Not as a human being it wouldn't. Ten feet tall and half the energy would work if you're some kind of skin and bones glider or perhaps a tree. Why do you think the exceptionally tall people have such short lives (go look up the health consequences of hyper-pituitary giantism.) Human beings don't have large enough hearts to sustain the work required to move that much blood. Linear increase in height has a cubic increase in mass, a ten foot man would have to have legs like tree trunks and feet like suit cases to support that mass. The creature you're speaking of, would be dead at 35. We won't even talk about xenophobia or the fact that no sane woman would want to date such a being, particularly if it was even vaguely proportional. This creature would never reproduce and selection would work perfectly.
Look up the definition of "Long Pig". Its the other, other white meat! Put's a whole different spin on "I want my baby back, baby back, baby back ribs..." Eeeww I just grossed myself out.
Actually the ugly one's we think of as pests... flies, cockroaches, rats, Congressmen... The ones we think of as food is a more of a cultural thing. For instance in China, if it doesn't eat you first and/or say "Ni Hau", its pretty much fair game. In parts of Africa, warthog rectum is considered a taste treat (that or they're still laughing their asses off that they got Anthony Bourdain to choke one down.) I've had sea urchin (Uni to the Japanese.) I can completely understand why someone would go EEeewww. I didn't. In fact I thought it was pretty great, and among foodies its considered the Foie gras of the sea, a couple hundred million Japanese can't all be wrong:-)
I also like a Tobi-Tama, a sushi cup filled with Tobiko (sunfish roe) and with a quail egg yolk delicate balanced on the very top. I like this even better when its sitting on a big fat slab of Hamachi (yellowtail), this pretty much is my idea of the pinnacle of sushi. I'll eat soft-shelled crab, while watching someone roast and munch a tarantula (a very similar large arthropod) makes my stomach do backwards flip-flops (it doesn't help that I'm slightly arachnophobia.)
I guess the point is that as long as you're not cooking from the Jeffrey Dahmer book of Cuisine, food is a personal thing and like all personal choices one should stop going around shoving one's personal choices down other people's throats, or be prepared to suffer the consequences of said behavior.
If genius came free, without HUGE DOWNSIDES then selection would ensure that we'd all be geniuses. Think about it for a second, virtually every renowned genius had huge emotional or operational baggage. Dyslexia, autism, bipolar, monopolar, synesthesia... the list of common problems suffered by the exceptionally intelligent is legion. It's guessed that significantly more than half of all the great works of art and science were accomplished by Bipolar people in their manic phase. Personally, I think the hardest part for someone of profound genius, is being torn between the clear vision of what it possible and the sad reality of what is allowed by people to persist. There are some interesting conversations about ways of coping with genius. The Greeks had a very healthy concept, externalizing genius, such that it was a resource to be tapped and that some were simply better at getting to it. That took the onus of brilliance off the person, freeing them up, to simply pursue whatever it was they were pursuing. Here's a great TED Talk about that.
Apparently you haven't read about the difference between subtractive and additive printing. One as you say make a mold for injection. The other uses one OR MORE substances additively to create a structure. In the case of printing kidneys, hearts, or jaw bones. A solution containing cells is printed into a 3D mass to create tissues. By adding layer entire organic structures can be printed and in the near future entire organs will be printed from your own stem cells. The bones are even easier, because you only have to use organic cements that spur true bone growth as the primary structure while printing channels for blood vessels and open spaces for bone marrow. The day may come, that they can print you a whole new body.
Actually, there is the possibility of quantum duplication, so, though each particle has as you say a GUID, you could theoretically duplicate the quantum state of all those particles and since its arguably the information that makes something what it is, you would have precise copy. Sadly, just nanotechnology alone wouldn't accomplish this, though nanotechnology might in fact be required to entangle that many particles in a feasible amount of time.
Actually the mirrors are the really difficult part, with current or even slightly more advanced electronics, these critters should kick holy hinny. The really cool part, is that there are two. Place these little bad boys a couple million miles apart and now you have a Hubble class interferometer. You should be able to see aliens french kissing on planets closer than 200 light years. Add to that, these guys can be made to see in anything from infrared to hard UV, and this could be a huge boon to cosmology and those of us who enjoy astrophotography.
My only question is if these are the discards what the heck are they watching us with now? I'm worried about street cameras, this is a whole new level of invasion of privacy. So now its "Does a bear crap in the woods, film at 11...
I don't care how you map the multiple dimensions of intelligence, there are people somewhere who will end on the short end of the stick in multiple even all dimensions. These folks are the stupid people. They walk among us. Some even get elected to high office. Half the population by definition has to be of below average intelligence, and I can honestly say I've met a fair number of folks who were... let's just say slow on the draw. Not bad or evil... just not bright.
The other problem is finding tests that function across a broad operating range of intelligence. As intelligence rises, perception expands and the kind of patterns and associations that can and are made don't simply increase in number but differ vastly in kind and complexity. So the kinds of things a person with a can perceive differ significantly from those a person of . Building effective tests at the top end of the scale is difficult, It's hard for people to project a meaningful set of problems into the realm of a mind functioning at above genius level. These are nonlinear processes and models of intelligence often break when dealing with extraordinary people.
We live in a world full of coincidence and paradox. If I have the power to clean up a mess then I will, take that opportunity. The only thing worse than discovering you've insulted a future boss or Father-in-Law is to find that you've precipitated a chain of events that lead to creating a Paul Lazzaro to your Billy Pilgrim.
To Slashdot and all its readers, I apologize in advance for what might seem like feeding the Troll, but this needs to be resolved... Wow. I just fired one across your bow. Clearly a mistake and now I take it back with the deepest of apologies. Whatever I said, or did, or suggested in the past that left you in this state. Please forgive my unspeakable hubris, and if at any time I left you insulted or offended then please know that was never my intention. I can be a little brusk at times, especially after that second or third cup of java, and more than anything else, I rattle the tree to see what falls out... I often pick the minority position just to expose people's logic or more than anything else try to find what motivates them. I like understanding why people are the way people are. It has, is, and will continue to be my intention to unconceal, but never to inflict hurt or enmity, and if at any time I left you with upset or anger, then I am sorry, I can be confrontational, and I'm certainly opinionated. However, I'm also socially responsible and if I did anything that left you disrespected then I owe you the deepest of apologies. I play hard with ACs because they have their anonymity to hide behind. That is no excuse however for not being respectful and for that I'm deeply sorry.
Interesting observations. There is a particularly interesting line of thought suggesting that if a post singularity society were to disassemble all or most of the matter in their solar system to convert into "computronium", that they would have to inhabit a limited region surrounding their star for energy reasons and limited from their distance from inner shell to outer shell for reasons of minimized time lag between the communication between inner and outermost shells.
Since the only radiation making it out of the system would be infrared, the system from any distance would look like a garden variety red dwarf. Since the being(s) locked around their star would be at one level vulnerable to traveling technology (and perhaps on a different level be virtually invulnerable), and be busily grinding out whatever interesting civilization they have in exclusion to whatever else was happening in the local galactic region. Such a civilization would almost certainly be interested only in watching, but not particularly motivated to stick their nose(s) into the bailiwick of primitive alien cultures. At best, they might toss occasional probes into deep space with some kind of quantum entangled communications device on board. Its a fun thought experiment.
And only an AC emphasis on the C, would make such a deal about a typographical error... I can't remember hearing many idiots discussing the Drake Equation which either mean your IQ is 300 and you're comparing the conversation with your own lofty intellect, or you're just an insecure twit who adjusts their petty sense of self worth by pointing out ridiculous trivialities like typographical errors. Kudos on you blazing wit, perhaps next time you'd show more than half.
None of this is a problem. There is a paint available that makes it very hard to photograph your license plate and as far as I can tell, this is a great thing.
More important your name will be added to a list of names of people to watch very closely and now that you have gained nearly no information, they will be spending their learning a whole lot about you.
The point is if they are in a similar place in their technology as us, we would be receiving their 20 year old signals and there aren't any which is the problem with looking for folks like us. An intelligent life form could speak in a language made of chemistry (the way are cells talk to one another), and we won't hear that. They could be more primitive then us and we won't see that or hear that. They could be tremendously more advanced than us, and using our own advancing technology as a guide, would be producing noise across the EM spectrum, and looking for a signal in any one place might be futile. They may communicate point to point in very short very high energy bursts. They may not want to be seen by primitive species. The list of possibilities is almost endless, and point to real issues about how more advanced species might function in the universe, and there may be species as more advance compared to us as we are to bacteria. A couple tens of millions of years might do that for a sentient species.
So I believe the universe and specifically this galaxy is teaming with life. I just think the factor in the Drake equation that's going to mess with us is the symbol representing the technological state of a society. We have perhaps 20-50 years to go before technological singularity. That means the window of accessibility for a species being easily reachable may be less than 200 years. Making the ability to find others like us exceeding difficult.
There's nothing wrong with having a little concern about the local wildlife. That said, SpaceX is providing a variety of exceptional opportunities for Texas, the Country, and the World. The infancy of private space exploration demands special consideration. Bring in the Nature Conservancy, identify any endangered species (if any are present, and move them someplace quieter.) Raise up a volunteer army on conservation folk (from other states;-) and erect some noise barriers (or create anti-noise if that's a viable alternative. Take reasonable measures to make both sides good neighbor and let the good times roll.
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China doesn't give a feathery fsck what American's saw... it only cares what future Chinese see. He who controls history controls the future...
Not as a human being it wouldn't. Ten feet tall and half the energy would work if you're some kind of skin and bones glider or perhaps a tree. Why do you think the exceptionally tall people have such short lives (go look up the health consequences of hyper-pituitary giantism.) Human beings don't have large enough hearts to sustain the work required to move that much blood. Linear increase in height has a cubic increase in mass, a ten foot man would have to have legs like tree trunks and feet like suit cases to support that mass. The creature you're speaking of, would be dead at 35. We won't even talk about xenophobia or the fact that no sane woman would want to date such a being, particularly if it was even vaguely proportional. This creature would never reproduce and selection would work perfectly.
Look up the definition of "Long Pig". Its the other, other white meat! Put's a whole different spin on "I want my baby back, baby back, baby back ribs..." Eeeww I just grossed myself out.
Actually the ugly one's we think of as pests... flies, cockroaches, rats, Congressmen... The ones we think of as food is a more of a cultural thing. For instance in China, if it doesn't eat you first and/or say "Ni Hau", its pretty much fair game. In parts of Africa, warthog rectum is considered a taste treat (that or they're still laughing their asses off that they got Anthony Bourdain to choke one down.) I've had sea urchin (Uni to the Japanese.) I can completely understand why someone would go EEeewww. I didn't. In fact I thought it was pretty great, and among foodies its considered the Foie gras of the sea, a couple hundred million Japanese can't all be wrong :-)
I also like a Tobi-Tama, a sushi cup filled with Tobiko (sunfish roe) and with a quail egg yolk delicate balanced on the very top. I like this even better when its sitting on a big fat slab of Hamachi (yellowtail), this pretty much is my idea of the pinnacle of sushi. I'll eat soft-shelled crab, while watching someone roast and munch a tarantula (a very similar large arthropod) makes my stomach do backwards flip-flops (it doesn't help that I'm slightly arachnophobia.)
I guess the point is that as long as you're not cooking from the Jeffrey Dahmer book of Cuisine, food is a personal thing and like all personal choices one should stop going around shoving one's personal choices down other people's throats, or be prepared to suffer the consequences of said behavior.
If genius came free, without HUGE DOWNSIDES then selection would ensure that we'd all be geniuses. Think about it for a second, virtually every renowned genius had huge emotional or operational baggage. Dyslexia, autism, bipolar, monopolar, synesthesia... the list of common problems suffered by the exceptionally intelligent is legion. It's guessed that significantly more than half of all the great works of art and science were accomplished by Bipolar people in their manic phase. Personally, I think the hardest part for someone of profound genius, is being torn between the clear vision of what it possible and the sad reality of what is allowed by people to persist. There are some interesting conversations about ways of coping with genius. The Greeks had a very healthy concept, externalizing genius, such that it was a resource to be tapped and that some were simply better at getting to it. That took the onus of brilliance off the person, freeing them up, to simply pursue whatever it was they were pursuing. Here's a great TED Talk about that.
Apparently you haven't read about the difference between subtractive and additive printing. One as you say make a mold for injection. The other uses one OR MORE substances additively to create a structure. In the case of printing kidneys, hearts, or jaw bones. A solution containing cells is printed into a 3D mass to create tissues. By adding layer entire organic structures can be printed and in the near future entire organs will be printed from your own stem cells. The bones are even easier, because you only have to use organic cements that spur true bone growth as the primary structure while printing channels for blood vessels and open spaces for bone marrow. The day may come, that they can print you a whole new body.
Actually, there is the possibility of quantum duplication, so, though each particle has as you say a GUID, you could theoretically duplicate the quantum state of all those particles and since its arguably the information that makes something what it is, you would have precise copy. Sadly, just nanotechnology alone wouldn't accomplish this, though nanotechnology might in fact be required to entangle that many particles in a feasible amount of time.
I will see your Ick and raise you a Gack! Gurrrgghhhh!
Tell it to Tech. Sgt. Chen.
Actually the mirrors are the really difficult part, with current or even slightly more advanced electronics, these critters should kick holy hinny. The really cool part, is that there are two. Place these little bad boys a couple million miles apart and now you have a Hubble class interferometer. You should be able to see aliens french kissing on planets closer than 200 light years. Add to that, these guys can be made to see in anything from infrared to hard UV, and this could be a huge boon to cosmology and those of us who enjoy astrophotography.
My only question is if these are the discards what the heck are they watching us with now? I'm worried about street cameras, this is a whole new level of invasion of privacy. So now its "Does a bear crap in the woods, film at 11...
Sorry, can't hear you, someone's carrying on about a dead parrot and there seems to be a penguin on the Telly
I don't care how you map the multiple dimensions of intelligence, there are people somewhere who will end on the short end of the stick in multiple even all dimensions. These folks are the stupid people. They walk among us. Some even get elected to high office. Half the population by definition has to be of below average intelligence, and I can honestly say I've met a fair number of folks who were... let's just say slow on the draw. Not bad or evil... just not bright.
Life is like a box of chocolates... Its composed primarily of complex sugars, lipids and fatty acids... -- Dr. Forest Gump Jr.
The other problem is finding tests that function across a broad operating range of intelligence. As intelligence rises, perception expands and the kind of patterns and associations that can and are made don't simply increase in number but differ vastly in kind and complexity. So the kinds of things a person with a can perceive differ significantly from those a person of . Building effective tests at the top end of the scale is difficult, It's hard for people to project a meaningful set of problems into the realm of a mind functioning at above genius level. These are nonlinear processes and models of intelligence often break when dealing with extraordinary people.
Perhaps its corrugation and cardboard was involved?
I spoke to your cat, she deserved it, that dissertation on tongue bathing was genius.
We live in a world full of coincidence and paradox. If I have the power to clean up a mess then I will, take that opportunity. The only thing worse than discovering you've insulted a future boss or Father-in-Law is to find that you've precipitated a chain of events that lead to creating a Paul Lazzaro to your Billy Pilgrim.
To Slashdot and all its readers, I apologize in advance for what might seem like feeding the Troll, but this needs to be resolved... Wow. I just fired one across your bow. Clearly a mistake and now I take it back with the deepest of apologies. Whatever I said, or did, or suggested in the past that left you in this state. Please forgive my unspeakable hubris, and if at any time I left you insulted or offended then please know that was never my intention. I can be a little brusk at times, especially after that second or third cup of java, and more than anything else, I rattle the tree to see what falls out... I often pick the minority position just to expose people's logic or more than anything else try to find what motivates them. I like understanding why people are the way people are. It has, is, and will continue to be my intention to unconceal, but never to inflict hurt or enmity, and if at any time I left you with upset or anger, then I am sorry, I can be confrontational, and I'm certainly opinionated. However, I'm also socially responsible and if I did anything that left you disrespected then I owe you the deepest of apologies. I play hard with ACs because they have their anonymity to hide behind. That is no excuse however for not being respectful and for that I'm deeply sorry.
Interesting observations. There is a particularly interesting line of thought suggesting that if a post singularity society were to disassemble all or most of the matter in their solar system to convert into "computronium", that they would have to inhabit a limited region surrounding their star for energy reasons and limited from their distance from inner shell to outer shell for reasons of minimized time lag between the communication between inner and outermost shells.
Since the only radiation making it out of the system would be infrared, the system from any distance would look like a garden variety red dwarf. Since the being(s) locked around their star would be at one level vulnerable to traveling technology (and perhaps on a different level be virtually invulnerable), and be busily grinding out whatever interesting civilization they have in exclusion to whatever else was happening in the local galactic region. Such a civilization would almost certainly be interested only in watching, but not particularly motivated to stick their nose(s) into the bailiwick of primitive alien cultures. At best, they might toss occasional probes into deep space with some kind of quantum entangled communications device on board. Its a fun thought experiment.
And only an AC emphasis on the C, would make such a deal about a typographical error... I can't remember hearing many idiots discussing the Drake Equation which either mean your IQ is 300 and you're comparing the conversation with your own lofty intellect, or you're just an insecure twit who adjusts their petty sense of self worth by pointing out ridiculous trivialities like typographical errors. Kudos on you blazing wit, perhaps next time you'd show more than half.
None of this is a problem. There is a paint available that makes it very hard to photograph your license plate and as far as I can tell, this is a great thing.
More important your name will be added to a list of names of people to watch very closely and now that you have gained nearly no information, they will be spending their learning a whole lot about you.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Mark Twain
The point is if they are in a similar place in their technology as us, we would be receiving their 20 year old signals and there aren't any which is the problem with looking for folks like us. An intelligent life form could speak in a language made of chemistry (the way are cells talk to one another), and we won't hear that. They could be more primitive then us and we won't see that or hear that. They could be tremendously more advanced than us, and using our own advancing technology as a guide, would be producing noise across the EM spectrum, and looking for a signal in any one place might be futile. They may communicate point to point in very short very high energy bursts. They may not want to be seen by primitive species. The list of possibilities is almost endless, and point to real issues about how more advanced species might function in the universe, and there may be species as more advance compared to us as we are to bacteria. A couple tens of millions of years might do that for a sentient species.
So I believe the universe and specifically this galaxy is teaming with life. I just think the factor in the Drake equation that's going to mess with us is the symbol representing the technological state of a society. We have perhaps 20-50 years to go before technological singularity. That means the window of accessibility for a species being easily reachable may be less than 200 years. Making the ability to find others like us exceeding difficult.
There's nothing wrong with having a little concern about the local wildlife. That said, SpaceX is providing a variety of exceptional opportunities for Texas, the Country, and the World. The infancy of private space exploration demands special consideration. Bring in the Nature Conservancy, identify any endangered species (if any are present, and move them someplace quieter.) Raise up a volunteer army on conservation folk (from other states ;-) and erect some noise barriers (or create anti-noise if that's a viable alternative. Take reasonable measures to make both sides good neighbor and let the good times roll.