The Mod with the Migraine
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So does the light thing mean we really can create lightsabers?
Who Am I?
You can have light, or you can have a sabre, but I dont think you can get a light sabre.
"We learn from history that we do not learn from history."
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
Is hardlight going to be a thing now?
Oh really when?
The Wanderer
Hard Light's already a thing: http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/09/real-lightsaber-photonic-molecules
edited 18th May '14 6:50:43 PM by rmctagg09
Eating a Vanilluxe will give you frostbite.
Sounds more like a Matter Replicator than a Lightsaber.
The Mod with the Migraine
If it means I can pirate things by loading a webpage, then I am totally in favor. And probably so will the electric company. 
The Wanderer
'Smoking gun' evidence for theory that Saturn's collapsing magnetic tail causes auroras
Ground breaking hip and stem cell surgery completed using 3D-printed implant
Liberating devices from their power cords
Earth organisms survive under Martian conditions: Methanogens stay alive in extreme heat and cold
The Mod with the Migraine
What I don't get about the power thing, is even if you can design a way to make something like your phone casing also be the battery, that doesn't mean you don't need a charger, it means you can make the phone smaller/lighter/longer lasting. But you still have to get the energy into the battery.
The language thing is interesting and worrying, at least the part about making people "forget" keywords and thereby sabotage their entire ability to speak. It does make me wonder if sometimes the reason you can't come up with the right word is because your brain has hiccuped and deleted a word link or three.
The Wanderer
Optical brain scanner goes where other brain scanners can't
Engineers invent a way to beam power to medical chips deep inside the body
Shorter lives for male fruit flies forced to compete
People more likely to choose a spouse with similar DNA, research shows
Taking notes? TransProse algorithm turns novels into music
Chemists challenge conventional understanding of how photocatalysis works
Mars rover Curiosity wrapping up waypoint work
edited 19th May '14 7:39:57 PM by rmctagg09
Eating a Vanilluxe will give you frostbite.
The Mod with the Migraine
The optical scanner is already giving me story ideas.
The marriage one makes me wonder if that holds true for people in inter-racial and homosexual marriages as well, given how small the differences are between 'races.'
That’s the epitome of privilege right there, not considering armed nazis a threat to your life. - Silasw
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Does brain structure determine your political views? Quite possibly.
I've read that certain political parameters are influenced by genetics. Brain structure is kind of a no-brainer there.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
The Wanderer
Taste test: Could sense of taste affect length of life?
The Universe broke its rising 'fever' about 11 billion years ago (w/ Video)
Researchers crack unassailable encryption algorithm in two hours (Not so unassailable after all I guess)
Astronomers identify signature of Earth-eating stars
The Wanderer
Space-based techniques can successfully verify international regulations on fossil energy emissions
Scientists discover genetic basis of pest resistance to biotech cotton
Engineers build world's smallest, fastest nanomotor
Network paradox may help algorithms overcome 'universal limitation'
How Ratites Ended Up on the No-Fly List
New super waterproof surfaces cause water to bounce like a ball
The Wanderer
Humpback whale subspecies revealed by genetic study
Researchers test whether Red Queen hypothesis makes species resilient
Public interest in climate change unshaken by scandal, but unstirred by science
New analysis eliminates a potential speed bump in quantum computing
The Wanderer
The Wanderer
Confirmed: Stellar behemoth self-destructs in a Type IIb supernova
Bionic particles self-assemble to capture light
Functional nerve cells from skin cells
Chemists develop new approach to detect counterfeit medicines such as Viagra
Major meteor shower could delight N. America May 23-24
Physicists investigate onset of effective mass
Female pigs can recognise the sex of sperm and influence the sex of their offspring
Bacteria species part of Curiosity baggage on Mars
That last one: Huh. Someone needs better sterilizing skills.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Lost in Space
Bacteria number among the most prolific organisms on Earth. They're in every cubic centimeter of the biosphere. Perfect sterilization is something of a chimera.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
Just a harmless giant from a foreign land.
That, basically.
What would be highly interesting (given proper safety measures) is what kind of bacteria we would find on something coming *back* from Mars.
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The Wanderer
Researchers find a way to integrate two two-dimensional materials into a single electronic device
New graphene-type material created
Ice Anemones to Dragon Trees: Top Species of Year Named
Forty-six transistors constructed on six CNTs is most complicated device of its kind to date
edited 22nd May '14 1:43:11 PM by rmctagg09
Eating a Vanilluxe will give you frostbite.
But if you compare the total biomass of all eukaryotes and that of bacteria, they're about the same.
So if you remember that multicellular organisms are basically a collection of extremely social cells, they're about as successful as bacteria.
NSA row sparks rush for encrypted email
Japanese car giants team up on green engines
Eating a Vanilluxe will give you frostbite.