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I do believe that there is a place for pure science. Science that expands knowledge and gives us a better insight into how things are and how they work.

Sometimes though I think that there is a case for calling it a day and branching off into something else more productive.

This is one of those things. A new atomic clock accurate to 1 second in 3 billion years.

WTF! How can they be sure, has it been fully tested? What is the benefit of that over the old one, also untested which was half as accurate? I fail to see the benefit over the old cesium clocks, only accurate to 100 Million years, that have been around for a while.

And I’ll bet they are even now looking at the next version.

Moore’s law, less of a law than an observation, a bit like Murphy’s law, states that ‘the number of transistors that can be placed inexpensively on an integrated circuit has doubled approximately every two years’.

Of course this was accepted as being valid in the short term but invalid over a longer length of time as we hit the limits of our technology and the media we work with. I and People of similar thoughts to myself have felt that although we would reach the limits on one substrate we would find another and the law would apply again until, of course, we reached the limits of that substrate and so on. We look at most things the same way, on the positive side.

Now, h/t Ivan, it appears that before we have even had a hiccup with silicon a new substrate has been found, graphene. A first generation graphene processor is already working at 250x a state of the art silicon chip and that is before we start the fine tuning and improve the manufacturing process.

A very impressive start. Wonder when we can expect to see them in our systems?

A sex doll for $7k that is perfect in many ways.

On the surface it does have one major flaw. It talks, but the manufacturer has thought of that and it has an off switch. I’m sure later versions will have much greater interaction and more verbal facilities. The intention being to make a perfect version that will even get the beer and clean up.

It seems that like many expensive toys there is a back order on the units with pre-orders being taken.

Like all technology I see this as a double edged sword. Sure you get your needs sorted out and don’t get any earache after a hard days work it would reduce the requirment for the sex industry and sex slaves but more importantly it stops whingy whiny feminists and hard faced politicians going on about explotation and sex slaves. However, we need mini carbon based units to keep the species going until we have immortality.

Thinking outside the box for a minute if we could make them cheap enough we could send them to places like Afghanistan. One each. That would give us two wins, the first is that they would be too busy to be killing anyone. The secondis that eventually they would simply run out of nutters to send on jihads. From their perspective it would be great. No wimmin enjoing sex and they would enjoy themselves more knowing that one simple fact.

Now before I go out and order one I want to know more about the product testing procedures. I don’t want mine to be ruined by ‘The HedgeHog’

Is this how they intend to change us from gas guzzling power hungry drivers to more eco friendly drivers?

Our heroes are Formula 1 drivers, Nascar drvers, Rally drivers etc. All adrenaline pumping fast and furious 0-100 in 2.something seconds and top speeds around 200+mph just like we have grown accustomed to.

Now it appears that the rules behind F1 are changing. The main one being no more pit stops. This means they have to carry their fuel load from the go and they will need to have vehicles which can handle that. That’ll mean they will be slower and sturdier. But will still be heavier on that later laps when the fuel is almost gone.

Nowin the past it speed went up, corners taken faster and performance and handling improved. Now it will change with the emphasis being on getting the most bang out of the fuel. The car that needs the least fuel at the start will be lighter, faster and more controllable while the others are more cumbersome. Get a good start and then cruise rather than race.

The innovation will be diected towards making the consumption less and thus the emphasis will be different.

Looks like the F1 committee has been infiltrated by Greens. I wonder though what it will do to the sport, will it be just as good as before or will it become boring as cars try and squeeze the last drop of juice out of the car. If it turns boring then the manufacturers and advertisers will pull out and we will all turn to the US for the latest Nascar races. At least the Americans know how to live. (Until Obama turns his eyes, from the teleprompter, on to dirty, noise racing cars anyway)

I can see it now. Accelerates from 0-60 in 15.2sec just like a F1 car. Whoo Hoo. I can hardly wait.

Rules, they screw the fun out of everything.

Or to go into drug, wimmin or gun smuggling. I would love one of these submarines. Don’t know why they call it a plane though. Richard Branson hopes one day to vist 35,000 ft down. Well he may very well but his chances of being alive when he gets there are less than the chances of a Labour Politician telling the truth.

Must be much safer than a real plane though. I would guess there would be much more interesting things to see as well and if you wanted to bring back something special well who would know? I wonder if this would get from France to the UK with a full load.

Flying through the sea without a care in the world and then one day…. a flashing set of blue lights appears.

This or the Aston? Decisions, decisions…. I think I’d have this…

It seems that the TV providers have given up on waiting for a decent 3D system to arrive. Sky are rolling out some 3D channels and are starting with nine pubs this weekend showing a 3D football match. Expanding across pubs during April followed by homes later in the year.

I envisage that there will not be too much spending on infrastructure so it’s a good step to take for them. Even if it doesn’t work then they won’t have lost much. Personally, I hate these 3D systems but can’t see any alternative on the horizon.

It will be interesting to see what happens.

An Anti-Sniper system similar to this SENTRI surveillance system was discussed a few years ago during the Bosnia conflict. It seems sniping was a national pastime and no one, and I mean no one was safe. The version I read about though did more than take a photograph, it fired .50 cal rounds at the sniper making this easy game a bit more dangerous. How that more challenging version was received I don’t know.

Now it appears it is being rolled out in the big cities in America. Sadly, without the .50 cal. I wonder why? Like the UK, I though these places had gun control programmes. Funny how they don’t seem to work wherever they are implemented.

Looking at all this security stuff makes it look like the place to be in. The money for terrorists, bad guys and just plain security seems to be growing every year. I think I need to reconsider my plans.