Well... actually...
I've been excited about fusion for a long time, but it's starting to look like a load of crap to me.
It's just like the oil industry all over again: we need lithium to produce tritium for the reactors and we only have 760,000 tons of it in the US... so in a few decades, we'll be headed back over to Iraq or wherever (it actually looks like it would be Argentina) to kill them all and take their lithium.
Additionally, the tokamak will produce radioactive waste!!! I mean c'mon!!! WTF!
That's just an alien playing Half Life and we're picking up the WiFi signals from his wireless sound system...
I recognize that track from the Xen levels.
I for one welcome our... oh nevermind.
WOW! Now I know how to play leapfrog! What a great article! Nothing could pleasure me more than spending five minutes of my precious time reading about ankle-grabbing, bestfriend-jumping playground games... and a paragraph about scientists wanting to play it...
Yeah Ted? Well there is a new Pope in town... And he is pissed!
You have, as of late, chosen to acknowledge the existance of: 1- Quarks, 2- Gluons, 3- the scientific method, and worst of all: 4- the "big bang."
You are a witch and will be prosecuted as such... just as soon as everyone gets back from the Imax theater.
I'm about to enroll as a student helicopter pilot and went through much anxiety over the inexorable oil crisis looming ahead... My majorly Libertarian/Leftist/Paranoid/Conspiratorial mind had me pacing sawdust into my diningroom floor. But after much deliberation and many discussions with experienced pilots, I realized the sheer outrageousness of such anxiety. There are too many people in the world today in too many congested areas to simply "run out of oil" and call it quits for helicopters and the like. The medical industry, firefighting and a few other select workforces simply cannot do without the miracle of vertical flight. The overwhelming majority of helicopters are driven via turboshaft engines; they are capable of burning just about anything imaginable: Gasoline, Kerosene, diesel, PARAFIN!, all order of natural gasses... I even heard about an engineering student that made a small one run on whisky! Small adaptations to the fuel system allow for these different types of fuel... The point is that any form of hydrocarbon-based energy source or whatever is within the bounds of powering vertical flight aircraft. In the end though, I am crossing my fingers for electric flight: Electric motors are so reliable and at myriad RPMs, offer so much torque (the critical component to powering rotorcraft,) one can only salivate at the potential future of aviation. And on that note: I believe that someone has modified a small composite sport plane such that it may fly on hydrogen fuel cells. Last time I checked, the plane's prop was driven by a small electric motor powered by conventional batteries... with fuel cells to be installed shortly.
Good call... Lets start a new open standard for streamlining Linux-based user interfaces.
We'll call it: GNUI - GNU's Nice User Interface
Who's with me?
"Bioengineering students at the University of California..."
This was clearly a bunch of students who needed a fix and had a project to turn in. Oh well... The best things in life seem to have all been invented at a time of desperation. More power to em!
That's blatently communist... Catching wind of this alleged letter to "Brazil" , Gates had MIT shutdown, found the letter, burned it, then pissed on the ashes.
I'd just like to say that Echocharlie has posted a damn good story here... good job, great attention to detail with the html tags. Could it be that we are finally recovering from the endless plague of duped stories as of late?! Hope that's not too off topic...
Me... I want reality... I'm training for my helicopter license and can honestly way that Microsoft (I know... Boo Hoo... microsoft sux) Flight Simulator 2002 helped me tremendously! It usually takes 10+ hours (about $3500-4000 worth of training) to get used to the controls and hovering... I did it within ten minutes of starting the engine... and I definately owe it all to the reality of flightsim. Furthermore, this technology won't ruin games like "Worms Armageddon" or "solitaire" or whatever you're into that has it's own cartoon physics... it's for games like Half Life 3 and stuff like that... meant to be spectacular. I imagine it will make 3d animation a whole lot easier too. Most of the time is spent animating physical interactions and the like; and when it becomes sofware managed, we can expect some amazing things because we can spend our time animating more efficiently = more work in less time...
you made hundreds of thousands of these U-Bots and just let em' go! They'd be everywhere looking for frizbees and it would... you know, become an everyday part of life.
Out to dinner with the lady and you have to kick one off of the table because it was trying to take her plate.
Eventually it would become commonplace to carry a sidearm with one's self to defend one's family frizbee from an inevitable onslaught of war-mongering (although not really, they only look like they have a purpose) washing machine-looking frizbee sorters... Think of the carnage! U-Bots in the bathroom, in the study, out in the yard duking it out with Fido (and with such a simple algorithm, beating fido with completely unfair strategem like turning the frizbee around in Fido's mouth until either his neck breaks or he lets go!) The more intelligent of us would move to Canada and purchase red frizbees with white centers.
As for the U-bots
They would have a great fortress made of yellow frizbees. And a queen...
Research like this will be perfect for future endevours in nanoscale robotics. When little bots are abounding on a truely massive scale, think of the benefits...
Cheaper, more reliable, and more intelligent in numbers (so to speak.) It sounds like a good way to go about constructing complex organisms from nanoscale machines... Hmmm what does that sound like? I'd like to see a simulation of this minimal intelligence on a large scale with, say, 2000 virtual U-Bots.
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Well... actually... I've been excited about fusion for a long time, but it's starting to look like a load of crap to me. It's just like the oil industry all over again: we need lithium to produce tritium for the reactors and we only have 760,000 tons of it in the US... so in a few decades, we'll be headed back over to Iraq or wherever (it actually looks like it would be Argentina) to kill them all and take their lithium. Additionally, the tokamak will produce radioactive waste!!! I mean c'mon!!! WTF!
huh... I always thought the biggest obstacle to overcome would be... you know... getting a positive energy return from the damn thing!
"If we can reinvent the car, imagine the jobs we can create."
I just think it's funny that in 04', Bush claimed that a push toward alternative energies would result in "devastating job loss"
Doesn't anyone remember that!?
http://world.honda.com/news/2006/4060108FCX/
there's your 350 and 5
"Is a killer-app like HL3 enough to sway you to choose a system?"
Not if I can't use a mouse and WASD!
That's just an alien playing Half Life and we're picking up the WiFi signals from his wireless sound system... I recognize that track from the Xen levels. I for one welcome our... oh nevermind.
WOW! Now I know how to play leapfrog!
What a great article! Nothing could pleasure me more than spending five minutes of my precious time reading about ankle-grabbing, bestfriend-jumping playground games... and a paragraph about scientists wanting to play it...
TFA sucks.
Ira Glass is the man... NPR show on superheroes
"They will be screening 12 famous films in their original shooting locations, chosen specifically to intensify the viewing experience..."
Please let one of them be a porno!!!
For those of you who don't know what Aspherger Syndrome is, http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/index.php/Asp erger's_Syndrome
Is a good Wiki article to help you out.
There's this yellow Pie-graph that wildly fluctuates between 100 and 85%...
It has a birthday...
And we are celebrating it 25 years after the fact...
Where do you guys want the keg?
I say we takeoff and nuke the site from orbit... It's the only way to be sure.
Yeah Ted? Well there is a new Pope in town... And he is pissed! You have, as of late, chosen to acknowledge the existance of: 1- Quarks, 2- Gluons, 3- the scientific method, and worst of all: 4- the "big bang." You are a witch and will be prosecuted as such... just as soon as everyone gets back from the Imax theater.
Or... The little green men that live in the caves simply feed exclusively on beans and fruit.
I'm about to enroll as a student helicopter pilot and went through much anxiety over the inexorable oil crisis looming ahead... My majorly Libertarian/Leftist/Paranoid/Conspiratorial mind had me pacing sawdust into my diningroom floor. But after much deliberation and many discussions with experienced pilots, I realized the sheer outrageousness of such anxiety. There are too many people in the world today in too many congested areas to simply "run out of oil" and call it quits for helicopters and the like. The medical industry, firefighting and a few other select workforces simply cannot do without the miracle of vertical flight.
The overwhelming majority of helicopters are driven via turboshaft engines; they are capable of burning just about anything imaginable: Gasoline, Kerosene, diesel, PARAFIN!, all order of natural gasses... I even heard about an engineering student that made a small one run on whisky! Small adaptations to the fuel system allow for these different types of fuel... The point is that any form of hydrocarbon-based energy source or whatever is within the bounds of powering vertical flight aircraft.
In the end though, I am crossing my fingers for electric flight: Electric motors are so reliable and at myriad RPMs, offer so much torque (the critical component to powering rotorcraft,) one can only salivate at the potential future of aviation.
And on that note: I believe that someone has modified a small composite sport plane such that it may fly on hydrogen fuel cells.
Last time I checked, the plane's prop was driven by a small electric motor powered by conventional batteries... with fuel cells to be installed shortly.
Good call... Lets start a new open standard for streamlining Linux-based user interfaces. We'll call it: GNUI - GNU's Nice User Interface Who's with me?
Haha... "doped"
"Bioengineering students at the University of California..." This was clearly a bunch of students who needed a fix and had a project to turn in. Oh well... The best things in life seem to have all been invented at a time of desperation. More power to em!
That's blatently communist... Catching wind of this alleged letter to "Brazil" , Gates had MIT shutdown, found the letter, burned it, then pissed on the ashes.
That reminds me: http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm
I'd just like to say that Echocharlie has posted a damn good story here... good job, great attention to detail with the html tags.
Could it be that we are finally recovering from the endless plague of duped stories as of late?!
Hope that's not too off topic...
Me... I want reality... I'm training for my helicopter license and can honestly way that Microsoft (I know... Boo Hoo... microsoft sux) Flight Simulator 2002 helped me tremendously! It usually takes 10+ hours (about $3500-4000 worth of training) to get used to the controls and hovering... I did it within ten minutes of starting the engine... and I definately owe it all to the reality of flightsim.
Furthermore, this technology won't ruin games like "Worms Armageddon" or "solitaire" or whatever you're into that has it's own cartoon physics... it's for games like Half Life 3 and stuff like that... meant to be spectacular. I imagine it will make 3d animation a whole lot easier too. Most of the time is spent animating physical interactions and the like; and when it becomes sofware managed, we can expect some amazing things because we can spend our time animating more efficiently = more work in less time...
http://www.princeton.edu/~mafia/rules.htm Very noisy game!
you made hundreds of thousands of these U-Bots and just let em' go! They'd be everywhere looking for frizbees and it would... you know, become an everyday part of life. Out to dinner with the lady and you have to kick one off of the table because it was trying to take her plate. Eventually it would become commonplace to carry a sidearm with one's self to defend one's family frizbee from an inevitable onslaught of war-mongering (although not really, they only look like they have a purpose) washing machine-looking frizbee sorters... Think of the carnage! U-Bots in the bathroom, in the study, out in the yard duking it out with Fido (and with such a simple algorithm, beating fido with completely unfair strategem like turning the frizbee around in Fido's mouth until either his neck breaks or he lets go!) The more intelligent of us would move to Canada and purchase red frizbees with white centers. As for the U-bots They would have a great fortress made of yellow frizbees. And a queen...
Research like this will be perfect for future endevours in nanoscale robotics. When little bots are abounding on a truely massive scale, think of the benefits...
Cheaper, more reliable, and more intelligent in numbers (so to speak.) It sounds like a good way to go about constructing complex organisms from nanoscale machines... Hmmm what does that sound like?
I'd like to see a simulation of this minimal intelligence on a large scale with, say, 2000 virtual U-Bots.