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Solar Surgery
Chris writes "Scientists in Israel have developed a device based on a concave dish that intensifies sunlight by a factor of 15,000. By focusing this light into an optical fiber and delivering it to an operating theatre, the team says its solar-surgery setup promises to be a low-cost alternative to laser surgery." Everyone who used to operate on GI Joe figures with a magnifying glass is cheering for this to be commercially successful.
Well, aren't you the big man.
Will they get a PATENT for this?
If all other news reporting had to stop except the top six news items of the day we wouldn't have HEARD of:
The bombing of the asprin plant in attempt to hit Bin Laden - precursor to the attack on the Twin Towers.
Israel's handling of the Palestinian Occupation and the "Suicide/Homicide Bombers" - until the middle east was ACTUALLY at open war (which they aren't quite, unless you count the bombers and the missiling of the Palestinian infrastructure as war).
The friction between India and Pakistan until they were at actual war (which they also aren't yet).
Argentina's financial troubles (or Japan's, or Korea's, or ...)
let alone what attacks the US might be THINKING about.
The way you hear about what YOU consider important is for people to talk about EVERYTHING that THEY consider important - separated into appropriate venues for each class of topics, so you can find the ones you are looking for.
THIS venu is "News for Nerds - Stuff that Matters" (to Nerds).
It is for recent news - and time-limited discussions - about technical issues and other things that will immediately affect MY life (some of which MAY change the ground rules underlying regional and global wars as a side-effect).
It is NOT for an endless 15th-generation rehash of the establishment media's top six propaganda pieces about recent developments in decades, centuries, or millenia-old conflicts halfway around the world.
If you want a venu where slashdot-style discussions can be held on THOSE subjects, by all means START one. The slashcode is free and can be found here, or by following the "code" link on most pages of this site. Hosting is cheap until your traffic gets large - after which you have a lot of people you can dun for contributions or whose attention you can rent to interested parties to cover your costs.
Meanwhile get out of OUR faces. The imminent death of mankind has been predicted continuously for at least two millenia, and probably since language was invented. It hasn't happened yet. Most of us are only interested when an issue for Nerds arises in the latest developments, while the rest will visit other, more appropriate, venues when they ARE interested.
Once you get your site set up, its existence will be "News for Nerds" and suitable meat for an item announcing its presence, and an advertisement in a sigline on YOUR postings - which will remain visible if your postings here are on-topic for THIS venue and thus don't get moderated down.
Bantam Dominique roosters crow a four-note song. Once you've heard it as "Happy BIRTHday" you can't NOT hear it that way