Science - strawberry float YEAH

PostRe: Science - strawberry float YEAH by **Pedz** » Tue Dec 16, 2014 5:24 pm

That's daft, if life is meaningless you don't have to be here.

PostRe: Science - strawberry float YEAH by **False** » Tue Dec 16, 2014 5:27 pm

Well, taken to its absolute logical endpoint you could technically argue that life itself is meaningless. I guess its a very egotistic thing that we as a species share to assume that we have some reason for being here.

Maybe we are just the firing of neurons and a bag of molecules. But why not enjoy that for what we are while we can? Why not go to space? We can play with it. We can break it and rebuild it. We can touch it. We can watch it. Why not?

PostRe: Science - strawberry float YEAH by **Pedz** » Tue Dec 16, 2014 5:29 pm

I'm not really denying it, but to complain about people being alive is daft, if you hate life that much get psychiatric help or end your own.

PostRe: Science - strawberry float YEAH by **False** » Tue Dec 16, 2014 5:30 pm

No I agree, Lucien is a crazy person.

PostRe: Science - strawberry float YEAH by **Meep** » Tue Dec 16, 2014 7:06 pm

At the moment I would say that the grand purpose to human existence is create a self-improving AI, or a posthuman intelligence of some kind. Once we have done that we can die out and it won't really matter, seeing as we have already created the next link in the chain, but until then our existence is of pivotal importance. Not that there is any reason for us to go extinct afterwards; I hope we just kick back and let the 'kids' look after us.

PostRe: Science - strawberry float YEAH by **False** » Wed Dec 17, 2014 6:39 pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NOncx2 ... e=youtu.be

First ever bilateral amputee simultaneously controlling two robotic limbs.

[iup=3638030]Jesus is Dead[/iup] wrote:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NOncx2jU0Q&feature=youtu.be

First ever bilateral amputee simultaneously controlling two robotic limbs.

We're living in the future. That tech is absolutely amazing!

Now where's my flying car and robot butler?

[iup=3638030]Jesus is Dead[/iup] wrote:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NOncx2jU0Q&feature=youtu.be

First ever bilateral amputee simultaneously controlling two robotic limbs.

Science - strawberry float yeah.

PostRe: Science - strawberry float YEAH by **Dual** » Thu Dec 18, 2014 10:10 am

Our children's children will remember this day as the beginning of the cyborg revolution.

Elon Musk of SpaceX fame is still working on his Hyperloop idea. Or rather, other people are.

Engineers are working for free to make Elon Musk's Hyperloop a reality

Nobody laughs much at Elon Musk anymore, but plenty of people snickered at his Hyperloop idea (okay, also the killer robot thing). To remind you, the Hyperloop is a series of underground trains powered by compressed air that transport folks between cities in tubes at around Mach I. While that may sound certifiably insane, a company called Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (HTT) doesn't think so, and with the help of some UCLA students, has made considerable progress developing the idea. According to Wired, the startup (assisted by JumpStartFund investors) has enlisted top engineers from companies like Boeing, Airbus and SpaceX willing to work on Hyperloop in their spare time in exchange for stock options. [Not really "for free" then, is it?]

Those folks work in teams depending on their talents and passions, but a lot of the work is being done by engineering students from UCLA's SupraStudio. So far, they've developed rough concepts for the train's route, the stations and capsules themselves. The goal was to keep the lines between cities as straight as possible to avoid motion sickness issues. The train cars would consist of bubbles that would unload from the side when the arrive at stations (as shown above), though the group found that Musk's idea for gullwing-style doors was impractical. The tubes would be stacked to travel in opposite directions, and like airlines, there would be business and economy class capsules.

HTT and the students have mostly figured out how to build the vacuum tubes and supports, but it still needs to figure out one important part: how to make the capsules flow along it friction-free. Musk suggested a compressor to create an "air-hockey" pocket of air, but the HTT leaders think that some kind of magnetic levitation system might work better. Nevertheless, it wants to start building a prototype as early as next year and told Wired the final product "can be built within a decade." (A national network, as shown above, is still far in the future, however.) The hardest part now might be finding investors brave enough to raise the anticipated $6-10 billion cost necessary to build the first 400-mile loop.

[Image credit: JumpStartFund/HTT]

http://www.engadget.com/2014/12/19/engi ... op-trains/

It's really great to see that the is is idea still being worked on and developed. America's rail networks haven't improved in their overall speed since the 1930s; it still takes several days to travel from the Atlantic coast to the Pacific. They have also shrank considerably since then, as in the UK, and some lines now only carry freight.

The country desperately needs a new, fast public transport network as an alternative to planes, and I think that this is the thing to do it.

It also needs integrated inter-city and small town buses and railways, again as in the UK, but that is probably less likely to happen than the Hyperloop.

PostRe: Science - strawberry float YEAH by **Meep** » Sun Dec 21, 2014 11:22 am

I remember exploring the idea of transcontinental 'vacs' that ran in tubes suspended under the sea (the tunnels would be naturally buoyant and anchored to the seabed with cables) for the sake a story I was working on, however when I but the idea to a few more technically minded people I was forced to admit that building such a thing would probably bankrupt the world economy. I don't think spanning the whole of North America in a network would be much cheaper but maybe things have improved since then.

The thing is, I did not think it would be practical to do in over land as the amount of time wasted accelerating and breaking between stops would undermine the whole point of having supersonic vacuum trains in the first place. I only considered the ocean thing because there was a long distance to travel without any stops along the way.

They are still in the preliminary stages of planning. We'll have to see about cost, acceleration etc when they start working on prototype lengths of tube, or begin putting accurate simulations together.

http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/he ... /zoomable/

Sharpest ever image of the Andromeda galaxy. So many stars.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-30657486

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/11331174/First-new-antibiotic-in-30-years-discovered-in-major-breakthrough.html

25 new antibiotics discovered :shock:

of course this is hardly getting reported due to the terrorist fuckwits in France.

They have been discovered due to a new technique in discovering antibiotics and the scientists involved say that this is the tip of the iceberg and there are more to come. The most promising of the group is called Teixobactin. We are all saved

Ah good, we have delayed our inevitable enslavement by sentient superbacteria by a good 10-15 years.

Yahoo.

[iup=3650063]Skarjo[/iup] wrote:Ah good, we have delayed our inevitable enslavement by sentient superbacteria by a good 10-15 years.

Yahoo.

On the flip side this has the potential to discover hundreds of new antibiotics. Seeing those alive today save from super bacteria. Look for the positives.

PostRe: Science - strawberry float YEAH by **Meep** » Thu Jan 08, 2015 12:12 am

That is one massive relief. Without new antibiotics there could be millions of extra deaths a year in just a few decades, so we desperately needed something like this or something that is equally or more effective at fighting bacterial infection.

This will do until medical nano technology can be safely trusted to patrol our bodies.

[iup=3650112]Alvin Flummux[/iup] wrote:This will do until medical nano technology can be safely trusted to patrol our bodies.

Reminds me of Once Upon a Time... Life, cartoon that used to be on when I was young. It had antibodies with swords attacking virus's etc

PostRe: Science - strawberry float YEAH by **BTB** » Thu Jan 08, 2015 10:56 am

That was such a good show! Saw it when i was young and remember quite a bit of it :lol:

I looked it up a little while ago, quite a lot seems to be on YouTube.

Science - strawberry float YEAH

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