as long as scientists don't start making the little flying deathbots cute.

 

 

GODDAMNIT

post #494 of 510

Terminator.jpgtumblr_l1nxe9EPSX1qa7qbyo1_500.jpgXpixar_01.jpg=THE ABOVE VIDEO

post #495 of 510

More murder-bots, running this time!

 

 

Thanks DARPA!

post #496 of 510

Now imagine these armed. Man sized. With a swarm of these flying robots with all kinds of sensors communicating with them. And autonomously controlled by an ant colony level AI. These are all doable. Now.

 

The only thing keeping humanity alive is that our battery designs suck.

post #497 of 510

Yes...designs. Though I think an enterprising AI could find a way...

 

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(Blah, blah, cows are better energy, blah, blah, yes)

 

 

post #498 of 510

 

Batteries?  Who needs batteries if you can get a reactor small enough?

 

Speaking of, I'm fascinated by the new generation of small (cargo container to hottub-size) nuclear reactors.  Very little radioactive material, never get hot enough to go supercritical, only need passive cooling: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshiba_4S

post #499 of 510

 

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More murder-bots, running this time!

 

 

Thanks DARPA!


Yes... but can they turn?

 

post #500 of 510

Liquidy water on Enceladus!

 

http://news.yahoo.com/nasas-cassini-space-probe-finds-saturnian-ocean-104043825.html

 

Ice Volcanoes!  Cryovulcanism!  ...Those are already syfy movies aren't they?

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