I am illiterate in the topic (as in many others) and I didn't even know about the inertial confinement fusion and that this experiment was of this branch and I assumed that is was a magnetic confinement fusion (the only one I thought existed). That brought me to a some very light readings around internet (thanks!) . Very insightful and at the same time, lots of hurdles to jump still in the next years. different ones.But that's how magnetic confinement works, right, not inertial confinement? I could be hopelessly wrong...
Hopefully you can tell me I told you soBy which time I could be 92 if I am still alive then.
Hopefully I will be able to tell you otherwise. But we will find out.Hopefully you can tell me I told you so
If you have the time, I would recommend you take a look at the approach that the UK is taking. It is a spherical Tokamak which it is believed will be more able to hold the fusion reaction, called STEP.I am illiterate in the topic (as in many others) and I didn't even know about the inertial confinement fusion and that this experiment was of this branch and I assumed that is was a magnetic confinement fusion (the only one I thought existed). That brought me to a some very light readings around internet (thanks!) . Very insightful and at the same time, lots of hurdles to jump still in the next years. different ones.
It really is. Sometimes I’m in awe of the human species with things like this. Then other times I’m the complete opposite when we do really stupid/awful/ cruel stuff. The mind boggles sometimes.Isn't it! Just amazing!
What I liked, apart from the incredibly stimulating views that Penrose has, was the interviewer nodding and saying yes, when I am not sure he actually understood what Penrose was saying."The Big Bang was the conformal continuation of the remote future of a previous Eon." Sir Roger Penrose.
Whether he's right or wrong, I love that the human mind can even think of and share such concepts, and that there's such a wonderful Universe to conceptualise about!
excellent"The Big Bang was the conformal continuation of the remote future of a previous Eon." Sir Roger Penrose.
Whether he's right or wrong, I love that the human mind can even think of and share such concepts, and that there's such a wonderful Universe to conceptualise about!
News article: Metal robot can melt its way out of tight spaces to escape | New ScientistNature Briefing said:Liquid-metal robots can melt and re-form
Researchers have created a material that can move, soften and re-harden under the influence of magnetic fields. To demonstrate the material’s promise, researchers showed how it could be manipulated to pass through barriers, extract an object from an artificial stomach, and move a tiny light bulb into place and then melt into the solder required to make it work.
Terminator, here we come!
News article: Metal robot can melt its way out of tight spaces to escape | New Scientist
Scientific article: Magnetoactive liquid-solid phase transitional matter - ScienceDirect
And this is how this is cool (more gifs in the news article):
Popular science article: Scientists made a new kind of ice that might exist on distant moons (nature.com)Nature Briefing said:New type of ice discovered
Scientists have made a new form of ice that has never been seen before. It was produced by shaking normal ice in a container filled with stainless steel balls at –200 °C, which disrupted the ice’s crystalline structure. There are already heaps of types of ice: depending on how it freezes, water can solidify in any of 20 regular arrangements. And two types of disordered, or ‘amorphous’, ice were already known: one denser, and one less dense, than water. The new ice — called medium-density amorphous ice — seems to have the same density and structure of liquid water. The discovery could help scientists to better understand water’s mysterious properties, as well as geophysical processes on icy moons.
You maniacs! You blew it all up! Damn you, damn you to hell!Terminator, here we come!
News article: Metal robot can melt its way out of tight spaces to escape | New Scientist
Scientific article: Magnetoactive liquid-solid phase transitional matter - ScienceDirect
And this is how this is cool (more gifs in the news article):
They’ll just use it to make sex toys more intelligent.I was reading this article about Deep Brain Stimulation treatment for a specific variant of Parkinson's disease: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/first-person-harry-forestell-parkinsons-dbs-1.6752210. In short, they drill into the skull to install electrodes that send signals that correct the brains behaviour in just the right area and allow people to regain control of their limbs, stopping the tremors.
The fun part (well, kinda) is that you can then control those electrodes from the outside - so you can turn them to show the effect in real time. There's a video in the article that demonstrates it really neatly, but it's in a format that can't be embedded here. Instead, this also shows it:
It's crazy all the stuff we can do!
Not to stop their tremors though.They’ll just use it to make sex toys more intelligent.
That's amazing!I was reading this article about Deep Brain Stimulation treatment for a specific variant of Parkinson's disease: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/first-person-harry-forestell-parkinsons-dbs-1.6752210. In short, they drill into the skull to install electrodes that send signals that correct the brains behaviour in just the right area and allow people to regain control of their limbs, stopping the tremors.
The fun part (well, kinda) is that you can then control those electrodes from the outside - so you can turn them to show the effect in real time. There's a video in the article that demonstrates it really neatly, but it's in a format that can't be embedded here. Instead, this also shows it:
It's crazy all the stuff we can do!
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Not bad. Tried to get it to persuade me to go vote today. We decided I'd spoil my ballot.
Very scary, yeah. China is already showing how video and online surveillance are a 'great' tool to keep a full population under very close control, and this will just make it worse. There are really far too many non-fun applications for AI...
I think is innevitable. Not developing AI in the west would mean that china will develope it anyway and would use it and also at his advantage. So it will happen even if we dont like it. Lets hope the worse perspective dont come true but in 10 years the job market will tale a tumble IMO. That for starters...then, sci-fi scary shit. When and how intense...we will seeVery scary, yeah. China is already showing how video and online surveillance are a 'great' tool to keep a full population under very close control, and this will just make it worse. There are really far too many non-fun applications for AI...
Lay article: The Closest Living Relative of the First Animal Has Finally Been Found - Scientific AmericanThe ancestor of all animals
Ctenophores, also called comb jellies, are the sister group of all living animals, scientists have discovered. The team compared the comb jelly Bolinopsis microptera to sponges — another contender for the most ancient creature on Earth — along with three unicellular relatives of animals. The pattern of genes on the jellies’ chromosomes revealed that they evolved first. That means that early animals were surprisingly complex: they had a well-developed nervous system, and could probably swim around freely. “We have to rethink the function and the structure of the early ancestor of animals. It wasn’t like a simple sponge,” says evolutionary biologist Paulyn Cartwright.
That's amazing!https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-65689580
Brain implants help paralysed man to walk again
A paralysed man has been able to walk simply by thinking about it thanks to electronic brain implants, a medical first he says has changed his life.
Gert-Jan Oskam, a 40-year-old Dutch man, was paralysed in a cycling accident 12 years ago.
The electronic implants wirelessly transmit his thoughts to his legs and feet via a second implant on his spine.
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...and of course that does nothing for me either, cause I can't see responses to tweets anymore.Tweet
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I don't know enough about it, but it looks a tad dodgy to me. I'll wait for the peer review and experimental reproduction in other labs before getting as excited as this chap is....and of course that does nothing for me either, cause I can't see responses to tweets anymore.
Think it was a nanobot assisting by swimming a weaker sperm to help it to fertilize an egg.The tweet is gone, what did it say?