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Science I Want

grant

17:34 / 09.07.04

I want more researchers into xenolingual autoeroticism. I want them to start their own journal.

What do you want?

lekvar

23:07 / 09.07.04

it's immoral as hell and aesthetically questionable, but I want a human cloned. Just one. So many philosophical questions could be answered. Never mind the headless clone farms, I want the Big Questions answered. Is personality genetic to any extent? Can mind form outside of normal gestation? And what about the "soul"?

And what ever happened to "virtual Reality"? Yes, the 90's version was cheesy, but that doesn't mean it wasn't fun. I want my total-immersion goggles, dammit.

And a jetpack.

gravitybitch

03:00 / 11.07.04

And "deer tongue as a masturbatory tool" isn't aesthetically questionable??

I want more blue roses. Programable tattoos. And a teleporter.

If I can't have that, I'll settle for cheap/ultra-efficient solar power, and equally cheap/efficient water purification on a scale suitable for agriculture in "third world" countries.

flufeemunk effluvia

00:04 / 12.07.04

I think they did make a jetpack; it was just unwieldly, loud, and useless.

I want robots FASTER!

Where are those positronic brains?!

Maybe also the invention of a Universal Constructor. Mega kickass.

Axolotl

11:12 / 12.07.04

I want a moonbase and mass space tourism. Screw all that useful stuff, I want to see earth from space. That or proper virtual reality/cyberspace. Ooooh, or bionic limbs. I really, really want a bionic arm.

xenosss

12:22 / 12.07.04

I'm looking for some mass. You know, a Higgs boson or two. If I can't have that, how about a programming language for the mind?

grant

16:23 / 12.07.04

There's a jetpack topic somewhere on here -- I think if you google site:www.barbelith.com "ducted fan" you'll find it. SoloTrak? Something like that. Topic also covered the Moller SkyCar -- yes, we DO have hovercars, but no-one's sure how to make them work with the FAA regulators.

Our Lady Has Left the Building

23:57 / 12.07.04

I want Heisenberg Compensators. Because once they've sorted them teleportation is a piece of piss, and I've always wanted to go to Australia but just can't face the journey.

pointless and uncalled for

13:48 / 14.07.04

cheap/ultra-efficient solar power

As far as cheapness is going, that is getting very close. Efficiency is a bit of an odd one. Solar power collected using pv cells is entirely efficient, it's the machinery that it is fed into that varies.

astrojax69

03:41 / 15.07.04

i just wanna know, was the tongue attached to the deer at the time...?

otherwise, all i want is a toaster that pops small bits of bread far enough above the hot metal to pick them out without burning my little fingers...

... oh, and a neural dictaphone, to record my almost-asleep thoughts (with speech recog - mebbe even types the up for me to read over morning coffee and small pieces of toast!)

sdv (non-human)

09:31 / 15.07.04

nanotechnology to rebuild those bits of my body that are no longer working as well as they used to... perhaps rebulding every cell/dna/rna string in my body resetting it back to perhaps the physical age of 20...

might be nice.

Axolotl

11:17 / 15.07.04

No, don't use nanotechnology. You'll get turned into grey goo. Prince Charles said it so it must be true.

Our Lady Has Left the Building

12:21 / 15.07.04

Prince Charles is against microscopically small things but not against things that are so small they don't actually exist, as in the case of the memory of liquid in homeopathy. It's logic like this which explains why he chose Camilla over Diana.

Cloned Christ on a HoverDonkey

19:00 / 15.07.04

Domestic nuclear fusion. That would be very cool. And holographic TVs, please.

flufeemunk effluvia

21:37 / 15.07.04

uhh.. SDV, go a bit further. Use nano technology to become a nietzchean übermensch a la Deus Ex. God that was a fun game...

Bastard Tweed

10:13 / 17.07.04

Old school, Dr. Moreau, meddling in God's Domain. We've cross-bred the donkey and the horse, the lion and the tiger, and I want more.

I want the dog-cat, the myna-peacock, and most of all; the chimp-man. Oh yes, the chimp-man.

sdv (non-human)

18:04 / 22.07.04

no no - I don't want to be an uber-mensch they always get killed by some bloddy seigfried or other... All I want is the ability to have the entropic body rebuilt and to read a few more books and things...

I used to have a rather nice novel by Michael Bishop I think it was about nanotech resurrecting the dead -- and the resulting liberation struggle....

bliss

Spaniel

15:13 / 02.08.04

Lekvar, we already have clones. They're called twins.

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05:16 / 03.08.04

I want a big machine that recycles everything at a cheap cost.

Mass produced, cheap, water powered cars. (done i think but not mass produced, where the hell are they?)

Something that can be a paper substitute, that can be as good as office grade paper, that doesn't involve chopping fucking trees down.

And, and a HOVERBOARD! (done?) That i can have for like, £30 quid. (and it better be as good as the ones off back to the future, in fact even better, i want neon lights as the design on the bottom that can be changed to what you want it do be, like a pad on the bottom with loads of small neon led's that you can touch and color (a set of colours that you choose from) to make your design on and then save it.)

Lord Morgue

11:07 / 03.08.04

I want to see a lot more of THIS

and a lot less of this.

Spaniel

17:37 / 03.08.04

And I want to see alot more of these...

They're better when they're switched on.

grant

20:07 / 03.08.04

Actually, there's a tour company in my hometown that uses a converted one of those amphibian things as a bus. It's one of the military models, I think. The company is "duck" something, because the vehicle's called a duck.

Triplets

20:53 / 08.08.04

Duckmarine?

I work at the Albert Dock in Liverpool and one of them does little tours around the dock/in and out of the water like five times a day.

Bastard Tweed

01:19 / 09.08.04

Actually, Banana, as much as I hate the dirty filthy hippies (don't we all?), industrial grade hemp can be refined into a rather good paper product which could probably be improved with a little development.

But for now they only make shoes . . .

Lord Morgue

06:07 / 09.08.04

Shhh... The Earmice are listening...

Axolotl

08:54 / 12.08.04

According to the BBC website the japanese have just conducted experiments with solar sails. This is obviously a good thing. I want solar regattas, with people jockeying for position and tacking on sunlight. It's the spectator sport for the new millenium.

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