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Stupid Robot Question
Building a better Robot
:: STARTED BY Tamayyurt
:: 2 REPLIES, LAST AT 11:29 06.12.06
Modern Day Neanderthal?
Do modern day humans have strains of neanderthal DNA?
:: STARTED BY The Ghost of Tom Winter
:: 9 REPLIES, LAST AT 19:53 05.12.06
Question Regarding Government/Military and Acquisition of Private Technology
No summary available
:: STARTED BY CameronStewart
:: 7 REPLIES, LAST AT 17:57 04.12.06
The Antikythera Device- world's oldest computer?
Were the Greeks 1,400 years ahead of their time? Is this 2000 year old set of gears and cogs a navigational device?
:: STARTED BY Quantum
:: 9 REPLIES, LAST AT 17:45 30.11.06
A virus that kills cancer?
Is this for real? And if it is, shouldn't it be, well, a big freakin' deal?
:: STARTED BY MattShepherd: I WEDDED KALI!
:: 3 REPLIES, LAST AT 14:38 29.11.06
Modafinil / Provigil
Modafinil / Provigil and the 24/7 revolution. Wonder drug my arse, or wonder if it works? What do peeps think of this potential for never having to sleep again?
:: STARTED BY Scrambled Password Bogus Email
:: 14 REPLIES, LAST AT 05:39 25.11.06
New tech, New gadgets.
Useful stuff for personal use, perhaps with an environmental leaning.
:: STARTED BY Unconditional Love
:: 10 REPLIES, LAST AT 13:24 20.11.06
Typhon's children
Researchers hope to put human nucleus in cow eggs. Allegedly for stem cell research. As opposed to shits and giggles.
:: STARTED BY jentacular dreams
:: 7 REPLIES, LAST AT 12:45 10.11.06
Digital Rights 101
What are digital rights? How do new technologies affect them? Why do groups like the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Open Rights Group matter? What does this have to do with my life?
:: STARTED BY grant
:: 16 REPLIES, LAST AT 06:40 04.11.06
Fish off the menu by 2048
Plenty more fish in the sea? Not any more...
:: STARTED BY Quantum
:: 1 REPLIES, LAST AT 06:30 04.11.06
Space Elevator
Beanstalks, space bridges, space lifts, space ladders or orbital towers.
:: STARTED BY Quantum
:: 8 REPLIES, LAST AT 00:39 02.11.06
New Developments in Computer Networking
A thread to collect, as the title says, new things coming out of computers and new ways to use these machines to connect people, aggregate information and exchange ideas. Wikis like Wikipedia are only the beginning....
:: STARTED BY grant
:: 7 REPLIES, LAST AT 23:03 28.10.06
Zero Point Energy
Zero point energy and perpetual motion machines.
:: STARTED BY Quantum
:: 6 REPLIES, LAST AT 14:16 27.10.06
The Philosophy Of Time Travel
The theories of time travel in reality and fiction, Einstein-Rosen bridges and entropy, Primer and Donnie Darko, discuss.
:: STARTED BY Quantum
:: 18 REPLIES, LAST AT 18:08 25.10.06
Where's my jetpack?
Jetpacks- actually scientifically viable, or just cool sci-fi stuff?
:: STARTED BY A
:: 24 REPLIES, LAST AT 21:41 21.10.06
U.S. says 'MY SPACE! MINE!'
The White House unveils a tough new policy aimed at protecting its interests in space - and denying access to hostile "adversaries"
:: STARTED BY Quantum
:: 3 REPLIES, LAST AT 14:21 20.10.06
SETI set to make major announcement 10/17
SETI will make a "major announcement" Oct 17. Something cool like first contact, or more like budgetary news for the new fiscal year?
:: STARTED BY spectre
:: 6 REPLIES, LAST AT 18:53 19.10.06
Scientific Analysis of Ritual Effects
A discussion of how to go about applying the scientific method to investigating claims of the paranormal. Is it possible? Is it worthwhile?
:: STARTED BY Mirror
:: 20 REPLIES, LAST AT 17:54 19.10.06
The Relativity Drive
An thrust device with no moving parts - engage relativity drive, Scotty!
:: STARTED BY Cloned Christ on a HoverDonkey
:: 5 REPLIES, LAST AT 12:58 17.10.06
They've always said kids have selective hearing...
A sound has been discovered that is only detetcable by the young (?)
:: STARTED BY sine
:: 6 REPLIES, LAST AT 21:28 16.10.06
Take that NASA
non government funded space travel... zesty! (file under: Burt Rutan, X-Prize, Scaled Composites, shuttle, rocket.)
:: STARTED BY topical b
:: 14 REPLIES, LAST AT 16:14 12.10.06
Reverse Sokal Hoax?
Is science in a similar state of disarray as the humanities (if you accept Sokal's thesis)? Would an incident like this prove it?
:: STARTED BY Ethan Hawke
:: 11 REPLIES, LAST AT 20:29 11.10.06
Subordinating science to ideology
Don't kid yourself; science doesn't happen in a happy vacuum.
:: STARTED BY YNH
:: 29 REPLIES, LAST AT 21:50 06.10.06
Huge Mutant Ant Colony Found
Not quite THEM, and the ants themselves aren't the part that's gigantic. Read all about it!
:: STARTED BY FinderWolf
:: 11 REPLIES, LAST AT 14:25 02.10.06
Privacy Repository
A thread for discussion of issues surrounding the maintenance of privacy, specifically in the context of electronics and network communications. A good place to mention tools and methodologies for maintaining privacy in aforementioned environment.
:: STARTED BY Francine I
:: 7 REPLIES, LAST AT 02:31 30.09.06
The Royal Society's Archives- Open for Three Months Only
The Royal Society has opened it's three and a half centuries of published work for public access.
:: STARTED BY Our Lady Has Left the Building
:: 1 REPLIES, LAST AT 21:35 24.09.06
Vatican Astronomer: Creationism is "a kind of paganism."
Brother Guy Consolmagno and the relationship of science and religion.
:: STARTED BY grant
:: 24 REPLIES, LAST AT 09:33 22.09.06
Global Warming
"An enormous floating ice shelf in Antarctica that has existed since the last Ice Age 12,000 years ago collapsed this month with staggering speed during one of the warmest summers on record there, scientists say"
:: STARTED BY Traz
:: 47 REPLIES, LAST AT 11:49 21.09.06
Kerala outs Microsoft
The Marxist government of Kerala, India, is no longer using Microsoft products and is usingo nly free software and OS such as Linux
:: STARTED BY All Acting Regiment
:: 3 REPLIES, LAST AT 12:33 18.09.06
Headlines from my future
Actual headlines that should only really come from the future.
:: STARTED BY COG
:: 1 REPLIES, LAST AT 15:19 16.09.06
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