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Elki
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And I only got one person to play that game.
because he's da vinci
haha, wow. top secret meat locker experiments.
On the black screen
How so? I mean, it's great, but it's not a total prosthesis. Wouldn't you agree that's the end goal?
We actually have arms that I would call bionic, btw - they interface directly with the nervous system and the user can register (in low resolution, obviously) the gross properties of materials like the roughness of sandpaper or the smoothness of glass.
Those drunk monkeys look familiar, like I've seen them before.
Da Vinci was like 'what do I want to dream up today?'
But society was like 'NO DA VINCI YOU'RE A PAINTER COME LET US PAY YOU TO PAINT!'
And Da Vinci just said 'yeah whatever, I can DAYDREAM about cars while doing that I guess.'
they have a week to write something and Dick Flair is the best he can do.
Rick Flair just went racist so he was safe.
ELM knows the field a whole lot better than I do. I had a buddy at MIT that knew some guys working in nanotube capacitor batteries but apparently it was all grant-bait bullshit and was never going to amount to anything.
i think really what it comes down to is that the coolest ideas require unobtanium (like some material with crazy capacitance or a room-temperature semiconductor) and that no one has come up with a better method using real materials than metal-and-acid to store electricity.
the man just had no attention span
it apparently took him a fucking eternity to get commissions done because he'd start working and then a sunbeam falling on a flower would inspire him to invent a siege engine made entirely out of scythes or something like that
if he could've lived for forty more years he'd have found a way to live forever
Ric Flair is almost as old as Will.
LIKE IN AVATAR
fuck the avatar thread
Are flywheels always going to be a pipe dream? I remember in the mid-90s this guy swore he was close to nailing it.
yeah there have been some cool advancements in prosthesis and i guess bionics. i don't really know where the line is, but plenty of people have implants that help them live normal lives.
i remember hearing about them too. like your car was going to have this big flywheel on a gimbal inside a metal sphere in a vacuum and holy shit could they spin that fucker up and store some energy and they could kind of sip on the energy through like eddy braking?
yeah i don't really know what happened with that.
You mean biotics, not bionics. It's all about telekinesis, my friend.
I don't understand why we don't do more with 'batteries' for shit that doesn't need to be moved around, though. Like, have wind turbines power a pump to fill a dam basin at the top of a hill and then the water runs down through a turbine to create electricity when its needed. It solves the whole 'the wind is intermittent' thing even if it would cut into efficiency and all that. You don't need energy density when you aren't going to move and have vast fields of nothing to somehow store potential energy.
Maybe he never died, but sometime around the nineties took a bump on the head.
And then became billie mays
On the black screen
Like great there were some big lizards that lived and died a long time ago, how does this give me better quality HDTV?
eh it is hard to be outraged when like half of these video game companies are going out of business in large part because of vast international piracy
You mean un-obtanium?
Not for me. Outrage all up ins.
Isn't that how I spelled it.
you know, my parents said that they toured the water system at Fort Collins and that they basically do this.
But today on NPR some nuclear power opponent was criticizing France's use of nuclear power to the tune of the fact that they sometimes shut down some of their plants because they are overproducing power and therefore they shouldn't have so many nuclear plants.
so i don't know. i guess it's just one of those civic improvements that haven't been really constructed too much.
What resolution is reality?
That sucks. Stupid nuclear power plants.
there is a place for soft sciences and junk sciences and philosophy and cultural anthropology and other assorted frippery. it's a fine use for people who are otherwise unsuited to real sciences.
The guys who made GalCivII for instance.
Granted GalCivII doesn't have anywhere near the budget AC2 had so it didn't need as many sales to break even.
But then I never demanded game companies depend on 7 digit number budgeted games to survive either.