Yes, using artificial muscle as actual muscular replacement might be a reality in a couple decades, but last time I heard of that, it was inpratictable at large scale (they made a full working atropomorphic arm and hand with electroactive polymers muscles, but it was way heavier than a flesh and bone arm and required a permanent electric power supply.
On the other hand, heart pumps already exist since a long time and usually use a plain simple electric engine with batteries.
What I understand from TFA is that this new technology allows to build mecanical devices that could move differently from pneumatic, hydraulic or electric actuator and therefore, provide an alternative to some specific sets of problems in robotic motion. It might be a base of future cyberpunk-like body reconstruction or enhancement, but it is too early to tell.
"Is there any reason why we can't just grow new muscle fibres..?"
Because they usually don't want to uses those "muscles" inside a human body (so an electric-powered muscle is far more convienient than a blood powered one) and, with the right material, you could build muscles far more resistant than organic ones.
We see dozen of example every day. To have the most creativity from an pop music "artist", you need to have them produce everything they can within 2 years then trash them. The reason is simple: -before one year, they arent that cool anymore. -after 2/3 years, megalomania and cocaine had destroyed most of their tallent and they apprear more often in the tabloid than in the charts. after 5/10 years, the lucky/clever ones flip burgers in Alabama, the other ones now being homeless crack whores and even the worst tabloid won't make a line on any of them, except maybe if he dies in a very funny way.
MAFIAA producer already know these facts for decades, why couldn't higly educated/.ers understand something as simple as: 1- Buy copyrights from the artists for next to nothing 2- Make them work like slaves while they're cool then dump them 3- $$$$
In France, if you want to use a wireless technoology, the manufacturer (or group of them) have to pay for a license to gain the right to use a certain band of frequence in certain way up to a certain transmission power. There are a few bands where anyone can do anything without the need of a license but at very low power, but some other bands are very expensive (TV, GSM...). Broadcast anything without license and you risk jail sentence, in particular if you interfere with commercial or military frequencies.
The good news is indeed that suicide bombers can't share their experience, the bad news is that the people who recruit weak or desperate persons and train them to become suicide bomber do. And having their boys miserably fail but still make the main news on every western country TV or newspaper for over a week is still a victory for them.
The funny thing with radiative material is that your skin is a rather good protection agaisnt radiation, but ingesting or breating only micrograms of some radioactive material can kill you in a few weeks. Therefore, a dirty bomb, which is way to spray radioactive material in the largest possible volume of air can be quite dangerous, even hours after the detonation. And all you need is some radioactive (not even fissile) material and a tool to disperse it (regular explosive works fine, but it could also be a spray, or you could just open a can of powder on the roof of a downtown bulding during a windy rush hour day).
Add to that the immediate panic, the restlessnes of the many people who won't know for days, if not weeks if they have been contaminated or not and the horror of a long and painfull dead for the unlucky ones and you've got a perfect terrorism weapon. The only way to prevent such a thing is to control access to the radioactive material.
Answer 1: a two weeks moon mission was dangerous, very expensive, most Appolo astronauts suffer from glaucoma due to the radiations and we are currently unable to schedulle another one withing the next 5 years.
There is a well know problem with some volcanos that produce a lot of very fine ashes. They do not kill many people during the erruption, but many of the people who breathed or swallowed some ashes will suffer from various organs or bones diseases. They are usually very painful,untreatable and often lethal within years, compared to decades for asbestos (that stays in the lungs).
So 1- it is worse than asbestos and 2- Since Mars has volacanos and the martian dust is known to also be very fine, there is a real risk they will have similar nasty effects on exposed humans.
Even before WWII, Jews were a good example of that. In the middle age, they were forbidden to become a craftman, an army officer, a public servant or, of course, to join the church. Therefore, one of the few profession beside peasant that wasn't worth protecting from them was banker. Sometimes later, that profession wasn't unworthy anymore...
Many medical products can be lethal at relatively small dosage but they are used everyday because, when handled correctly, they are benefical and relatively safe, so I see no reason not to consider using nicotine as a medication the same way we use morphine.
For an addicted smoker, on the other hand, the nicotine fix is not that different from heroine addiction, with of course the notable and fortunate exception that nicotine addiction rarely triggers criminal or short term destructive behaviors.
Unfortnately, cancers are the most horrible but not the only way cigarettes can kill you. If I remember well, nicotine does something to your blood vessels that favors heart attacks and strokes.
I would say it is more on the line of "morphine and derivated substances can help in the treatment of some medical conditions, so let's become junkies"
It would be more efficient, cheaper, and more environmentaly friendly to implement that as a collar. Moreover, there are already a good documentation ^H lots of scifi movies about their proper usage.
At my previous work, I switched from NT4 to 2K in 2005 after a very painfull and expensive 2 years migration effort (almost every program or third party library had to be upgraded and large parts of our code in both production and tool apps needed heavy changes). The main reason for the migration was that we couldn't buy NT4 licenses anymore, 2K superiority being very marginal in the decision.
Training might be the main problem for secretaries or C**, who only use Office, outlook and IE and would need a few weeks to learn that the next iteration works almost exactly as the previous one. For people like us, the big problem would be the dozens of small or specialized apps (homemade, third parties or FOSS) we use on reagular basis in our work that refuse to work on Vista and for which there is not yet a working alternative.
I get your point, as I personnaly enjoy a few good memories from high school and college thanks to other people being on pot. Some of them still don't know why we looked at them that way the next day.
I understand what you say, but I think we were talking about different kind of "cool".
If I wanted a minivan for a movie, I'll pick a Dodge Ram for an action one or a 20 year old orange VW Combi for a comedy, but I'll sure chose something like a Picasso over these two for my everyday life (more confortable and reliable, far safer, far better MPG and a lot of storage space, comes in several colors but everyone chooses grey). BTW, being an average single/.er, my Clio II dCI is large enough for me (The C3 was just too ugly).
How could they justify that enormous film budget if they have used a relatively cheap and fuel efficient car. Moreover, compared to other european brands (and even their partner, Peugeot) and despite good results in WRC, Citroen cars don't are not considered cool or beatiful.
I live in France, and this is quite true (and unfortunatelly, one of the main causes of the healthcare huge deficit). Not only the people usually live longer and need a lot of treatments after a certain point, they also benefit from kind of treatments that used to be considered as "confort" luxuries, like the ones usefull to keep a good sight, earing or mobility.
Being relatively young and healthy, I'm not directly concerned, but I feel quite OK to pay for that in the hope the system will still be here when I will need it, and moreover, I'm totally OK to pay whatever is needed to make sure no one, not even a homeless junky, risk spreading dangerous airborne diseases at random in the streets just because he cannot afford to see a doctor.
Applied physicists see the models as a representation of reality. Theorical physicists see the reality as a representation of models. Mathematicians haven't made the link.
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And then she'll become invisible? No fracking way!
Yes, using artificial muscle as actual muscular replacement might be a reality in a couple decades, but last time I heard of that, it was inpratictable at large scale (they made a full working atropomorphic arm and hand with electroactive polymers muscles, but it was way heavier than a flesh and bone arm and required a permanent electric power supply.
On the other hand, heart pumps already exist since a long time and usually use a plain simple electric engine with batteries.
What I understand from TFA is that this new technology allows to build mecanical devices that could move differently from pneumatic, hydraulic or electric actuator and therefore, provide an alternative to some specific sets of problems in robotic motion. It might be a base of future cyberpunk-like body reconstruction or enhancement, but it is too early to tell.
"Is there any reason why we can't just grow new muscle fibres..?"
Because they usually don't want to uses those "muscles" inside a human body (so an electric-powered muscle is far more convienient than a blood powered one) and, with the right material, you could build muscles far more resistant than organic ones.
We see dozen of example every day. To have the most creativity from an pop music "artist", you need to have them produce everything they can within 2 years then trash them.
/.ers understand something as simple as:
The reason is simple:
-before one year, they arent that cool anymore.
-after 2/3 years, megalomania and cocaine had destroyed most of their tallent and they apprear more often in the tabloid than in the charts.
after 5/10 years, the lucky/clever ones flip burgers in Alabama, the other ones now being homeless crack whores and even the worst tabloid won't make a line on any of them, except maybe if he dies in a very funny way.
MAFIAA producer already know these facts for decades, why couldn't higly educated
1- Buy copyrights from the artists for next to nothing
2- Make them work like slaves while they're cool then dump them
3- $$$$
In France, if you want to use a wireless technoology, the manufacturer (or group of them) have to pay for a license to gain the right to use a certain band of frequence in certain way up to a certain transmission power. There are a few bands where anyone can do anything without the need of a license but at very low power, but some other bands are very expensive (TV, GSM...).
Broadcast anything without license and you risk jail sentence, in particular if you interfere with commercial or military frequencies.
The retail price of the equipment is sometimes far less than the value of the data in the computer or the function it serves.
The good news is indeed that suicide bombers can't share their experience, the bad news is that the people who recruit weak or desperate persons and train them to become suicide bomber do. And having their boys miserably fail but still make the main news on every western country TV or newspaper for over a week is still a victory for them.
The funny thing with radiative material is that your skin is a rather good protection agaisnt radiation, but ingesting or breating only micrograms of some radioactive material can kill you in a few weeks. Therefore, a dirty bomb, which is way to spray radioactive material in the largest possible volume of air can be quite dangerous, even hours after the detonation. And all you need is some radioactive (not even fissile) material and a tool to disperse it (regular explosive works fine, but it could also be a spray, or you could just open a can of powder on the roof of a downtown bulding during a windy rush hour day).
Add to that the immediate panic, the restlessnes of the many people who won't know for days, if not weeks if they have been contaminated or not and the horror of a long and painfull dead for the unlucky ones and you've got a perfect terrorism weapon. The only way to prevent such a thing is to control access to the radioactive material.
Absolutely.
Answer 1: a two weeks moon mission was dangerous, very expensive, most Appolo astronauts suffer from glaucoma due to the radiations and we are currently unable to schedulle another one withing the next 5 years.
There is a well know problem with some volcanos that produce a lot of very fine ashes. They do not kill many people during the erruption, but many of the people who breathed or swallowed some ashes will suffer from various organs or bones diseases. They are usually very painful ,untreatable and often lethal within years, compared to decades for asbestos (that stays in the lungs).
So 1- it is worse than asbestos and 2- Since Mars has volacanos and the martian dust is known to also be very fine, there is a real risk they will have similar nasty effects on exposed humans.
Even before WWII, Jews were a good example of that.
In the middle age, they were forbidden to become a craftman, an army officer, a public servant or, of course, to join the church. Therefore, one of the few profession beside peasant that wasn't worth protecting from them was banker. Sometimes later, that profession wasn't unworthy anymore...
When you chase a dream, especially one with plastic chests, you sometimes do not see what is right in front of you.
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Where can I get my check?
Many medical products can be lethal at relatively small dosage but they are used everyday because, when handled correctly, they are benefical and relatively safe, so I see no reason not to consider using nicotine as a medication the same way we use morphine.
For an addicted smoker, on the other hand, the nicotine fix is not that different from heroine addiction, with of course the notable and fortunate exception that nicotine addiction rarely triggers criminal or short term destructive behaviors.
Unfortnately, cancers are the most horrible but not the only way cigarettes can kill you. If I remember well, nicotine does something to your blood vessels that favors heart attacks and strokes.
I would say it is more on the line of "morphine and derivated substances can help in the treatment of some medical conditions, so let's become junkies"
It would be more efficient, cheaper, and more environmentaly friendly to implement that as a collar. Moreover, there are already a good documentation ^H lots of scifi movies about their proper usage.
At my previous work, I switched from NT4 to 2K in 2005 after a very painfull and expensive 2 years migration effort (almost every program or third party library had to be upgraded and large parts of our code in both production and tool apps needed heavy changes).
The main reason for the migration was that we couldn't buy NT4 licenses anymore, 2K superiority being very marginal in the decision.
Training might be the main problem for secretaries or C**, who only use Office, outlook and IE and would need a few weeks to learn that the next iteration works almost exactly as the previous one.
For people like us, the big problem would be the dozens of small or specialized apps (homemade, third parties or FOSS) we use on reagular basis in our work that refuse to work on Vista and for which there is not yet a working alternative.
I get your point, as I personnaly enjoy a few good memories from high school and college thanks to other people being on pot. Some of them still don't know why we looked at them that way the next day.
I understand what you say, but I think we were talking about different kind of "cool".
/.er, my Clio II dCI is large enough for me (The C3 was just too ugly).
If I wanted a minivan for a movie, I'll pick a Dodge Ram for an action one or a 20 year old orange VW Combi for a comedy, but I'll sure chose something like a Picasso over these two for my everyday life (more confortable and reliable, far safer, far better MPG and a lot of storage space, comes in several colors but everyone chooses grey). BTW, being an average single
How could they justify that enormous film budget if they have used a relatively cheap and fuel efficient car. Moreover, compared to other european brands (and even their partner, Peugeot) and despite good results in WRC, Citroen cars don't are not considered cool or beatiful.
I live in France, and this is quite true (and unfortunatelly, one of the main causes of the healthcare huge deficit). Not only the people usually live longer and need a lot of treatments after a certain point, they also benefit from kind of treatments that used to be considered as "confort" luxuries, like the ones usefull to keep a good sight, earing or mobility.
Being relatively young and healthy, I'm not directly concerned, but I feel quite OK to pay for that in the hope the system will still be here when I will need it, and moreover, I'm totally OK to pay whatever is needed to make sure no one, not even a homeless junky, risk spreading dangerous airborne diseases at random in the streets just because he cannot afford to see a doctor.
You b*stard!
Why did you have to make all those people exist on my way to work?
Applied physicists see the models as a representation of reality.
Theorical physicists see the reality as a representation of models.
Mathematicians haven't made the link.