Pink Tentacle has a creepy post about Sogo & Seibu announcing plans to build “robot doppelgangers.” Ack!
Pink Tentacle says:
The mechanical doppelgangers are available for a limited time as part of a special New Year?
African Giant Pouched Rats are being trained to detect unexploded landmines in Tanzania. Socyberty says:
The idea occurred to Weegens as he realized that rats were both easy to train and had an excellent sense of smell. Combining these two would, he considered, provide a cheap way to detect unexploded mines and ?
In honor of the announcement of the UK’s new ahem Ministry of Space, here’s a picture of a half million galaxies.
Fit that into a 140-word Tweet, puny mortals, and remember what we were SUPPOSED to be doing with the 21st Century!
Note: Every dot in above picture is a galaxy, not a star. Discover’s Bad Astronomer says:
Whoa. That?
The above graphic maps every nuclear explosion since 1945, along with its place, year and responsible party. If one were to count all the circles of various sizes, the sum total of explosions would amount to over 2000. To gulp over a larger map, click here.
(via Gizmodo)
Bonus: Social Distortion, 1945
Apparently, AIDS came from tigers. I’m not sure how to put a spin on that. I mean, AIDS. Tigers. AIDS. Tigers. WHAT IN THE
Researchers have found a strand of feline DNA in the AIDS virus, leading them to believe that the virus was incubated in a tiger thousands or millions of years ago. They speculate that the tiger may have bitten a monkey, setting in motion the viral evolution that would ultimately lead to the infection of humans. Though the research is unlikely to directly lead to treatment breakthroughs, it expands scientists?
Interesting essay on how the work of late science fiction author Philip K. Dick
The thesis of author “L.B. Jefferies” is straightforward enough: “Philip K. Dick?
Discovery reports on the drug cocktail that our brave men and women in outer space indulge in on a regular basis to stay focused and sane. Personally, I have only one feeling about this, and it’s the same one I have about sex in space. [Waits for Branson-flights to drop in price…]
Outer space, at least as we encounter it in science fiction, is basically a drug free-for-all. If character’s aren?
SMI²LE! We’re apparently right at the threshold of near-immortal life extension… well, assuming we can survive the next 20 years, that is. Kurzweil and other mandroids reported thus:
Researchers at the Maximum Life Foundation met recently to discuss their latest anti-aging findings. Their goal is to extend the human lifespan indefinitely by 2029… though it’s not yet clear how that’ll actually work.
The Huntington Beach-based Foundation held a Longevity Summit earlier this month, where biologists and geneticists shared their research into how humans might live longer ?
