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[Cryxis, Prince of Doom]

@Iceball- .-. I've already said that I agree with you guys and that acid bullets aren't practical.. At all..

[Bumber]

The polymer department of my town's technical university has made a breakthrough in researching polymers that can be commanded to expand or shrink, when triggered by photons or electric stimuli.

Practicable application in the near future will include "mobile coatings", "touchscreens that you can feel (braille touchscreens anyone?)", and "finely adjustable robot fingers"

Is it practicable for other haptic feedback uses, such as for virtual reality gloves, or is the resolution too low?

[wierd]

 There's a much better technology for haptic feedback.  it can cover more than just tactile sensation; can make your finger tips feel hot, cold, and a number of other sensations using simple electrical feedback in the finger tip.


Sadly, cannot find link right now.  Very cool though.

[Bauglir]

Quick, somebody competent tell me why I shouldn't be excited.

[Frumple]

... because nothing has actually been built yet. Be excited when there's at-least a prototype or somethin', not just unimplemented designs.

[Bauglir]

Sounds good, thanks.

[Bumber]

Quick, somebody competent tell me why I shouldn't be excited.

≡Fusion reactor plan≡

This is a fusion reactor plan.

The work is of “exceptional quality”

The humans are toiling. The article depicts a more efficient magnetic containment for super-heated plasma.

[Descan]

Except pretty sure if a fusion reactor breaks down, it just kind of fizzles out :v

[wierd]

Pretty much. It would vent some very hot helium and hydrogen, a blast of neutrons and protons-- and then be done.

Now, the fusion reactor's containment system might get quite radioactive from the neutron and proton surge--- but those are expected to become irradiated over time anyway from the fusion reaction itself under normal operation.

[wierd]

Then what you want, is for an underground natural fission reaction to go supercritical underneath a major city.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_nuclear_fission_reactor

Fusion is so much safer than fission it just isn't funny.

[martinuzz]

Some remarkable footage of an opera singer undergoing open brain surgery to remove a tumor, while singing an opera. (don't worry no blood)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obiARnsKUAo

Now, a year later, the guy in the video reports he's doing fine, and still singing opera.

[wierd]

Such things always remind me of the ending sequence from 2000 a space oddessy, where they pull HAL's microchips with him still on.

This had a much happier ending though. Amazing how fault tolerant human brains are.

[miauw62]

It's pretty clever, really. You don't feel pain in your brain, and if people are performing an activity such as opera singing, the doctors can tell when they touch an area that they shouldnt touch.

[Levi]

Some remarkable footage of an opera singer undergoing open brain surgery to remove a tumor, while singing an opera. (don't worry no blood)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obiARnsKUAo

Now, a year later, the guy in the video reports he's doing fine, and still singing opera.

Scary as hell.  All I can think of is that scene in Agents of Shield.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Please let me die, please let me die.

I've got a bit of a phobia about brain surgery though.

[Rubidium]

Some remarkable footage of an opera singer undergoing open brain surgery to remove a tumor, while singing an opera. (don't worry no blood)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obiARnsKUAo

Now, a year later, the guy in the video reports he's doing fine, and still singing opera.

Scary as hell.  All I can think of is that scene in Agents of Shield.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Please let me die, please let me die.

I've got a bit of a phobia about brain surgery though.

Just tell me, was that scene real?