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Obviously, the vibrating screen is cool. It would be awesome to see that kind of tech in phones to improve sound quality, assuming it doesn’t make your hand tingle to use or something.

So, presuming it is a magnetar, it’s something like this?

Cool, but it ain’t happening unless they shave off a zero and then some. If they were really good and forty bucks, maybe, but this just isn’t worth it. I guess if at some point in the future we have soldiers in full VR gear remotely controlling humanoid robots this could be useful because retaining footing while

While I ordinarily would advocate extreme caution with gene drives, the ability to knock out malaria in a few years is just such an unambiguously good thing that I have a difficult time understanding how people could advocate delaying this by years or decades. Even if it goes horribly awry, which it won’t, we could

Honestly, this doesn’t really surprise me, but continuing to advance immune programming should continue to improve the efficacy of this. If the issue is that new forms are evolving faster than you can kill them, that to me just means you need a faster process that is more effective in the end, both of which can be

And this is why autonomous cars are an inevitability. Failures to save a life are software bugs, not “driver error.”

Unfortunately, it’s not that simple. Were the device producing power a thousand times its current values, sure, we could chuck it out the ISS and watch it do something like move into a polar orbit from an equatorial one. But it’s not. It’s producing a fiftieth the thrust of existing ion engines and those are already

Nope. It just says a gene drive uses biased inheritance. How one causes biased inheritance is the question.

So, could someone explain how a gene drive actually works? I’ve seen a half-dozen articles referencing the potential for one, but how does one break natural selection to make a gene spread through an entire population that you aren’t selectively breeding?

Well, shit. Say what you will about Russia, but this is still a terrible tragedy.

I actually really like that idea of forcing people to release the information about gene drives beforehand. Science still gets done and people get to find problems before it happens.

By 2026...

Super soldiers aren’t worth it. Too many human rights issues. Just use robots.

Probably opportunity cost. A bit of extra girth at the tip is a whole lot easier to maintain than a whole extra bone, I imagine.

. . . I think you might have enjoyed writing this post a little too much. . .

The issue with nukes is that you risk making one falling rock with localized damage that can be mitigated with evacuation into a dirty carpet bombing of a continent which can’t.

The F-35 is a very well known and well documented failure by both sides of the aisle and has been for some years. It was an attempt to make a single fighter that could do nearly everything, but that has resulted in an unreliable, buggy aircraft well over budget and behind schedule. The argument could potentially be

That right there is some nightmare fuel.

Me: What if Donald Trump was Hitler?