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Artist Wants to Replace Lost Eyeball With Webcam
A one-eyed San Francisco artist, Tanya Vlach, wants to replace her missing eye with a Web cam. There has even been talk of her shooting a reality TV show using the video eye. "There have been all sorts of cyborgs in science fiction for a long time, and I'm sort of a sci-fi geek, with the advancement of technology, I thought, 'Why not?'" said Vlach. I'm a bit perplexed that the obvious things you'd want in a cyborg eye: range finder, infrared/lowlight vision, and a hypno-ray are not discussed in the article.
I never understood why the borg had the Earth at coordinates 0,0,1. I mean, they didn't even know about humans before Q launched the Enterprise D into Borg space.
Are we back to the dark ages? The Earth as the center of the Universe?
That's the second time I saw someone mention Dog Soldiers and imply that it wasn't bad. I saw most of it before, but it was late at night on the Sci-Fi channel, I was thinking this is bad but there is nothing else on and I'm to tired to go to bed.
Should I give it another chance?
I did not know that, and it is much more interesting than the article, but wouldn't 0,0,0 be the "center" of a cartesian system, and 0,0,1 be one unit off-center? What's with /that/ is what I'd like to know. It still means the previously-unknown Earth is at a pretty suspicious-looking place, but I'd sure like to see what's at 0,0,0.
I'd guess that 0,0,0 is Sol. The earth being at 0,0,1 means that 1 unit of measure in this co-ordinate system is the distance from the earth to the sun.
Still about as earth-centric as it gets.
The entire concept of mapping space using coordinates is pretty insane. Everything is moving relative to everything else. Good luck space cartographers!
You are using English. Please learn the difference between loose and lose; they're, there, and their; your and you're.