I work in a lab at University of maryland currently doing research into how the brain integrates audio information. For data collection we use microwire arrays hooked into a $25,000 neural Amp. The results are hard to deal with mainly because it requires about 400 insertions to draw an adequate map of the diffrent audio fields. Anyway, we are very far away from doing this in real life, let alone an opensource project. dont get me wrong, but in order to get good results you have to use the purest metal you can find, hook it into a amp that has been designed using extremely high quality parts that have an absolute minimum of signal degridation. Also, there is the problem of backround noise. we do our exparaments in a room lined with the magnetic equivalent of a faraday cage. some other promising research was posted by "new scientist" magazine. in their febuary 23 2002 edition they had an article about mind over metal and sucessful exparaments that transplanted the brainstem from rats into robots. the brain stems then allowed them to walk and do stuff. The site www.newscientist.com has an archive but you must be a member to view it. In the article they also go into remote controling a brain and the ethics of that. Though, ecause of ethics it is highly unlikely to have human trials anytime soon.
However, Mr. roadkill stated on his list a dremel with a bone cutter bit. the irony of this is that we actually use such a thing when inserting implants.
correct me if im wrong but i think plutonium is the most poisonous substance on earth...and a drop the size of a pin head will kill an adult male...i could be wrong though..maby its just the most poisonous element...however, either way your basically dead.
ok, ive heard lots of people talking of blasting it into space...thought aprox 1% of the rockets..uh...dont make it into space...what will then happen??? ill tell you..people will wonder how someone could "overlook" this...its a nice idea...but if something goes wrong..its not good for the public health....even if you could get the FAIL ratio down rockets are still a hudge burdon on the wallet...
an intresting storage method would require.. *breaking up the uranium into fist sized chunks *coating it with some sort of metal like copper *encase it in glass *sink it off the coast of california
-this would allow the radiation to be much more dispersed due to the fact that it is more spread out. also there is a spot in the ocean (i think its off the coast of california) that has a techtonic plate that slide under another (ok theres lots of them..but oh well) anyway...this would create a circulation that sends the material to the mantel in about 200,000 years.from there it will "happily" live out its natural half-life..
However there are more hightech / theoretical approaches... *finding a catylist that greatly reduces the half life of nuclear waste *find an efficient way to convert material to antimatter..this reaction would combine 50%"normal" with 50% anti matter...when these are mixed it would create energy...with no other forms of waste...both types of matter are destroyed in the process....but then again...if you had thiss process i highly doubt you'll be using nuclear stuff *find a way to cancel out the radiation...there are 3 types of radiation...Alpha particles, Beta particles, and gamma waves.. alphs particles are stopped by a sheet of paper, bets particles are stopped by aprox. 1 in of alluminum...that only leaves gamma waves...these are just really far up on the electro-magnetic spectrum...thus its possible to have it cancel itself out...but the problem with that is finding a way to predict the frequency..witch to my knowledge is impossobly due to the fact it would involve traveling faster than light..or time travel...
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I work in a lab at University of maryland currently doing research into how the brain integrates audio information. For data collection we use microwire arrays hooked into a $25,000 neural Amp. The results are hard to deal with mainly because it requires about 400 insertions to draw an adequate map of the diffrent audio fields. Anyway, we are very far away from doing this in real life, let alone an opensource project. dont get me wrong, but in order to get good results you have to use the purest metal you can find, hook it into a amp that has been designed using extremely high quality parts that have an absolute minimum of signal degridation. Also, there is the problem of backround noise. we do our exparaments in a room lined with the magnetic equivalent of a faraday cage. some other promising research was posted by "new scientist" magazine. in their febuary 23 2002 edition they had an article about mind over metal and sucessful exparaments that transplanted the brainstem from rats into robots. the brain stems then allowed them to walk and do stuff. The site www.newscientist.com has an archive but you must be a member to view it. In the article they also go into remote controling a brain and the ethics of that. Though, ecause of ethics it is highly unlikely to have human trials anytime soon. However, Mr. roadkill stated on his list a dremel with a bone cutter bit. the irony of this is that we actually use such a thing when inserting implants.
correct me if im wrong but i think plutonium is the most poisonous substance on earth...and a drop the size of a pin head will kill an adult male...i could be wrong though..maby its just the most poisonous element...however, either way your basically dead.
ok, ive heard lots of people talking of blasting it into space...thought aprox 1% of the rockets..uh...dont make it into space...what will then happen??? ill tell you..people will wonder how someone could "overlook" this...its a nice idea...but if something goes wrong..its not good for the public health....even if you could get the FAIL ratio down rockets are still a hudge burdon on the wallet...
an intresting storage method would require..
*breaking up the uranium into fist sized chunks
*coating it with some sort of metal like copper
*encase it in glass
*sink it off the coast of california
-this would allow the radiation to be much more dispersed due to the fact that it is more spread out. also there is a spot in the ocean (i think its off the coast of california) that has a techtonic plate that slide under another (ok theres lots of them..but oh well) anyway...this would create a circulation that sends the material to the mantel in about 200,000 years.from there it will "happily" live out its natural half-life..
However there are more hightech / theoretical approaches...
*finding a catylist that greatly reduces the half life of nuclear waste
*find an efficient way to convert material to antimatter..this reaction would combine 50%"normal" with 50% anti matter...when these are mixed it would create energy...with no other forms of waste...both types of matter are destroyed in the process....but then again...if you had thiss process i highly doubt you'll be using nuclear stuff
*find a way to cancel out the radiation...there are 3 types of radiation...Alpha particles, Beta particles, and gamma waves.. alphs particles are stopped by a sheet of paper, bets particles are stopped by aprox. 1 in of alluminum...that only leaves gamma waves...these are just really far up on the electro-magnetic spectrum...thus its possible to have it cancel itself out...but the problem with that is finding a way to predict the frequency..witch to my knowledge is impossobly due to the fact it would involve traveling faster than light..or time travel...