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Comment Re:The problem (Score 1) 364

I'll leave it at as an exercise of your imagination whether 20 cars going 30mph instead 35 can get through a light faster than 20 cars accelerating from a dead stop.

Because that's what would happen, the first car would run right up to the light and have to stop, and all the other cars would have to brake to a stop behind (or begin to) when the light turned red, they would still have to deal with the standing wave of stopped cars at the light.

Comment Sounds just like Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan (Score 1) 357

This tech sounds similar to what they do in the Vorkosigan series. Sick or severely injured people have all their blood dumped/flushed with a cryo fluid and then are held until they are operated on or cured in the future of whatever disease ailed them.

Or they were supposed to be. Cryoburn goes into the implications in some detail. The protagonist gets carted out in a cryo coffin several times (and lost once).

The author really nailed it with this article though.

Sam

Comment Re:Poor Engineering Trade-off (Score 1) 217

Pretty much any wifi-having unlocked smartphone from several years ago should have it.

I've got an old Samsung Nexus S with a big fat battery back on it (1400mah battery->3800mah). I can pop my SIM in it and use it as a USB or wifi modem that can also make phone calls forever.

The downside is... no LTE. But it's cheap.

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