I swear, if it were 1947 and someone pointed to a little chunk of silicon with a few wires attached to it and said "look, it does what a triode tube does", you would decry it as useless.
Come on people, think outside of electrical systems. If we can design a DNA system to do hyper-speed computations, it could be part of a processing pipeline. You give a conventional style computer a problem, it formats it for DNA computation, it reads the DNA results, and formats it for human consumption.
It would be like driving to the airport in Chicago, flying Chicago to L.A., and driving to Disneyland. Sure, you can't FLY from your driveway to Splash Mountain, but by using a plane you can make the trip a lot faster than you could in only a car! (Security checkpoints notwithstanding...).
Plus, you must remember--basic science research is not generally fit for public consumption. The Public does not usually care until it sees something useful, which can be years or decades after the basic research.
Jim
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Three ideas.
1.) "Mothership" based radiolocation beacon for the planes/copters to keep track of.
2.) SunTracker, could help orient the planes locally; done with enough precision (both spatial and timing), could navigate to within decent low-power radiobeacon range of the 'mothership'.
3.) We're already sending craft into orbit, how about a small fleet of GPS satellites?
...that there has been a "two percent" drop in sales, which is a "death spiral", but that the "one percent" return rate that they saw in Europe, and expect here, is 'trivial'?
Two percent is a Death Spiral and one percent is nothing? That's one hell of an inflection point.
...thousands of Earth Science/Remote Sensing/Computer Mapping Systems students, some at my University, are left without one of the largest repositories of information necessary to their research, projects, and finals.
Thank you, Judge OVER-REACT. How about an APPROPRIATE order, S#!t-for-brains!!
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I swear, if it were 1947 and someone pointed to a little chunk of silicon with a few wires attached to it and said "look, it does what a triode tube does", you would decry it as useless.
Come on people, think outside of electrical systems. If we can design a DNA system to do hyper-speed computations, it could be part of a processing pipeline. You give a conventional style computer a problem, it formats it for DNA computation, it reads the DNA results, and formats it for human consumption.
It would be like driving to the airport in Chicago, flying Chicago to L.A., and driving to Disneyland. Sure, you can't FLY from your driveway to Splash Mountain, but by using a plane you can make the trip a lot faster than you could in only a car! (Security checkpoints notwithstanding...).
Plus, you must remember--basic science research is not generally fit for public consumption. The Public does not usually care until it sees something useful, which can be years or decades after the basic research.
Jim
Three ideas.
1.) "Mothership" based radiolocation beacon for the planes/copters to keep track of.
2.) SunTracker, could help orient the planes locally; done with enough precision (both spatial and timing), could navigate to within decent low-power radiobeacon range of the 'mothership'.
3.) We're already sending craft into orbit, how about a small fleet of GPS satellites?
Just a few ideas...
Jim Deane
Physics
Emporia State University
Two percent is a Death Spiral and one percent is nothing? That's one hell of an inflection point.
...thousands of Earth Science/Remote Sensing/Computer Mapping Systems students, some at my University, are left without one of the largest repositories of information necessary to their research, projects, and finals.
Thank you, Judge OVER-REACT. How about an APPROPRIATE order, S#!t-for-brains!!