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2013-05-08, 14:06 | Link #1947 |
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'Overtaking humans' is just so ambigious.
Robots are already better than humans at a lot of things. Assembling cars, cutting stuff out of metal, flying planes, well any suffiently predefined task really. I guess if someone would put together all these specialized roles we have for robots today into one package, that would make a pretty amazing machine. But why would they? It would cost a bunch of money with nothing to gain from it. 'The' robot is really just a theoretical construct for now. While specializing robots for certain tasks makes them better at that, we will continue to do so. And those robots have already overtaken humans in their own narrow field. |
2013-05-08, 17:38 | Link #1948 |
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Scientists find sunken continent off Brazil ( Video)
http://www.reuters.com/video/2013/05...Channel=117760 Something like in Deus Ex Human Revolution ?
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2013-05-08, 17:45 | Link #1949 | |
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2013-05-09, 13:23 | Link #1950 | |
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NASA discovers that fireproof materials ignite in space
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2013-05-09, 21:18 | Link #1951 | |
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2013-05-09, 21:55 | Link #1952 | |
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The process of heating and supervolcanism you referenced is theorized to be the cause of the Permian extinction event, which was actually the most deadly extinction event in the fossil record, and significantly worse than the end Cretaceous extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs. I think it killed something like 90% of all living species at the time. Prior to the Permian extinction event, the proto-mammal reptiles called the synapsids (sometimes called mammal-like reptiles) were the dominant tetrapods. Culturally, they're most famously known for the sailbacks (or pelycosaurs) like Dimetrodon, which are often erroneously grouped with dinosaurs, but are actually much more ancient and more closely related to mammals. The end-Permian extinction event wiped out most of the larger, dominant synapsids and gave the sauropsids the chance to get big and take over, evolving into the archosaurs and dinosaurs. Then when the Cretaceous meteor extinction hit, the dinosaurs got wiped out, giving the synapsids (now evolved into mammals) the chance to take over again. I always found that interesting; history comes in cycles. |
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2013-05-10, 05:06 | Link #1954 |
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Wearable robots getting lighter, more portable
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories...05-09-14-56-48
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2013-05-10, 11:38 | Link #1955 |
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Not sure how old this is.
Youtube Paid Subscription Not sure how to feel about it, on one hand I can wave it off and say "meh, nothing to do with me" but who knows how long that'll last.
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2013-05-13, 16:10 | Link #1957 |
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Commander Chris Hadfield has been making a brilliant job at communicating with the public at large during his mission. He's been taking requests from school kids for experiments to film and send back earth as well as regularly tweeting from the ISS with great photos. I already had plenty of respect for the brave men and women who serve humanity aboard the ISS but he managed to kick it up a notch. It's just a shame that his tenure up there is coming to an end.
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2013-05-14, 12:48 | Link #1958 | |
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BlackBerry bringing BBM to Android and iOS this summer
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2013-05-14, 17:39 | Link #1959 |
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Warp Speed, Scotty? Star Trek's FTL Drive May Actually Work:
"In fact, scientists at NASA are right now working on the first practical field test toward proving the possibility of warp drives and faster-than-light travel." See: http://news.yahoo.com/warp-speed-sco...161638125.html |
2013-05-14, 18:19 | Link #1960 | |
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