1. Daleks. Use the color-coded Daleks but use their funny appearance more deceivingly and realistically lethal. I mean, much of their bodies are supposed to be highly sophisticated tech not people hidden inside. Use it. (Turn all those half-balls on the side into hunter-seeker spider-like drones?)
2. The Tardis is big. Really, really big. Except lately we never see much of what's in it. (One exception was when the Tardis computer was extracted) Earlier series often showed the swimming pool, personal rooms, walk in closets, the warning room, etc. If Hollywood's doing it at least take advantage to show off the greatness that is the Tardis. Explore the concept. The Doctor is a scientist and time/space traveller and he doesn't have a personal lab or nic-nac room inside?
3. The Time Lords. I was a little annoyed that the Time Lords all become Evil and Had To Be Banished. Maybe it's because I liked Romana and the times the Doctor visited but, again, have Gallefry live again.
4. The Master. I loved the look of the old Masters. The new one seems to have lost much to the Time Wars. Make him intelligent Evil Overlord who pays attention to the Things I Will Not Do When I Am an Evil Overlord. Heck, have him READING it during the movie-now that would be funny!
5. Companions. Have a more useful seeming Companion mixed in with one or two that needs to be rescued. Not too much so but Spock and McCoy were not captain of the ship and they rocked.
6. K-9. Classic reborn but no real dogs please. Or perhaps mix him with the T-2000 and make him a K-9 with monomolecular teeth. Woof!
Maybe could use a single iPhone if you could combine all the data from audio input/output, GPS, and the visual camera data. Dunno how much number crunching that would need though.
Reality is even better with people who have a sense of humor.
If you want to get ping picky one could say that 'named' is not the same as 'function'. TCP/IP pings are indeed technically different than sonar pings due to measuring time between terminals back and forth. Sonar measures distances by means of audio reflection alone (one source and one receiver) whereas this method is more in tune with TCP/IP measuring because it requires two terminals sending signals back and forth to measure distance.
Use the brain model at mother nature provided? Processing on outside (CPUs), connections on inside (connectors), blood vessel-like cooling, aluminum 'skull', and spinal I/O connection all in one cube?
I suggested 3D matrix elsewhere, response was 'brain'. Then I put down having CPUs on the outside of a Cube, interconnects inside, a blood-like network of coolant, aluminum to act as the 'skull', and an internal connection/plug as the 'spine'.
Hey, mother nature seems to think 3D is much better. If everything was best for 2D then our heads would be rather flat.
So... outer layer of the cube would be the CPUs, the internal portions would be the interconnects, and some kind of oil or other liquid can be patterned like blood vessels inside. All protected by aluminum (skull) and plugged into a central slot (spine).
You might also be able to 'layer' aluminum 'channels' inside the cube to get the lowered heat out or perhaps a contained, liquid heat distribution system? Layered aluminum separating CPUs?
Assuming you could cool the cube down through layers of cooling material equally thick as the CPUs how powerful would the cube be?
Makes me wonder what one could do if you tossed traditional 2-D design (Most CPUs do have layers but very much 2D for all that) and went for a more 3D design like in the human brain. Create a miniaturized silicon 'matrix' of semi-conductor connections in a similar way to the human brain, for example.
In the whole CPU mounting in desktop PCs the heatsink/fan combos are massive beasts on top of the chip itself. The 'chip' is mostly a heat sink itself with larger connectors to connect up to the motherboard. Compared to the actual chip the connection and heat dissipation materials are huge.
Has anyone tried to create a silicon cube composed of layer upon layer of CPUs that is of low enough speed that heat isn't a problem, especially if you coat it with aluminum? How many CPUs could one fit in such a cube the size of a modern heat sink and how much parallel processing power do you think one could get out of it? Would it be able to stand up to a modern CPU? Given at least a few dozen CPUs could be fit into such a thing the parallel processing should be impressive, I'd think.
Of course, I'm no computer engineer which is why I'm posting this to see how good/bad this idea is.
I approve of any religion/philosophy that does not say that you are doomed to death/will burn in Hell/will be killed for being infidel if you don't follow that religion and promotes doing one's best to be doing as little (not none because doing nothing can be just as bad as something) harm to your fellow human beings as possible.
Yeah, if this absorbs from ultraviolet to infrared that well then how much heat would it transfer? If you have an air gap of inner and outer walls in a research station in the north or south poles with this material lining the inner wall would it re-absorb much of the lost heat? Would layering this stuff between air gaps suck in more heat than you lose in temperatures that cold?
Seriously, I wonder if a built in health monitor could be 'printed' into the bone? Or if stronger materials could be embedded into the normal biologically acceptable material? Carbon nanotube fibers surrounded by self-repairing plastic?
Something that could pick up nervous system signals (if it's a bone it's darn close to them) and using the body as a natural antenna would be interesting. Someone put an iPhone into their artificial arm which was neat but doing something like this to a bone would make updates, er, difficult.
Oooh! Oooh! Quantum computer embedded into skull bone replacement!
I'd say the arms race has been ongoing for quite some time with occasional heavy casualties on the human side (Black death, HIV, etc.) The arms race was the reason why I attempted to come up with a real-time anti-virus defense. Hopefully something that can adapt as fast as HIV, or at least cover a very large range of possible mutation possibilities, can be thought up. Even if it's something that can only last for a week or two you could eliminate vectors of infection.
Anyway, I think I'll stop the thread here. We're getting pretty long. lol.
Was thinking more like live cargo, military or private, or medical supplies.
Private: Drop of a hiker somewhere normally inaccessible by foot, they wander around, then they get picked up at a prearranged time.
Military: Paratrooper or other grunt gets airlifted from boat, flies low to avoid radar, auto-ejected at a certain point, and craft returns. If clearing big enough then possible pickup of grunt/trooper possible as well.
Medical: Can lift off and drop off needed medical assistance that normally too heavy to luge around when doctor pages.
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1. Daleks. Use the color-coded Daleks but use their funny appearance more deceivingly and realistically lethal. I mean, much of their bodies are supposed to be highly sophisticated tech not people hidden inside. Use it. (Turn all those half-balls on the side into hunter-seeker spider-like drones?)
2. The Tardis is big. Really, really big. Except lately we never see much of what's in it. (One exception was when the Tardis computer was extracted) Earlier series often showed the swimming pool, personal rooms, walk in closets, the warning room, etc. If Hollywood's doing it at least take advantage to show off the greatness that is the Tardis. Explore the concept. The Doctor is a scientist and time/space traveller and he doesn't have a personal lab or nic-nac room inside?
3. The Time Lords. I was a little annoyed that the Time Lords all become Evil and Had To Be Banished. Maybe it's because I liked Romana and the times the Doctor visited but, again, have Gallefry live again.
4. The Master. I loved the look of the old Masters. The new one seems to have lost much to the Time Wars. Make him intelligent Evil Overlord who pays attention to the Things I Will Not Do When I Am an Evil Overlord. Heck, have him READING it during the movie-now that would be funny!
5. Companions. Have a more useful seeming Companion mixed in with one or two that needs to be rescued. Not too much so but Spock and McCoy were not captain of the ship and they rocked.
6. K-9. Classic reborn but no real dogs please. Or perhaps mix him with the T-2000 and make him a K-9 with monomolecular teeth. Woof!
Maybe could use a single iPhone if you could combine all the data from audio input/output, GPS, and the visual camera data. Dunno how much number crunching that would need though.
Reality is even better with people who have a sense of humor.
If you want to get ping picky one could say that 'named' is not the same as 'function'. TCP/IP pings are indeed technically different than sonar pings due to measuring time between terminals back and forth. Sonar measures distances by means of audio reflection alone (one source and one receiver) whereas this method is more in tune with TCP/IP measuring because it requires two terminals sending signals back and forth to measure distance.
Skynet: coming soon to an iPhone near you.
Use the brain model at mother nature provided? Processing on outside (CPUs), connections on inside (connectors), blood vessel-like cooling, aluminum 'skull', and spinal I/O connection all in one cube?
Go search 'Weird Al White and Nerdy' if you haven't already watched it a few dozen times.
I suggested 3D matrix elsewhere, response was 'brain'. Then I put down having CPUs on the outside of a Cube, interconnects inside, a blood-like network of coolant, aluminum to act as the 'skull', and an internal connection/plug as the 'spine'.
Hey, mother nature seems to think 3D is much better. If everything was best for 2D then our heads would be rather flat.
So... outer layer of the cube would be the CPUs, the internal portions would be the interconnects, and some kind of oil or other liquid can be patterned like blood vessels inside. All protected by aluminum (skull) and plugged into a central slot (spine).
Fair is fair. Other people should be able to take down Warner Bros. stuff without owning it as well.
Wonder how fast the DMCA would be amended once people/other companies start doing that?
You might also be able to 'layer' aluminum 'channels' inside the cube to get the lowered heat out or perhaps a contained, liquid heat distribution system? Layered aluminum separating CPUs?
Assuming you could cool the cube down through layers of cooling material equally thick as the CPUs how powerful would the cube be?
Gas jokes aside I would really love to know where the 'center' of the universe would be.
And, yes, I know space is expanding but so does a balloon and it has a center.
Makes me wonder what one could do if you tossed traditional 2-D design (Most CPUs do have layers but very much 2D for all that) and went for a more 3D design like in the human brain. Create a miniaturized silicon 'matrix' of semi-conductor connections in a similar way to the human brain, for example.
Given the topic is about 'the first gas' why are you surprised?
Madness, you say? This. Is. Slashdot!
In the whole CPU mounting in desktop PCs the heatsink/fan combos are massive beasts on top of the chip itself. The 'chip' is mostly a heat sink itself with larger connectors to connect up to the motherboard. Compared to the actual chip the connection and heat dissipation materials are huge.
Has anyone tried to create a silicon cube composed of layer upon layer of CPUs that is of low enough speed that heat isn't a problem, especially if you coat it with aluminum? How many CPUs could one fit in such a cube the size of a modern heat sink and how much parallel processing power do you think one could get out of it? Would it be able to stand up to a modern CPU? Given at least a few dozen CPUs could be fit into such a thing the parallel processing should be impressive, I'd think.
Of course, I'm no computer engineer which is why I'm posting this to see how good/bad this idea is.
That's where 'emotional' harm comes into play.
I approve of any religion/philosophy that does not say that you are doomed to death/will burn in Hell/will be killed for being infidel if you don't follow that religion and promotes doing one's best to be doing as little (not none because doing nothing can be just as bad as something) harm to your fellow human beings as possible.
Awww... You mean we can't blame $deity on the body counts of all 'acts of god'?
Sounds a bit quicker (once they discovered the problem) and sincere from what I remember of Sony's 'efforts' when PSN got hacked.
Yeah, if this absorbs from ultraviolet to infrared that well then how much heat would it transfer? If you have an air gap of inner and outer walls in a research station in the north or south poles with this material lining the inner wall would it re-absorb much of the lost heat? Would layering this stuff between air gaps suck in more heat than you lose in temperatures that cold?
Who needs Wikileaks to embarrass political leaders when they do just fine themselves?
It's those doggone terrorists again! I bet they're tunneling towards Yellowstone to set off the super volcano there and this is just a trial run!
Okay, no. Seriously. Please don't tell me you bought that.
Didn't know most helicopters could fly back themselves. Sorry.
Let the jokes and conspiracy theories begin!
Seriously, I wonder if a built in health monitor could be 'printed' into the bone? Or if stronger materials could be embedded into the normal biologically acceptable material? Carbon nanotube fibers surrounded by self-repairing plastic?
Something that could pick up nervous system signals (if it's a bone it's darn close to them) and using the body as a natural antenna would be interesting. Someone put an iPhone into their artificial arm which was neat but doing something like this to a bone would make updates, er, difficult.
Oooh! Oooh! Quantum computer embedded into skull bone replacement!
How far can you think one can go with this?
I'd say the arms race has been ongoing for quite some time with occasional heavy casualties on the human side (Black death, HIV, etc.)
The arms race was the reason why I attempted to come up with a real-time anti-virus defense. Hopefully something that can adapt as fast as HIV, or at least cover a very large range of possible mutation possibilities, can be thought up. Even if it's something that can only last for a week or two you could eliminate vectors of infection.
Anyway, I think I'll stop the thread here. We're getting pretty long. lol.
Was thinking more like live cargo, military or private, or medical supplies.
Private: Drop of a hiker somewhere normally inaccessible by foot, they wander around, then they get picked up at a prearranged time.
Military: Paratrooper or other grunt gets airlifted from boat, flies low to avoid radar, auto-ejected at a certain point, and craft returns. If clearing big enough then possible pickup of grunt/trooper possible as well.
Medical: Can lift off and drop off needed medical assistance that normally too heavy to luge around when doctor pages.