Topic: Future Seek Links (Read 9370 times)

BizB · « **on:** May 23, 2014, 04:08:45 PM »

Ok... Norm(NORM!)ally, when I find links like this, I keep them to myself and dole out the favorites as I find them interesting. Though, normally, I'm not surrounded by the amazing likes of people like you. So, I'm posting the link, here. What I'd like for you to do is pick one link per week and explore how it is amazing to you and post something about that here. Post it elsewhere, if you'd like. But, whatever you do... post it here.

http://futureseek.wordpress.com/

The only thing happening faster than change is the rate at which we're seeing change happen. Be part of that avalanche.

zorgon · « **Reply #1 on:** May 23, 2014, 05:29:56 PM »

To clarify - you want us to pick from this list? Or just to find a mindblowing "we live in the future" link and discuss it? Either way, I'm in. :hmm:

BizB · « **Reply #2 on:** May 23, 2014, 08:58:16 PM »

Either. I'm amazed at the amount of daily content.

The only thing that is happening faster than change is the rate at which change is happening.

Demosthenes · « **Reply #3 on:** May 23, 2014, 09:12:38 PM »

Why Is The Future So Boring?

Because we live in the post-science-fiction golden age and our current state of technology has taught generations what is possible.... and humans are impatient.

Myself, I don't consider the future boring. I'm excited for it, even though I may not live to see some of the things that I know are likely coming.

BizB · « **Reply #4 on:** May 25, 2014, 07:54:55 AM »

I read this The Biomechanics Behind Amazing Ant Strength right after I watched a video about Geckskin. Putting seemingly unrelated things together as I am want to do, I realized that we are going to soon have exoskeleton suits that will allow us to climb walls with heavy packs on our heads. Or... something. Clearly, I haven't spent a great deal of time/effort coming up with good applications of these technologies combined. But rest assured, they will be.

Robots that can scale buildings to wash windows and carry their own water!
Pizza delivery robots that can bring enough pizza for the hole area!
More!

BizB · « **Reply #5 on:** May 26, 2014, 08:55:31 AM »

Thanks Obama...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/05/23/thanks-to-budget-cuts-we-may-never-know-for-sure-why-the-universe-is-expanding/?tid=rssfeed

BizB · « **Reply #6 on:** May 26, 2014, 08:58:38 AM »

Combine these with Geckskin and you may be onto something.

Novice · « **Reply #7 on:** May 26, 2014, 12:03:24 PM »

I clicked Jupiter's red spot is mysteriously shrinking and found out that apparently it's more of a mystery what's been keeping the storm going this whole time.

Aside from the blog, I've been interested in something a bit more mainstream (simply because of IBM's advertising) which was "atomic level" storage:
http://www.gizmag.com/go/7920/

I'm curious about the marketing aspect, but mainly my life would be so much easier if storage admins just had more space and didn't have to hassle me all the time with their made-up math about why they should have more available space than they do.

pbsaurus · « **Reply #8 on:** May 26, 2014, 12:37:11 PM »

ICs are currently being designed at the 12/16 nm level. The researchers are planning now for the 3, 5, 7 nm level. This coupled with the infinite possibilities in materials science mean that the death of Moore's Law was a bit premature. Undead Moore's Law FTW, plus it's a pretty darn good band name.

BizB · « **Reply #9 on:** May 29, 2014, 11:28:45 AM »

http://www.gizmag.com/the-archimedes-liam-f1-urban-wind-turbine/32263/

With a price tag over $5K, assuming this turbine would be capable of eliminating my on-grid electrical needs, I estimate that it would take 6 years to pay for itself.

I suppose that's not bad.

BizB · « **Reply #10 on:** May 29, 2014, 11:37:22 AM »

Woah...
http://spectrum.ieee.org/consumer-electronics/portable-devices/learn-new-skills-with-superhuman-speed

Just amazing.

BizB · « **Reply #11 on:** May 29, 2014, 08:50:21 PM »

http://www.theverge.com/2014/5/29/5762946/new-stargate-film-trilogy-is-happening-with-original-director

Yes. Just... yes... please.

Novice · « **Reply #12 on:** May 30, 2014, 08:59:34 AM »

Quote from: BizB on May 29, 2014, 11:37:22 AM

Woah...
http://spectrum.ieee.org/consumer-electronics/portable-devices/learn-new-skills-with-superhuman-speed

Just amazing.

Concur. Pretty cool stuff.

hackess · « **Reply #13 on:** June 02, 2014, 09:26:18 AM »

http://www.irishtimes.com/business/sectors/technology/beam-me-up-scientists-say-human-teleportation-is-possible-1.1815010

zorgon · « **Reply #14 on:** June 02, 2014, 04:23:44 PM »

How Radioactive Is Our Ocean?

My colleague Ken Buesseler is probably the world's leading expert on natural and anthropogenic radioactivity in the ocean. So naturally he got inundated with requests from the public to find out how much Fukushima radiation is in their water. Which he'd be totally into, but because there are no conceivable health risks in the US from this he can't get any funding from US funding agencies to study it. So, he's got a crowdfunded effort going, you can get together with some folks, pick a site, raise some $, Ken will send you a kit to sample the water, and Ken's tech Spike will analyze it and you'll see how much cesium-134 (Fukushima) and cesium-137 (atmospheric nuclear testing '40s to '70s) are in the water. It's pretty cool. But the coolest thing about this is the astonishing sensitivity of the equipment. He can measure radiation as low as 1 Bq per cubic meter - 1 Bq is one radioactive decay per second. So basically he's catching and counting individual gamma rays, quantifying their energy (so you know which isotopes they come from) and adding them up. That's ... that's amazing. It's like you've got Maxwell's Demon as your lab tech.

This website sucks in many ways (oh my god so much Flash ... so much shitty Flash), but it's full of useful info about radiation in the ocean, which you can use to startle your enemies and embarrass your friends.

Demosthenes · « **Reply #15 on:** June 02, 2014, 09:16:25 PM »

Quote from: zorgon on June 02, 2014, 04:23:44 PM

But the coolest thing about this is the astonishing sensitivity of the equipment. He can measure radiation as low as 1 Bq per cubic meter - 1 Bq is one radioactive decay per second. So basically he's catching and counting individual gamma rays, quantifying their energy (so you know which isotopes they come from) and adding them up. That's ... that's amazing. It's like you've got Maxwell's Demon as your lab tech.

Whoa, W.T.F.? How the hell is he doing that?

BizB · « **Reply #16 on:** June 03, 2014, 08:44:07 AM »

Frickin' Lasers!
http://m.phys.org/news/2014-06-laser-device-alcohol-cars.html

I wonder how the 4th amendment would protect against the application of such a device in the USA.

zorgon · « **Reply #17 on:** June 03, 2014, 12:26:17 PM »

Quote from: Demosthenes on June 02, 2014, 09:16:25 PM

Whoa, W.T.F.? How the hell is he doing that?

Germanium detector gamma spectrometer - these deelies I htink http://www.canberra.com/products/detectors/germanium-detectors.asp - also, like, three days of measurement per sample.

Demosthenes · « **Reply #18 on:** June 03, 2014, 06:25:50 PM »

Quote from: zorgon on June 03, 2014, 12:26:17 PM

also, like, three days of measurement per sample.

Ahhhhhhhhh, okay. That'll do it. Really, that's about the only way you can detect stuff that minute.

While I was soaking up government-issue radiation, I underwent yearly rad monitoring to determine how much radioactive particulate might be nested in lung tissue.

For that, I got to sit in front of a shielded radiac that was pointed at my chest.... for about 30 minutes straight. I'd sit there, reading a book, and it would just quietly soak up any gamma or neutron radiation anything floating in my lungs might be emitting, and because you can only make a detector so sensitive, the time is necessary to make any measurements that fine.

As a side note, my lungs were always really clean as far as radiologicals go. That's because I took anti-contamination equipment very seriously in my work then, something I'm sure my lungs thank me for now (which is about when I'd be developing lung cancer if I'd had any significant inhaled exposure in my 20s).

pbsaurus · « **Reply #19 on:** June 04, 2014, 12:31:50 AM »

I knew this was Future Seek but I'm bleary eyed and just read it as Future Self Links, so so I checked it out

BizB · « **Reply #20 on:** June 04, 2014, 11:46:59 AM »

http://www.space.com/26112-how-spacex-dragons-taxi-to-iss-will-self-land-animation.html

Worthless without animation of the dudes inside getting out after the landing! How do we know they survived the animation process?

zorgon · « **Reply #21 on:** June 05, 2014, 12:12:35 AM »

:galm:

HECTAR.

BizB · « **Reply #22 on:** June 06, 2014, 09:18:02 AM »

http://nextbigfuture.com/2014/06/drugs-reveals-cancer-tumors-to-immune.html

I love the future we're about to live in. Once science (Google) solves that pesky mortality issue, rich people will be able to keep their money FOR EVER!

hackess · « **Reply #23 on:** June 12, 2014, 05:56:02 PM »

http://inhabitat.com/scientists-develop-worlds-lightest-metal-100x-lighter-than-styrofoam/

Unbelievable.

pbsaurus · « **Reply #24 on:** June 12, 2014, 06:49:50 PM »

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