Ummm. I don't think we will be human anymore in 2 billion years. Of course, our technology will be so advanced that we control evolution entirely and probably will have re-engineered ourselves to something far better. So I guess it's a moot point.
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Hopefully, we won't evolve to those slug things as shown in ST: Voyager
Getting less miles per gallon in the winter versus summer should happen to everybody. I certainly notice it on my vehicle. It's probably due to air resistance. The air should be more dense in the winter because it's cold, hence a slightly lower mileage rating for everybody.
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Global warming: Allowing better fuel economy for everybody.
Exactly. How many of us really care about the products listed that you can't buy anymore? Why are we still pining away for our Apple IIe's, Commodore 64's and our TRS-80 Coco's? (Did I miss anyone that mattered?) If it's that important, obtain or build an emulator for some of these products. Beyond that, just give me list of the top 50 products that are still worth the money to buy.
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Thrower awayer of one TRS-80 Coco II and III, 5 years ago after powering it up and realizing I was nostalgic for my PC sitting on my desk.
Are you also welcoming tetrachromat-spectrum-observing female overlords?
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Waiting for the day they find the gene that allows us to see in ultra-violet
Exactly! Besides, anti-matter is supposed to explode the moment it comes in contact with any form of matter including the gas surrounding us we call air.
Even if you could deliver anti-matter down a syringe needle, how big and powerful would the magnet have to be to make sure it didn't touch the sides of the needle? I'm guessing pretty darn big. Hence, I don't believe you can zap cancer directly with anti-matter. We should focus on nanobots getting rid of cancer for us, among a vast amount of other things, such as mending broken bones in a matter of days.
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Anti-matter, it's not just for warp engines anymore.
Really? A school bus that rockets over the railroad tracks? Last I knew, all school busses are supposed to stop at any railroad crossing. Unless your school bus had retro rockets on it or the driver was breaking the law, this would never happen.
I like to think of it this way. Imagine that each major galaxy in the universe had one and only one intelligent species capable of space travel. We'd be living in a universe with billions of intelligent beings, yet unless our galaxies collide, we will never be able to meet each other.
Who says you can't make a 4km diameter ring? Then you'd reduce the amount of G-forces and as a result, lower the flux density.
Something like this would be great on the Moon, except you'd put the ring around the entire circumference. People could still be launched, provided you didn't exceed 8 G's (yes, the human body can withstand 10 G's but only for a few seconds). Think of the acceleration you could achieve lauching a probe!
Call me cynical, but I hardly call detecting an electrical discharge down a "ground wire", which in this case is a human finger, a "technology". Sure, it uses existing technology which we've had for decades now, but it's an overused word that tends to get slapped on anything that is complex to describe.
What I'd like to see is a video with hot dogs placed in work gloves and see what happens then. It might not be pretty. The blade will have to cut through the gloves before it hits your finger and detects the electrical discharge. How about wet wood? Will it cut through that? I have a feeling wet wood might trigger the safety mechanism, especially if the wood has sand on it (since sand probably has a lot of salt in it).
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technology noun The scientific method used to achieve a commercial or industrial objective.
technology jargon Software, Hardware, Protocol or something else too technical to name.
Can we get a modified version of this for the government to help put an end to corruption? Perhaps for the court system too?
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I, for one, would welcome some government controlling, computer overlords.
Actually, I don't see this as an Open Source issue at all. I see this as bad coding, plain and simple. Why not just make it impossible to add vehicles to the garage when the license expires? That way, you can still retrieve the vehicles from the garage. Sounds like an obvious solution to me without affecting the "innocent". Would you park your car in any garage by this company knowing that they don't give a damn if your car gets stuck over a license dispute?
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An elevator can only go up and down, but the Wonkavator can go sideways and slantways and longways and backways... and squareways and front ways and any other ways that you can think of.
Without even reading the article (why bother), I believe it would work using Infrared light. Most cameras including video cameras can "see" in the infrared spectrum, so humans wouldn't even notice if a bright infrared light was shining unless they looked at their viewfinder to see the horror of a bright colored light. A video camera I had would see infrared light as a green light while my cell phone sees my remote control for my television as purple.
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My real sig can only be seen in ultraviolet.
Private industry could be slow for practices that we Americans need to desperately stop. Those practices are frivilous lawsuits and excessive greed. If ANYTHING goes wrong during one of these black sky flights, most likely the company will be sued. Waivers and contracts mean nothing in today's world. Even if you have them, you can still be sued.
If the cabin depressurized during the flight, would you sue (assuming you lived of course)?
If your back or neck hurt after a flight, would you sue?
If you are severly overweight or are in poor physical condition and they refuse to take you, would you sue?
The only thing you should be able to reasonably sue for would be gross negligence, which you would have to prove. But, we don't live in a world like that do we? No, we live in a world where we expect to get millions of dollars from anybody that dares to wrong us in any way.
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Life is risky. We need to be brave in the face of adversity rather than crying like babies for "Mommy" when something bad happens in our lives.
I'm wondering if this type of method could also be used to find the "good" atoms of uranium in spent fuel and to separate them out so they can become "new" fuel rods. Does anybody know?
Plus, it would be really cool if they could tune several different lasers in such a way as to create a laser refinery which can separate different heavy elements beyond just uranium. This technology sounds great if it can be used to recycle nuclear waste too. Then the question becomes, will they use it to recycle?
Designing a camera to those depths has already been done before. Ever see the James Cameron movie on the Titanic? Well, they had cameras for that and the depths were considerably more than just 1,000 metres.
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If you build it yourself, at least ask those who have already been there and done that.
I disagree on the point of longevity. Biological has superior longevity due to the body being able to heal itself. Mechanical, as of this moment, can only enhance biological qualities and sometimes mechanical can't even come close. Joint replacement is an example where mechanical simply cannot compete (yet) with biological joints.
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What about a bionic woman? It would be nice if someone thought about me so I could get some benefit from all this technology.
To me this doesn't seem like a breakthrough.... yet.
Couldn't you take a ring of ANY material and spin it to cause this effect? Since things gain mass as you approach the speed of light, they'd also have a higher gravitational pull as a result of the change in mass. To get more of a gravitional pull, spin the ring faster, assuming it won't fly apart under the stress.
The only way this could be considered a breakthrough is if a superconducting coil is the only material or one of many materials to somehow enhance this effect above and beyond the expected result according to the Theory of Relativity. Either that or the Theory of Relativity is wrong or needs to be tweaked to match the experimental result.
Anti-gravity, would most likely be a function of placing yourself in the center of the ring as it rotates around you, but you'll have the problem of "your feet being heavier than your head" if you assume that your head is perfectly centered. So the anti-gravity effect may not be useful under certain conditions.
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This was a reposted comment because my parent was modded down to nothingness, so this is my feeble attempt at some attention.
To me this doesn't seem like a breakthrough.... yet.
Couldn't you take a ring of ANY material and spin it to cause this effect? Since things gain mass as you approach the speed of light, they'd also have a higher gravitational pull as a result of the change in mass. To get more of a gravitional pull, spin the ring faster, assuming it won't fly apart under the stress.
The only way this could be considered a breakthrough is if a superconducting coil is the only material or one of many materials to somehow enhance this effect above and beyond the expected result according to the Theory of Relativity. Either that or the Theory of Relativity is wrong or needs to be tweaked to match the experimental result.
Anti-gravity, would most likely be a function of placing yourself in the center of the ring as it rotates around you, but you'll have the problem of "your feet being heavier than your head" if you assume that your head is perfectly centered. So the anti-gravity effect may not be useful under certain conditions.
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If you want "gravity" on your trip to Mars in the short-term, just build the damn ship with a ring system so you can spin it. How hard is that?
To me, it seems that one good, but very difficult place to look is within the physics of gravity itself. Hopefully, it's something more profound than, "It's just a property of matter/energy". What would really be cool is if it was similar to electromagnetism, but something different entirely. I'm wondering if we will be forced to resolve the Grand Unified Theory before we understand gravity completely.
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I believe that someday, we will explore the galaxy with gravitational lasers and "swing" from star to star.
I wish there was a channel devoted to great shows for the small amount of people that actually love these shows. They could still make money with that premise, couldn't they? I loved the show Firefly and just as it was getting into a groove, they go and cancel it.
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You can't take the sky from me.....
I've heard that one of the best uses for non-flawless artificial diamonds are in the cutting department. My father, a former owner of an excavating company, would by diamond blades just for cutting things like pavement or concrete. The blade would last a long time if you treated it with respect and it would produce beautiful cuts. The diamonds in the blade were dark, but they were still diamonds. Unfortunately, artificial diamonds are still expensive, but I would expect that to change as it becomes easier to produce them.
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Diamonds, they're not just for jewelry anymore.
I guess I can't have a username of AllahPeanutButterSandwiches then. Too bad. I loved Sesame Street.
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I can't wait until we run out of oil, then we can stop all of this Arab cowtowing nonsense.
Every single blind test out there at every possible quality against mp3 files of equivalent bitrates (both CBR and VBR) concludes otherwise.
Those people in the blind test must have all had something wrong with their hearing or were as old as my parents, but I know better, those results lie. Take a music track and encode it in MP3, then encode another in OGG. To make the test fair, the OGG file should be slightly smaller in size than the MP3. If you listen to the OGG file, you will hear more of the upper frequencies, where MP3 eliminates them completely. That is the main reason why I think OGG is better and if you have decent hearing, you'll be able to hear that difference.
Now, if you are someone like my Mom, who for some strange reason thinks that listening to her oldies music is best done with the upper frequencies virtually eliminated, then MP3 will work just fine. I have no idea why she listens to music that way, but I'm assuming it's because all the radios she listed to were mono speaker garbage and that's how she wants to remember her music.
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When cheap, abundant >16Gb flash memory finally arrives, compressing music may seem silly for some of us.
But are you seriously going to tell me that day laborers or fast food restaurant workers are going to need access to the Internet in order to do their jobs?
Absolutely. If you need more food or supplies, you order from the Internet. Most likely though, they will have it to keep customers since most places will be Wi-Fi hotspots.
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If you create the technology, someone will have an idea that will get you to come to it.
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Ummm. I don't think we will be human anymore in 2 billion years. Of course, our technology will be so advanced that we control evolution entirely and probably will have re-engineered ourselves to something far better. So I guess it's a moot point.
--
Hopefully, we won't evolve to those slug things as shown in ST: Voyager
Getting less miles per gallon in the winter versus summer should happen to everybody. I certainly notice it on my vehicle. It's probably due to air resistance. The air should be more dense in the winter because it's cold, hence a slightly lower mileage rating for everybody.
--
Global warming: Allowing better fuel economy for everybody.
Exactly. How many of us really care about the products listed that you can't buy anymore? Why are we still pining away for our Apple IIe's, Commodore 64's and our TRS-80 Coco's? (Did I miss anyone that mattered?) If it's that important, obtain or build an emulator for some of these products. Beyond that, just give me list of the top 50 products that are still worth the money to buy.
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Thrower awayer of one TRS-80 Coco II and III, 5 years ago after powering it up and realizing I was nostalgic for my PC sitting on my desk.
Are you also welcoming tetrachromat-spectrum-observing female overlords?
--
Waiting for the day they find the gene that allows us to see in ultra-violet
Exactly! Besides, anti-matter is supposed to explode the moment it comes in contact with any form of matter including the gas surrounding us we call air.
Even if you could deliver anti-matter down a syringe needle, how big and powerful would the magnet have to be to make sure it didn't touch the sides of the needle? I'm guessing pretty darn big. Hence, I don't believe you can zap cancer directly with anti-matter. We should focus on nanobots getting rid of cancer for us, among a vast amount of other things, such as mending broken bones in a matter of days.
--
Anti-matter, it's not just for warp engines anymore.
Really? A school bus that rockets over the railroad tracks? Last I knew, all school busses are supposed to stop at any railroad crossing. Unless your school bus had retro rockets on it or the driver was breaking the law, this would never happen.
I like to think of it this way. Imagine that each major galaxy in the universe had one and only one intelligent species capable of space travel. We'd be living in a universe with billions of intelligent beings, yet unless our galaxies collide, we will never be able to meet each other.
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Space is a very cold and lonely place.
Is that why AMD is going to build a plant in Saratoga, NY?
Who says you can't make a 4km diameter ring? Then you'd reduce the amount of G-forces and as a result, lower the flux density.
Something like this would be great on the Moon, except you'd put the ring around the entire circumference. People could still be launched, provided you didn't exceed 8 G's (yes, the human body can withstand 10 G's but only for a few seconds). Think of the acceleration you could achieve lauching a probe!
-- To the moon, Alice!
Call me cynical, but I hardly call detecting an electrical discharge down a "ground wire", which in this case is a human finger, a "technology". Sure, it uses existing technology which we've had for decades now, but it's an overused word that tends to get slapped on anything that is complex to describe.
What I'd like to see is a video with hot dogs placed in work gloves and see what happens then. It might not be pretty. The blade will have to cut through the gloves before it hits your finger and detects the electrical discharge. How about wet wood? Will it cut through that? I have a feeling wet wood might trigger the safety mechanism, especially if the wood has sand on it (since sand probably has a lot of salt in it).
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technology noun The scientific method used to achieve a commercial or industrial objective.
technology jargon Software, Hardware, Protocol or something else too technical to name.
Can we get a modified version of this for the government to help put an end to corruption? Perhaps for the court system too?
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I, for one, would welcome some government controlling, computer overlords.
Actually, I don't see this as an Open Source issue at all. I see this as bad coding, plain and simple. Why not just make it impossible to add vehicles to the garage when the license expires? That way, you can still retrieve the vehicles from the garage. Sounds like an obvious solution to me without affecting the "innocent". Would you park your car in any garage by this company knowing that they don't give a damn if your car gets stuck over a license dispute?
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An elevator can only go up and down, but the Wonkavator can go sideways and slantways and longways and backways... and squareways and front ways and any other ways that you can think of.
Without even reading the article (why bother), I believe it would work using Infrared light. Most cameras including video cameras can "see" in the infrared spectrum, so humans wouldn't even notice if a bright infrared light was shining unless they looked at their viewfinder to see the horror of a bright colored light. A video camera I had would see infrared light as a green light while my cell phone sees my remote control for my television as purple.
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My real sig can only be seen in ultraviolet.
Private industry could be slow for practices that we Americans need to desperately stop. Those practices are frivilous lawsuits and excessive greed. If ANYTHING goes wrong during one of these black sky flights, most likely the company will be sued. Waivers and contracts mean nothing in today's world. Even if you have them, you can still be sued.
If the cabin depressurized during the flight, would you sue (assuming you lived of course)?
If your back or neck hurt after a flight, would you sue?
If you are severly overweight or are in poor physical condition and they refuse to take you, would you sue?
The only thing you should be able to reasonably sue for would be gross negligence, which you would have to prove. But, we don't live in a world like that do we? No, we live in a world where we expect to get millions of dollars from anybody that dares to wrong us in any way.
--
Life is risky. We need to be brave in the face of adversity rather than crying like babies for "Mommy" when something bad happens in our lives.
I'm wondering if this type of method could also be used to find the "good" atoms of uranium in spent fuel and to separate them out so they can become "new" fuel rods. Does anybody know?
Plus, it would be really cool if they could tune several different lasers in such a way as to create a laser refinery which can separate different heavy elements beyond just uranium. This technology sounds great if it can be used to recycle nuclear waste too. Then the question becomes, will they use it to recycle?
[Sig goes here]
Designing a camera to those depths has already been done before. Ever see the James Cameron movie on the Titanic? Well, they had cameras for that and the depths were considerably more than just 1,000 metres.
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If you build it yourself, at least ask those who have already been there and done that.
Biological is in no way superior.
I disagree on the point of longevity. Biological has superior longevity due to the body being able to heal itself. Mechanical, as of this moment, can only enhance biological qualities and sometimes mechanical can't even come close. Joint replacement is an example where mechanical simply cannot compete (yet) with biological joints.
--
What about a bionic woman? It would be nice if someone thought about me so I could get some benefit from all this technology.
To me this doesn't seem like a breakthrough.... yet.
Couldn't you take a ring of ANY material and spin it to cause this effect? Since things gain mass as you approach the speed of light, they'd also have a higher gravitational pull as a result of the change in mass. To get more of a gravitional pull, spin the ring faster, assuming it won't fly apart under the stress.
The only way this could be considered a breakthrough is if a superconducting coil is the only material or one of many materials to somehow enhance this effect above and beyond the expected result according to the Theory of Relativity. Either that or the Theory of Relativity is wrong or needs to be tweaked to match the experimental result.
Anti-gravity, would most likely be a function of placing yourself in the center of the ring as it rotates around you, but you'll have the problem of "your feet being heavier than your head" if you assume that your head is perfectly centered. So the anti-gravity effect may not be useful under certain conditions.
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This was a reposted comment because my parent was modded down to nothingness, so this is my feeble attempt at some attention.
To me this doesn't seem like a breakthrough.... yet.
Couldn't you take a ring of ANY material and spin it to cause this effect? Since things gain mass as you approach the speed of light, they'd also have a higher gravitational pull as a result of the change in mass. To get more of a gravitional pull, spin the ring faster, assuming it won't fly apart under the stress.
The only way this could be considered a breakthrough is if a superconducting coil is the only material or one of many materials to somehow enhance this effect above and beyond the expected result according to the Theory of Relativity. Either that or the Theory of Relativity is wrong or needs to be tweaked to match the experimental result.
Anti-gravity, would most likely be a function of placing yourself in the center of the ring as it rotates around you, but you'll have the problem of "your feet being heavier than your head" if you assume that your head is perfectly centered. So the anti-gravity effect may not be useful under certain conditions.
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If you want "gravity" on your trip to Mars in the short-term, just build the damn ship with a ring system so you can spin it. How hard is that?
To me, it seems that one good, but very difficult place to look is within the physics of gravity itself. Hopefully, it's something more profound than, "It's just a property of matter/energy". What would really be cool is if it was similar to electromagnetism, but something different entirely. I'm wondering if we will be forced to resolve the Grand Unified Theory before we understand gravity completely.
--
I believe that someday, we will explore the galaxy with gravitational lasers and "swing" from star to star.
I wish there was a channel devoted to great shows for the small amount of people that actually love these shows. They could still make money with that premise, couldn't they? I loved the show Firefly and just as it was getting into a groove, they go and cancel it.
--
You can't take the sky from me.....
I've heard that one of the best uses for non-flawless artificial diamonds are in the cutting department. My father, a former owner of an excavating company, would by diamond blades just for cutting things like pavement or concrete. The blade would last a long time if you treated it with respect and it would produce beautiful cuts. The diamonds in the blade were dark, but they were still diamonds. Unfortunately, artificial diamonds are still expensive, but I would expect that to change as it becomes easier to produce them.
--
Diamonds, they're not just for jewelry anymore.
I guess I can't have a username of AllahPeanutButterSandwiches then. Too bad. I loved Sesame Street.
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I can't wait until we run out of oil, then we can stop all of this Arab cowtowing nonsense.
Every single blind test out there at every possible quality against mp3 files of equivalent bitrates (both CBR and VBR) concludes otherwise.
Those people in the blind test must have all had something wrong with their hearing or were as old as my parents, but I know better, those results lie. Take a music track and encode it in MP3, then encode another in OGG. To make the test fair, the OGG file should be slightly smaller in size than the MP3. If you listen to the OGG file, you will hear more of the upper frequencies, where MP3 eliminates them completely. That is the main reason why I think OGG is better and if you have decent hearing, you'll be able to hear that difference.
Now, if you are someone like my Mom, who for some strange reason thinks that listening to her oldies music is best done with the upper frequencies virtually eliminated, then MP3 will work just fine. I have no idea why she listens to music that way, but I'm assuming it's because all the radios she listed to were mono speaker garbage and that's how she wants to remember her music.
--
When cheap, abundant >16Gb flash memory finally arrives, compressing music may seem silly for some of us.
But are you seriously going to tell me that day laborers or fast food restaurant workers are going to need access to the Internet in order to do their jobs?
Absolutely. If you need more food or supplies, you order from the Internet. Most likely though, they will have it to keep customers since most places will be Wi-Fi hotspots.
--
If you create the technology, someone will have an idea that will get you to come to it.