There will be all manner of new appendages, I'm sure, might even become a fad to have some new limb added;)... good excuse for people to get a personal trainer, too!
The brain is organized in a certain way that I am not sure (as I am uneducated in that particular area) that it would work quite as one might hope.
Much like we need physical therapy to learn to use our muscles after an accident... I'd imagine that you'd need to go through tail therapy to be able to work in the control for those new muscles, if it is possible at all.
[Hard to say, I do know a bit about the language centers of the mind, and there is a set range of time that they need to be developed in or they can't be extensively developed at all... and I don't know if this is the case for muscle use, so I'm going to shush and just leave it at all of this]
Well, it'll be nice to be able to graft some muscles on and all that, but I'll do what I do with software releases... I will wait until awhile after the technology is released, so that all the misfortunes occur to the impatiently eager... and then when the technology will not have a chance of leaving me a parapalegic or something, then I'll go for it...
===... but this is fun stuff, especially considering the article on cloned brain cells... perhaps this means we are nearing cloned stem cells?... and then the moral ambiguity of stem cell research is only in cloning issues, one step closer to pleasing everybody!
Yeah, and 5 minutes is a generous estimate with the newer models of the name brand PCs... (screwdriver free)... thumb screws (and not the torturous kind)... easy to navigate internals...
... but in practice, you open the door to increased risk... navigating bookmarks of someone you don't know could run you right into spyware/malware... there aren't enough filters in the world to keep up with what is put out there.
Sadly, too, the concept of Monkey Sphere comes in, too...
Though it will start small, it will eventually become just too big, if it survives... it will become just another random maze of links for people to click through at 3am when they should be coding for a project due at midnight the next day.
Niklas Zennström: "I want to create a medium where 13 year olds can rename large files to the names of new game disk images and movies... and put them online for download, it will provide them with hours of enjoyment... AND, here's the sinker, it will take away from SETI AT HOME'S BANDWIDTH! Those bastards will never discover my home planet now! MUAHAH!"
[[ note: this quotation has been fictionalized and may not actually represent reality ]]
Now I can see every wireless network for 10 miles, I'll have all sorts of crazy names to sift through!
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I'm on a college campus, so if I walk down the street, I can see almost dozens of seperate wireless networks (from apartments to different college wireless zones)...
If they expanded wireless to 10 miles... oh my!
[not that I'd torment anybody, but it's always fun to look around:) ]
The prospect of colonization of the moon is exciting enough, I suppose, and robots are probably the right way to go, considering the general lack of atmosphere.
Terraforming doesn't seem to be the topic of a lot of news, lately, however... and this is what it'd take for the colony to really be more than just a "human achievement" and become a home....
In all likelihood, the profit margin is probably not there for Kodak and so they are giving it up, which will increase Ilford's margin (as well as other companies, of course), and all will be good and right with the B&W photography world.
It is important to dream and look far ahead, even if the ideas seem ridiculous, some may prove fruitful...
I think not enough importance is given to considering theoretical science such as this and would love to see NASA put less funding into getting us to land on the moon again and more funding into things which will allow us to, possibly, get to Mars or further...
As we learn how to make lower and lower temperature superconductors, the need for fossil fuel use in propulsion will slip away.
We need to realize this, however, in order to try to develop that technology...
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Fossil fuels are cheapest because we've already got it, but it may be cheaper in the long run to research something else, not to mention there are speed limitations to combustion (which they try to work around by make the spacecraft lighter and lighter)... [not that there wouldn't be limits to other methods of propulsion, but they might be able to take us faster than combustion]
Hey, when you're Batman, you don't want to stop to worry about your mivonks being kicked in by unscrupulous minions...
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What happens, though, when he has to pee? That's a lot of effort, I wonder if he has a door in the front or something, or perhaps the Batsuit works like a gigantic pair of Depends?
That covers dull, but what about those with exciting, even horrifying, visages... like... the Elephant Man, let's say... if he rose from the grave... would HE fit in the Batsuit? That's all I'd like to know.
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There will be all manner of new appendages, I'm sure, might even become a fad to have some new limb added ;) ... good excuse for people to get a personal trainer, too!
The brain is organized in a certain way that I am not sure (as I am uneducated in that particular area) that it would work quite as one might hope.
Much like we need physical therapy to learn to use our muscles after an accident... I'd imagine that you'd need to go through tail therapy to be able to work in the control for those new muscles, if it is possible at all.
[Hard to say, I do know a bit about the language centers of the mind, and there is a set range of time that they need to be developed in or they can't be extensively developed at all... and I don't know if this is the case for muscle use, so I'm going to shush and just leave it at all of this]
http://www.cnn.com/HEALTH/9804/27/parkinsons.cloni ng/ ... [the cloned cells were bovine, but hey, its a start] ...
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If the future is going to be a scary place, at least I'll have the muscles to beat it up...
Well, it'll be nice to be able to graft some muscles on and all that, but I'll do what I do with software releases... I will wait until awhile after the technology is released, so that all the misfortunes occur to the impatiently eager... and then when the technology will not have a chance of leaving me a parapalegic or something, then I'll go for it...
... but this is fun stuff, especially considering the article on cloned brain cells... perhaps this means we are nearing cloned stem cells? ... and then the moral ambiguity of stem cell research is only in cloning issues, one step closer to pleasing everybody!
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Yee haw!
Now we can have old style Sierra adventures combined with the joy of Internet graphics...
...
Whee!
Command: GET SUBMIT BUTTON
"Ok! You got it."
Command: USE SUBMIT BUTTON ON POST
"You die."
blast, I was never very good at these games.
Yeah, and 5 minutes is a generous estimate with the newer models of the name brand PCs... (screwdriver free) ... thumb screws (and not the torturous kind)... easy to navigate internals...
MONEY! NUM! *chomp*
I was alluding to my current state, well, at least my current state at 3am this morning ;)
I think if I wind up setting up a WiFi network, I will name it WORKGROUP, just for old time's sake... :)
Not to mention who do you trust?
;)
If you friends have poor taste and strangers don't, how do you find the strangers who won't try to screw you over?
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Perhaps I am being less realistic and more pessimistic, maybe I'll just wait and see how this sort of thing plays out
... but in practice, you open the door to increased risk... navigating bookmarks of someone you don't know could run you right into spyware/malware... there aren't enough filters in the world to keep up with what is put out there.
h tml ...
:/
Sadly, too, the concept of Monkey Sphere comes in, too...
http://www.pointlesswasteoftime.com/monkeysphere.
Though it will start small, it will eventually become just too big, if it survives... it will become just another random maze of links for people to click through at 3am when they should be coding for a project due at midnight the next day.
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Sorry to be a drag, just being realistic
Niklas Zennström: "I want to create a medium where 13 year olds can rename large files to the names of new game disk images and movies ... and put them online for download, it will provide them with hours of enjoyment... AND, here's the sinker, it will take away from SETI AT HOME'S BANDWIDTH! Those bastards will never discover my home planet now! MUAHAH!"
[[ note: this quotation has been fictionalized and may not actually represent reality ]]
Now I can see every wireless network for 10 miles, I'll have all sorts of crazy names to sift through!
...
:) ]
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I'm on a college campus, so if I walk down the street, I can see almost dozens of seperate wireless networks (from apartments to different college wireless zones)
If they expanded wireless to 10 miles... oh my!
[not that I'd torment anybody, but it's always fun to look around
The prospect of colonization of the moon is exciting enough, I suppose, and robots are probably the right way to go, considering the general lack of atmosphere.
Terraforming doesn't seem to be the topic of a lot of news, lately, however... and this is what it'd take for the colony to really be more than just a "human achievement" and become a home....
Amen, I prefer Ilford to Kodak, as well...
In all likelihood, the profit margin is probably not there for Kodak and so they are giving it up, which will increase Ilford's margin (as well as other companies, of course), and all will be good and right with the B&W photography world.
*le sigh*
I already did set it to Plain Text (default in all my posts) ... the HTML monkeys ate my bracket... booooo!
Yes, but I need to carry notebooks, and I don't need a mobile phone.
I wonder if they will wind up putting little clocks into notebooks... that'd be really cool, I wouldn't have to have a watch anymore!
(I hate them, they rub on my wrist when I try to type)
I 3 technology *swoon*
... is how can the shuttle even think of retiring with the social security system the way it is right now.
It is important to dream and look far ahead, even if the ideas seem ridiculous, some may prove fruitful...
I think not enough importance is given to considering theoretical science such as this and would love to see NASA put less funding into getting us to land on the moon again and more funding into things which will allow us to, possibly, get to Mars or further...
As we learn how to make lower and lower temperature superconductors, the need for fossil fuel use in propulsion will slip away.
... [not that there wouldn't be limits to other methods of propulsion, but they might be able to take us faster than combustion]
We need to realize this, however, in order to try to develop that technology...
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Fossil fuels are cheapest because we've already got it, but it may be cheaper in the long run to research something else, not to mention there are speed limitations to combustion (which they try to work around by make the spacecraft lighter and lighter)
Damn it, Beautrice... that's something different :)
http://www.eng.titech.ac.jp/jyosei/t_yabe.pdf
That is more along the lines of what I meant!
If we could just get rid of combustion and the need for incredibly expensive fuels... we'd be set.
u nd/facts/vcd.html
Elecromagnetism? Superheated water / water reclamation?
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http://www.nasa.gov/centers/marshall/news/backgro
Perhaps he got kicked once, they became swollen, and then he needed the cod-piece for protection of his sensitive genitalia?
That's the best I can figure...
Hey, when you're Batman, you don't want to stop to worry about your mivonks being kicked in by unscrupulous minions...
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What happens, though, when he has to pee? That's a lot of effort, I wonder if he has a door in the front or something, or perhaps the Batsuit works like a gigantic pair of Depends?
That covers dull, but what about those with exciting, even horrifying, visages... like... the Elephant Man, let's say... if he rose from the grave... would HE fit in the Batsuit? That's all I'd like to know.