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[MetalSlimeHunt]

Ladies and Gentlemen, Voyager I has left the building.

[Pnx]

Ladies and Gentlemen, Voyager I has left the building.

Spoiler: alt text, which I can't remember how to embed properly (click to show/hide)

So far Voyager 1 has 'left the Solar System' by passing through the termination shock three times, the heliopause twice, and once each through the heliosheath, heliosphere, heliodrome, auroral discontinuity, Heaviside layer, trans-Neptunian panic zone, magnetogap, US Census Bureau Solar System statistical boundary, Kuiper gauntlet, Oort void, and crystal sphere holding the fixed stars.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

That was just the media misinterpreting progress announcements. As you can see, this is NASA themselves.

[kaian-a-coel]

The thing is, data from voyager makes us reinterpret our conception of the solar system's frontier regularly. We think it's the end, but the next month we have to redo the models because it appears there's another layer. So it may make scientists sounds pretty bad, but in reality it means we're adjusting our models on the frontier between the solar system and interstellar space by actually getting there and probbing it. Which is most certainly one of the coolest things ever.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Early bionic eye functional.

[10ebbor10]

Not the first Eye replacement operation that happened. I know of others that have much better specifications and video quality.

It's the first to actually place the implant in the eye, and therefore be mostly unnoticeable though.

[olemars]

It does seem more practical than the concept that let people see with their tongue.

[Lagslayer]

If I recall correctly, I saw a documentary about something similar years ago. And it functioned pretty much exactly the same way. This leads me to believe that this is not a new thing at all. I'd link it if I could find it.

[Dutchling]

I have seen something similar before as well. Didn't look as fancy though.

[Chaoswizkid]

I wonder how the research into hijacking the optic nerve (for people with cases of blindness not involving the optic nerve or visual cortex or etc.) and sending electric impulses converted from camera inputs on sunglasses is going. IIRC, last I heard they had black-and-white blocky vision.

This seems less practical but more of an actual solution.

[Nirur Torir]

I wonder how the research into hijacking the optic nerve (for people with cases of blindness not involving the optic nerve or visual cortex or etc.) and sending electric impulses converted from camera inputs on sunglasses is going. IIRC, last I heard they had black-and-white blocky vision.

IIRC, they recently made (or are finishing up) a firmware update for that model which allows color and slightly better resolution. I think the hardware was recently approved for general use in the US, and has been available in Germany for a few years now, with a German firm nearing (six months to two years?) a model with 40-80% of the electrodes predicted to be necessary for facial recognition [I think they have 60% of 2000 needed].

I need to start writing these things down instead of trying to remember details.

[Lagslayer]

Re-posting from the WTF thread.

Microbial life that breaks down waste can used to harness electricity.

It's pretty interesting, the concept of harnessing electricity from organic lifeforms. That being said, this particular incident is inefficient and expensive.

[10ebbor10]

That has existed for a long time. Most versions used sugar or other forms of energy though, no waste.

But generally, the problem is that while it's very energy efficient, it's not size efficient (1m³ can power a small computer), and not time efficient either.

[pisskop]

ptw

[10ebbor10]

Aliens discovered in Earth's atmosphere.

Logic here is that they couldn't have come fallen up, so they must have fallen down from the sky.