Real ants are passé. Give us more about artificial life "ants", with strange additional capabilities that can be used to search for good solutions to difficult real-life tasks like the wonderfully evocative "Flying Sidekick Travelling Salesman Problem". Put them in a Shatner-Norris cluster, pit them against enzyme-enhanced ants in a Beowulf cluster, and live stream it. Please save us from the abyss that is off-ratings season.
1. Someone will decide that two books would make very good mini-series and start the process of realizing them... 1a. Cryptonomicon, 1b. The Cyberiad - Fable for the Cybernetic Age.
2. Apple shares will continue to slide because they don't have anything that other companies aren't doing better and cheaper.
3. Wearables as fashion items will peak, but those that are medically beneficial will continue to increase and be improved.
4. Donald Trump won't be the Republican candidate.
5. There will be as many gun-related deaths in the USA as in 2015 because there is nothing that Obama or anyone else can do about it.
6. The UK referendum on leaving the EU will result in a draw and it will be decided by the toss of a coin. The coin will land on its edge.
7. Ukraine will erupt into another civil war because the economy collapses. One of the many corrupt oligarchs will be defenestrated. Mikheil Saakashvili, who was appointed as governor of Odessa, will be kidnapped by the Georgian secret service and returned to Georgia.
8. Greece will shoot down a Turkish military aircraft for crossing into its airspace, the > 2000th time that has happened in the past few years.
9. The Iceland volcano Bardarbunga will erupt and the ash will knock out air traffic across Europe for more than 6 months.
10. Obama will set a new record for Presidential pardons before he steps down.
11. The USA will continue to feed Guantanamo Bay prisoners through the ass, and reaffirm its commitment to human rights.
12. Inexpensive 3D printers will allow more young people to create their own figurines for games, and Games Workshop will declare bankruptcy.
13. I will turn 61, confirm that the lift-slope of a thin circular wing is 1.79002303, and then find the next 3 figures.
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Expensive with short half lives?
iPodium113, iPodium115, iPodium117, iPodium118.
Real ants are passé.
Give us more about artificial life "ants", with strange additional capabilities that can be used to search for good solutions to difficult real-life tasks like the wonderfully evocative "Flying Sidekick Travelling Salesman Problem".
Put them in a Shatner-Norris cluster, pit them against enzyme-enhanced ants in a Beowulf cluster, and live stream it.
Please save us from the abyss that is off-ratings season.
IOW, the Postmodernism Generator will be used to create an avalanche of Sokal Hoaxes in 2016.
1. Someone will decide that two books would make very good mini-series and start the process of realizing them...
1a. Cryptonomicon,
1b. The Cyberiad - Fable for the Cybernetic Age.
2. Apple shares will continue to slide because they don't have anything that other companies aren't doing better and cheaper.
3. Wearables as fashion items will peak, but those that are medically beneficial will continue to increase and be improved.
4. Donald Trump won't be the Republican candidate.
5. There will be as many gun-related deaths in the USA as in 2015 because there is nothing that Obama or anyone else can do about it.
6. The UK referendum on leaving the EU will result in a draw and it will be decided by the toss of a coin. The coin will land on its edge.
7. Ukraine will erupt into another civil war because the economy collapses. One of the many corrupt oligarchs will be defenestrated. Mikheil Saakashvili, who was appointed as governor of Odessa, will be kidnapped by the Georgian secret service and returned to Georgia.
8. Greece will shoot down a Turkish military aircraft for crossing into its airspace, the > 2000th time that has happened in the past few years.
9. The Iceland volcano Bardarbunga will erupt and the ash will knock out air traffic across Europe for more than 6 months.
10. Obama will set a new record for Presidential pardons before he steps down.
11. The USA will continue to feed Guantanamo Bay prisoners through the ass, and reaffirm its commitment to human rights.
12. Inexpensive 3D printers will allow more young people to create their own figurines for games, and Games Workshop will declare bankruptcy.
13. I will turn 61, confirm that the lift-slope of a thin circular wing is 1.79002303, and then find the next 3 figures.
Ok, they've got me.
Now what? Gloat over having found a lump of gristle in a thin gruel?
Someone also tipped off the media so they could be there to photograph the Fed's raid.
It sounds wonderful, but I have two questions before I book a ride...
How many cubic kilometres of material are needed to build the space elevator?
Will it turn into a pile of dust if it's hit by lightning?