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Via Ivan a new type of habitat for us to live in.
The SeaOrbiter a floating city and lab which will be handy when the world floods and at $35M a pop it seems we should all have one. Although I would suggest that they flatten the top a bit to give the polar bears something to sit on.
Personally,I suspect that this would be a much better option for many people and cults who prefer places like Waco to set up base in. This way you can move around so much goverments will lose track of you and $35M is not that much for a group to afford.
In the meantime if Bangladesh is going under how many of these could we buy with the aid we send over now? Howmuch for the next few sizes up?
Just read this article that talks about using Osmosis to generate power.
I would imagine that it wouldn’t generate a lot of power but the article says it has the potential to generate about 800TW, or half the current power consumption of the EU so it clearly has significant potential and even if it doesn’t generate that much it would make a dent in our power requirements and help meet our green targets.
Yet again, we seem to have completely different methods being found to generate green energy. After the initial pathetic knee jerks, like windmills, we seem to be coming up with completely new ideas which sound promising. Makes you wonder really why windmills are still on the agenda for the UK. Actually it doesn’t, it just shows our politicians are useless at picking winners.
In the meantime scientists, real ones not the global warming scammers, are coming out with new technologies that can also help solve our other global issue, but a real one this time, a shortage of fresh water. Produce power, make fresh water. Two wins in one package.
Yet another real contender for green electrickery.
When Kate Moss had feminists and fatties the world over screaming and shouting about her statement that nothing felt as good as being thin I thought she must be a bit of a nutter. Like someof these people that starve themselves are although she does seem to be able to control it unlike the whingers and whiners. Although who really wants to starve themselves?
Well it looks like it’s all of us.
Such is life. It couldn’t be that eating chocolate would be the cure. Of course not.
James is examining an option to take democracy to the people. His votemeter is to be installed in every house and people can vote on any subject that they want to. The most votes wins whether it is 2 or 20,000,000.
Join in the discussion there. So far he has three but watch out for more.
Votemeter Pt 1
Votemeter Pt 2
Votemeter Pt 3
I’m a great believer in putting the power in the hands of the people. This is one way to do it and we could do this with technology now.
For years we have had the Mac vs PC articles where each states why their choice is superior. Personally, I’ve seen it as the Mac has advantages and disadvantages as so does the PC. Pick which one is most suitable for your use and go for it. Each has a place on the market.
Then along comes a patent that changes all that and we finally come across a good reason to steer clear of Macs. A disadvantage so big it will cause even hardened Mac addicts pause before buying a new Mac.
An enforced Ad watching patent. Curse Apple and all who sail in her… Err.. You get the idea anyway because soon it will be embedded in Windows and we all will be cursed.
Won’t be long before you are watching an advert before the video you have downloaded or installing an upgrade to your software or, the list goeson, and this software will make sure you watched the adverts first.
Bill Hicks had it right about advertisers and curse Apple for making this nightmare a reality.
Go here and listen to this video. It’s too big to embed. Check the facts and then tell me you are not a teensy weensy little bit suspicious.
Bearing in mind that this is what I thought before this video came out and you wonder why I’m Paranoid.
Nice article up at Counting Cats on Digital Cash. PaAnnoyed explains his articles well and they are always worth a read.
However, I’m never one for changing something that works for something that has technology involved just for the sake of technology. Technology such as encrypting and blind signitures are of use and are no doubt being used where it works out but as a replacement for cash? I doubt it. To many things to go wrong and, this is the important bit, it is still within the view of the all seeing government. In my opinion the real reason people use cash is to keep themselves out of the governments view so anything that does not address that is of no use.
It seems that your DNA may be more important than you think if the assertions made by these dating companies are true. Read here.
Most people will be mighty disappointed if there is not a gene there for big tits but in reality we do get distracted by visual clues and make some bad choices in our lives so it would be interesting to find that your best choices could actually be generated by your DNA rather than your brain.
It would destroy entire industries if this took off. The make up and sexy clothing industries would be destroyed overnight. After all if women didn’t have to look their best to capture their man and just waved a DNA sample around instead who would need to doll up?
As long as you don’t end up being fixed up with your sister of course it sounds like a good idea even if the world would be much worse off visually.
Once the UK’s DNA db is up and running and we are all on it. When they start selling the data maybe we should use it to check all the married and divorced couples DNA and see what results it gives. It would be interesting I would think. If it showed a very strong correlation between DNA types and predictors of divorce would they start looking at making DNA matching compulsory before marriage? Would they ever consider stopping a marriage if a DNA comparison fell outside guidelines. A few years ago I would have laughed. Not now.
Energy is neither created nor destroyed but merely converted.
A basic scientific principle and one that means that a perpetual motion machine is impossible. Basically it means that the energy you put in is converted to another energy type minus some unavoidable waste. This is the efficiency measurement of the conversion process. Nothing we have gives a 1:1 conversion and it’s likely nothing ever will. One of the wasteful outputs from, well almost everything, is heat. Obviously this is not waste from a heater but when the heater heats the house and some escapes through the windows, doors etc. this is classed as wasted heat. A car engine converts fuel to motion but wastes some in friction which heats up the engine and so on.
Now, via Ivan, a regular commenter at this site, it appears that they have a way of tapping that wasted heat and converting it back to useable energy. Read here. If this can be applied then it will make power conversion much more efficient overall and less wasteful and in fact could be used on it’s own to generate power for small portable devices. A bit like the way we can power watches just from the movement of our bodies we could use the heat thrown off by our bodies to charge our portable devices.
In fact depending on how efficiently it converts this heat it could very well allow the creation of a virtual perpetual motion machine in hot climates.
On a related note this conversion of energy, which normally generates heat, would undoubtedly do the reverse here and cool the heat source down whilst generating power to provide the cooling effect in ordinary fridges. A power free fridge could be heading your way. Think what that would do for third world countries health and food storage.
When an issue is detected people look at it and find ways around it. This can lead to advances in other areas as well as solving the issue at hand.
Some issues however can be over thought and made too complicated for little, or no, return.
This issue where people click the camera button just too late or too early and miss the frame they want. There are many options available to attempt to capture the moment but none are guaranteed. To me however the answer is simple. Technology advances daily on common everyday tools like cameras, videos etc. We just need to up the resolution on video cameras to match still cameras so we can video everything over a few seconds and pick the frames out we need, and there are several easy ways to do that and the problem is solved. We can prioritise it or simply wait until the time is right when video improves to the resolution you want as advances are made all the time. No need for anything smart or complicated.
As it is camera resolution is above 10 Mega Pixels while video resolution lags behind but is still better than cameras were only five years ago. I suspect the issue is that we expect the best resolution possible from video, the same a camera, while video will always lag the camera resolution due to the technology used to video. We however, want the same.
Basically, we are just spoilt. This game will go on a long time until still cameras become obsolete and we will have video cameras capableof taking pictures at 100 fpm at 20MP and we will still not think it is good enough.
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The SeaOrbiter
Via Ivan a new type of habitat for us to live in.
The SeaOrbiter a floating city and lab which will be handy when the world floods and at $35M a pop it seems we should all have one. Although I would suggest that they flatten the top a bit to give the polar bears something to sit on.
Personally,I suspect that this would be a much better option for many people and cults who prefer places like Waco to set up base in. This way you can move around so much goverments will lose track of you and $35M is not that much for a group to afford.
In the meantime if Bangladesh is going under how many of these could we buy with the aid we send over now? Howmuch for the next few sizes up?