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Gene Roddenberry- Scifi is a Method for Thinking 2008-04-23 10:59:18 For me science fiction is a way of thinking, a way of logic that bypasses a lot of nonsense. It allows people to look directly at important subjects.
Gene Roddenberry
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Power Suits 2008-04-17 13:07:50 Today, slashdot is running an artcle about how the U.S. army has developed power suits, which give the wearer super-human strength. When this technology comes down in price, it could have lots of practical applications. Imagine how useful it would be to wear one of these while working in a lumber yard or moving hay bails.
Even more interesting, [...] Read more:Suits
The Best Way to Handle Genetic Engineering and Cloning - Part II 2008-04-12 18:23:29 Below I’ve described possible solutions to the problems with genetic engineering and cloning that were discussed in Part I.
Solutions to problems with genetic engineering:
1.Risk of eliminating diversity.
Random mutations could be induced for all, or a certain percentage of the population. This could be a safety net against people with a certain gene being [...] Read more:Cloning
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The Best Way to Handle Genetic Engineering and Cloning - Part I 2008-04-05 19:20:10 We’ve already cloned and genetically engineered animals. Scientists are just waiting for a greenlight, so that they can apply this science to humans. In some ways it’s even a stretch to say they are waiting. We have already cloned human embryos, which would grow up to be clones if we [...] Read more:Cloning
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Carl Sagan-Science Ignorance Will Lead to Destruction 2008-04-30 11:18:40 We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.
Carl Sagan
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Frank Herbert-Helpless Feeling Societies Create Kings 2008-05-08 00:04:46 If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.
FrankHerbert
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Podclusters - Future of Space Living 2008-05-10 19:49:19 Podclusters are an idea that Blake Riley and I came up with. As far as I know, this is an original idea. Although, it seems simple enough that it’s possible someone has already thought of it. If you’ve heard of something similar somewhere else, please let me know.
Private space travel has [...] Read more:Future
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Large Hadron Collider 2008-05-21 21:09:03 The Large Hadron Collider will either affirm or obliterate some of the most important theories in physics. The downside? It also might destroy the earth.
The video below does a good job of explaining the importance of Higgs Particles. The LHC will either confirm or debunk the existence of Higgs Particles. In [...]
Trusting and Oxytocin 2008-05-27 15:13:23 My wife was taking her usual 45 minute shower yesterday before we were to go up to her parent’s place for a Memorial Day grill out. Knowing I’d have ample time to kill, I started surfing the net and soon stumbled upon at advertisement for something called “Liquid Trust Enhanced”. Mildly intrigued, I clicked on [...]
The First Human Clones 2008-05-30 19:33:21 The first human clones will likely begin growing in wombs within a year. This procedure will be lead by scientist Panayiotis Zavos. A few groups claim they have already cloned humans. It’s possible that humans have already been cloned, but this will be the first public, verified, and wide-spread use of cloning.
Dr. Zavos runs one of the world’s [...] Read more:Clones
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U.S. - The Super Country 2008-06-05 22:21:35 My neighbors are from Kazakhstan, they are touring the U.S. for about a year before returning to college in their country. They live in various locations for a couple of months at a time, find jobs, and learn about the area.
Janna(Zhanna) is majoring in political science in Kazakhstan. She said something very interesting the other day.
She said that the U.S. has all the oil Read more:Country
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Christianity - Harmful to Our Future 2008-06-14 22:34:06 Chrisitianiy is the most popular religion in the world. In the U.S., over 80% of the population is christian. The majority of christians think the world is going to end soon. This poses a large hurdle when trying to make preparations for the future.
We are starting to run into potentially devastating problems, whose solutions require [...] Read more:Christianity
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Grains of Consciousness 2008-06-17 16:41:36 We could not possibly be conscious of these things and remember all of them because our mind would be so full of useless details we would be unable to think. From all this awareness we must select, and what we select and call consciousness is never the same as the awareness because the process of [...] Read more:Consciousness
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Purpose of Life? 2008-07-02 22:34:07 It’s been almost a month now since I’ve posted. I sincerely apologize. Life has been busy, I’ve been too wore out to think and have been undergoing an identity crisis of a “What the fuck should I be doing with my life?” nature.
I’ve been thinking a lot about the purpose of life. I used to think [...] Read more:Purpose
Space Gas - Proof of Aliens? 2008-07-19 21:43:59 “Electrically charged specks of interstellar dust organize into DNA-like double helixes and display properties normally attributed to living systems, such as evolving and reproducing, new computer simulations show.” (source)
Self replication naturally leads to evolution. Currently, many scientists believe that life evolved as a result of amino acids forming RNA. RNA as been successfully buil Read more:Aliens
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Gattaca-like Genetic Testing 2008-07-11 17:55:38 If you haven’t seen Gattaca, it’s a near-future world where nearly everyone is genetically engineered. Those few who are not genetically engineered are social outcasts. Genetic testing is in depth, quick, cheap, and easy to do. As a result, everything is based on genes. Potential employers and even romantic partners will collect a dna sample [...] Read more:Testing
Distorted Perceptions 2008-07-28 17:31:40 I think oftentimes, the perceptions people have are inconsistent with what we would call reality. We spend our entire lives trying to figure out what other people think of us, failing to realize that they are doing the exact same thing. We all suffer from the insecurity of not knowing our exact place in the world [...]
If Earth Had 100 People 2008-07-28 16:45:56 If you are reading this article, you are probably a part of the luckiest 3% of the world’s population.
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Interesting Points:
Six people would own 59% of the wealth, while 53 people would live off 2.00$(U.S.) a day or less. Thirteen people would be starving to death, and 43 people wouldn’t have basic sanitation. [...] Read more:Earth
Super Bugs 2008-08-11 19:37:02 It is interesting that it usually takes a tragedy to set people straight, and even then some don’t catch on. In October, 2007, 17-year-old Ashton Bonds showed up at Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital in rural Virginia, complaining about pain in his side. Less than a week later he was pronounced dead. Ashton was infected with MRSA. MRSA, short for methicillin [...] Read more:Super
Gravity, Source of Infinite Energy? 2008-08-11 19:19:14 Gravity seems to be able to do work, and it can never be used up. In stars, it causes hydrogen to be crammed together, creating massive amounts of energy. On earth, we can utilize it through riding a bike or creating hydroelectric power. It seems intuitively incorrect for things to have an infinite supply of [...] Read more:Energy
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Drugs that Make You Ethical? 2008-09-14 16:03:44 Sean A. Spence wrote an article in the Journal of British Psychiatry, about whether we should use drugs to make people behave ethically. Among other points, the paper gives a few examples of ways that drugs are already being used to make people behave ethically.
There are drugs that make you happy, drugs that help you [...] Read more:Drugs
I am Robotruck 2008-11-09 21:11:45 This article was linked to on slashdot recently.
“Nov. 6, 2008 — The largest truck in the world is about to become the largest robotic vehicle in the world. Computer scientists from Carnegie Mellon University have teamed up with engineers from Caterpillar to automate the 700-ton trucks, which are made to haul loads up to 240 [...]
What’s Stopping Bioplastic? 2008-10-18 16:02:40 We depend on plastic for computers, food, health-care, and just about anything else you can think of. All of this plastic is created nearly exclusively using oil. You can’t watch a news program without hearing someone talk about about the need to invest in energy alternatives such as solar, wind, and nuclear power. Yet, bioplastics [...]
Shifting Gears 2008-11-18 22:15:03 As you’ve probably noticed, I’ve redone the site’s layout. If anything isn’t working, please let me know. Since I’m still fiddling with it, this is also a good time to throw in any suggestions you might have about what you would like to see in the layout. I’ve moved the blog from [...] Read more:Gears
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I am Robotruck 2008-11-09 21:11:45 This article was linked to on slashdot recently.
Nov. 6, 2008 — The largest truck in the world is about to become the largest robotic vehicle in the world. Computer scientists from Carnegie Mellon University have teamed up with engineers from Caterpillar to automate the 700-ton trucks, which are made to haul loads up to 240 [...]
What’s Stopping Bioplastic? 2008-10-18 16:02:40 We depend on plastic for computers, food, health-care, and just about anything else you can think of. All of this plastic is created nearly exclusively using oil. You can’t watch a news program without hearing someone talk about about the need to invest in energy alternatives such as solar, wind, and nuclear power.
Yet, bioplastics are [...]
Drugs that Make You Ethical? 2008-09-14 16:03:44 Sean A. Spence wrote an article in the Journal of British Psychiatry, about whether we should use drugs to make people behave ethically. Among other points, the paper gives a few examples of ways that drugs are already being used to make people behave ethically.
There are drugs that make you happy, drugs that help you [...] Read more:Drugs
Super Bugs 2008-08-11 19:37:02 It is interesting that it usually takes a tragedy to set people straight, and even then some don’t catch on. In October, 2007, 17-year-old Ashton Bonds showed up at Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital in rural Virginia, complaining about pain in his side. Less than a week later he was pronounced dead. Ashton was infected with [...] Read more:Super
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