Forum: Science & Technology

http://m.extremetech.com/extremetech/#!/entry/do-humans-dream-of-android-prostitutes,4fad3629ecb7a0e66f85297e Galactic net here we come!!! I wonder if a personality could be codified, sent instantaneously to another star system and inserted into a robot life form. :cool:

These Google glasses will be in stores sometime this year. I think they're really cool but I've read some really interesting feedback too. So what's your take on these new glasses? 9c6W4CCU9M4&feature=related

In one of the threads here in S&T, aliens were mentioned. Would an observer mentality (like an alien meer cat) be jumpy, always popping up to get the gossip? Some of us may do it but They have compulsions. our ancestors threw coconuts down from trees - get the high ground and sling the poo! Or...

Would you eat it? http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/87bf2654-89b3-11e1-85af-00144feab49a.html I say it's a big step up from Japan's meat from a commode. http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/06/17/japanese-scientists-create-meat-from-poop/ If it does come to market; there'll be a mass slaughter...

http://now.msn.com/now/0426-real-life-phaser.aspx Man builds working 'Star Trek' style phaser, blasts a balloon 8 hrs ago We don't use the term "American hero" loosely, but it's no stretch to apply it to the guy who made a real-life Star Trek phaser that seems able to totally explode...

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Talk about extended family: A single-celled organism in Norway has been called "mankind's furthest relative." It is so far removed from the organisms we know that researchers claim it belongs to a new base group, called a kingdom, on the tree of life. "We have found an unknown branch of the...

Shale-gas wells in Poland, you say. Effort to become one of the world's major energy sources, you say. Break coal addiction in Polish villages, you say. Those are very well favoured perspectives for us all. Everyone just forget why this shale gas production wasn't started earlier. And it calls for...

http://www.worldbackupday.com/ So it's world backup day. Funny enough, I'm stuck at work on a sunny Saturday because our robotic tape library is dead as dead so I have to get a new one installed. What do you guys use as a back up strategy? I use cheap USB drives to keep offline coppies of...

Researchers have cast doubts over moons origin, challenging the widely held theory that a giant collision between Earth and a Mars-sized object gave birth to the moon 4.5 billion years ago.

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter Never Say Anything. Shhh.

...so...the sun's pretty amazing huh?

After 244 Years, Encyclopaedia Britannica Stops the Presses http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/13/after-244-years-encyclopaedia-britannica-stops-the-presses/?hp :( I had an Encyclopaedia Britannica when I was a kid. Dad left it behind when he split. I used to spend hours and...

We rarely think of it this way, but as the earth turns on its axis, we enter into and out of the shadow it throws into space. We call it night. We generally think in the same terms as the ancient Greeks, that the sun rises and sets. Of course, the rising and setting sun is an illusion.

http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2012/03/22/New-material-could-be-energy-source/UPI-15931332449195/?spt=mps&or=4 We really do need some new breakthroughs in alternative energy... coal, nuclear and petroleum really need to start going the way of the dodo sometime in the near future :)

Some of you might be old enough to remember when this country actually sent men into space....even as far as the moon! Back then, a fun little diversion was to ask young people why men on the moon didn't simply float away. Really. Here's the background: Since we, the U.S., no longer have...

Welcome to the age of. As of 2009, all computer storage, including the internet, was estimated at 0.5 Zettabytes, (or the memory capacity of one human being), today we're at 1.8 Zettabytes of digitally stored information. The world's combined storage, if expressed as a HD movie, would last 47...

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/16/health/male-fruit-flies-spurned-by-females-turn-to-alcohol.html?_r=1&hp ----------------------- To test the relationship between stress and alcohol in fruit flies, researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, allowed one group of male flies to...

WTF? Someone told me about this today. I just tried it and the broom stood up. Crazy.

http://news.discovery.com/animals/penguin-tallest-fattest-new-zealand-120227.html Jeepers! I'm only a little more than 20 pounds than the Kairuku was :eek: For some reason when I read this I was reminded of the scene in Superman 3 where small robotic penguins are strapped with explosives.. or...

New speech-jamming gun hints at dystopian Big Brother future * By Sebastian Anthony on March 1, 2012 at 6:37 am I used to do a radio show on a public station with my Dad, and the first time I had headphones on and listened to myself talk at a delay, I was completely befuddled. ...

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I have sat through a couple of 3D films and I have seen no difference between them and the standard 2D ones. Am I the only mong on the bus or are there more people who just don't get it.

http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/news-complex-connection-between-animals-and-human-disease Just as the proposed dichotomy of two separate spheres of the domestic sphere of women and public sphere of men has been debunked so to is the distinct separation between the natural world and the...

I met Bart Sibrel in a bar in Nashville. We sat in his car debating whether of not Americans walked on the moon 6 times 1969-1972. I was 23 when Apollo 11 landed, and I know it happened. I estimated Bart to have been in the 4th grade. A child. I did my best to convince him we really did go to the...