Drunk History Presents Nikola Tesla *NSFW* 91
Amazingly accurate for someone so plastered. I think all history should be taught at this level of intoxication.
Augmented Reality To Help Mechanics Fix Vehicles 81
kkleiner writes "ARMAR, or Augmented Reality for Maintenance and Repair, is a head mounted display unit that provides graphic overlays to assist you in making repairs. An Android phone provides an interface to control the graphics you view during the process. Published in IEEE, and recently tested with the United States Marine Corps on an armored turret, ARMAR can cut maintenance times in half by guiding users to the damaged area and displaying 3D animations to demonstrate the appropriate tools and techniques."
Man Uses Drake Equation To Explain Girlfriend Woes 538
artemis67 writes "A man studying in London has taken a mathematical equation that predicts the possibility of alien life in the universe to explain why he can't find a girlfriend. Peter Backus, a native of Seattle and PhD candidate and Teaching Fellow in the Department of Economics at the University of Warwick, near London, in his paper, 'Why I don't have a girlfriend: An application of the Drake Equation to love in the UK,' used math to estimate the number of potential girlfriends in the UK. In describing the paper on the university Web site he wrote 'the results are not encouraging. The probability of finding love in the UK is only about 100 times better than the probability of finding intelligent life in our galaxy.'"
Comment Re:Fahrenheit: It's for telling temperature (Score 1) 1233
I don't want to point out that you are an idiot. But you are an idiot. Water boils at 100 degrees Celsius, and 212 degrees Fahrenheit. If you think you can stand boiling hot water temps talk to a lobster, or better yet put you hand in a pot of boiling water!
Comment Re:So it's a fnacy nmae (Score 1) 1345
And what is wrong with that? I sit in my cube, every day, largely bored, but enjoying a standard of living my great-great-grandfather could never have imagined. Our system works pretty damn well.
What's more important, standard of living, or quality of life? You may see these as congruent, but i assure you they are quite different, though not entirely mutually exclusive.
How Many Bits Does It Take To Kill You? 300
pegr writes "Andrew 'bunnie' Huang, Reverse Engineer, XBox hacker, and generally smart guy, muses over the H1N1/swine flu virus as only a reverse engineer can: 'I now know how to modify the virus sequence to probably make it more deadly.' Not that he would, of course. bunnie has consistently made the esoteric available to us mere mortals, and his overview of the H1N1 virus is a fascinating read from a unique perspective." (Seen today also at the top of Schneier on Security.)
Comment Re:Killing myself! (Score 1) 511
you realize that pilsners are actually czech beer, right!
Submission + - Before the Big Bang: A Twin Universe? (physorg.com)
esocid writes: Until very recently, asking what happened at or before the Big Bang was considered by physicists to be a religious question. General relativity theory just doesn't go there — at T=0, it spews out zeros, infinities, and errors — and so the question didn't make sense from a scientific view. But in the past few years, a new theory called Loop Quantum Gravity (LQG) has emerged. The theory suggests the possibility of a "quantum bounce," where our universe stems from the collapse of a previous universe. This may be similar with beliefs of Physicist Neil Turok of Cambridge University who has theorized about a cyclic universe, constantly expanding and compressing.
Now, physicists Alejandro Corichi from Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and Parampreet Singh from the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Ontario have developed a simplified LQG model that gives an intriguing answer about the universe pre-Big Bang using a model from previous LQC research producing valid math. Ultimately, Corichi and Singh's model might even tell us what a future universe would look like. Depending on how fast our present universe is accelerating — which will ultimately determine its fate — there's a possibility that a generalization of the model would predict a re-collapse of our own universe.
Now, physicists Alejandro Corichi from Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and Parampreet Singh from the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Ontario have developed a simplified LQG model that gives an intriguing answer about the universe pre-Big Bang using a model from previous LQC research producing valid math. Ultimately, Corichi and Singh's model might even tell us what a future universe would look like. Depending on how fast our present universe is accelerating — which will ultimately determine its fate — there's a possibility that a generalization of the model would predict a re-collapse of our own universe.
Comment Re:e, no contest (Score 1) 573
thats awesome, im going to tell the cops that next time im runnin from them!!!!
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