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Watch the First 9 Minutes of Serenity
An anonymous reader writes "As reported on FireflyFans.net, Universal is attempting further promotion of the sci-fi action film Serenity by making the first 9 minutes of the movie available online. The clip contains the opening backstory that sets an Alliance assassin on the trail of the ship's crew; it's an effective hook. On Yahoo movies, Serenity is ranked as the number 1 film currently in theaters and is hanging in a top-ten spot in the highest rated movies of all time. Slashdot has previously covered Orson Scott Card's review, the film's opening, an interview with Joss Whedon, and much more. It's all out of love..."
Serenity NOW!!!!!!!!!
(OK, someone had to do it)
to pose this question to:
Can anyone tell me a reason why the following wouldn't work? I know it requires a few more years of technological development, but with today's advancements with such things as carbon nano tubes, it seems like we're not that far off from a day when it might be possible. If so, I would argue that we could take much of the energy we pour into robotics today, and go straight for the gold.
Biological Engineering
Take a stem cell from a mouse.
Turn off all developmental signal genes.
Use nano needles to inject developmental signals to specific locations in order to induce development (Cell specialization)
As the animal develops add more needles and use them to continue guiding development.
When the animal desired has finished developing, apply a chemical signal to turn the developmental genes back on.
Since the different cell types are already in the vicinity of cells they expect, they keep their form and function.
Shock the animal into life.
Imagine a whale-sized creature that has a passenger compartment built in to it. One which has specific nerve nodes that allow the crew to tell the creature where to go, and where the creature can be fed from the inside by the crew.
You have a custom animal which will never reproduce so it will have 0 environmental impact. If the animal is doing something bad, you just stop making that animal.
Using this technique means that you don't have to go through the pains involved with developmental genetics.
It also throws most of the design responsibility on the shoulders of mechanical engineers. This is because the problems that need to be solved are things like fluid flow rates, weight stresses, and energy flows. Not trying to predict what a minor change in genes does after 20 divisions.
There are people today working on solving the question of enervating lab grown muscle tissue. Once you can draw arteries in muscle, it is not too far a leap to draw nerve cells in the same muscle.
Having this technology would make robotics nearly irrelevant. We would already have perfect machines that heal themselves, consume the same type of fuel that we do, and know how to run themselves without needing a large amount of programming.
Got to love group-think!
/. group-think effect in the aim of getting a -1 troll and proving my point.
As I said "Mod Me Down" and yes it happened. I got -1 Troll and you got +5 Insightful.
I expected this, I'm not hurt
I knew my comment will be rarely read once it was made -1 Troll, but if people can bitch about Dupe's or Cmdr Taco's Editing Skills and get a +5 Interesting I have just as much right to publicise the
If you don't say "Fuck the **AA" and "Prosecute all OSS License Violations" when prompted your karma will drop.
Slashdot Mods should not enforce the same line all the time, sometimes a little dissention is a "good thing", I know whenever I am a Mod I go out of my way to look for dissenting views and promote them.
Don't be a sheep!
Orationem pulchram non habens, scribo ista linea in lingua Latina
Now quit whining. You were modded down because you deserved it. You post was useless and basically pure noise.