yeah I was like "WTF is Aereo" also, and had to google for it.

And the summary mentions the Supremes but does not explain why Diana Ross and the Supremes are involved with a flaky soon-to-be-dead internet startup.

Kind of like how climate change activists erased the Medieval Warm Period off of Wikipedia a few years ago.

earth bugs would die from the intense radiation around Jupiter.

a power source that isn't crappy. That would enable exoskeletons and robots that are useful.

If you watch the demo videos, they all either have a power cord dangling off the exoskeleton/robot (presumably plugged into A/C mains) or an annoyingly loud and smoky 2-stroke generator running onboard. That's because current batteries provide nowhere near enough juice to power these suits/robots to any degree of usefulness.

We aren't lacking in servo/microcontroller/robotics tech, we're lacking a decent battery tech.

The thing is, it's not really sarcasm. Pretending to be stupid and confused while not making a point doesn't serve any purpose other than maybe as a troll.

Gee, I guess the engineers at NASA don't know about radiation levels at Jupiter. Lucky for them you posted about it on the internets. I'll forward them your post so they aren't left in the dark.

little engineering justification, sure. But there's a whole lot of financial justification.

It's all about operational costs. To retrieve something like an Apollo capsule that pops a parachute and lands in the ocean, they have to deploy fleet of ships and bunch of personnel, which all costs money even though it has nothing to do with rocket engineering. Also landing in salt water will mean extensive refurbishing and/or making the rocket marine-resistant, which leads to even more downtime and money.

Like in the airliner business, time is money. The faster you can relaunch, more money you save. Elon's goal is to have both stages land in the same place they launched from, clean em up a bit, refuel, and relaunch in a matter of days (or hours). Like an airliner.

Huh? No the first stage never makes it into orbit. Otherwise you wouldn't need a second stage and it would be a SSTO vehicle.

after so much BS over the years, I think we should disregard any further studies proclaiming great health benefits of (____) and just rely on common sense.

Common sense tells me that the best things to eat for an animal species is what it's evolved to eat in its natural habitat. Pomegranates might be awesome food but not for lions.

For humans, that would be 2 million years of eating nuts and fruits and clams and fish and some red meat on occasion.

Yes computers and internet are important but let's not get ahead of ourselves. The most important engineering currently being done is still analog, like reusable rockets and fusion reactors. These rank slightly higher on the scale of importance to humanity than the guys making internet-connected refrigerators and targeted website ads.

Reminds me a few years ago when some dudes running websites voted "the internet" the most important invention in human history. It's as if they never heard of agriculture, or fire, or electricity, or indoor plumbing, or any number of things that are keeping these idiots alive.

It's funny, I was watching Nat Geo and they were showing a program about dinosaurs. They described the Cretaceous world that dinosaurs lived in, and explained how life forms (both plant and animal) were able to reach such gigantic size. Highlights: higher CO2 levels in the atmosphere (higher than today even with all the man-made carbon emissions) which led to gigantic forests. Higher oxygen levels which enabled animals to grow bigger. Hotter temperatures (than today), higher humidity and rainfall.

The narrator described it as a "hot and steamy jungle paradise thriving with life". Which was ended by a gigantic asteroid strike.

An hour later the same channel (Nat Geo) showed a program on climate change and how increasing CO2 levels in the atmosphere will lead to irreversible runaway global warming which will doom everyone and everything and turn the earth into a barren wasteland.

The test as specified by Alan Turing involves a human judge sitting in front of two terminals. One is a computer and the other is human-operated. The judge asks both terminals questions and tries to figure out which one is computer and which is human. It's quite specific.

It does not involve unsuspecting normal people in everyday situations who are duped into thinking they're interacting with a human... that would be quite easy. For instance if somebody asked the TigerDirect customer service chat window questions they have about a product and receive a good answer, they might not suspect it's a bot. Doesn't mean the TigerDirect bot passed the Turing test.

Turing also didn't say anything about crippling the test by making it a child who doesn't speak fluent English.

Not only that, a non-native speaker who is a child.

5 minutes of "oh I can't understand you because I'm from Ukraine" plus 5 minutes of "oh I don't know about that because I'm only 13".

Thoughtcrime is currently not illegal, but they (the media + the powers that be) are trying their damned hardest to make it so.

Remember that guy, Harvard University President or something, he was caught saying "maybe we shouldn't be so obsessed with pushing more women into math/science, after all women on average show less aptitude in those fields". He was vilified in the media as being worse than the Devil and Hitler combined. He was fired like the next day. All for saying what pretty much every average Joe knows already.

I swear, I'm all for high tech and scientific research, except when it comes to mental technology. Because if they ever make a thought detector, you just KNOW they're gonna use it to sniff out people with impure thoughts and round them up. They're trying to do it right now even though they don't have a mental detector.

butter, vegetable oil, margarine, whatever man. Fat people eat lots of it, thin people eat little. Stop trying to blame your obesity on evil corporate conspiracies and just face the fact if you stopped stuffing your piehole with food so much, you would lose weight.