/sci/ - Science & Math

>>3467556
way too*
Gosh Darnit

The thread's being archived every 6 seconds. This is way to interesting to miss

>>3450136
Post this on Reddit (reddit.com/r/askreddit). They have a larger community with more experience than we do here, and they're less likely to troll the shit out of you either
Is your team the only people the money would be going to? If the funding is to be redistributed then the loss is much smaller, if at all. If there's another team willing to do the project, you might even be able to join them.

>>3427830
Yes, but from a practical standpoint not entirely. You're a person who has changed, not significantly enough to count as a new person but significantly enough to become different.
>>3427849
I'm sorry about that :/
A friend of mine's uncle had a stroke a few months ago and ended up virtually incapable of looking after himself. There's no way I can describe it other than horrifying when things like this happen
>>3427866
Is she happy about things like that?

If she's reliving happy memories, she's probably a happy person.

>>3427797
I'd actually say yes, you are. For most practical purposes you're a completely different person.

>>3427567
eh, I wouldn't want to. Not until the technology were tried and tested more throughly, at least
We don't know what effect the operational life will have on memory, and we don't have the ability (yet) to understand how the brain allocates storage. I have a nasty feeling you'd end up with an unshakable vivid memory of a few hours immediately after it was implanted, and then perfectly regular brain function.

>>3427408
>The cuban healthcare system is public and one of the best in the world
The cuban healthcare system is corrupt and one of the least impartial in the world. If you don't have money, you are not going to get a good place on the transplant list.

That's not memory :s

I'd be fine with it, and I'd still see her as my mother. Don't understand why one wouldn't, actually.

it's not good because there's no replacement. Dragon capsule/the rockets we're expecting from SpaceX are not due to arrive until 2014, and the X-37, an orbital unmanned vehicle, hasn't the capacity for shuttle type missions.

>>3426362
I schpose. You'd have a huge footprint, though.

>>3426333
Humans can take about 5G without passing out and making it that slow would force you to build it to extend hundreds of kilometres into space.

Find 1000 couples
Give them gun
Tell them that one must die
record results

>>3426033
They weren't reactors, they were radiators

I haven't heard about there being any nuclear reactors on manned spacecraft, at least.

>>3426028
Depends entirely on what the waste is. I wouldn't call the majority of landfill unuseful, because it has uses as fuel. It's just not easily used,

>>3426007
I DID DO THAT HOW ELSE WOULD I KNOW
*sigh*

>>3425989
A volcano would essentially incinerate and release the same stuff as an incinerating power station would. The power used to fire things in to space would cause several orders of magnitude more pollution than atomising the garbage and feeding it directly into the stratosphere then setting fire to it.

>>3425993
why that speed exactly?
Not sure why you'd need -1g

>>3425981
in a lab at MIT probably.

>>3425927
I don't think so. They generally give out a low, consistent power level, and getting enough to lift tons would be awkward.
I think there's a commercial nuclear battery entering the market in the UK. don't remember its name though.

>>3425896
>has 10 nanometre thick blade proof gloves
DO WANT

>>3425888
fusion's easy, it's getting electricity out of it that's a bitch.
We can make fusion that generates about as much energy as you put in for milliseconds, but then the reaction dies out. We can also do uncontrolled fusion that is self sustaining, but only in H-Bombs. The infuriating thing is that we know it should be possible for fusion to work as a power source but we can't work out how to make it.
>>3425894
not if you want to generate power. You need critical mass for steam, which is about 2KG for uranium IIRC

>>3425876
>rest hand on rung
>thin enough to cut through hand
>severs fingers

depends what you want
you can make a fusion reactor that fits into the boot of a car, but it doesn't give you a net power output
a fission reactor has to be fairly big, mainly because of containment. I don't know much about the specifics, but you could probably fit one into a 20*20*20M cube

>>3425858
>mfw natural selection also works for the goo
>goo becomes multinodal
>develops intelligence
>inadvertently becomes superintelligent AI