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[alway]

Also, every piece of music I've listened to outside of a car radio. Between Pandora and Youtube recommender systems, I don't really search for music any more.

On an unrelated note: http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/11/health/miracle-marathoner-carlos/index.html?hpt=us_t2
Man lives for a month without breathing, recovers. Who needs lungs anyway. We have magic sufficiently advanced technology.

[10ebbor10]

With 3D printers, we're getting closer. Once people start to 3D-print protein paste into artificially flavored foods, and realize how much having access to that kind of tech has the potential to change the world, we'll see a drive toward more and more refined printers that can handle a wider variety of matter.

Eventually, we'll get a molecular printer that can use heat/pressure/electricity to bond raw elements into complex compounds. Of course, we'll still have to buy raw elements... but once fusion is working smoothly, and we can synthesize heavier elements like carbon and nitrogen from lighter ones on an industrial scale, I could see something akin to replicators on the distant horizon.

That is actually possible already. It makes small cookies. Major corporations have decided not to develop the technology, as there's currently a "back to the old times" trend going on in cooking.

[Putnam]

With 3D printers, we're getting closer. Once people start to 3D-print protein paste into artificially flavored foods, and realize how much having access to that kind of tech has the potential to change the world, we'll see a drive toward more and more refined printers that can handle a wider variety of matter.

Eventually, we'll get a molecular printer that can use heat/pressure/electricity to bond raw elements into complex compounds. Of course, we'll still have to buy raw elements... but once fusion is working smoothly, and we can synthesize heavier elements like carbon and nitrogen from lighter ones on an industrial scale, I could see something akin to replicators on the distant horizon.

That is actually possible already. It makes small cookies. Major corporations have decided not to develop the technology, as there's currently a "back to the old times" trend going on in cooking.

Free-range farm cookies popular among today's hip youth, experts say.

[Lagslayer]

With 3D printers, we're getting closer. Once people start to 3D-print protein paste into artificially flavored foods, and realize how much having access to that kind of tech has the potential to change the world, we'll see a drive toward more and more refined printers that can handle a wider variety of matter.

Eventually, we'll get a molecular printer that can use heat/pressure/electricity to bond raw elements into complex compounds. Of course, we'll still have to buy raw elements... but once fusion is working smoothly, and we can synthesize heavier elements like carbon and nitrogen from lighter ones on an industrial scale, I could see something akin to replicators on the distant horizon.

That is actually possible already. It makes small cookies. Major corporations have decided not to develop the technology, as there's currently a "back to the old times" trend going on in cooking.

Free-range farm cookies popular among today's hip youth, experts say.

I suppose that joke was inevitable.

[MaximumZero]

outside of a car radio

I have a USB port and an auxiliary jack on my car stereo. I never listen to the radio in the car, either.

[Evil Knievel]

How Target and similar companies know you're pregnant before anyone else. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/magazine/shopping-habits.html?pagewanted=1&_r=0

Not only that, but also how they know EVERYTHING ABOUT YOU after you shop there once...
This goes into the terrified thread.

As long as you (can) pay cash, no one tracks you.

[ChairmanPoo]

http://www.nature.com/news/iter-keeps-eye-on-prize-1.13957?WT.mc_id=FBK_NatureNews

[10ebbor10]

That was kind off expected, with the financial crisis and all that.

Interesting page to watch.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

I've always had high hopes for Iter. It's the kind of project we need more of (not necessarily fusion, but large-scale research).

Besides, I like the symbolism in its name.

[10ebbor10]

Well, we have some more of these projects. They're called the flagship projects. And are all similary large scale. Link

At this point both the Graphene and Human Brain projects are working. Others might be under consideration.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Your link is wrong.

[10ebbor10]

Fixed

Both projects have a 1 billion euro budget.

[ChairmanPoo]

I don't think it's that bad, the news, I mean. While they're trimming edges, the project goes forward, which is all fine and good.

[10ebbor10]

Technically they're not even trimming. They're just reorganizing the shedual, postponing non essential scientific tests.

[ChairmanPoo]

I was genuinelly cheered by the news article. In the middle of a major crisis, they're still up-to-scheudle with putting together what insofar as I know will be the first fusion reactor ever with a bigger energy output than input.