Just last week, I saw an anime that dealt with exactly the same problem (plants on the moon).
They built big domes and tried to genetically engineer the plants to become more resilient and able to survive in the worst of conditions so the deforested earth could be afforested.
Of course, what happened in the end: one of the scientists made some mistake while messing with DNA, the plants became sentient and nearly eradicated mankind.
Another use of this tech could be direct projection of the image on one's retina. You can adjust the power output to arbitrarily low levels to not boil your eyes away. Also this thing does not require focusing, thus allowing projection to screens of arbitrary sizes while maintaining resolution. You could for instance get a 50'' image from 1m away, as well as 5'' from 7m, giving you almost total freedom of choice for placing the unit. So with pupil tracking it should be possible to put one on the desk before you to replace your computer monitor, TV, whatever. No need for those bulky VR goggles!
It may be more efficient than you think, it employs a fundamentally different design.
Instead of shining light from a bulb through a LCD screen you have 3 lasers coalesce into one beam and draw each pixel on the wall or wherever. So no energy is wasted, all the power goes directly to the screen.
Of course the power consumption will still be high for a bright picture, but far lower than that of conventional projectors.
That's one of the premises of Blade Runner - the replicants are basically identical to humans in terms of pure intelligence or the ability to learn. At first they are just programmed to do things and act almost like humans, until they start to develop their own personalities. And as their intellects already match those of adults, their lack of social interaction results in "dangerously insane" behaviour in our eyes. Hence the four year lifespan. But in the end, having experienced several emotionally laden situations, Roy Batty finally develops moral reasoning (he saves Deckard, starts appreciating life).
First, it's Russian he is speaking, despite the commercial being Ukrainian.
The only thing worth translating he says at about 1:00 : "The thing is, that the coating of the monitor is out of the ordinary. In theory, it should withstand extreme stress, some even say it is bullet-proof. That's exactly what we wanted to check. The monitor has survived the shoot, but since the manufacturer gave it to us for tearing apart, we decided to literally kill it. For this we have a crossbow and crossbow arrows."
In the end he concludes that this is probably the most resilient monitor in the world.
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Just last week, I saw an anime that dealt with exactly the same problem (plants on the moon).
They built big domes and tried to genetically engineer the plants to become more resilient and able to survive in the worst of conditions so the deforested earth could be afforested.
Of course, what happened in the end: one of the scientists made some mistake while messing with DNA, the plants became sentient and nearly eradicated mankind.
Giniro no kami no Agito
Another use of this tech could be direct projection of the image on one's retina.
You can adjust the power output to arbitrarily low levels to not boil your eyes away. Also this thing does not require focusing, thus allowing projection to screens of arbitrary sizes while maintaining resolution. You could for instance get a 50'' image from 1m away, as well as 5'' from 7m, giving you almost total freedom of choice for placing the unit.
So with pupil tracking it should be possible to put one on the desk before you to replace your computer monitor, TV, whatever. No need for those bulky VR goggles!
It may be more efficient than you think, it employs a fundamentally different design.
Instead of shining light from a bulb through a LCD screen you have 3 lasers coalesce into one beam and draw each pixel on the wall or wherever.
So no energy is wasted, all the power goes directly to the screen.
Of course the power consumption will still be high for a bright picture, but far lower than that of conventional projectors.
My thought exactly - I want to see this on Force Unleashed.
That's one of the premises of Blade Runner - the replicants are basically identical to humans in terms of pure intelligence or the ability to learn. At first they are just programmed to do things and act almost like humans, until they start to develop their own personalities. And as their intellects already match those of adults, their lack of social interaction results in "dangerously insane" behaviour in our eyes. Hence the four year lifespan.
But in the end, having experienced several emotionally laden situations, Roy Batty finally develops moral reasoning (he saves Deckard, starts appreciating life).
Japan, for one, welcomes their new social robot overlords.
I, for one, welcome our new promising, smart and self-mending rubber overlords.
Mind you, not even the Borg could handle that.
By the Three Stooges you can also refer to Chakotay (Moe), Harry Kim (Larry) and Tom Paris (Curly) of the Starship Voyager.
http://www.cynicscorner.org/voy_7/voy_701.html
Escaping earth's gravity made easy: Space Elevator
Hurling big stuff up the 'well (and bringing it back): Nuclear Spacecraft
Certainly less than insurmountable, these problems.
Ever heard of the space elevator?
No, I am afraid it is two now.
It would be advisable to look for people with experience in the field of high speed pizza delivery.
Also, keep an eye open for sword-carrying individuals.
Imagine a beowulf cluster of these!
I, for one, welcome our new semi-autonomous, allied, ball-moving robotic overlords. But, will they run linux? What about blending?
First, it's Russian he is speaking, despite the commercial being Ukrainian. The only thing worth translating he says at about 1:00 : "The thing is, that the coating of the monitor is out of the ordinary. In theory, it should withstand extreme stress, some even say it is bullet-proof. That's exactly what we wanted to check. The monitor has survived the shoot, but since the manufacturer gave it to us for tearing apart, we decided to literally kill it. For this we have a crossbow and crossbow arrows." In the end he concludes that this is probably the most resilient monitor in the world.
Now rednecks can have datacenters, too!
But they do have developers, developers, developers, developers!
A thumb drive using [programmable metallization cell memory technology] could store a terabyte of information
http://www.wired.com/gadgets/miscellaneous/news/2007/10/ion_memory
Is this something new? Didn't Arthur C. Clarke wrote about the ring's origins in 1968's A Space Odyssee? Correct me if I am wrong.
But wouldn't that make the surviving penguins even stronger?
Why not just move polar bears to the Antarctic?