Comment I wonder how the public will react (Score 2) 97
to a visually spectactular, high speed, failure and breakup of a driverless car. One way they will react is to play the footage over and over, that's for sure.
Comment The problem with montana (Score 2) 97
was european driving tourists coming over and assuming the higways were autobahn quality (not even close) and dying after flying off a bump. Montana realized that their highways weren't safe above 85 and posted it.
Comment Lies. (Score 2) 840
The position of CEO selects FOR psychopathy. "Bad" traits like lack of empathy, lying and cheating are really just those traits that benefit the individual over society. "Good" traits are the traits that benefit the group. This guy isn't doing it for the individual children. He wants to be protected from your individual children. He's doing it for him.
Submission + - Lawrence Livermore proposes National Water grid, pays for itself, creates jobs. (llnl.gov)
doug141 writes: For 1/6th the cost of the war in Afghanistan, the US could build a national water grid that mitigates flooding in the midwest and provides arid western states with water. It would pay for itself in a single major flood event, and make your food cheaper.
Comment peaceful triggers that light up the... (Score 1) 254
...brain's pleasure center? They'll invent porn.
DARPA Creates Machine Which Extinguishes Fires With Sound 121
SchrodingerZ writes "The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is known for making odd scientific advances ranging from hypersonic unnamed rockets to bionic prosthetic limbs to insect-sized reconnaissance drones. But recently DARPA has made a interesting advancement in the field of fire suppression. Using two speakers arranged on either side of an open liquid fuel flame, an acoustic field was emitted and engulfed the fire. 'The sound increases air velocity, which then thins the area of the flame where combustion occurs, known as the flame boundary.' This make the flame weak and much easier to douse. Another wonderful thing about this: it's not even that loud! DARPA began its testing in 2008, stating that despite extensive research in this area, there have been no new methods for extinguishing and/or manipulating fire in almost 50 years. The agency plans to expand on this experiment and try to make it successful on a practical scale."
Comment very weaponizable.... (Score 1) 120
deflect a harmless asteroid into a collision course with earth.
Comment Re:The whole thing is just staggering (Score 1) 168
Now here on Earth we rarely run into significant delays in communications caused by the speed of light
FPS gamers run into them every day. FPS gaming is limited to geographic region due to speed of light delay.
Comment in-ear sound "amplifiers" are cheap! (Score 2) 629
Only $30! IT all depends on the "medical device" classification from the FDA.
http://www.msa30x.com/
Comment Barrier to entry (Score 1) 629
FDA regulates their manufacture. Licensing creates barrier to entry to the market. FDA regulations impose strict requirements that drive costs way up.
Comment Re:Breaking the link between science and politics (Score 1) 545
Interesting points. These particular scientists are saying that, if people are going to do what the scientists feel is the right course of action, it will take a multifaceted, celebrity driven propaganda approach, which can be coordinated by an office of propaganda:
"It does not follow, however, that nothing can be done ... Effective strategies include use of culturally diverse communicators, whose affinity with different communities enhances their credibility, and information-framing techniques that invest policy solutions with resonances congenial to diverse groups. Perfecting such techniques through a new science of science communication is a public good of singular importance."
Comment "Can't they see that we are right?" (Score 1) 545
Both sides think it, and the more educated they are, the louder are their arguments.
On a different note, the article also does not consider that perhaps natural skeptics are more likely to have sought higher education in math and science, rather than the education is making people skeptical.
Comment Privacy... (Score 3, Insightful) 160
I wonder what THAT license agreement is going to look like...
Comment close, except the olympic rings... (Score 4, Informative) 89
interlock, instead of sharing edges.
Comment No boom. (Score 1) 109
water+heat= no phase change beyond the critical point, which is 22 MPa for water, which is the pressure just 700 meters down.
