Come on what's the danger in strapping a container of 98% hydrogen peroxide to your back?
Sure 98% hydrogen peroxide is unstable, but its not that unstable.
The only problem is getting 98% hydrogen peroxide these days, people are worried that terrorists could use it to make explosives or something.
April 19th, 2011, some kids build a self-replicating automaton out of Lego. By 2015 50% of Earth's surface has been converted into Lego blocks. By 2020, they become self-aware.
Gosh, you can sell anything as a supplement these days even lead, you just have to have the obligatory "not intended to cure or treat any disease," on it and your good.
What will happen if we ever find a way to truly avoid sleep? Will it become a requirement that we take the drug to work for a certain company? Will the company only hire people who take the anti-sleep drug or pay more to those who take it because they work longer. Will companies whose employees take anti-sleep pills 'out-compete' those who don't? Could the world eventually end up sleepless?
If we ever learn how to build a consciousness in a computer, will we grant it the ability to receive social security payments?
If we ever find a way to put a human consciousness computer, will the consciousness be liable for health benefits? If it receives health benefits will it receive less because it takes less maintenance? If so, will health care companies to start prod people into "cyberizing" because it costs less?
In the article they mention, "The use of mobile phones with RF is adopted in this platform as the most effective approach for control upload, helping to interface nanorobots communication and energy supply."
Thats just gonna roll over real nicely in our RF saturated world. Heck, a cellphone call might cause these things to kill people or a grey goo, end of the world scenario.
Anyway this is not recent work, they have been simulating virtual nanobots for sometime now.
Unfortunately, this is actually possible, as there are currently toothpastes on the market that contain KNO3(or potassium nitrate to all the non-chemies). Fortunately, they do not contain enough for it to be a problem.
Second Life is not a game, but some people do make a game out of it. And I don't mean 'make' as in program or script a virtual game. People called Griefers make a game out of annoying people or crashing the servers. People have scripted objects called followers that follow people around and play an annoying sound loop. You can mute objects, except when they hide inside another object or you are followed by large groups. Of course you can turn off sound, but this also turns off voice chat and the virtual media player. Then there are "trones" or trap cones, that trap specific people inside of them by exploiting an error in the way avatars sit. Trones prevent avatar movement, and the only way to escape them is to teleport out of them into a different parcel. You also can't enter the parcel with the trone in it without getting trapped inside of it again. People have even been able to turn public sandboxes into their own private areas with trones. There used to be countermeasures for trones, but then people scripted counter-countermeasures. Then there are elevators or orbiters which trap inside of them and then shoot up into the sky until they reach the highest altitude achievable in the game. Then you fall down, if your lucky, or get frozen in what is know as "orbit". Then there are object called nukes which deploy incredibly complex objects(very many faces) that replicate out of control and either causes lag or a region crash. A nuke is the virtual equivalent of a DDoS attack and people who use them "usually" get banned. Even if you file an abuse report, the people who run second life, usually do nothing at all. And now someone has found a way to go through the invisible walls that prevent you from entering someone else's private land. So even if you ban someone from the land you own, they can still get in. Clearly something needs to be done about griefers.
Actually it sounds like it might be both. http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=201804852
This article mentions a centrally located spacecraft that provides the laser and is also kept in place by the laser it generates. "Our approach to photonic laser propulsion is based on forming an active resonant optical cavity between two high-reflectance mirrors located separately in two space platforms,"
in other words, it seems to be beam riding, not an independent thruster you can mount on a spacecraft and turn around. This means to get to Mars in less than a week an expensive infrastructure of laser platforms would have to be built.
This material probably has the capability to remove positively charged ions from solutions. It may have a negatively charged cage structure that draws positive ions in and traps them. So it could probably remove the 2+ charged Cesium and Strontium. It could remove toxic isotopes, as long as they have a positive charge, so probably not the negatively charged iodine-131. Many isotopes that are toxic, are so mainly because they form ions with a positive charge. These positively charged ions can poison you by deforming proteins into ineffective shapes. There are already substances out there, that are very efficient in removing ions from a solution, such as deionizing resin, so even if this substance can remove radioactive particles, there are other things out there that can do the same or better.
Back during WWII the Russians built radio control "Teletanks" that were controlled by a human operator in another tank. They were equipped with far more firepower than SWORDS, so technically SWORDS is NOT the first armed robot. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletank
One day, I suspect not to far off, people are going transmit music and other pirated warez via micro sd cards attached to trained pigeons. Of course we all know the RIAA will deploy trained hawks to try and counter this type of P2P(Pigeon 2 Perch) traffic.
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The comment I made was joke. I really didn't expect over analysis of it, but you did make a good point.
I wonder what the Pope's opinion is on strong artificial intelligence and transhumanism?
Ethics? We don't need no steenkin' ethics!
Come on what's the danger in strapping a container of 98% hydrogen peroxide to your back? Sure 98% hydrogen peroxide is unstable, but its not that unstable. The only problem is getting 98% hydrogen peroxide these days, people are worried that terrorists could use it to make explosives or something.
April 19th, 2011, some kids build a self-replicating automaton out of Lego. By 2015 50% of Earth's surface has been converted into Lego blocks. By 2020, they become self-aware.
I for one welcome our laser shootin', missile defendin', robotic overlords.
I sure hope the computers running the Universal VR simulation don't run on Windows.
It's gonna be hard to get the military to embrace open source. Heck, I've had trouble getting my girlfriend to embrace open source.
It is coincidental and humorous in an improbable way.
Gosh, you can sell anything as a supplement these days even lead, you just have to have the obligatory "not intended to cure or treat any disease," on it and your good.
What will happen if we ever find a way to truly avoid sleep? Will it become a requirement that we take the drug to work for a certain company? Will the company only hire people who take the anti-sleep drug or pay more to those who take it because they work longer. Will companies whose employees take anti-sleep pills 'out-compete' those who don't? Could the world eventually end up sleepless?
A 2 am post about a drug to replace sleep, now isn't that ironic!
If we ever learn how to build a consciousness in a computer, will we grant it the ability to receive social security payments? If we ever find a way to put a human consciousness computer, will the consciousness be liable for health benefits? If it receives health benefits will it receive less because it takes less maintenance? If so, will health care companies to start prod people into "cyberizing" because it costs less?
Man, the borg sure do have a good health care plan, where do I sign up?
In the article they mention, "The use of mobile phones with RF is adopted in this platform as the most effective approach for control upload, helping to interface nanorobots communication and energy supply." Thats just gonna roll over real nicely in our RF saturated world. Heck, a cellphone call might cause these things to kill people or a grey goo, end of the world scenario. Anyway this is not recent work, they have been simulating virtual nanobots for sometime now.
I mean how else does it keep going and going and going, without breaking all of the laws of thermodynamics!
Unfortunately, this is actually possible, as there are currently toothpastes on the market that contain KNO3(or potassium nitrate to all the non-chemies). Fortunately, they do not contain enough for it to be a problem.
Second Life is not a game, but some people do make a game out of it. And I don't mean 'make' as in program or script a virtual game. People called Griefers make a game out of annoying people or crashing the servers. People have scripted objects called followers that follow people around and play an annoying sound loop. You can mute objects, except when they hide inside another object or you are followed by large groups. Of course you can turn off sound, but this also turns off voice chat and the virtual media player. Then there are "trones" or trap cones, that trap specific people inside of them by exploiting an error in the way avatars sit. Trones prevent avatar movement, and the only way to escape them is to teleport out of them into a different parcel. You also can't enter the parcel with the trone in it without getting trapped inside of it again. People have even been able to turn public sandboxes into their own private areas with trones. There used to be countermeasures for trones, but then people scripted counter-countermeasures. Then there are elevators or orbiters which trap inside of them and then shoot up into the sky until they reach the highest altitude achievable in the game. Then you fall down, if your lucky, or get frozen in what is know as "orbit". Then there are object called nukes which deploy incredibly complex objects(very many faces) that replicate out of control and either causes lag or a region crash. A nuke is the virtual equivalent of a DDoS attack and people who use them "usually" get banned. Even if you file an abuse report, the people who run second life, usually do nothing at all. And now someone has found a way to go through the invisible walls that prevent you from entering someone else's private land. So even if you ban someone from the land you own, they can still get in. Clearly something needs to be done about griefers.
Actually it sounds like it might be both. http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=201804852 This article mentions a centrally located spacecraft that provides the laser and is also kept in place by the laser it generates. "Our approach to photonic laser propulsion is based on forming an active resonant optical cavity between two high-reflectance mirrors located separately in two space platforms," in other words, it seems to be beam riding, not an independent thruster you can mount on a spacecraft and turn around. This means to get to Mars in less than a week an expensive infrastructure of laser platforms would have to be built.
This material probably has the capability to remove positively charged ions from solutions. It may have a negatively charged cage structure that draws positive ions in and traps them. So it could probably remove the 2+ charged Cesium and Strontium. It could remove toxic isotopes, as long as they have a positive charge, so probably not the negatively charged iodine-131. Many isotopes that are toxic, are so mainly because they form ions with a positive charge. These positively charged ions can poison you by deforming proteins into ineffective shapes. There are already substances out there, that are very efficient in removing ions from a solution, such as deionizing resin, so even if this substance can remove radioactive particles, there are other things out there that can do the same or better.
Hey, do you want to try some snowcrash?
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Back during WWII the Russians built radio control "Teletanks" that were controlled by a human operator in another tank. They were equipped with far more firepower than SWORDS, so technically SWORDS is NOT the first armed robot. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletank
So ICE is trying to crackdown on ICEbreakers. I just had to bring neuromancer into this one.
You won't use buttons on the next iPod, it hooks up to your brain via a neural interface you install at home.
One day, I suspect not to far off, people are going transmit music and other pirated warez via micro sd cards attached to trained pigeons. Of course we all know the RIAA will deploy trained hawks to try and counter this type of P2P(Pigeon 2 Perch) traffic.