Looks similar, but definitely no sensory isolation. The richest interconnects possible should be achieved. Our brains kinda go nuts without sensory input.

Exactly. I was just talking about this scenario the other day. While portable brain cases may be a bit far fetched and hard to imagine, I don't see immobile support systems for brains totally unfeasible. Of course waaay more science is needed, but we do seem to be advancing at an exponential rate.

Once it does become possible there are a bunch of strange milestones. Like, who were the first sucessful clinical trials? Would they become 'the elders' eventually? What about when there are more brains in buildings than people alive? Can brains own property? Would they have human agents in the 'real world' to do their bidding? What would it mean for prison sentences? How good would they be at first person shooters? ;-)

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Yep..my bad...hard to tell from the trolls sometimes here.

Psh, the radiation levels coming out of a nuke plant are 1/1000th of that coming from even coal ash ponds. Don't forget how freakin' easy it is to detect radiation.

This should be obvious if you don't use The Simpsons as a source.

Um...you can ride a horse drunk?

Not quite. Equating an accident zone to the entire technology, hundreds of cores worldwide, is specious. Also, that link to the 'fish kills' is also not specific to nuclear power, nor actually describing a fish kill. A few fish getting caught in an intake is not a fish kill. For that you need them all to die at once.

Also, the warm water from the outlets could easily be argued to be a boon to fish and aquatic life. No winter!

But I do not have any illusions in trying to sway your disproportional fear of fission.

I dunno, some of the best fishing in the state of NC is by the nuke plant down at the southern end of Lake Norman right by the nuke plant. The warm water discharge creates a permanent summer so the fish grow huge!

You had me until 'space catapult'. If anything it'd be a space gun. Good luck trying to get that to work. People have tried, look into what happened to them.

..seems to be online forms in general. Considering how disparate various forms and their submission mechanisms are I think the only course of action would have to be at the browser level. Perhaps some automatic usage of the LocalStorage api to store text typed into these fields. Though that might lead to some security concerns. Perhaps recalling that cached data requires some form of user authentication for the browser itself (which isn't a bad idea in general).

I dunno, just spitballin' here...

You seem overly stressed, citizen.

Yep, pretty much. Still though, I'll keep my 357 on my hip while I help out my local neighborhood 'tribe' fend off the Palinistas from the countryside.

Every time one of these damn 'neural computers' come out people tend to equate the number of neurons and synapses and think 'hey, if we can get to the number of human neurons... Presto!!!!1'

Brains are waay more complicated than just neurons and synapses. Just taking the neurotransmitters into account makes the whole charade crash down. Then there is the glial network that, surprise surprise, does an enormous amount of complex work. There's even recent research suggesting that the branching patterns of the neurons perform complex computations. There are chemical gradients in the brain that act as a sort of addressing system.



tl;dr Brain on a chip? Yeah fucking right.

Fully automated on the top of a hospital building I think is what they are referring to. A drone that can automatically recharge itself and await a package or pickup location demand is huge.

America should at the forefront of this level of innovation. Instead the FAA sticks its head in the sand while the rest of the world goes forward at an incredible pace.

You are likely correct. I suppose this is just one of the best opportunities for it to work.

Maybe Iceland would be a good place to start.

This is a great experiment that I hope the whole world is watching closely.

I hope the coins are produced somehow coupled to productive capacity. Something along the lines of open and observable ammeters on their main power plants could suffice. Of course, it'd have to be a bit more complicated than that, but it's the general idea I'm talking about.

It would really suck if they started pouring their already strained resources into bitcoin-esque server-farms lapping up megawatts guessing large numbers. Fucking waste.