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Check these out by kadathseeker · 2005-12-13 03:44 · Score: 2, Informative · on Mice Created With Human Brain Cells

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Check these out by kadathseeker · 2005-12-13 03:44 · Score: 2, Informative · on Mice Created With Human Brain Cells

http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News .asp?NewsNum=475 http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News .asp?NewsNum=342 http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News .asp?NewsNum=361 http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News .asp?NewsNum=445 http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News .asp?NewsNum=333 http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News .asp?NewsNum=275

Check these out by kadathseeker · 2005-12-13 03:44 · Score: 2, Informative · on Mice Created With Human Brain Cells

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Check these out by kadathseeker · 2005-12-13 03:44 · Score: 2, Informative · on Mice Created With Human Brain Cells

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Check these out by kadathseeker · 2005-12-13 03:44 · Score: 2, Informative · on Mice Created With Human Brain Cells

http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News .asp?NewsNum=475 http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News .asp?NewsNum=342 http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News .asp?NewsNum=361 http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News .asp?NewsNum=445 http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News .asp?NewsNum=333 http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News .asp?NewsNum=275

Check these out by kadathseeker · 2005-12-13 03:44 · Score: 2, Informative · on Mice Created With Human Brain Cells

http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News .asp?NewsNum=475 http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News .asp?NewsNum=342 http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News .asp?NewsNum=361 http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News .asp?NewsNum=445 http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News .asp?NewsNum=333 http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News .asp?NewsNum=275

Re:This is one thing I don't like about this count by Bun · 2005-12-05 09:38 · Score: 1 · on Microsoft Sued Over Alleged Xbox 360 Defects

I think there's some sci-fi book where the loser and his lawyer dies. That might work too, but I don't think most people would go for that.

You might be thinking of the Gowachin courtarena in "The Dosadi Experiment". It's nicely described here. Good book.

Re:Tallest? by Anonymous Coward · 2005-12-05 06:13 · Score: 0 · on World's Tallest Building Causing Earthquakes?

However...
The Sears Tower is also designed somewhat pyramid-like, in that it gets much smaller and smaller towards the top.

"So once again, it doesn't exactly seem fair that the two are compared on equal terms."

So is it unfair to compare the pyramid-like Sears to the more cylindrical Taipei? Or is it unfair to compare the pyramid-like Sears and Burj towers ?

Sears & others:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Skyscrapercompa re1.PNG
Burj:
http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News .asp?NewsNum=428

Re:Tallest? by Anonymous Coward · 2005-12-04 10:48 · Score: 0 · on World's Tallest Building Causing Earthquakes?

While I pretty much agree with you, the issue is moot anyway. The Burj Tower in Dubai is already under construction, with a target around 2008. I think it will be about 800m, 160 floors. Cleary taller than anything else currently built.

Slow glass from Shaw's story "Light of Other Days" by SpaceShaver · 2005-11-03 13:22 · Score: 1 · on IBM Slows the Speed of Light

I remember reading the SF story by Rober Shaw, "Light of Other Days". In it he postulated that glass would be created with Bose-Einstein condensates. Here's a web page that talks about it and has a link to the story. Slow Glass It's not the same technique that IBM is using but still interesting. Rob:-]

You just invented... by Atario · 2005-10-13 20:56 · Score: 1 · on ePaper To Be Used For Newspapers and Magazines

...Fahrenheit 451.

what it looks like by Original+Replica · 2005-10-09 05:58 · Score: 1 · on Exoskeletons in IEEE Spectrum

another article, but with pics http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News .asp?NewsNum=402

Re:Well hurry the hell up then. by Suidae · 2005-10-03 09:37 · Score: 1 · on Ray Kurzweil's "The Singularity is Near"

Yes, what we need is of course a Mood Organ as described in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep

Who recall The Shockwave rider novel? by Anonymous Coward · 2005-09-22 01:56 · Score: 1, Interesting · on Google Putting Crowd Wisdom to Work

On the Brunner novel "The Shockwave rider" is described the "Delphi pool" and that was the first thing that came to my mind after reading TFA...

http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/content.asp?Bnum=661

Space lens, Then we control the 'thermostat' by Fox_1 · 2005-09-16 05:09 · Score: 1 · on Global Warming Past The Point of No Return

It was proposed by Gregory Beneford story and talked about here too (I think but couldn't find the story). These crazy sci-fi solutions may eventually be the way past this kind of mess. At some point as a society and civilization we got to the point where we were a major influence on the enviroment, generally negative, and generally accidental - chaos is always easier to create then order - now we have to develop the technologies to allow us to have more concious control of our impact on the enviroment. Relying on mother nature only works when we are subjects of her, since we started making fires when it was cold we stopped being her subjects.

Yes and no... by Quadraginta · 2005-08-10 07:43 · Score: 1 · on 8th Annual AUV Competition Results

Let us not forget that as the black hat prey evolve the white hat predators do, too, and the latter usually have more funding.

So, if we imagine those stealthy microcrimsubs creeping up to a lonely San Diego beach, we might as well also imagine them bumping their little snouts 100 yards offshore into the dog pod grid. Bzzt snap glub glub glub. Problem solved!

Movies to the contrary, I sort kinda suspect the bulk of criminal smuggling is low tech. You just pay a dumfuk mule a G to take this "package of condoms" across the border, saying it's hers, and then give it to Hernando on the other side, who'll give her another 2 G's. If she gets busted, you're out less than the cost of a minicrimsub, you don't tip off the G-men to your methodology, and there are fewer material clues pointing back to your secret base under the crater of the extinct volcano.

Re:Are you sure? by KendyForTheState · 2005-07-29 07:16 · Score: 1 · on Ice Lake on Mars

Too big for that... #1 is tiny. Maybe a #4 http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/content.asp?Bnum=399

snore... this isn't "news" -- this is "olds" by dep01 · 2005-07-28 02:07 · Score: 1 · on Japanese Develop 'Female' Android

I saw this on Technovelgy a month and a half ago..

Yawn, old news by Jack+Zombie · 2005-07-27 22:32 · Score: 1 · on Japanese Develop 'Female' Android

I even had to head to the archives to get this one: Lifelike Robot Repliee Q1 May Need Voight-Kampff Test. It even has the same reference to Blade Runner.

Re:Photonic Storage? by renehollan · 2005-07-27 16:17 · Score: 4, Interesting · on Fiber Optics Bring the Sun Indoors

Google for Slow Glass.

Re:The Terminal Man...Historical Notes by 0xG · 2005-07-21 10:45 · Score: 1 · on FDA OKs Brain Pacemaker for Depression

Two great references: This early punk band ("Wasted Youth") had a song called "WireHead" with the refrain:

No more pain, there's a wire in my brain

http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:Ks5iBSLuLA8J:21 6.194.99.1/portal/forum/viewtopic.php%3Fp%3D8146%2 6sid%3Da7aa55795968a8bc3c4667517b9c6fca+%22no+more +pain%22+%22wire+in+my+brain%22&hl=en [Google cache]

This, in turn, was likeley inspired by Larry Niven's SF short stories about the implanting of "drouds" (this back in 1970!):

The droud was the connector between any wall socket and Louis Wu's brain
http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/content.asp?Bnum=207

Science-Fiction Versus Science by Propaganda13 · 2005-06-19 16:21 · Score: 1 · on Is Science Fiction the Opiate of the Geek Masses?

http://technovelgy.com/ct/ctnlistPubDate.asp has a list of timeline of inventions like the cell phone written about by Heinlein in 1953.

"Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done." -Heinlein

I believe it was Heinlein that said most science-fiction was crap, and books should be based on the human condition not technology.

Re:Who's Waldo by arbitraryaardvark · 2005-06-18 12:22 · Score: 1 · on Pharm-Bot Goes On Rampage

(probably redundant)
Waldo
A telefactoring device; also known as the Waldo F. Jones Synchronous Reduplicating Pantograph.
http://technovelgy.com/ct/content.asp?Bnum=23
http://technovelgy.com/ct/AuthorTotalAlphaList.asp ?AuNum=2
http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~main/heinlein.html
http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~main/heinlein.html#Wal doCollection

Re:Who's Waldo by arbitraryaardvark · 2005-06-18 12:22 · Score: 1 · on Pharm-Bot Goes On Rampage

(probably redundant)
Waldo
A telefactoring device; also known as the Waldo F. Jones Synchronous Reduplicating Pantograph.
http://technovelgy.com/ct/content.asp?Bnum=23
http://technovelgy.com/ct/AuthorTotalAlphaList.asp ?AuNum=2
http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~main/heinlein.html
http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~main/heinlein.html#Wal doCollection

It's too bad that we don't have a constellation of by multiplexo · 2005-06-11 08:49 · Score: 4, Interesting · on NASA Notices New, Nasty Solar Storm Type

satellites that could constantly monitor the entire Sun. If we were to put a satellite into the Earth-Sun L1, L4 and L5 points we'd have good coverage of 120 degrees of the Sun's surface. An L3 satellite, appropriately stabilised in its orbit (which we'd also have to do with the L1 satellite) would give us coverage of the side of the Sun opposite the Earth. This data could be relayed back to Earth via the satellites at L4 and L5. This would leave some blind spots which could be filled in by placing a satellite in Venus-Sun L4 and L5 points (Venus Equilateral anyone?) and relaying back to Earth appropriately.

It would be really cool to be able to have data from the entire Solar surface instead of our currently limited view. It would also be handy to know if a solar storm was brewing on another part of the Sun and was likely to let loose when that portion of the Sun rotated to face Earth.