I wonder if the astronauts on Apollo 1 demanded a safe workplace?
In all seriousness, they probably get some kind of health cover comparable to the military - their service with this civillian space agency will probably give them serious long term health problems while procedures for safe exploration of space are being worked out.
I always wondered what would happen to licencing if somebody invented a computer with no seat, no monitor, no keyboard and no definable cpu - just a big expanse of FPGA chips connected at the edges to network and power.
One interesting thing about this heart described by the ABIOMED page is that it appears totally self contained. No wires through the skin, no air pump console. 1/2 hour internal battery and 4 hour external batteries.
Could a non-pulsatile version be made using an impeller that would eliminate pulse-shakes and give inhumanly steady hands for microsurgeons and snipers?
Plug your microsurgeon into a wall outlet via the transcutenous energy transmission coil and they could operate pulse free all day. Likewise your long range sniper, plugged into a vehicle power pack or gas powered generator.
At the Biochem lab that I work in we do a lot of autoradiography, and our protocols have standardised around kodak B&W film. We know exactly how long a tritium labeled thin film chromatography preparation will have to expose inside the -80C freezer to get a good result.
If we have to go to ilford, we'll have to work out how to do all this stuff all over again.
What if the goal is not to make you dead? What if the goal is to make you silently infertile, with a low enough dose that it is cleared from your system and is untracable after a few days?
I think you're thinking of these. They do work, it's just that you have to deal with the time and danger involved with a baloon ride before firing the rocket, while going up in a powered aircraft like a plane gives you more control.
A blimp like thing (lighter than air, powered and with a lifting body profile) that might be nice. That's a whole nother aerospace engineering project in itself.
If price was no object, someone could design a chip with more than two cores in it, and each core still ran as fast as any single core chip out there.
Just the existance of one such device would heal the rift immediately. Everyone would say... aha! It is only a matter of time before blazing speeds and hardware threading comes to the desktop.
the idea was that robot suits called LABORs were used for general, well, labor. Since they were ubiquitous and easy to use, it was only a matter of time before criminals simply walked down to the nearest hardware dealer and bought one to rob a bank with.
So the police buy some, paint them blue and strap big guns to them and call them PATROL LABORs (which nobody says because it takes too long).
You know, a working vaccine could make ebola more dangerous. After all if you could immunise all your agents against it, and then gave them little aerosol sprayer packs full of it, you could get them to walk like the angels of death through a city cutting down people left and right.
and overlap. please see my other post linking to the http://www.ensembl.org/ genome browser.
if you want to see a very dense genome, try looking at some viri. they take advantage of the fact that each amino acid that is used to make the protein machinery are encoded using three bases, and so can put three genes almost on top of each other. It's on the level of funkyness of a programmer writing a sequence of bits in machine language where 8 fully functional programs could be derived depending on whether you shift out one to eight bits from the start of the "program" before loading the program onto the stack of a cpu that has an 8 bit opcode system.
I don't really know what these guys are doing with their computing power, but one cool free bioinformatics resources that allow you to browse the genome is
Slashdot Mirror
interesting. All it took was a single -1 Overrated mod a few comments ago and El Gordo was no more.
And that Overrated mod was for asking the question:
"A raw or frozen egg?"
NSFW!
I wonder if the astronauts on Apollo 1 demanded a safe workplace?
In all seriousness, they probably get some kind of health cover comparable to the military - their service with this civillian space agency will probably give them serious long term health problems while procedures for safe exploration of space are being worked out.
hmmm.Big lasers: the latest thing in communications.
I always wondered what would happen to licencing if somebody invented a computer with no seat, no monitor, no keyboard and no definable cpu - just a big expanse of FPGA chips connected at the edges to network and power.
Oh No! Netcraft confirmed that BSD is dying!
Then we could charge certain countries money for us to let warm patches of water and air flow past them!
It would be great!
No money? No sun for you!
Even if the climate change is natural, we may have the power to keep our planet at the temperature we want it at.
After all, don't you like tropical islands? A working gulf stream?
What if we could alter the amount of solar radiation received and tailor it to our needs to make more of the planet inhabitable and comfortable.
More than that with a ship ring, we could get all the annoying people to crew the ring (or at least serve prison sentences on it).
One interesting thing about this heart described by the ABIOMED page is that it appears totally self contained. No wires through the skin, no air pump console. 1/2 hour internal battery and 4 hour external batteries.
Could a non-pulsatile version be made using an impeller that would eliminate pulse-shakes and give inhumanly steady hands for microsurgeons and snipers?
Plug your microsurgeon into a wall outlet via the transcutenous energy transmission coil and they could operate pulse free all day. Likewise your long range sniper, plugged into a vehicle power pack or gas powered generator.
At the Biochem lab that I work in we do a lot of autoradiography, and our protocols have standardised around kodak B&W film. We know exactly how long a tritium labeled thin film chromatography preparation will have to expose inside the -80C freezer to get a good result.
If we have to go to ilford, we'll have to work out how to do all this stuff all over again.
Does ilford even expose at -80C?
What if the goal is not to make you dead? What if the goal is to make you silently infertile, with a low enough dose that it is cleared from your system and is untracable after a few days?
there's more than one way to commit a genocide
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I think you're thinking of these. They do work, it's just that you have to deal with the time and danger involved with a baloon ride before firing the rocket, while going up in a powered aircraft like a plane gives you more control.
A blimp like thing (lighter than air, powered and with a lifting body profile) that might be nice. That's a whole nother aerospace engineering project in itself.
If price was no object, someone could design a chip with more than two cores in it, and each core still ran as fast as any single core chip out there.
Just the existance of one such device would heal the rift immediately. Everyone would say... aha! It is only a matter of time before blazing speeds and hardware threading comes to the desktop.
Dr Skill-less probably doesn't know enough regex to use grep to find his own asscheeks.
Is support the glorious spread of democracy! I'm looking at YOU, Patriot!
The vote's been tallied, and you've been evicted from the BB house.
See you in the place where there is no darkness.
Oh is that so JC? Well I guess Gunther and I will go and sit out on the scrap heap to rust then.
the idea was that robot suits called LABORs were used for general, well, labor. Since they were ubiquitous and easy to use, it was only a matter of time before criminals simply walked down to the nearest hardware dealer and bought one to rob a bank with.
So the police buy some, paint them blue and strap big guns to them and call them PATROL LABORs (which nobody says because it takes too long).
Queue anime fun.
On the other hand, you could put heavy polycarbonate armour on it and make your riot cops safer.
You know, a working vaccine could make ebola more dangerous. After all if you could immunise all your agents against it, and then gave them little aerosol sprayer packs full of it, you could get them to walk like the angels of death through a city cutting down people left and right.
There are treatments for cigarette related illnesses. They involve drugs, radiation and knives.
Somehow that doesn't scare people away from smoking them.
and overlap. please see my other post linking to the http://www.ensembl.org/ genome browser.
if you want to see a very dense genome, try looking at some viri. they take advantage of the fact that each amino acid that is used to make the protein machinery are encoded using three bases, and so can put three genes almost on top of each other. It's on the level of funkyness of a programmer writing a sequence of bits in machine language where 8 fully functional programs could be derived depending on whether you shift out one to eight bits from the start of the "program" before loading the program onto the stack of a cpu that has an 8 bit opcode system.
I don't really know what these guys are doing with their computing power, but one cool free bioinformatics resources that allow you to browse the genome is
http://www.ensembl.org/
User interface is fairly intuitive and well documented.
You can see that serving this information is a non-trivial engineering problem.
and so are fruit flies.
An arabadopsis plant on the other hand, that like most plants survives by modifying its cells rather than running away from danger, that's complex.
Everyone knows that a clone army will respond more creatively to situations that would stump a droid army.