Walsingham Posted November 9, 2011 Share Posted November 9, 2011 HAL isnt radiation proof, it just helps the poor bastard wearing the 132 lb tungsten vest. This is the same robot they developed to help the old and infirm. This new type of HAL robot suit supports the weight of protective clothing made of tungsten and enables the wearer to work on the site without feeling the burden,"... This is true. However, the point is that it demonstrates how much the thing can schlepp. I can imagine the artillery loving those things. "It wasn't lies. It was just... bull****"." -Elwood Blues tarna's dead; processing... complete. Disappointed by Universe. RIP Hades/Sand/etc. Here's hoping your next alt has a harp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Humodour Posted November 9, 2011 Share Posted November 9, 2011 This is true. However, the point is that it demonstrates how much the thing can schlepp. I can imagine the artillery loving those things. Slightly related, and you would've seen the wireless, free-roaming BigDog predecessor around the net somewhere (if not, ), but here is the militarised prototype of the BigDog robot mule: I love the bit at the end, where it gets up from being on its side. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walsingham Posted November 9, 2011 Share Posted November 9, 2011 You could get a person and put it on that robo mule. Have a cycentaur. "It wasn't lies. It was just... bull****"." -Elwood Blues tarna's dead; processing... complete. Disappointed by Universe. RIP Hades/Sand/etc. Here's hoping your next alt has a harp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raithe Posted November 13, 2011 Share Posted November 13, 2011 To go another route.. Human Skin embedded with Spider Silk - Stopping a bullet "Cuius testiculos habeas, habeas cardia et cerebellum." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walsingham Posted November 14, 2011 Share Posted November 14, 2011 Talking about the spread of tech, rather than new tech, the Mexican cartels have begun building their own microwave network... "It wasn't lies. It was just... bull****"." -Elwood Blues tarna's dead; processing... complete. Disappointed by Universe. RIP Hades/Sand/etc. Here's hoping your next alt has a harp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosbjerg Posted November 14, 2011 Share Posted November 14, 2011 Talking about the spread of tech, rather than new tech, the Mexican cartels have begun building their own microwave network... It goes to show that privatization gets things done. Fortune favors the bald. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nepenthe Posted November 14, 2011 Share Posted November 14, 2011 Talking about the spread of tech, rather than new tech, the Mexican cartels have begun building their own microwave network... "Your honor, my client is just a huge fan of popcorn". You're a cheery wee bugger, Nep. Have I ever said that? Reapercussions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gfted1 Posted November 18, 2011 Share Posted November 18, 2011 Neutrino experiment repeat at Cern finds same result. "I'm your biggest fan, Ill follow you until you love me, Papa" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Humodour Posted November 18, 2011 Share Posted November 18, 2011 (edited) Neutrino experiment repeat at Cern finds same result. I'm still not convinced. I'd like to see an independent particle accelerator confirm the result. Although I don't know if any of the ones in the USA, Japan, Europe, China are capable of replicating the result any time soon (may need to build a new one). Not because I don't trust CERN (in fact, I do), but because the implications are along the lines of "oh by the way, humanity, we just invented perpetual motion". EDIT: Actually, looks like we might have confirmation within the next year according to the BBC: "This additional test we made is confirming our original finding, but still we have to be very prudent, still we have to look forward to independent confirmation. But this is a positive result." That confirmation may be much longer in coming, as only a few facilities worldwide have the detectors needed to catch the notoriously flighty neutrinos - which interact with matter so rarely as to have earned the nickname "ghost particles". Next year, teams working on two other experiments at Gran Sasso experiments - Borexino and Icarus - will begin independent cross-checks of Opera's results. The US Minos experiment and Japan's T2K experiment will also test the observations. It is likely to be several months before they report back. Edited November 18, 2011 by Krezack Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gorth Posted November 19, 2011 Share Posted November 19, 2011 Not because I don't trust CERN (in fact, I do), but because the implications are along the lines of "oh by the way, humanity, we just invented perpetual motion". My thoughts went more along the lines of "Oh look, the Earth isn't flat after all!" I hope they are correct. The universe would be a stale and dull place if the standard model actually applied to it. That's why I keep checking in on the FTL communications and cryptology studies in that Austrian university every now and then to see if they discover anything new. “He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice.” - Albert Einstein Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walsingham Posted November 19, 2011 Share Posted November 19, 2011 I'm totally with Gorth on this one. No faster than light sounds like the kind of thing that Austrian fellow would say just because it was gloomy. "It wasn't lies. It was just... bull****"." -Elwood Blues tarna's dead; processing... complete. Disappointed by Universe. RIP Hades/Sand/etc. Here's hoping your next alt has a harp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosbjerg Posted November 22, 2011 Share Posted November 22, 2011 Electronic contactlense.. Deus Ex here we come.. Fortune favors the bald. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raithe Posted November 23, 2011 Share Posted November 23, 2011 Not directly science..but still, it's something DARPA are kicking around.. DARPA attempts to "game-ify" software verification techniques "Cuius testiculos habeas, habeas cardia et cerebellum." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walsingham Posted November 24, 2011 Share Posted November 24, 2011 Not directly science..but still, it's something DARPA are kicking around.. DARPA attempts to "game-ify" software verification techniques Interesting, I was being told about a UK company looking at that today... "It wasn't lies. It was just... bull****"." -Elwood Blues tarna's dead; processing... complete. Disappointed by Universe. RIP Hades/Sand/etc. Here's hoping your next alt has a harp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walsingham Posted November 25, 2011 Share Posted November 25, 2011 Face transplant win. I don't know about you, but I get a real kick out of seeing these successes. "It wasn't lies. It was just... bull****"." -Elwood Blues tarna's dead; processing... complete. Disappointed by Universe. RIP Hades/Sand/etc. Here's hoping your next alt has a harp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Humodour Posted November 28, 2011 Share Posted November 28, 2011 (edited) Awesome new robot design (with videos!). http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-11-gumby-...ght-spaces.html Edited November 28, 2011 by Krezack Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Humodour Posted November 28, 2011 Share Posted November 28, 2011 Chemists design automated method of rapidly discovering new molecules (including their reaction pathways). http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-11-techni...fast-track.html This is freaking awesome. Their method uses a robot. But that's not the terribly interesting part. What's interesting is that somebody has applied the methods of mass production to molecule discovery. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raithe Posted November 30, 2011 Share Posted November 30, 2011 And for the quirky science.. The Psychology of Nakedness... Do people "Cuius testiculos habeas, habeas cardia et cerebellum." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walsingham Posted December 1, 2011 Share Posted December 1, 2011 I'm confused, Raithe. Are you saying that if we want to solve the global financial crisis then the G8 leaders should wear wifebeaters? "It wasn't lies. It was just... bull****"." -Elwood Blues tarna's dead; processing... complete. Disappointed by Universe. RIP Hades/Sand/etc. Here's hoping your next alt has a harp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raithe Posted December 1, 2011 Share Posted December 1, 2011 I'm confused, Raithe. Are you saying that if we want to solve the global financial crisis then the G8 leaders should wear wifebeaters? I find it quirky that there's that whole "show skin/flash flesh" and people get considered to have lower intelligence, lower self-control etc.. And I'm thinking of the various girls I knew at university who were studying to be doctors, nurses, etc... who paid their bills by working at some of the.. a.. gentleman's clubs in the area. "Cuius testiculos habeas, habeas cardia et cerebellum." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walsingham Posted December 1, 2011 Share Posted December 1, 2011 I'm confused, Raithe. Are you saying that if we want to solve the global financial crisis then the G8 leaders should wear wifebeaters? I find it quirky that there's that whole "show skin/flash flesh" and people get considered to have lower intelligence, lower self-control etc.. And I'm thinking of the various girls I knew at university who were studying to be doctors, nurses, etc... who paid their bills by working at some of the.. a.. gentleman's clubs in the area. Fascinating. I believe we should immediately set up a commission of enquiry to study whether poledancing should be made mandatory for zesty college girls. Further I believe this is too important to play politics with, and to demonstrate and underscore the urgency of this commission, I shall reach out and ask Mkreku to chair. "It wasn't lies. It was just... bull****"." -Elwood Blues tarna's dead; processing... complete. Disappointed by Universe. RIP Hades/Sand/etc. Here's hoping your next alt has a harp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Humodour Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 They've (probably) found Higgs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walsingham Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 They've (probably) found Higgs. Zesty college girls? "It wasn't lies. It was just... bull****"." -Elwood Blues tarna's dead; processing... complete. Disappointed by Universe. RIP Hades/Sand/etc. Here's hoping your next alt has a harp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Humodour Posted December 14, 2011 Share Posted December 14, 2011 They've (probably) found Higgs. Zesty college girls? I do love good eye candy every now and then, but no, I'm talking about CMS and ATLAS independently finding spikes matching Higgs boson decay at 125 gigaelectronvolts. Each results is between sigma 2 and 3 significance, but the fact that they both found something there, and both at exactly the same electronvolt level makes it more significant than the individual sigma of either result. More collisions will be run to increase the level of significance to an acceptable threshold. Basically, once confirmed, this will be one of those historic moments in history when humans discover something fundamental about the universe - why things have mass. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walsingham Posted December 14, 2011 Share Posted December 14, 2011 I'd like to take a moment to remind us of a little thing, as we read about the LHC: Those folks who say we're no better than the animals? They're ****ing wrong. "It wasn't lies. It was just... bull****"." -Elwood Blues tarna's dead; processing... complete. Disappointed by Universe. RIP Hades/Sand/etc. Here's hoping your next alt has a harp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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