2,12:38 p.m. Researchers at Harvard University have created a robot that can change color in seconds, allowing it to blend seamlessly into a background like a chameleon, or stand out so that it is easy to see. It can even glow in the dark, and change its temperature. These are just the latest additions to a family of rubbery, bendable robots first described in a 2011 paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by the Whiteside Group, a Harvard-based research group. The group was interested in creating a robot that was soft, rather than hard and breakable like most of the robots we know. And so they looked to the sea. This robot's design was inspired by invertebrates like squid and starfish and other animals with no hard skeletons. The squishy robot moves by having air pumped through small cylinders in its body, and is flexible enough to squeeze through a glass plate elevated just 2 centimeters above the ground in under a minute, according to a report in the BBC. To make this robot even more like the underwater creatures that inspired its design, Stephen Morin lead a team that added thin, flexible network of tubes just under the robot's "skin." Scientists pump different color dyes into the network of tubes, thereby changing the color of the robot. They can even create intricate patterns, and if they use a chemo-luminescent dye, make the the robot glow in the dark. The temperature of the fluids can also be controlled, so that the robot can be camouflaged in the infared spectrum too. The Journal Science has a wonderful video that shows the color changing robot in action, (plus awesome footage of a camouflaging octopus). That's all very neat, but is it practical? Well, it could be. For example, if you were trapped in a collapsed building, one of these squishy robots could be sent squeezing itself in. http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-camouflage-robot-20120817,0,308264.story
I submitted this story, found it on googlenews this morning, and hands down, Georgeaperkins had the funniest post here! Since the video's in flash I didn't get to see it right away (android phone), when I finally saw it, yep, major letdown. It's basically an inflatable shrinky-dink, but give it 20 years and millions in development money.... jeez, it'll still suck mightily! Reminds me of a squeezeball toy frog I had as a kid.
What is Plagiarism? Many people think of plagiarism as copying another's work, or borrowing someone else's original ideas. But terms like "copying" and "borrowing" can disguise the seriousness of the offense: According to the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, to "plagiarize" means to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own to use (another's production) without crediting the source to commit literary theft to present as new and original an idea or product derived from an existing source. In other words, plagiarism is an act of fraud. It involves both stealing someone else's work and lying about it afterward. But can words and ideas really be stolen? According to U.S. law, the answer is yes. The expression of original ideas is considered intellectual property, and is protected by copyright laws, just like original inventions. Almost all forms of expression fall under copyright protection as long as they are recorded in some way (such as a book or a computer file). All of the following are considered plagiarism: turning in someone else's work as your own copying words or ideas from someone else without giving credit failing to put a
quotation in quotation marks giving incorrect information about the source of a quotation changing words but copying the sentence structure of a source without giving credit copying so many words or ideas from a source that it makes up the majority of your work whether you give credit or not (see our fair use section) http://www.plagiarism.org/plag_article_what_is_plagiarism.html
Plagiarism can be avoided, however, by citing sources. Simply acknowledge material has been borrowed, and providing your audience with the information necessary, that is usually enough to prevent plagiarism. See our section on citation for more
So now plagiarism is okay, and a good thing? But,..., don't we have all these laws against plagiarizing someone else's work? That means it's bad.... But, our founding fathers plagiarized, so that means it's good to.... Hmm... , let me think about this,....,....,.....***BOOM!!!*** (head explodes)
Are you kidding! We have great scientists these days.
They can double the sun's output in no time.
Then we'll have all the solar power we'll ever need.
Professor Leo Farnsworth: "What could possibly fo wrong?"
Hey all scientists who have ambitious 'plans' to "experiment" with the Sun... Please DON'T!!! DON'T FUCK WITH THE SUN!!! Just look at it, okay? Do not "play" with it! It's working, it's been working fine fir BILLIONS OF YEARS!!! When something as important as THE SUN is working, leave it alone! Don't fix it!!!
The only Tesla myseum right now is in Belgrade http://www.tesla-museum.org/http://www.teslasociety.com/ www.teslasociety.com/ in cooperation with the Nikola Tesla Museum in Belgrade, Serbia. Tesla Corner. ****Nikola Tesla St. **** It was founded in Buffalo, New York in 1979. It is the oldest Tesla Society in Buffalo, 59-27 Woodbine Street, New York, NY 11385
Because, like me, you are "grand-fathered" in. Just keep paying your $25 each month and shut up! It's the best deal around and if you keep talking about it everyone will want in, then there goes the neighborhood, don't kill the golden goose!:)
Long Island is quickly running out of open land, the prices in some areas in eastern areas are astronomical. More and more farmland is being sold to developers. Closer to N.Y. City, perfectly sound homes get razed to the ground in order to sub-divide the land and build multiple homes. It's a crazy market here on L.I. where home prices average $375,000, and the closer to the water you go, well as they say, if you have to ask what the price is, you probably can't afford it! http://www.deptofnumbers.com/asking-prices/new-york/long-island/
All those sci-fi books I read as a kid are starting to come true! It's just like how the Wild West started out, and it won't be long before we start killing each other over Mars. Heinlien, it's starting, and oh, this is gonna' be good!
Being followed around by a few people with an interest in you is absolutely different from being recorded wherever you go by a very large, very powerful organization that could easily ruin your life if it so pleased.
I really wish people would stop trying to come up with stupid analogies. It's our government, and if we don't want them to do this, they should fuck off. Actually, they should do that anyway.
I reccomend that YOU especially should learn to 'go with the flow', or you're going to have a very unhappy life. Reality and your views, well they seem to "clash". Either be smart or be jailed, those are our only options, because this shits going to keep happening whether we want it to or not. I suggest that we should live our lives accordingly.
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The Orthodox Church Patriarch who got caught when he had photoshopped his very expensive Rolex watches out of photos. http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2012/04/06/who-needs-a-30000-watch/
"Democracy does not come from governments. Democracy comes from the people."
I refuse to believe that without a video on YouTube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?nomobile=1&v=JwwlUjWhRhA
2 ,12:38 p.m. Researchers at Harvard University have created a robot that can change color in seconds, allowing it to blend seamlessly into a background like a chameleon, or stand out so that it is easy to see. It can even glow in the dark, and change its temperature. These are just the latest additions to a family of rubbery, bendable robots first described in a 2011 paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by the Whiteside Group, a Harvard-based research group. The group was interested in creating a robot that was soft, rather than hard and breakable like most of the robots we know. And so they looked to the sea. This robot's design was inspired by invertebrates like squid and starfish and other animals with no hard skeletons. The squishy robot moves by having air pumped through small cylinders in its body, and is flexible enough to squeeze through a glass plate elevated just 2 centimeters above the ground in under a minute, according to a report in the BBC. To make this robot even more like the underwater creatures that inspired its design, Stephen Morin lead a team that added thin, flexible network of tubes just under the robot's "skin." Scientists pump different color dyes into the network of tubes, thereby changing the color of the robot. They can even create intricate patterns, and if they use a chemo-luminescent dye, make the the robot glow in the dark. The temperature of the fluids can also be controlled, so that the robot can be camouflaged in the infared spectrum too. The Journal Science has a wonderful video that shows the color changing robot in action, (plus awesome footage of a camouflaging octopus). That's all very neat, but is it practical? Well, it could be. For example, if you were trapped in a collapsed building, one of these squishy robots could be sent squeezing itself in. http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-camouflage-robot-20120817,0,308264.story
I submitted this story, found it on googlenews this morning, and hands down, Georgeaperkins had the funniest post here! Since the video's in flash I didn't get to see it right away (android phone), when I finally saw it, yep, major letdown. It's basically an inflatable shrinky-dink, but give it 20 years and millions in development money.... jeez, it'll still suck mightily! Reminds me of a squeezeball toy frog I had as a kid.
I've read that in 20 years or less, we will be able to download all of a person's brain onto a computer hard drive. All of their memories, accumulated knowledge and yes, any crimes they may have comitted. Trying to find citation. Click this link, and scroll down to see a pic of "the headset of the future!" http://m.io9.com/5495712/six-ways-science-can-see-into-your-brain This article on the ethics of brain imaging http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/exchange/node/7324 and http://m.guardian.co.uk/science/2007/feb/09/neuroscience.ethicsofscience?cat=science&type=article
Well that's silly. They'd completely miss the thing at night, and go hurtling off into the screaming void of space.
"In the void of space, no one can hear you screaming." (or something like that.) :-)
What is Plagiarism? Many people think of plagiarism as copying another's work, or borrowing someone else's original ideas. But terms like "copying" and "borrowing" can disguise the seriousness of the offense: According to the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, to "plagiarize" means to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own to use (another's production) without crediting the source to commit literary theft to present as new and original an idea or product derived from an existing source. In other words, plagiarism is an act of fraud. It involves both stealing someone else's work and lying about it afterward. But can words and ideas really be stolen? According to U.S. law, the answer is yes. The expression of original ideas is considered intellectual property, and is protected by copyright laws, just like original inventions. Almost all forms of expression fall under copyright protection as long as they are recorded in some way (such as a book or a computer file). All of the following are considered plagiarism: turning in someone else's work as your own copying words or ideas from someone else without giving credit failing to put a quotation in quotation marks giving incorrect information about the source of a quotation changing words but copying the sentence structure of a source without giving credit copying so many words or ideas from a source that it makes up the majority of your work whether you give credit or not (see our fair use section) http://www.plagiarism.org/plag_article_what_is_plagiarism.html Plagiarism can be avoided, however, by citing sources. Simply acknowledge material has been borrowed, and providing your audience with the information necessary, that is usually enough to prevent plagiarism. See our section on citation for more
So now plagiarism is okay, and a good thing? But, ..., don't we have all these laws against plagiarizing someone else's work? That means it's bad.... But, our founding fathers plagiarized, so that means it's good to .... Hmm... , let me think about this, ...., ...., .....***BOOM!!!*** (head explodes)
Glad you asked... http://m.tgdaily.com/space-features/65491-why-is-the-sun-so-round
Don't fix it!!!
Are you kidding! We have great scientists these days. They can double the sun's output in no time. Then we'll have all the solar power we'll ever need.
Professor Leo Farnsworth: "What could possibly fo wrong?"
Sorry Oracle, but Apple already has claimed 8 patents on the Sun, one is for the Sun's "rounded corners".
Hey all scientists who have ambitious 'plans' to "experiment" with the Sun... Please DON'T!!! DON'T FUCK WITH THE SUN!!! Just look at it, okay? Do not "play" with it! It's working, it's been working fine fir BILLIONS OF YEARS!!! When something as important as THE SUN is working, leave it alone! Don't fix it!!!
Oh, I like this judge! Shades of Judge Judy, yeah, I'll accept her ruling.
59-27 Woodbine Street, New York, NY 11385is actually in Queens NY, NOT BUFFALO.
The only Tesla myseum right now is in Belgrade http://www.tesla-museum.org/ http://www.teslasociety.com/ www.teslasociety.com/ in cooperation with the Nikola Tesla Museum in Belgrade, Serbia. Tesla Corner. ****Nikola Tesla St. **** It was founded in Buffalo, New York in 1979. It is the oldest Tesla Society in Buffalo, 59-27 Woodbine Street, New York, NY 11385
Because, like me, you are "grand-fathered" in. Just keep paying your $25 each month and shut up! It's the best deal around and if you keep talking about it everyone will want in, then there goes the neighborhood, don't kill the golden goose! :)
Youtube has this program about the life of Nikola Tesla http://www.youtube.com/watch?nomobile=1&v=eoY_7mbm5ng PBS has this interactive page on the man... http://www.pbs.org/tesla/
Long Island is quickly running out of open land, the prices in some areas in eastern areas are astronomical. More and more farmland is being sold to developers. Closer to N.Y. City, perfectly sound homes get razed to the ground in order to sub-divide the land and build multiple homes. It's a crazy market here on L.I. where home prices average $375,000, and the closer to the water you go, well as they say, if you have to ask what the price is, you probably can't afford it! http://www.deptofnumbers.com/asking-prices/new-york/long-island/
The people who actually own the land want to sell it to serious investors who would make a true museum in tribute to Tesla. They recently said in a Newsday story how they get a lot of crackpot types wanting to exploit the land and Tesla's name for their own purposes. The Tesla tower was sold for scrap long ago, and cement used to seal up the entrance leading to the underground lab area, though the original red brick lab building still remains onsite. Here's a link..., http://www.newsday.com/opinion/viewsday-1.3683911/nikola-tesla-s-former-lab-home-to-a-brilliant-scientist-deserves-preservation-1.3896651 If that link does not work try this one http://www.newsday.com/opinion/viewsday-1.3683911/nikola-tesla-s-former-lab-home-to-a-brilliant-scientist-deserves-preservation-1.3896651
All those sci-fi books I read as a kid are starting to come true! It's just like how the Wild West started out, and it won't be long before we start killing each other over Mars. Heinlien, it's starting, and oh, this is gonna' be good!
Being followed around by a few people with an interest in you is absolutely different from being recorded wherever you go by a very large, very powerful organization that could easily ruin your life if it so pleased.
I really wish people would stop trying to come up with stupid analogies. It's our government, and if we don't want them to do this, they should fuck off. Actually, they should do that anyway.
I reccomend that YOU especially should learn to 'go with the flow', or you're going to have a very unhappy life. Reality and your views, well they seem to "clash". Either be smart or be jailed, those are our only options, because this shits going to keep happening whether we want it to or not. I suggest that we should live our lives accordingly.
What country is that, Mars? That's going the only one left soon.
Oh yeah... First post!
Apple stole these ideas long ago and claims everyone else is a thief!