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Author Topic: SCIENCE, Gravitational waves, and the whole LIGO OST!  (Read 513317 times)

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Re: SCIENCE, the Higgs, and everything else!
« Reply #885 on: October 15, 2013, 03:31:14 pm »

Nah, we're not up to schedule. We're a few years behind and will go an estimated 50% over budget. But well, we've invested to much to stop now.
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Re: SCIENCE, the Higgs, and everything else!
« Reply #886 on: October 15, 2013, 03:33:41 pm »

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.
But hopefully it wasn't inedible.
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Re: SCIENCE, the Higgs, and everything else!
« Reply #887 on: October 15, 2013, 06:03:13 pm »

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.
But hopefully it wasn't inedible.
I was considering that one, too, but decided "ehh..."

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Re: SCIENCE, the Higgs, and everything else!
« Reply #888 on: October 15, 2013, 07:55:04 pm »

When researching energy that uses 99.9% of the known universe for fuel I don't think there's such a thing as money wasted so long we figure out what works and what doesn't.

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Re: SCIENCE, the Higgs, and everything else!
« Reply #889 on: October 15, 2013, 08:23:00 pm »

All that really matters is abundance on Earth, and possibly the solar system, in terms of cost-efficient energy. Thankfully, Hydrogen is really abundant on Earth.
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Re: SCIENCE, the Higgs, and everything else!
« Reply #890 on: October 15, 2013, 09:31:11 pm »

And jupiter and saturn. And if we can make it that far, why not harvest Titan?

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Re: SCIENCE, the Higgs, and everything else!
« Reply #891 on: October 15, 2013, 11:39:20 pm »

Tritium however is nearly unfindable.

Though we can make it in a lab.
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« Reply #892 on: October 17, 2013, 12:46:04 pm »

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« Reply #893 on: October 17, 2013, 12:52:48 pm »

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« Reply #894 on: October 17, 2013, 08:35:01 pm »

3D printing has really been moving ahead since it came closer to public knowledge in the last 2-3 years or so.
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Re: SCIENCE, the Higgs, and everything else!
« Reply #895 on: October 25, 2013, 01:32:12 am »

Interactive tattoos!

I'd seriously drop the money on this, it's rediculous. This is my kinda biohacking.

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« Reply #896 on: October 25, 2013, 07:35:04 am »

Interactive tattoos!

I'd seriously drop the money on this, it's rediculous. This is my kinda biohacking.

Sadly only a design concept, but yeah, that would be very cool. If nothing else, my dad would find it useful (he's a type-1 diabetic, so an easy to read blood glucose meter would be pretty handy).

I hope someone makes this happen, because it honestly doesn't look too out there, tech wise.
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« Reply #897 on: October 25, 2013, 07:36:19 am »

Well, IIRC, there were some working prototypes, but rejection (especially, when the thing is somehow damaged) was a major concern.
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« Reply #898 on: October 25, 2013, 07:51:41 am »

Really? If it's silicone-coated, it shouldn't be a problem.
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« Reply #899 on: October 25, 2013, 09:17:24 am »

I'd much prefer chemically induced psionics. FLESH IS STRONGER THAN STEEL!
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