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[Yeti]

It's only a matter of time before we get to the future.

By new sig.

Thanks.

[hbionic]

http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2011-08/first-generation-cognitive-chips-based-brain-architecture-will-revolutionize-computing-ibm-says

Paging John Connor. Please report to America.

[hbionic]

http://news.discovery.com/tech/euthanasia-sucicide-rollercoaster-ride-110919.html

Pretty effin cool. If I every decide suicide is the way to go, this is it!

[Yeti]

It's only a matter of time before we get to the future.

my new sig.

Thanks.

[Yeti]

  wtf

[hbionic]

Counting cricket chrips can give you the estimated temperature

http://www.snopes.com/science/cricket.asp

[BigEd76]

[Sgt PSN]

Flying cars, yo. 

[Eagaholic]

a few days ago, the northern lights could be seen as far south as Georgia.

From the as above so below files:


NOAA forecasters estimate a 50% chance of M-class solar flares during the next 24 hours. One such eruption has already occurred: An M4-flare at 2200 UT on Nov. 2nd produced a bright flash of extreme UV radiation and shot forth a mass of geomagnetic radiation into space.

However, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory predicts a possibility within 3 days of a solar filament eruption which will hurl forth a massive coronal ejection (MCE) that could splash across the face of the northern hemisphere.

[phattymatty]

sounds sexy.

also some gigantic asteroid is supposed to pass by us tomorrow night.

[Eagaholic]

Yeah, there are groups that actually track asteroids that could hit the earth.  I don't think this one will be visible though. There's a chart half way down the page.

http://spaceweather.com/

[Munson]

wanna translate that post about the solar flares for me?

[shorebird]

http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2011/07/a-new-fuel-that-reversibly-stores-solar-energy.ars

Pretty cool stuff there. It's only a matter of time before we get to the future.

Yeah, like tommorow, or the day after.

[General_Failure]

2nd test affirms faster-than-light particles

A second experiment at the European facility that reported subatomic particles zooming faster than the speed of light -- stunning the world of physics -- has reached the same result, scientists said late Thursday.

The "positive outcome of the [second] test makes us more confident in the result," said Fernando Ferroni, president of the Italian Institute for Nuclear Physics, in a statement released late Thursday. Ferroni is one of 160 physicists involved in the international collaboration known as OPERA (Oscillation Project with Emulsion Tracking Apparatus) that performed the experiment.

[hbionic]

That gives me hope that we would see a new set of rules for physics during our lifetime and that it would bring us a step closer to the solution to traveling to distant solar systems in a short period of time...without having to use infinite energy and growing really, really, fat!