This is pretty cool, even though it is just the paint job on a car. Think how much money this can save the consumer though!
This just seems silly to me, how much difference could it make being cloned or not? With the possible exception that it might somehow cause something like a prion disease. If it's meat, you're cooking it anyway, denaturing almost every protein and enzyme that would be in it. Plant material is less worrisome anyway, I don't think there is a disease that we can catch from plants (maybe caused by them, but not catch from them)
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This has allowed the researchers to watch RNAP to travel up the DNA strand and for the first time see exactly how transcription works. This currently has potential to affect the field of proteomics and protein folding study, and who knows what else down the line can be found for it.
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This could lead to some interesting things, I don't think the developers give their results enough credit. I think this could lead to ubiquitous computing, with truly personal computers, woven into our clothes, and even more of the products we use daily.
This could lead to very good things, if they can get some contracts going, this would speed the commercialization of space, they would also give some competition to SpaceX, both which would be a very good thing.
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This promises to be a great thing if it ends with success. It would eventually eliminate our dependance on fossil fuels, once our infrastructure converted over. This could also give a push to the hydrogen car movement, with these generators to split the water, you wouldn't be dependant on fossil fuels for that.
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This looks like there could be some good synergy between these two projects, but like one of the comments said, you couldn't locate the space elevator in Australia, that has to be located at the equator.
Seems like it was just two weeks ago when the possiblity of computers made of light was brought up. Oh wait, it was. IBM has made a prototype switching chip using photon waveguides which can slow down light, with the idea that such a device could synchronise data streams by slowing some streams, allowing others to catch up. However heating the waveguides takes a long time compared with the switching speed needed in an optical network. And the waveguides have to be carved with an accuracy of 1 nanometre.
Biotechnology, which is known primarily by its medical and agricultural applications, is increasingly being focused on the building of new biological materials and machines in an astonishing diversity of structures, functions, and uses. The advent of nanotechnology has accelerated this trend.
as much damage as future nanotech devices might cause, it’s nothing
compared to the damage that bad policies or overly cautious ethical
fatwas can make. Is humanity ready to break the carbon barrier? We’re about as ready as we’ll ever be.
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I have to take issue with Kurzweil on this one, as a computer security person, I dislike the thought of "security through obscurity". While this can be a tool to keep information from bad people, you can't rely on it to do so, and IMO publishing this will allow more good scientists to be able to work on a cure or vaccine, so I think publishing the information does more good than harm in this case. With something like an atom bomb (a reference Ray uses to support his argument for not publishing this kind of data) there isn't much you can do to defend against the bomb by knowing how to build it, that is not the case with a virus.
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[Vitreloy] showed
massive strength: a one inch wide bar could lift 300,000 pounds,
compared to a titanium bar of the same size that could only lift
175,000 pounds. Although this material had super strength, it lacked
the attributes that make metals tough. Vitreloy, was more robust than
window pane glass, but still cracked.
Paul Kim improved Vitreloy's
toughness while giving it the flexibility to allow it to be made into
many different shapes. Now, the new line of Liquidmetal alloys is on
the rise.
This has been available for over 2 years and isn't everywhere? I'd think this would be great for manufacturing just about anything that was made out of metal, but maybe it's just starting, or people are looking to carbon nanotubes
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Some interesting predictions on what won't be around in 35 years:
Here's my take
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This has promising potential. Spintronics are also being looked at for RAM which doesn't lose it's state when the power is turned off. They can also be smaller as you don't have the problem of leakage you get with normal RAM.
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An interesting article/review on Tech Central Station discussing Ray Kurzweil's book The Singularity is Near. Arnold Kling discusses the implicit economic implications of Kurzweils predictions in the book. If Kurzweil is right, we have some good times to look forward to, both technologically and economically.
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"[Panchapakesan] believes the nanobomb holds great promise as a therapeutic agent for killing cancer cells, with particular emphasis on breast cancer cells, because its shockwave kills the cancerous cells as well as the biological pathways that carry instructions to generate additional cancerous cells and the small veins that nourish the diseased cells. Also, it can be spread over a wide area to create structural damage to the cancer cells that are close by."This is the kind of wonderful things we should expect to see in the future from the intersection of biotechnology and nanotechnology. As the biotechnology industry adds to their knowledge base of how the human body works, and the nanotechnology industry develops greater capabilities of creating medical nanobots, these two fields together have the potential to be a great boon to all mankind, with the potential to cure all diseases. Of course there is also the possibility of their misuse, which could cause greater destruction than any nuclear war ever could. Just imagine dispersing a cloud of this over a city, then activating them. This is probably the most crude and least destructive thing that you can do with nanotechnology.
Small reusable vehicles can revolution access to space the way microcomputers revolutionized access to computing. NASA can help enable a vibrant future where thousands of people travel into space every year -- or it can cling to the super-boosters and mega-modules of the "mainframe" era, in which case the NASA manned space program will continue its slow downward spiral.An even better idea would be to get a space elevator constructed as quickly as possible. This would both reduce the cost of getting mass up into orbit by orders of magnitude over current methods, and over small RLV's as well, but would also eliminate the risk of the rocket exploding under you a la Challenger and Columbia (I wouldn't take a ride in one that's name started with a C either). Once we are able to construct the ribbons with the necessary tensile strength, which may already be possible, the rest is cake, and all we have is a long elevator ride to get into orbit. It is this event that will push mankind into space more than anything that NASA is currently working on. From there we just need to develop ways of getting around the solar system a bit faster.
