for two committed people very far away from each other, or one very kinky person with too much money
Well now how about that, I didn't even think about one person using both pieces.
$380 for someone with a wang to be able to fuck themselves in the arse?
yeah 400 bucks is a whole lot of money for being able to giggle every time somebody tells you to go fuck yourself
Of it weren't so much money I'd take myself for a spin. Could be a neat experience!
I wonder , are any two devices tied to each other and can they connect to any other device? If the latter, that'd be pretty crazy. Random matchmaking for virtual sex?
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it involves email registration
of course now i'm wondering how people are going to "hack" the concept
A new computer software tool developed by NASA's aeronautical innovators – the Precision Departure Release Capability, or PDRC – will soon help controllers determine as best they can the precise amount of time it will take for an airliner to get from its gate to a fixed spot in the sky, and therefore be able to predict when pilots should receive clearance to push away from the terminal.
I thought, "that's pretty cool, passive energy generation" and then I realized it's basically just building a security flaw into your car keys and your wallet.
your car keys and wallet are already riddled with security flaws, one more won't really make a difference
I love super sci fi ( more-so the stuff that always seems like it'd be a reality, if we could just all get along and do it! Like I'm even trying to learn to write novel style, cause I need to get it out, and lost my ability to draw when my shakes began years back , since I used to write in a comic script style and now get to relearn everything, anyhoo)
Like, imagine once we figure out the ability to download ourselves online/switch consciousnesses and crazy stuff, our brains themselves connecting to the internet and such!
Want to visit France? put up an ad , and just switch bodies with someone in France for a bit. Heck the implications of society losing the connect between looks and personality alone would cause some amazing changes. or once we're kitted out with full AI nanobots, the entire workplace would change, could send your body to work on robotic autopilot and log into a separate matrix level virtual reality while your body goes to work.
Nanobots poking your brain to make crappy healthy food taste like bacon!
People getting the body they were meant to have , no fuss no muss!
Why stop at kitting out humanity too? Imagine the environmental effects if trees grew as houses themselves! Imagine the impact consciousness transfer and switching would have on deleting the need for vehicular transportation! ( heck imagine how far you could walk if you could just go play a 3d MMO in your own brain while your body gps'd to where it needed to go!)
Ya but nothing would be body specific, actions would be tied to the consciousness. ( and obviously the internet being a giant cesspool of insanity, is one of the first things that needs some fixing rofl)
switching bodies seems extremely unlikely if for no other reason than that by the time we gain that level of mastery over the essential mechanisms of consciousness we'll probably no longer be walking around in meat at all
downloading simulated facsimiles of real people could probably happen though which is sketchy enough
Ya, it could just be because of some limits I set on myself for the writing, but one of them was that in a post singularity, Humanity, even in biotech form, would still be fostered/furthered in various ways, because progress demands ingenuity. ( I wish I was less tired, I'd go off in spoilers heh, might another day when less tired), it's like this world/scenario that I can't stop thinking about half the time, I'm a little consumed by it. Both as Sci Fi, and as a fingers crossed look into the future. while still realizing it's far far far off/if ever/long shot scenarios heh
I love super sci fi ( more-so the stuff that always seems like it'd be a reality, if we could just all get along and do it! Like I'm even trying to learn to write novel style, cause I need to get it out, and lost my ability to draw when my shakes began years back , since I used to write in a comic script style and now get to relearn everything, anyhoo)
Like, imagine once we figure out the ability to download ourselves online/switch consciousnesses and crazy stuff, our brains themselves connecting to the internet and such!
Want to visit France? put up an ad , and just switch bodies with someone in France for a bit. Heck the implications of society losing the connect between looks and personality alone would cause some amazing changes. or once we're kitted out with full AI nanobots, the entire workplace would change, could send your body to work on robotic autopilot and log into a separate matrix level virtual reality while your body goes to work.
Nanobots poking your brain to make crappy healthy food taste like bacon!
People getting the body they were meant to have , no fuss no muss!
Why stop at kitting out humanity too? Imagine the environmental effects if trees grew as houses themselves! Imagine the impact consciousness transfer and switching would have on deleting the need for vehicular transportation! ( heck imagine how far you could walk if you could just go play a 3d MMO in your own brain while your body gps'd to where it needed to go!)
Sorry this kinda nerded out into a spam wall heh
Wasn't that the premise of two not so good sci fi movies? Gamer and another one with Bruce Willis?
I love super sci fi ( more-so the stuff that always seems like it'd be a reality, if we could just all get along and do it! Like I'm even trying to learn to write novel style, cause I need to get it out, and lost my ability to draw when my shakes began years back , since I used to write in a comic script style and now get to relearn everything, anyhoo)
Like, imagine once we figure out the ability to download ourselves online/switch consciousnesses and crazy stuff, our brains themselves connecting to the internet and such!
Want to visit France? put up an ad , and just switch bodies with someone in France for a bit. Heck the implications of society losing the connect between looks and personality alone would cause some amazing changes. or once we're kitted out with full AI nanobots, the entire workplace would change, could send your body to work on robotic autopilot and log into a separate matrix level virtual reality while your body goes to work.
Nanobots poking your brain to make crappy healthy food taste like bacon!
People getting the body they were meant to have , no fuss no muss!
Why stop at kitting out humanity too? Imagine the environmental effects if trees grew as houses themselves! Imagine the impact consciousness transfer and switching would have on deleting the need for vehicular transportation! ( heck imagine how far you could walk if you could just go play a 3d MMO in your own brain while your body gps'd to where it needed to go!)
Sorry this kinda nerded out into a spam wall heh
Wasn't that the premise of two not so good sci fi movies? Gamer and another one with Bruce Willis?
Surrogates, featuring the laugh out loud comedic performance of Bruce's wig.
There's this goo called Decongel. You pour it onto a surface, let it dry, and when you peel it off it leaves absolutely nothing that isn't supposed to be there.
All those cleaners that claim to work wonders are full of shit. This stuff will literally leave a surface spotless.
Not just good for cleaning filthy floors and shit, either. It also picks up radioactive particles, and so it can actually help decontaminate biohazard areas, hence the name.
They actually ended up sending vats of their product out to Japan, what with the nuclear crisis and all.
I love super sci fi ( more-so the stuff that always seems like it'd be a reality, if we could just all get along and do it! Like I'm even trying to learn to write novel style, cause I need to get it out, and lost my ability to draw when my shakes began years back , since I used to write in a comic script style and now get to relearn everything, anyhoo)
Like, imagine once we figure out the ability to download ourselves online/switch consciousnesses and crazy stuff, our brains themselves connecting to the internet and such!
Want to visit France? put up an ad , and just switch bodies with someone in France for a bit. Heck the implications of society losing the connect between looks and personality alone would cause some amazing changes. or once we're kitted out with full AI nanobots, the entire workplace would change, could send your body to work on robotic autopilot and log into a separate matrix level virtual reality while your body goes to work.
Nanobots poking your brain to make crappy healthy food taste like bacon!
People getting the body they were meant to have , no fuss no muss!
Why stop at kitting out humanity too? Imagine the environmental effects if trees grew as houses themselves! Imagine the impact consciousness transfer and switching would have on deleting the need for vehicular transportation! ( heck imagine how far you could walk if you could just go play a 3d MMO in your own brain while your body gps'd to where it needed to go!)
Sorry this kinda nerded out into a spam wall heh
Some of those ideas are super fun to think about, even though the concept of the "Ghost in the shell" style thinking doesn't really hold up under scientific scrutiny.
On downloading people, there's a similar premise in episode 1 of series 2 of Black Mirror. There's a full synopsis on there, but basically the idea is that a guy dies, and his girlfriend is able to communicate with a facsimile of his conciousness built up from his digital communications through the years. It progresses from there. I won't spoil it because it's really worth watching for yourself - the whole series is actually.
There's some exploration of the concept in the sequel to the Red Dwarf novelization. A guy leases his body so he can constantly get it upgraded (as he's a shallow tool, it's mainly defining the muscles and making his dick bigger), but then his business goes bankrupt and he's held in debtor's prison as an incorporeal soundwave.
I'm reading the sci-fi novel Altered Carbon right now. Among a lot of really cool concepts there's a character who works as a contract killer but doesn't trust anyone else so he copies himself into a backup, fakes his death, bribes some technicians and teams up with himself restored from the backup.
I'm reading the sci-fi novel Altered Carbon right now. Among a lot of really cool concepts there's a character who works as a contract killer but doesn't trust anyone else so he copies himself into a backup, fakes his death, bribes some technicians and teams up with himself restored from the backup.
I'm reading the sci-fi novel Altered Carbon right now. Among a lot of really cool concepts there's a character who works as a contract killer but doesn't trust anyone else so he copies himself into a backup, fakes his death, bribes some technicians and teams up with himself restored from the backup.
I'm liking it.
I fucking love the Takeshi Kovacs novels. I usually wait several years before I reread books but I think I only waited like 6 months to reread those.
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There's a lot of goalpost-moving RE: when we can say we live in the sci-fi future
but most experts agree its somewhere between "robots that can deliver pizza" and "downloadable pizzas"
I've insisted we've been living in the sci-fi future since 2000. The future only gets more future-y as we go.
Currently we're at giant nuclear-powered laser-armed science robot on Mars and knowing what color three dinosaurs were.
Yeah really. For three of them, we don't have to guess anymore. We know. They were feathered dinos and had such fine preservation that scientists could look at the feathers under a microscope and see fossilized color pigments, thus making them able to determine what color they were. One of them was orange and white striped with a white mohawk-sorta look on its head. One was mostly black but with white wing feathers and a big red crest. And the third...
See this little guy? This is an indigo bunting. He has no blue pigment in his feathers, just black. That's all iridescence. Turns out, Microraptor, which is a fairly common fossil, was the same way: black pigment but iridescence that turns the feathers blue in the sunlight. To make this awesomer, that indigo bunting only has a wingspan of 19-22 cm (7-9 inches) whereas Microraptor had a wingspan of 77-90 cm (2.5-3 feet) which is eagle sized. Oh yeah, and Microraptor had four wings (the legs were also winged) and may have flown like a biplane. Don't laugh at the primitiveness; biplanes aren't great at long distance flying but they're a lot more maneuverable than monoplanes, which would be useful for a generalist feeder that flew short distances through dense forest.
Even when I was a kid just in the 90s the books were saying that we'd likely never know what colors dinosaurs really were and many hypothesized that most colors were really dull and boring. Now only a couple decades later we know that there were eagle-sized flashes of iridescent blue way back in the day.
There's a lot of goalpost-moving RE: when we can say we live in the sci-fi future
but most experts agree its somewhere between "robots that can deliver pizza" and "downloadable pizzas"
I've insisted we've been living in the sci-fi future since 2000. The future only gets more future-y as we go.
Currently we're at giant nuclear-powered laser-armed science robot on Mars and knowing what color three dinosaurs were.
Yeah really. For three of them, we don't have to guess anymore. We know. They were feathered dinos and had such fine preservation that scientists could look at the feathers under a microscope and see fossilized color pigments, thus making them able to determine what color they were. One of them was orange and white striped with a white mohawk-sorta look on its head. One was mostly black but with white wing feathers and a big red crest. And the third...
See this little guy? This is an indigo bunting. He has no blue pigment in his feathers, just black. That's all iridescence. Turns out, Microraptor, which is a fairly common fossil, was the same way: black pigment but iridescence that turns the feathers blue in the sunlight. To make this awesomer, that indigo bunting only has a wingspan of 19-22 cm (7-9 inches) whereas Microraptor had a wingspan of 77-90 cm (2.5-3 feet) which is eagle sized. Oh yeah, and Microraptor had four wings (the legs were also winged) and may have flown like a biplane. Don't laugh at the primitiveness; biplanes aren't great at long distance flying but they're a lot more maneuverable than monoplanes, which would be useful for a generalist feeder that flew short distances through dense forest.
Even when I was a kid just in the 90s the books were saying that we'd likely never know what colors dinosaurs really were and many hypothesized that most colors were really dull and boring. Now only a couple decades later we know that there were eagle-sized flashes of iridescent blue way back in the day.
Yeah this reminds me.
Fuck you science.
Dinosaurs used to be bad arse cold blooded killers.
Now fucking science shows up and says that they were probably warm blooded and had so many fucking feathers on them that people would mistake a flock of killer fucking velociraptors with a mardi gras float.
If we had a military division with the bullet-carrying capacity of these birds it would face any army in the world...They can face machine guns with the invulnerability of tanks. They are like Zulus whom even dum-dum bullets could not stop.
Edit: Although "killers" might be a bit much as it was a bloodless victory.
There's a lot of goalpost-moving RE: when we can say we live in the sci-fi future
but most experts agree its somewhere between "robots that can deliver pizza" and "downloadable pizzas"
I've insisted we've been living in the sci-fi future since 2000. The future only gets more future-y as we go.
Currently we're at giant nuclear-powered laser-armed science robot on Mars and knowing what color three dinosaurs were.
Yeah really. For three of them, we don't have to guess anymore. We know. They were feathered dinos and had such fine preservation that scientists could look at the feathers under a microscope and see fossilized color pigments, thus making them able to determine what color they were. One of them was orange and white striped with a white mohawk-sorta look on its head. One was mostly black but with white wing feathers and a big red crest. And the third...
See this little guy? This is an indigo bunting. He has no blue pigment in his feathers, just black. That's all iridescence. Turns out, Microraptor, which is a fairly common fossil, was the same way: black pigment but iridescence that turns the feathers blue in the sunlight. To make this awesomer, that indigo bunting only has a wingspan of 19-22 cm (7-9 inches) whereas Microraptor had a wingspan of 77-90 cm (2.5-3 feet) which is eagle sized. Oh yeah, and Microraptor had four wings (the legs were also winged) and may have flown like a biplane. Don't laugh at the primitiveness; biplanes aren't great at long distance flying but they're a lot more maneuverable than monoplanes, which would be useful for a generalist feeder that flew short distances through dense forest.
Even when I was a kid just in the 90s the books were saying that we'd likely never know what colors dinosaurs really were and many hypothesized that most colors were really dull and boring. Now only a couple decades later we know that there were eagle-sized flashes of iridescent blue way back in the day.
Yeah this reminds me.
Fuck you science.
Dinosaurs used to be bad arse cold blooded killers.
Now fucking science shows up and says that they were probably warm blooded and had so many fucking feathers on them that people would mistake a flock of killer fucking velociraptors with a mardi gras float.
Not cool science.
Not cool.
to me, stuff like this always reads like the scene in Jurassic Park with that kid complaining that velociraptors look like giant turkeys
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It is the exact opposite of that.
Turkeys have feathers, how do you not notice that?
There's a lot of goalpost-moving RE: when we can say we live in the sci-fi future
but most experts agree its somewhere between "robots that can deliver pizza" and "downloadable pizzas"
I've insisted we've been living in the sci-fi future since 2000. The future only gets more future-y as we go.
Currently we're at giant nuclear-powered laser-armed science robot on Mars and knowing what color three dinosaurs were.
Yeah really. For three of them, we don't have to guess anymore. We know. They were feathered dinos and had such fine preservation that scientists could look at the feathers under a microscope and see fossilized color pigments, thus making them able to determine what color they were. One of them was orange and white striped with a white mohawk-sorta look on its head. One was mostly black but with white wing feathers and a big red crest. And the third...
See this little guy? This is an indigo bunting. He has no blue pigment in his feathers, just black. That's all iridescence. Turns out, Microraptor, which is a fairly common fossil, was the same way: black pigment but iridescence that turns the feathers blue in the sunlight. To make this awesomer, that indigo bunting only has a wingspan of 19-22 cm (7-9 inches) whereas Microraptor had a wingspan of 77-90 cm (2.5-3 feet) which is eagle sized. Oh yeah, and Microraptor had four wings (the legs were also winged) and may have flown like a biplane. Don't laugh at the primitiveness; biplanes aren't great at long distance flying but they're a lot more maneuverable than monoplanes, which would be useful for a generalist feeder that flew short distances through dense forest.
Even when I was a kid just in the 90s the books were saying that we'd likely never know what colors dinosaurs really were and many hypothesized that most colors were really dull and boring. Now only a couple decades later we know that there were eagle-sized flashes of iridescent blue way back in the day.
Yeah this reminds me.
Fuck you science.
Dinosaurs used to be bad arse cold blooded killers.
Now fucking science shows up and says that they were probably warm blooded and had so many fucking feathers on them that people would mistake a flock of killer fucking velociraptors with a mardi gras float.
Not cool science.
Not cool.
to me, stuff like this always reads like the scene in Jurassic Park with that kid complaining that velociraptors look like giant turkeys
The feathers and warm blooded-ness don't detract from the awesomeness of dinosaurs. It only turns them from drab and dull giant killing machines into bright, colorful giant killing machines. Look at the way the rich red blood contrasts with the indigo blue feathers. Breathtaking!
Before following any advice, opinions, or thoughts I may have expressed in the above post, be warned: I found Keven Costners "Waterworld" to be a very entertaining film.
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I wonder , are any two devices tied to each other and can they connect to any other device? If the latter, that'd be pretty crazy. Random matchmaking for virtual sex?
of course now i'm wondering how people are going to "hack" the concept
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http://www.nasa.gov/aero/strategic_vision/index.html#.Ugxrb5JQF1E
your car keys and wallet are already riddled with security flaws, one more won't really make a difference
I thought that was pretty cool.
Satans..... hints.....
Like, imagine once we figure out the ability to download ourselves online/switch consciousnesses and crazy stuff, our brains themselves connecting to the internet and such!
Want to visit France? put up an ad , and just switch bodies with someone in France for a bit. Heck the implications of society losing the connect between looks and personality alone would cause some amazing changes. or once we're kitted out with full AI nanobots, the entire workplace would change, could send your body to work on robotic autopilot and log into a separate matrix level virtual reality while your body goes to work.
Nanobots poking your brain to make crappy healthy food taste like bacon!
People getting the body they were meant to have , no fuss no muss!
Why stop at kitting out humanity too? Imagine the environmental effects if trees grew as houses themselves! Imagine the impact consciousness transfer and switching would have on deleting the need for vehicular transportation! ( heck imagine how far you could walk if you could just go play a 3d MMO in your own brain while your body gps'd to where it needed to go!)
Sorry this kinda nerded out into a spam wall heh
I could come "home" and find that they've robbed a bank or killed someone, or combed my hair differently.
downloading simulated facsimiles of real people could probably happen though which is sketchy enough
Wasn't that the premise of two not so good sci fi movies? Gamer and another one with Bruce Willis?
Surrogates, featuring the laugh out loud comedic performance of Bruce's wig.
All those cleaners that claim to work wonders are full of shit. This stuff will literally leave a surface spotless.
Not just good for cleaning filthy floors and shit, either. It also picks up radioactive particles, and so it can actually help decontaminate biohazard areas, hence the name.
They actually ended up sending vats of their product out to Japan, what with the nuclear crisis and all.
Some of those ideas are super fun to think about, even though the concept of the "Ghost in the shell" style thinking doesn't really hold up under scientific scrutiny.
I also got one for my birthday, and it's so cool.
I'm liking it.
Altered Carbon is real good.
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I fucking love the Takeshi Kovacs novels. I usually wait several years before I reread books but I think I only waited like 6 months to reread those.
I've insisted we've been living in the sci-fi future since 2000. The future only gets more future-y as we go.
Currently we're at giant nuclear-powered laser-armed science robot on Mars and knowing what color three dinosaurs were.
Yeah really. For three of them, we don't have to guess anymore. We know. They were feathered dinos and had such fine preservation that scientists could look at the feathers under a microscope and see fossilized color pigments, thus making them able to determine what color they were. One of them was orange and white striped with a white mohawk-sorta look on its head. One was mostly black but with white wing feathers and a big red crest. And the third...
See this little guy? This is an indigo bunting. He has no blue pigment in his feathers, just black. That's all iridescence. Turns out, Microraptor, which is a fairly common fossil, was the same way: black pigment but iridescence that turns the feathers blue in the sunlight. To make this awesomer, that indigo bunting only has a wingspan of 19-22 cm (7-9 inches) whereas Microraptor had a wingspan of 77-90 cm (2.5-3 feet) which is eagle sized. Oh yeah, and Microraptor had four wings (the legs were also winged) and may have flown like a biplane. Don't laugh at the primitiveness; biplanes aren't great at long distance flying but they're a lot more maneuverable than monoplanes, which would be useful for a generalist feeder that flew short distances through dense forest.
Even when I was a kid just in the 90s the books were saying that we'd likely never know what colors dinosaurs really were and many hypothesized that most colors were really dull and boring. Now only a couple decades later we know that there were eagle-sized flashes of iridescent blue way back in the day.
Your face is just a big venturi.
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Fuck you science.
Dinosaurs used to be bad arse cold blooded killers.
Now fucking science shows up and says that they were probably warm blooded and had so many fucking feathers on them that people would mistake a flock of killer fucking velociraptors with a mardi gras float.
Not cool science.
Not cool.
Satans..... hints.....
Edit: Although "killers" might be a bit much as it was a bloodless victory.
to me, stuff like this always reads like the scene in Jurassic Park with that kid complaining that velociraptors look like giant turkeys
Turkeys have feathers, how do you not notice that?
Satans..... hints.....
You want to pat it.
Satans..... hints.....
The feathers and warm blooded-ness don't detract from the awesomeness of dinosaurs. It only turns them from drab and dull giant killing machines into bright, colorful giant killing machines. Look at the way the rich red blood contrasts with the indigo blue feathers. Breathtaking!