There was a time, before we all lost our minds to Pong, Asteroids and Zelda (yes, I go way back) where we also spent time taking our world apart and figuring out how to make it better.
Oona rocks! She should be rewarded somehow.
BTW - the end of the article finally explains how a megahertz signal found its way onto the audio track.
Here's a must see link for us weather nerds...
make sure to tune into the 10 hPa setting and watch the polar vortex do its thing.
Thank you supercomputer...
...
who couldn't think worth a dyne,
he accused the one Mann,
who has Truth in his plan,
and we hope the court rules him a slime.
It's the best I can do on short notice - but there's not much else we can do as long as long as his advertisers keep making money.
Why do we keep the poor guy? He's had a great insight.
Now, let's get all scientific on his ass. Get a bottle, fill it with the right and
MAKE SOME LIFE!
... is doomed to repeat it.
Does anyone else get the impression that we're on the downside of civilization?
Have we all forgotten how to use paper, pen, envelope and stamp? Just leave off your return address - and don't sign it!
Watson isn't about organizing information, it's about thinking enough to arrive at a conclusion.
Even today, my 84 year old father has learned how to gather information off the web. A child learns to do it in minutes. Imagine what Watson will be able to glean in seconds.
Finally, imagine Watson as a programmer. Optimum code - self debugging - as much documentation as you want - and perhaps the biggest asset - the ability to adjust the scope every time the customer changes their mind, without complaining.
Skynet? No, I'm thinking more like Colossus, the Forbin Project.
Then again, AC, Science means you spend a lot of time replicating the obvious. Obviously,
I don't read most of the articles, or posts for that matter. There was something about yours...
You claim slashdot owners don't post anti-President Obama (correct address by the way) because of a hidden political agenda. Yet they are willing to post your comments.
Please, reply and post your own links to FACTS backing up your CLAIMS about how the spacecraft was painted. I'm going to love seeing how NASA interprets a cthulu creature. I hoping for something in high heels.
They should have started sooner, AND
They need to put the full-press on congress to improve the patent process. Patents mean almost nothing today. The office is overwhelmed, and it's up to patent courts to try and sort through the mess.
This is an EXCELLENT video. Thanks for the link.
NASA is filled with bureaucrats and lifers. I know a lot of them personally. I think they're all great, and give our world more bang for my buck than any other agency (sorry NSA).
Look at what Musk is doing by riding herd over his people - he fires them when they can't perform - and guess what? SpaceX performs.
Time to create a government agency (or two) whose sole purpose is to get a colony going on the moon. Maybe another agency for unmanned exploration. And that's it. The aeronautical functions can be let loose to the private sector.
Maybe we should call it, Starfleet?
There was a great article in Science a few weeks ago evaluating 6 extremely complete skeletons that were "collected" by a giant cat about a million years ago. (reference below)
The biggest revelation to many biologists was the amount of variation among the skulls. If they'd been found independently, they probably would have been put into different species. It's almost as if biologists haven't figured out that people vary quite a bit within species.
Why can't we just see ourselves as one big amorphous mass of metabolism - still trying to climb out of the primordial ooze?
A Complete Skull from Dmanisi, Georgia, and the Evolutionary Biology of Early Homo, by David Lordkipanidze, Marcia S. Ponce de León, Ann Margvelashvili, Yoel Rak, G. Philip Rightmire, Abesalom Vekua, and Christoph P. E. Zollikofer Science 18 October 2013: 326-331. An early Pleistocene adult skull illuminates the evolution and morphology of the first hominins outside Africa.
The article doesn't say anything about soaps or other drugs, only that the resistant genes exist.
This is a general observation of how our greater biome is adapting to our generally anti-bacterial ways - including hospital grade antibiotics.
And judging from the research done, it looks like it's already in the environment. I'm guessing that we're looking at a dip in life expectancy. Oh well.
I've been in the soap making business since 2009. We make an all-natural powerful blend designed for men working in factories. Turns out women love it. But this is beside my point.
The real point is that I designed this stuff using as much science / true research that I could find. And there's almost nothing out there. In fact, I still haven't found a shred of research that proves why soap works. Does it dissolve cellular membranes (as I was taught in school long ago?) or does it increase the tiny forces acting against their anchoring ability so that they wash away in the great flood? We really don't know.
And my guess as to why we don't know is this: We have 'known' it works for several thousand years. Therefore, if I'm applying for grant money to 'prove' this, I'm going to be laughed at. There's no money, no potential money, not even any potential bragging rights for being the guy that proves soap works.
It may be that our recent discovery of the microbiome will change all this. I hope it does. I can tell you from personal soap-selling experience now, and interviews with hundreds of women, that it really is far more complicated that it first appears. I used to think I knew the answers. Now I just have lots of questions. And my personal advice as for the majority of washing that we do? Water. That's it. Just rinse and you're done.
Please mod this guy down a few points. It's one thing to do physics as a hobby, it's another to be a professional getting written up in Science.
Old programmers never die, they just hit account block limit.
