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What invisible objects will look like?
Duh! Nothing or they are not invisible. One of us doesn’t understand what invisible means.
It seems that every time we look around there is something that will change the way we live. Either making life easier or making it longer or something.
Now I realise that as a species we have stagnated due to the political situation on the planet. With socialists in charge no one wants to invest money and hire staff and equipment if they are not 100% sure they will get their money back.
Yet there are many things out there that people would buy in a heartbeat just so they could save money on day to day living. Window cleaning is one that falls in the middle. You can do it yourself but you normally don’t bother because it’s a pain and only costs a few quid. However to businesses it costs a lot more for that new heavily glazed skyscraper.
Yet somehow I just don’t see these things coming to market in the next 5 years or so.
I think I need to live to 1000 to see what I was expecting to see ten years ago.
Politicians. Scum of the earth. At least now I understand in the Omen where the devil rose from Politics. We can’t say we were not warned.
Via Ivan, who should be writing his own blog, I present the The World’s First Practical Jetpack – The Martin Jetpack.
Of course you will have to build your own suit of armour and find your own weapons. The UK version comes with a sharpened spork providing you can get the relevant approvals from HMG.
Ever since James Bond flew to his Aston with one in Thunderball I have loved these. I think I need to win the lottery to have the lifestyle I want.
Could this be the breakthrough we are waiting for? The Bloom Box seems to be getting lots of hype and is being giving a major public launch tomorrow. It’s said it’s powered one of Googles datacenters and saved over $100,000 worth of electrickery. However at a cost of around $800,000 that, like all green technology, isn’t a saving except in CO2 output. They say the cost will be at $3,000 in under 10 years.
Maybe then we will all have one. And with a byproduct being hydrogen gas we can all have a home fueling station for our hydrogen cars at the same time. Free gas will have fossil fuels dropped in about 20 milliseconds.
Sounds too good to be true? Let’s wait and see.
It doesn’t seem that long ago that Chip and Pin was going to cure all evils. I ddn’t want it because I have several cards and can’t remember too many numbers but my security mind won’t let me make them all the same. In the end I still have all the cards but only use two of them when I’m out and about. The others I use on-line. That will change when they start charging.
So from what I understand since Chip and Pin arrived card fraud, via forged signature, has gone down significantly although other fraud has increased more than enough to compensate. Such is life.
Now it appears that Chip and Pin has been compromised and by the sound of it by a method that should be impossible if the security system was implemented correctly.
It seems the tea leaf enters the pin which a hacked stolen card overrides and approves regardless of what is typed on the keypad. Now in a sensible system this flaw should not work. The PIN should be on the banks server and the ATM reads the card number, gets the PIN from the terminal and then checks against the banks mainframe PIN via encryption. No match equals a fail. How anyone should have a card that can override this and approve a transaction is pure folly.
It seems that the human, in this case designer, is still the weakest link. How this got approved is beyond me. I wouldn’t have signed off on this.
As in the boxed in traffic.
Meet the Kolelinia a proposal to put bike lanes in the sky above the traffic.
At first though I looked forward to these spandex wearing nutters providing entertainment by falling from the lines to the joy of those stuck in the traffic below. It’s amazing what you can find to cheer you up. However, thinking just that little bit further I realised that they would be landing on something below that would then cause a traffic jam and hold us up. So not so good.
Personally I don’t see this being for bikes. Too dangerous to get past H&S. It has so many holes in it that it will never see the light of day here. Too dodgy but think about this in the third world. Less beurocracy and less cars. They could use this technique to bridge ravines, rivers and dangerous areas. Fix the bikes to the system so they can’t be removed, or fall off, in a similar way to chair lifts but where you power the system yourself via the pedals.
A long time ago I discoved that the MoD had a paranormal office in Whitehall. Dedicated to the investigation on things that go bump in the night and objects that fly around the sky. I looked out for jobs in this area but never seen them advertised or even mentioned.
Now it appears that they are releasing some of their files. Just enough to get you interested while retaining enough to get you asking, why not the rest?
I was actually approached by one of the UFO researchers guys (alt : UFO nuts) once asking me about what was going on where I was working and when I looked there were websites about all the things they believed were going on where I worked daily. They even followed my car when I started driving away. They seemed just like the geeks I was working with, Sci-Fi nerds, and myself but were out and about in the fresh air. It was a scary time. I bet they would get short thrift from plod nowadays but then there was nothing that could be done bac in the dark ages.
I think the policy of denial for everything and covering things up leads to these theories. It’s counterproductive but such is everything with government.
And for the record. They don’t release Top Secret files they declassify them from Top Secret which makes them available for release. IMO the UK Gov tends to overclassify everything by default anyway which leads to the bizarre situation of UK documents shared with the US being available online in the US whilst the UK equivilants are classified. Thats why I laughed so much over this about the US complaining about the UK releasing documents. Good for the Goose.
This article here talks about ‘knowing’ how and why living cells age. As required scientists make a discovery and then extrapolate from there to a nice conclusion. They then set up tests to prove those theories and slowly but surely move towards a theory that holds up.
The only thing is that sometimes those theories are accepted by the public as fact and they act on them before they are tested. Many a false industry has been set up because ‘It looks like X stops Y’ and off go the marketers to sells the elixir of life to people. Now that is life, it’s not too much of a problem usually but as the climate change scam shows it can go wrong big time.
Others can be almost as bad. It seems that Red Wine isn’t the elixir of life either according to the article. Bugger.
However, I have a fool proof way of deciding if something is good for you or not. Taste it.
If it tastes good and you want more then it’s not good for you. Simple.
It seems our power crazy masters have spent a fortune on yet another fiasco. Echelon doesn’t quite come up to spec for those terrorists that are stupid enough to use phones to communicate their dastardly plans. It can’t understand the words if the line isn’t perfect. Unbelievable.
So the real bad guys use technology to bypass Echelon or even go back in time and use couriers etc. while those that can’t afford to just use the cheapest phones they can find and inject some signal noise.
The human brain, still the best computer out there can work around the problem but billions of pounds worth of computer hardware and software are stuck. The fate of the world depends on the quality of the phone lines.
You can’t make this up.
It seems that spray on glass has hit the market in Germany. The article talks about it’s numerous uses but I’m still visualising spraying up a window.
However even I can see a benefit in having glass being able to be applied to irregular surfaces and with a thickness of only 100 nanometer it shouldn’t add too much weight to anything. It would make excellent protective coverings for everything and would be easy to clean.
One thing I’m confused about though. The article says it’s breathable so it has similar properties to the waterproof fabrics and yet it is expected to survive cleaning for it’s lifetime and that is another thing. Pity it only lasts a couple of years though although I suppose that is the downside for being flexible. Also what happens if it is eaten either whole or by being broken down?
Let’s just wait and see about this one. I can imagine that it will be marketed with lots of uses, how many will will see in a few years time.
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Must be me
What invisible objects will look like?
Duh! Nothing or they are not invisible. One of us doesn’t understand what invisible means.