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[10ebbor10]

Low resolution terminator

[Lagslayer]

Low resolution terminator

1:10

I have to go now, my people need me.

[alway]

Boston Dynamics have a new robot: WildCat.
It can run at least 16 m/h (25 km/h), and is basically an untethered version of their earlier Cheetah prototype which could go up to 48 km/h.
http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/military-robots/whoa-boston-dynamics-announces-new-wildcat-quadruped

Also, comparing every robotic system to terminator is stupid. There is no descriptive power in that comparison.

[10ebbor10]

Also, comparing every robotic system to terminator is stupid. There is no descriptive power in that comparison.

Yup, thereby compelling people to gain additionall information, and read the article.

[alway]

Also, comparing every robotic system to terminator is stupid. There is no descriptive power in that comparison.

Yup, thereby compelling people to gain additionall information, and read the article.

Thus making it clickbait, and ethically obligating me to avoid it so as not to encourage such stupidity on the part of writers.

[10ebbor10]

Your loss, I suppose.

[Scoops Novel]

A better description by posters would be nice, much as i dislike raining on parades.

[Drakale]

Same wildcat video on youtube oops didnt see you had it linked already.

Really impressive, though it obviously can't navigate any kind of rough terrain(yet). The software will need to be fairly advanced, or self learning do deal with that.

[10ebbor10]

NIF breaks even on Nuclear Fusion. For real this time, apparently

[Drakale]

It's not really true though, they aren't counting the laser inefficiency into the net power equation, only the net outputted power. So the laser heating losses are ignored, making it not even close to break even. Neat milestone, but dishonest reporting by the BBC.

[MonkeyHead]

Dishonest seems a bit harsh when the article aknowledges the labs stated goal of "ignition", which factors into account the laser efficiency problem. In fact, lasers are horribly inneficient, which suggests to me that laser induced fusion will probably not be the best way to get a net energy gain from the process.

[Descan]

Yeah. It's not "We got more power out of the reactor/apparatus/big ol' machine than we put in!", it's "We got more power out of the fuel-pellet than we put in."

As in, they pump 10mw of power into the fuel (even though the lasers might consume like... 20mw), and the reaction output 15mw.

*All numbers are ass-pulls to illustrate the point.

[Drakale]

Yeah I knee jerked a bit due to the linked title and confusing it from another article I had read, the actual article is not that bad, apologies to the author. But as you said, lasers driven fusion is probably never going to be efficient enough to be used in a reactor, magnetic confinement is much more promising.

[Lagslayer]

The obvious solution is to orchestrate the production new centers of massive gravity. Naturally, doing this on earth would kill us all.

Bare with me here, but I have an idea. What if we orchestrated the congregation of interstellar mass until it gets dense enough to ignite itself? Naturally, if we wanted a net gain, we would basically just make sure things get nudged in the proper direction and they come together relatively quickly. This would still likely take a long time (especially for humans), and such a thing is still way beyond our reach, but theoretically, shouldn't we be able to manufacture stars?

[Bauglir]

Conceivably, but it would probably be more efficient to just use that mass to build a Dyson Sphere around a star that already exists.