For All Mankind was surprisingly good. See is yet another Game of Thrones clone, but has its moments. I haven't tried anything else yet.

For just a screening test on crowds, you don't need to analyze molecular structure. Just vortex the aerosol particles onto differently reactive surfaces and use pattern recognition ML on the results.

One of the symptoms of COVID-19 is losing sense of smell, which makes it dangerous to try to learn this scent if your species can be infected.

There is also no reflected light from Earth, making nights darker on the far side.

If the thing is so smart that it can detect the offending areas, why not blur them tautomatically, like the faces in google streetview? With no record, it is impossible to even troubleshoot what part of the picture the "AI" thinks is offensive.

How many dogs would you need to kill to train one to detect novichok, able warn about it and remain alive? No, the future of chemosensing must be "artificial noses". They are no joke, and will enable even more invasive tehcnology than face recognition.

Norbert Wiener wrote about sending people as telegraphs, about 10 years before Star Trek:

"To recapitulate: the individuality of the body is that of a flame rather than that of a stone, or a form rather than of a bit of substance. This form can be transmitted or modified and duplicated, although at present we know only how to duplicate it over a short distance."

A cell can be divided and remain living. A body can replace most of its atoms during a couple of years, and remain alive the whole time. The fictional Star Trek transporter was in my viewing also meant to preserve total-body homeostasis for the people being beamed, this is very clear and consistent. The difficult part is conceptualizing this (too too) solid flesh as a message, rather than as a bit of substance.

Problem solving in tv shows these days is done by "hacking", i.e. one of the supporting characters hacks their fingers against a keyboard while staring the screen intensely for a few seconds. This both kills the drama and makes hacking look like magic.

When the storm hits, just go hide inside your $500 EMF-proof sleeping bag, you'll be fine.

https://www.spacex.com/starshi...

If you make a fine filter that lets water seep through but keeps the tea leaves in, you end up with a structurally weak gauze with a large surface area. For a single-use item, the plastic is cheap and made of low density short fibers. No wonder it sheds more particles than more solid plastic items, like the plastic wrapping around individually packaged paper tea bags.

By that logic, "astronauts" should be called "planetnauts". But since the furthest man has gone is the Moon, we don't have any of those yet either, just lunanauts and orbitnauts.

Marvin Minsky, a.k.a. Patient 144 at Alcor? He might have another chance at life in the future, if cryogenic revival becomes possible. Heck, if technology becomes magical enough, they could even scan his memories as evidence in the future.

My bet is portable chemosensors, as accurate as bloodhounds, driven by AI. https://unfinishedwisdom.wordp...

I'm too old to learn vi. I suppose they finally win now, a bit underhanded strategy I must say.

"Forget it Jake. It's Gamergate." (paraphrase from a soon-to-be-banned film?)