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- monospaced0
SpaceX rocket takes off, moves laterally, and lands back where it started. Pretty impressive rocket science.
- love the pollution, high-tech shit.utopian
- well, until we have an elevator, I think we have to burn fuelmonospaced
- yurimon0
http://www.fastcoexist.com/30155…
Scientists believe it may be possible in the future for human brains to survive death in robotic bodies. but would we want to?
- YES.cotton
- Of course we would.waterhouse
- Sounds like a crappy way to exist... cool as long as you're not in it.monospaced
- @monospaced I'm sure that was once uttered about hip replacement surgery or having a pacemaker, say.waterhouse
- But how do you know your brain is where oneself is located? Let's get moody and spiritual...Hombre_Lobo
- imagine the knowledge (therefore sadness) one might collect by "living" too longalbums
- @albums Then kill yourself.waterhouse
- pretty sure that's we have a built in expiration date, so suicide doesn't become the answeralbums
- Do you get to keep your private parts?instrmntl
- in a jar, yesscarabin
- those super-old super-rich guys will do this, probably go mad, and then holy fu....ZOOP
- i_monk0
http://io9.com/a-new-digital-wor…
“It simply is faster than human predators (i.e. human traders) and the humans are inactive on that fast timescale,” says Johnson. “So the only active traders at subsecond timescales are all robots. So they compete against each other, and their collective actions define the movements in the market.”
In other words, they control the market movements. “Humans become inert and ineffective,” he says, “What we found, which is so surprising, is that the transition to the new ultrafast robotic ecology is so abrupt and strong.”
- Location is key. but there are more building replacing office or residential for data centers,yurimon
- http://www.nytimes.c…yurimon
- uan0
007 Stuff: aging f-16 converted into a practice drone:
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/…
- albums0
Docomo’s answer to Google Glass will translate foreign languages in real-time
- Google Graveyard here we come.utopian
- i've had an iphone app that does that for years called wordlensscarabin
- https://itunes.apple…scarabin
- bulletfactory0
^ oh shit - next stop, real-time audible translation, a la 'The Last Starfighter':
- scarabin0
the US government has a complex simulation of the world they use to predict the outcome of events and decisions.
- Glitterati_Duane0
- hahaha, we're fucked.detritus
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- Basically. I have visions of this fucker with rockets and machine guns attachedGlitterati_Duane
- And a mechanical jaw that bites just for good measureGlitterati_Duane
- Damn Science. You Scary.bulletfactory
- oh my christ that thing is adorable. it looks so excitedscarabin
- perfect, next it needs two arms with jaws-of-life handsZOOP
- who do i kill? who do i kill dad, huh huh?scarabin
- dmay0
Swimming robot hunts overpopulated jellyfish and shreds them.
