SixthSense ([www.pranavmistry.com]) kind devices would be a better use for pico projectors. Wonder why that kind of technologies didnt exploded by now and were used instead of i.e. tablets.

I prefer Hanlon's Razor. Maybe we won't know more using it, but will be wiser dealing with people and keeping the peace.

Not sure if the artic is melting, but definately there is more water around: [thinkprogress.org]

My first tought was to compare him with Bush, but that would be too much.

Why worry about Skynet? Mankind or civilization in this planet have expiration date, there are too many records of extreme climate or mass extintion to just decide that nothing bad will happen in the future (even if we discard our own intervention like screwing climate or generate massive pollution like in Terra…

More than a receiver, he shouldnt be an uberhacker, but someone that just see signals in airwaves. Still he is the resident hacker for any should-be-safe high tech encryption. That Skylar did the widespread hacking of all tv stations or something like that makes more sense.

What would mean for us individuals? Or the ones that will accelerate its intelligence would be the beehive or the complex memes/temes involved, while we will keep getting individually dumber?

Bowman: "My God, it's full of Magazines"

Bill Gates: Comic Sans. Steve Jobs: Sans Comics

Nothing can be faster than light... in vacuum, But here? Matter could slow down light, while not slowing down neutrinos.

The xkcd radiation charts ( [xkcd.com] ) should be updated using as base "Reading Playboy" instead of eating a banana.

For me the twist was pretty amazing. A show where all Alphas have problems, psychological problems, and reasons to join or sympatize with the Red Flag, and resulting that the mole was Dr. Rosen? You were all the time watching every other direction, except that one. That was a pretty great twist. And there was a pretty…

P.K.Dick wrote a lot of stories where he plays with time in a way or another, giving "solutions" to some of those paradoxes. The best example of how weird things can go with him is "Meddler" , where played with the paradox of knowing the future (the blue butterflies!)

Now we need a caveman version of Bond, James Bond, and the neanderthal version of Q giving him this super advanced weapon of futuristic technology

Ok, this probably goes beyond fantasy and madness, but... if well won't be faster than light, what would be the odds of being able to "stand still", and that way go to somewhere else fast, not so much because how you move, but because how everything else does?

Define "soon". All human civilization existed in a blip in the earth history. And our civilization is kinda fragile, you don't need a massive mass extintion event to damage it enough to vanish in 200-1k years without leaving a lot of traces. Something like the Toba event, or a pandemic disesase could be enough,…

No love for Hugo Weaving?

Psh, is pretty simple compared with Primer ( for a hand drawn diagram for it, check [xkcd.com] )

A related question could be, what if we just perceive the reality as 3D as something cultural, but is in fact more and with some trick you can do weird things? "Mimsy were the borogoves" from Lewis Padgett (no, please, don't watch the last mimzy movie, the original tale is great as it is) somewhat went around that…

So we finally got an economic reason to go to the center of the earth, its full of gold!