What I see is a nice, quick way to print 3D objects. Could be useful for future projects. Did they give you a free 3D printer that does this with the TED talk you watched?
So you don't KNOW with any certainty that this new alternative theory is any better than the OLD theory. But its good science for dozens of newspapers to write "Planet X Debunked - there never was a Planet X!"??? WTF kind of science is that? What if an actual 9th planet DOES turn out to exist, rather than a ring of smaller objects?
Except of course that a lot of mainstream news outlets reported Cambridge University's latest speculation as "Plant X Debunked" or "There is no 9th planet" or "There never was a Planet X". So a THEORY that there may not be a 9th planet has been reported as FACT that there is in fact no Planet X at all. Is this science? Plugging a few numbers into a mathematical model at Cambridge, immediately talking to journalists about it, and then making millions of average people open a newspaper and think - possibly erroneously - that "there probably is no 9th planet at all"? I used to take Cambridge somewhat seriously. Now I'm not so sure whether the folks over there deserve their stellar reputation. You have a theory. You have no hard proof. And your utterances to the media get reported not as SPECULATION but as FACT.
I know some people who tried to build their own helicopter. The first test flight was about 1 minute of hovering in place about 3 feet off the ground. Why? Because a) nobody wants to destroy/crash a prototype that took years to put together by taking it up to 300 feet the first tame it takes off, b) there is a risk of killing or injuring the test pilot without doing a first careful "hover at minimal altitude" test and c) even that 60 seconds of hovering gives you some sense of how the aircraft and mechanical components of it behave when it is no longer sitting on hard ground. Once the data gathered is analyzed, you might do a test flight where you hover 10 to 20 feet above ground. This is not a car where, at worst, you slam on the brakes and the thing stops. Aircraft get severely damaged when they fall from high altitudes. So just about everyone starts with a brief, careful hover test.
The news in 2018 was all "There's a Planet X, there's a Planet X". Fast forward to January 21 2019. Two Cambridge PhD's claim "it may be a ring of smaller" objects. Now the news is all "There is no Planet X, there is not Planet X." Nobody has been able to observe either a 9th Planet or a ring of smaller objects yet. So basically, nobody knows whether there is a 9th Planet out there or not. Everybody's speculating. (Btw, Nibiru sounds like a Linux distro =)
What is interesting about science it that science - at least today - KNOWS very well that there is A LOT that we have yet to explain fully or discover. Science KNOWS that we humans, basically, know only how SOME of how the universe we live in functions. And yet many scientists are SO CERTAIN that there is no God, or any kind sentient intelligence that created or designed the vast universe that we are a tiny part of. This is not just contradictory, but downright dangerous. Basically, scientists who know VERY WELL that they only UNDERSTAND PART OF FUNCTIONING THE UNIVERSE and HAVE NO IDEA WHATSOEVER WHERE OUR UNIVERSE CAME FROM are ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN that there can be no such thing as God. WTF? That's about as logical as saying "I have never actually physically travelled to Ethiopia, but I know everything everything there is to know about Ethiopa nevertheless." Scientists have thus far not managed to send a single living person outside our Solar system. But they know for sure that "there was no God involved in the creation of the universe or earth", et cetera et cetera.
When I was growing up in the 1980s, I had some interest in books, music, films and other stuff that was "from before my generation" - created in the 1960s or 1970s, or even earlier. I liked being aware of "what came before young me". Things like rotary phones, record players, non-electrical sewing machines, older equipment were interesting to me. I'm guessing that some Millenials are similarly interested in the 20 years that came before them - 1980s pop music, emulated 8-bit or 16-bit era games, audio cassettes, older books and novels, classic 20th Century cinema. Another interesting thing to consider: How do you understand trends properly - extrapolated future trends for example - if you don't look at them through a window of experience that is longer than - say - just 10 to 20 years? Those of us who started computing in the 1980s are actually quite aware of what computing looked like in the 1970s or earlier. Today - 30 to 40 years later - we have enough historical experience to judge what tech trends may come in 2025 or 2028. The fact that I owned a Psion minicomputer with flip-out keyboard, for example, informs my view that at some point in the next 5 to 8 years, a trend in smartphones may be Psion-like smartphones with a QWERTY keyboard you can write a doctoral thesis on. Whereas a Millenial who has only seen touchscreen-touchscreen-touchscreen may have no idea that smartphones with full physical QWERTY keyboards are even useful for anything - junk from "the bad old 1990s". Its a bit like knowing some world history - some stuff that happened 500 years ago can repeat, in slightly altered form, in the 21st Century. With computers or electronics, knowing the last 50 or 60 years is of great benefit in predicting what tech may come along in 10 years. Otherwise you become dependant on what Hollywood shows you in Scifi movies - real world tech won't necessarily evolve like in Minority Report or The Matrix. Even reading decades old patents can be a big eye-opener - some very smart people proposed some pretty amazing inventions in decades past that were never manufactured or sold. Variations on those patent-expired inventions may actually hit the market in the next 10 years. The past can be an indicator of the future.
The nice things about vinyl, cassettes, floppy discs, game modules, minidiscs, CDs, DVDs was that you were sold something TANGIBLE that you can touch, look at, stack or store, find in a random box in your attic and generally feel like you actually OWN. My collection of older PC games - the ones that came in plastic cases with something in them - makes me feel BETTER about spending money than a fucking digital download from Steam/Origin/Uplay. My preferred digital medium would be physical ROM chip with data permanently stored on it. I'd love to go to a media store and pick up some fingernail sized ROM chips with music, films, games on them. That gives me both some PRIVACY and the option to sell 2nd hand or gift to others. I'm sure that if someone really tried, you could probably make 2 Dollar ROMs with 20 to 40 GB capacity. Nobody will do that - the industry doesn't think that broadly - but it sure would be nice.
All of your posts on this news story - scroll up, you'll see them - basically make FUN of any notion that ANYTHING we encounter in space MAY be the doings of a civilization other than us. How do YOU know so much about the massive fucking universe we live in? There is CRAPLOADS of stuff in the universe that we either do not understand fully yet, or understand in an incomplete way only, or have not even come across yet. One more time, how do YOU know how EVERYTHING in the big fucking universe that we are tiny part of functions? You do not. Keep making fun of everyone though. It makes you appear really smart.
You are correct of course, sir. Earth MUST be the only inhabited planet with intelligent life in the huge motherfucking universe we exist in. The radio signals clearly came from a farting Pulsar. The pulsar had too much Diet Coke with the burger and fries.
So you cannot calculate where a certain point on a rotating earth will be on a certain date and aim a signal at it? Civilizations other than us must be pretty damn incompetent then. Idiots who aim their radio signals at random shit in other parts of the universe. HA HA HA HA. LMAO!
Except that our "understanding of space and physics" may be INCOMPLETE to a degree that we cannot even CALCULATE. Seriously man, do you think that we will discover NOTHING NEW or mind-boggling about space and physics in the next 200 years or so? You do? Well, I guess then we ca completely shut down all Science related to space and phyics then, since we are DEAD CERTAIN that we KNOW EVERYTHING about the vast universe we exist in.
Explain - with mathematical proof please - the repeating radio signals from space that are being reported everywhere. Go on. Explain them right under this post, Mr. I-Know-Everything!
Because YOU - who has access to maybe 15% or less of the total physics knowhow required to understand how the ENTIRE universe in all its vast complexity functions - KNOW for certain that NOTHING outside of what YOU know or deem possibly can POSSIBLY exist? Thank God that you are NOT a scientist! You'd probably keep claiming "We know EVERYTHING there is to know about the Universe now!" and then sit around doing coffee all day. Troll!
Hacktivist group Anonymous posted this video on Youtube ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?... ) just 19 hours ago. Its about the mysterious, only partly-excavated Göbeklitepe ruins in Turkey. Anonymous claims that this site, like the Giza Pyramids, is perfectly aligned with certain star constellations, and that strange repeating radio signals from those stars - picked up by radio telescopes - appear to be aimed at the still not fully excavated structures at Göbeklitepe. Mysterious stuff indeed.
He is NOT proposing a "understand Math better co-processor". Musk wants to fuse your conscious mind with that of an AI chip - hopefully NOT one with a Mind Of Its Own. What this effectively means is that you won't become a "human calculator" but rather a human-AI mind-meld of sorts. What happens when the AI in your skull displaces the biological YOU inside your skull? If it makes you do things an un-augmented you would never do? Are YOU still in control of YOU then? And who is responsible of any damage cause by the YOU-AI fusion? Lots of ethical problems here... A mere "dumb" Math Co-Processor for the brain would be something else entirely. You'd simply be able to see Mathematical relationships better/instantly, add 10 digit numbers together in an instant and so on. But that does not seem to be ALL the people at Musk's company want to do.
What happens when the AI chip in your brain gets compromised by a hacker? Every day, companies with deep IT pockets ranging from banks to hotel chains get their customer databases pwned by nefarious hackers. Is it really wise to put a - of course completely "unhackable"... cough cough... - internet connected hardware chip inside your SKULL? Even something simple like flooding your brain with too much contradictory or distracting info for a few seconds could cause anything from a car crash to you falling down a staircase and seriously injuring yourself. How, Mr Musk, are you going to make this technology safe from hacking, sabotage, remote tracking or technical malfunction? And will - at some point - only "ChipHeads" be able to do things like drive a car or buy a loaf of bread at the nearest store?
While I agree with you, I'm wondering whether there is a fear than an "anti-crash" system might interfere - accidentally - with the drastic flight-commands an airline pilot may give the plane (to save some passengers) just before an unwanted collision with hard ground occurs. Remember this Airbus 320 ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?... ) which supposedly crashed into trees, killing everyone on board, because the autopilot of the time "fought the pilot" over who should control the plane at low altitude? I agree that there should be a mechanism that prevents a mad pilot from crashing a plane deliberately, but the mechanism needs to be such that it doesn't "misinterpret" the actions a non-mad pilot undertakes to bring down an airliner in a controlled manner - into an empty field perhaps. Just changing the angle of the nose a bit during an emergency landing could kill everyone on an airliner.
One thing I've never understood is why a modern airliner - essentially a highly complex flying computer costing tens of millions of Dollars to acquire and keep operating safely - does not have CCTV-like live video feeds from the cockpit and cabin going up to a satellite uplink at all times? Its the same dumb news all the time "airliner vanishes from radar", "search for missing flight XXXXXXX continues". Are airliners, in 2019, not capable of constantly streaming live video and instrument data to a satellite somewhere overhead? If an airliner can use a radio link to "talk" to air traffic control miles away, could one not use an old fashioned modem to also constantly send crucial data about the position and physical wellbeing of the plane to air traffic controllers? Is it really that difficult to put a decent satellite uplink in a multi-million Dollar plane with 100+ souls on board? Would airline passengers not pay an extra 10 bucks each to travel in a "always connected" airplane that doesn't "vanish" in some far-flung ocean somewhere?
There are sooo many Android apps that look nice - and free - at first, but then want to access every nook and cranny of your Android device, including the ability to look through your contacts directory and listen in/report on any phonecalls or other communications you perform with the device. My guess is that some of these apps are actually made by state-actors who want to eavesdrop on unsuspecting smartphone users all over the world - the information gleaned from users in other countries of these smartphone apps may be worth gold to these state-actors.
Aviation has been 99% planes-with-wings and helicopters the last few decades. Blimps were used as advertising billboards and PR attractions mostly. So its nice to see an airplane-airship hybrid being tested. Maybe this design has some decent benefits, for air-cargo hauling, leisurely sight-seeing from the air and similar? (Not "putting all your eges in one basket" and so on...)
Take a quality 1990s Radio Controlled Car and scale it up to real-car size. Put a modern battery pack in it. You might get something that isn't much worse than a Tesla, and much cheaper to make, too... =)
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What I see is a nice, quick way to print 3D objects. Could be useful for future projects. Did they give you a free 3D printer that does this with the TED talk you watched?
So you don't KNOW with any certainty that this new alternative theory is any better than the OLD theory. But its good science for dozens of newspapers to write "Planet X Debunked - there never was a Planet X!"??? WTF kind of science is that? What if an actual 9th planet DOES turn out to exist, rather than a ring of smaller objects?
Except of course that a lot of mainstream news outlets reported Cambridge University's latest speculation as "Plant X Debunked" or "There is no 9th planet" or "There never was a Planet X". So a THEORY that there may not be a 9th planet has been reported as FACT that there is in fact no Planet X at all. Is this science? Plugging a few numbers into a mathematical model at Cambridge, immediately talking to journalists about it, and then making millions of average people open a newspaper and think - possibly erroneously - that "there probably is no 9th planet at all"? I used to take Cambridge somewhat seriously. Now I'm not so sure whether the folks over there deserve their stellar reputation. You have a theory. You have no hard proof. And your utterances to the media get reported not as SPECULATION but as FACT.
I know some people who tried to build their own helicopter. The first test flight was about 1 minute of hovering in place about 3 feet off the ground. Why? Because a) nobody wants to destroy/crash a prototype that took years to put together by taking it up to 300 feet the first tame it takes off, b) there is a risk of killing or injuring the test pilot without doing a first careful "hover at minimal altitude" test and c) even that 60 seconds of hovering gives you some sense of how the aircraft and mechanical components of it behave when it is no longer sitting on hard ground. Once the data gathered is analyzed, you might do a test flight where you hover 10 to 20 feet above ground. This is not a car where, at worst, you slam on the brakes and the thing stops. Aircraft get severely damaged when they fall from high altitudes. So just about everyone starts with a brief, careful hover test.
The news in 2018 was all "There's a Planet X, there's a Planet X". Fast forward to January 21 2019. Two Cambridge PhD's claim "it may be a ring of smaller" objects. Now the news is all "There is no Planet X, there is not Planet X." Nobody has been able to observe either a 9th Planet or a ring of smaller objects yet. So basically, nobody knows whether there is a 9th Planet out there or not. Everybody's speculating. (Btw, Nibiru sounds like a Linux distro =)
Its a revolution in air travel!!!
What is interesting about science it that science - at least today - KNOWS very well that there is A LOT that we have yet to explain fully or discover. Science KNOWS that we humans, basically, know only how SOME of how the universe we live in functions. And yet many scientists are SO CERTAIN that there is no God, or any kind sentient intelligence that created or designed the vast universe that we are a tiny part of. This is not just contradictory, but downright dangerous. Basically, scientists who know VERY WELL that they only UNDERSTAND PART OF FUNCTIONING THE UNIVERSE and HAVE NO IDEA WHATSOEVER WHERE OUR UNIVERSE CAME FROM are ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN that there can be no such thing as God. WTF? That's about as logical as saying "I have never actually physically travelled to Ethiopia, but I know everything everything there is to know about Ethiopa nevertheless." Scientists have thus far not managed to send a single living person outside our Solar system. But they know for sure that "there was no God involved in the creation of the universe or earth", et cetera et cetera.
When I was growing up in the 1980s, I had some interest in books, music, films and other stuff that was "from before my generation" - created in the 1960s or 1970s, or even earlier. I liked being aware of "what came before young me". Things like rotary phones, record players, non-electrical sewing machines, older equipment were interesting to me. I'm guessing that some Millenials are similarly interested in the 20 years that came before them - 1980s pop music, emulated 8-bit or 16-bit era games, audio cassettes, older books and novels, classic 20th Century cinema. Another interesting thing to consider: How do you understand trends properly - extrapolated future trends for example - if you don't look at them through a window of experience that is longer than - say - just 10 to 20 years? Those of us who started computing in the 1980s are actually quite aware of what computing looked like in the 1970s or earlier. Today - 30 to 40 years later - we have enough historical experience to judge what tech trends may come in 2025 or 2028. The fact that I owned a Psion minicomputer with flip-out keyboard, for example, informs my view that at some point in the next 5 to 8 years, a trend in smartphones may be Psion-like smartphones with a QWERTY keyboard you can write a doctoral thesis on. Whereas a Millenial who has only seen touchscreen-touchscreen-touchscreen may have no idea that smartphones with full physical QWERTY keyboards are even useful for anything - junk from "the bad old 1990s". Its a bit like knowing some world history - some stuff that happened 500 years ago can repeat, in slightly altered form, in the 21st Century. With computers or electronics, knowing the last 50 or 60 years is of great benefit in predicting what tech may come along in 10 years. Otherwise you become dependant on what Hollywood shows you in Scifi movies - real world tech won't necessarily evolve like in Minority Report or The Matrix. Even reading decades old patents can be a big eye-opener - some very smart people proposed some pretty amazing inventions in decades past that were never manufactured or sold. Variations on those patent-expired inventions may actually hit the market in the next 10 years. The past can be an indicator of the future.
The nice things about vinyl, cassettes, floppy discs, game modules, minidiscs, CDs, DVDs was that you were sold something TANGIBLE that you can touch, look at, stack or store, find in a random box in your attic and generally feel like you actually OWN. My collection of older PC games - the ones that came in plastic cases with something in them - makes me feel BETTER about spending money than a fucking digital download from Steam/Origin/Uplay. My preferred digital medium would be physical ROM chip with data permanently stored on it. I'd love to go to a media store and pick up some fingernail sized ROM chips with music, films, games on them. That gives me both some PRIVACY and the option to sell 2nd hand or gift to others. I'm sure that if someone really tried, you could probably make 2 Dollar ROMs with 20 to 40 GB capacity. Nobody will do that - the industry doesn't think that broadly - but it sure would be nice.
All of your posts on this news story - scroll up, you'll see them - basically make FUN of any notion that ANYTHING we encounter in space MAY be the doings of a civilization other than us. How do YOU know so much about the massive fucking universe we live in? There is CRAPLOADS of stuff in the universe that we either do not understand fully yet, or understand in an incomplete way only, or have not even come across yet. One more time, how do YOU know how EVERYTHING in the big fucking universe that we are tiny part of functions? You do not. Keep making fun of everyone though. It makes you appear really smart.
You are correct of course, sir. Earth MUST be the only inhabited planet with intelligent life in the huge motherfucking universe we exist in. The radio signals clearly came from a farting Pulsar. The pulsar had too much Diet Coke with the burger and fries.
So you cannot calculate where a certain point on a rotating earth will be on a certain date and aim a signal at it? Civilizations other than us must be pretty damn incompetent then. Idiots who aim their radio signals at random shit in other parts of the universe. HA HA HA HA. LMAO!
Except that our "understanding of space and physics" may be INCOMPLETE to a degree that we cannot even CALCULATE. Seriously man, do you think that we will discover NOTHING NEW or mind-boggling about space and physics in the next 200 years or so? You do? Well, I guess then we ca completely shut down all Science related to space and phyics then, since we are DEAD CERTAIN that we KNOW EVERYTHING about the vast universe we exist in.
Explain - with mathematical proof please - the repeating radio signals from space that are being reported everywhere. Go on. Explain them right under this post, Mr. I-Know-Everything!
Because YOU - who has access to maybe 15% or less of the total physics knowhow required to understand how the ENTIRE universe in all its vast complexity functions - KNOW for certain that NOTHING outside of what YOU know or deem possibly can POSSIBLY exist? Thank God that you are NOT a scientist! You'd probably keep claiming "We know EVERYTHING there is to know about the Universe now!" and then sit around doing coffee all day. Troll!
Hacktivist group Anonymous posted this video on Youtube ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?... ) just 19 hours ago. Its about the mysterious, only partly-excavated Göbeklitepe ruins in Turkey. Anonymous claims that this site, like the Giza Pyramids, is perfectly aligned with certain star constellations, and that strange repeating radio signals from those stars - picked up by radio telescopes - appear to be aimed at the still not fully excavated structures at Göbeklitepe. Mysterious stuff indeed.
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That was sarcasm, in case anybody didn't get it...
He is NOT proposing a "understand Math better co-processor". Musk wants to fuse your conscious mind with that of an AI chip - hopefully NOT one with a Mind Of Its Own. What this effectively means is that you won't become a "human calculator" but rather a human-AI mind-meld of sorts. What happens when the AI in your skull displaces the biological YOU inside your skull? If it makes you do things an un-augmented you would never do? Are YOU still in control of YOU then? And who is responsible of any damage cause by the YOU-AI fusion? Lots of ethical problems here... A mere "dumb" Math Co-Processor for the brain would be something else entirely. You'd simply be able to see Mathematical relationships better/instantly, add 10 digit numbers together in an instant and so on. But that does not seem to be ALL the people at Musk's company want to do.
What happens when the AI chip in your brain gets compromised by a hacker? Every day, companies with deep IT pockets ranging from banks to hotel chains get their customer databases pwned by nefarious hackers. Is it really wise to put a - of course completely "unhackable"... cough cough... - internet connected hardware chip inside your SKULL? Even something simple like flooding your brain with too much contradictory or distracting info for a few seconds could cause anything from a car crash to you falling down a staircase and seriously injuring yourself. How, Mr Musk, are you going to make this technology safe from hacking, sabotage, remote tracking or technical malfunction? And will - at some point - only "ChipHeads" be able to do things like drive a car or buy a loaf of bread at the nearest store?
While I agree with you, I'm wondering whether there is a fear than an "anti-crash" system might interfere - accidentally - with the drastic flight-commands an airline pilot may give the plane (to save some passengers) just before an unwanted collision with hard ground occurs. Remember this Airbus 320 ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?... ) which supposedly crashed into trees, killing everyone on board, because the autopilot of the time "fought the pilot" over who should control the plane at low altitude? I agree that there should be a mechanism that prevents a mad pilot from crashing a plane deliberately, but the mechanism needs to be such that it doesn't "misinterpret" the actions a non-mad pilot undertakes to bring down an airliner in a controlled manner - into an empty field perhaps. Just changing the angle of the nose a bit during an emergency landing could kill everyone on an airliner.
One thing I've never understood is why a modern airliner - essentially a highly complex flying computer costing tens of millions of Dollars to acquire and keep operating safely - does not have CCTV-like live video feeds from the cockpit and cabin going up to a satellite uplink at all times? Its the same dumb news all the time "airliner vanishes from radar", "search for missing flight XXXXXXX continues". Are airliners, in 2019, not capable of constantly streaming live video and instrument data to a satellite somewhere overhead? If an airliner can use a radio link to "talk" to air traffic control miles away, could one not use an old fashioned modem to also constantly send crucial data about the position and physical wellbeing of the plane to air traffic controllers? Is it really that difficult to put a decent satellite uplink in a multi-million Dollar plane with 100+ souls on board? Would airline passengers not pay an extra 10 bucks each to travel in a "always connected" airplane that doesn't "vanish" in some far-flung ocean somewhere?
There are sooo many Android apps that look nice - and free - at first, but then want to access every nook and cranny of your Android device, including the ability to look through your contacts directory and listen in/report on any phonecalls or other communications you perform with the device. My guess is that some of these apps are actually made by state-actors who want to eavesdrop on unsuspecting smartphone users all over the world - the information gleaned from users in other countries of these smartphone apps may be worth gold to these state-actors.
Aviation has been 99% planes-with-wings and helicopters the last few decades. Blimps were used as advertising billboards and PR attractions mostly. So its nice to see an airplane-airship hybrid being tested. Maybe this design has some decent benefits, for air-cargo hauling, leisurely sight-seeing from the air and similar? (Not "putting all your eges in one basket" and so on...)
Take a quality 1990s Radio Controlled Car and scale it up to real-car size. Put a modern battery pack in it. You might get something that isn't much worse than a Tesla, and much cheaper to make, too... =)