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TFwiki wrote:Soon is the name of the region in the time-domain (familiar to all marketing departments, and to the moderators and staff of Fun Publications) which sees release of all BotCon news, club exclusives, and other fan desirables. Soon is when then will become now.

Peculiar properties of spacetime ensure that the perception of the magnitude of Soon is fluid and dependent, not on an individual's time-reference, but on spatial and cultural location. A marketer generally perceives Soon as a finite, known, yet unspeakable time-interval; to a fan, the interval appears greater, and may in fact approach the infinite, becoming Never. Once the interval has passed, however, a certain time-lensing effect seems to occur, and the time-interval becomes vanishingly small. We therefore see the strange result that the same fragment of spacetime may be observed, in quick succession, as Soon, Never, and All Too Quickly.
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Stahlseele wrote:http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... e-ink.html
The Future is now!
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Stahlseele wrote:http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... e-ink.html
The Future is now!
That is literally a trick from the Star Wars EU.
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Cheating at cards is illegal? I thought they simply barred people for counting cards, cheating, whatever, but it wasn't against the law, similar to how you don't have to tip drug dealers.
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It's illegal to cheat at a casino (marked cards, shaved dice, etc) but counting cards isn't cheating.
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Disney makes paper generators.
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My dad sent me this article today about a woman rethinking the way the medical world performs diagnostic tests. And DAMN! It's awesome!
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Apologies that this is the mobile version of this article on freezing people
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But of course it does.
The shadowrun reason for the matrix is actually a reasonably good reason for using such a system.
Because the human mind is made to work with video/audio/tactile and olfactory inputs and not to think in code. So a simple translation works wonders. See pictograms.


In other news:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkikgO5eX4A
camera capable of filming single photons in flight.
yes, that's photography at the speed of light O.o
http://sse.royalsociety.org/2014/creative-cameras/
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Shrapnel wrote:
TFwiki wrote:Soon is the name of the region in the time-domain (familiar to all marketing departments, and to the moderators and staff of Fun Publications) which sees release of all BotCon news, club exclusives, and other fan desirables. Soon is when then will become now.

Peculiar properties of spacetime ensure that the perception of the magnitude of Soon is fluid and dependent, not on an individual's time-reference, but on spatial and cultural location. A marketer generally perceives Soon as a finite, known, yet unspeakable time-interval; to a fan, the interval appears greater, and may in fact approach the infinite, becoming Never. Once the interval has passed, however, a certain time-lensing effect seems to occur, and the time-interval becomes vanishingly small. We therefore see the strange result that the same fragment of spacetime may be observed, in quick succession, as Soon, Never, and All Too Quickly.
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Vantablack
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/scien ... 02504.html
It's blacker than black.
It absorbs 99,965% of all visible light.
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TFwiki wrote:Soon is the name of the region in the time-domain (familiar to all marketing departments, and to the moderators and staff of Fun Publications) which sees release of all BotCon news, club exclusives, and other fan desirables. Soon is when then will become now.

Peculiar properties of spacetime ensure that the perception of the magnitude of Soon is fluid and dependent, not on an individual's time-reference, but on spatial and cultural location. A marketer generally perceives Soon as a finite, known, yet unspeakable time-interval; to a fan, the interval appears greater, and may in fact approach the infinite, becoming Never. Once the interval has passed, however, a certain time-lensing effect seems to occur, and the time-interval becomes vanishingly small. We therefore see the strange result that the same fragment of spacetime may be observed, in quick succession, as Soon, Never, and All Too Quickly.
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New anodes for lithium-ion batteries could triple battery life.
http://www.gizmag.com/nano-silicon-anod ... ery/32885/

Summary: Scientists have been trying to make nano-silicon anodes, but were having trouble fabricating it. This team succeeded by grinding up quartz and stripping the oxygen out of it. The result was porous lumps of nano-scale silicon that work better than the graphite anodes used in batteries on the market today.
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hmm, makes sense . . it improves the surface area available by taking stuff out that does not help without making holes in stuff that does help . .
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Shrapnel wrote:
TFwiki wrote:Soon is the name of the region in the time-domain (familiar to all marketing departments, and to the moderators and staff of Fun Publications) which sees release of all BotCon news, club exclusives, and other fan desirables. Soon is when then will become now.

Peculiar properties of spacetime ensure that the perception of the magnitude of Soon is fluid and dependent, not on an individual's time-reference, but on spatial and cultural location. A marketer generally perceives Soon as a finite, known, yet unspeakable time-interval; to a fan, the interval appears greater, and may in fact approach the infinite, becoming Never. Once the interval has passed, however, a certain time-lensing effect seems to occur, and the time-interval becomes vanishingly small. We therefore see the strange result that the same fragment of spacetime may be observed, in quick succession, as Soon, Never, and All Too Quickly.
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http://gizmodo.com/electricity-eating-b ... 1606910533
i am kind of thinking this could be pretty bad for our society O.o
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TFwiki wrote:Soon is the name of the region in the time-domain (familiar to all marketing departments, and to the moderators and staff of Fun Publications) which sees release of all BotCon news, club exclusives, and other fan desirables. Soon is when then will become now.

Peculiar properties of spacetime ensure that the perception of the magnitude of Soon is fluid and dependent, not on an individual's time-reference, but on spatial and cultural location. A marketer generally perceives Soon as a finite, known, yet unspeakable time-interval; to a fan, the interval appears greater, and may in fact approach the infinite, becoming Never. Once the interval has passed, however, a certain time-lensing effect seems to occur, and the time-interval becomes vanishingly small. We therefore see the strange result that the same fragment of spacetime may be observed, in quick succession, as Soon, Never, and All Too Quickly.
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Making diet coke taste like a vagina. Or something like that.
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Stahlseele wrote:Vantablack
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/scien ... 02504.html
It's blacker than black.
It absorbs 99,965% of all visible light.
It's like, how much more black could this be? and the answer is none. None more black.
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I disapprove of any tech that takes us closer to the Book of the New Sun.
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if that was aimed at the vanta black: that's closer to the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy :P
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TFwiki wrote:Soon is the name of the region in the time-domain (familiar to all marketing departments, and to the moderators and staff of Fun Publications) which sees release of all BotCon news, club exclusives, and other fan desirables. Soon is when then will become now.

Peculiar properties of spacetime ensure that the perception of the magnitude of Soon is fluid and dependent, not on an individual's time-reference, but on spatial and cultural location. A marketer generally perceives Soon as a finite, known, yet unspeakable time-interval; to a fan, the interval appears greater, and may in fact approach the infinite, becoming Never. Once the interval has passed, however, a certain time-lensing effect seems to occur, and the time-interval becomes vanishingly small. We therefore see the strange result that the same fragment of spacetime may be observed, in quick succession, as Soon, Never, and All Too Quickly.
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Scientists Develop Brain Decoder That Can Read Your Inner Thoughts
We're like 10 years away from consumer electronics controlled directly by our minds.
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We're always 10 years away from computer-brain interfaces. 20 years away from computers as good as a brain. Been true since we had computers. Hopefully we're also "10 years away" from literal thought crimes forever too.
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Science is basically done. Nothing else is worth being invented.
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that's stupidly cool O.o
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TFwiki wrote:Soon is the name of the region in the time-domain (familiar to all marketing departments, and to the moderators and staff of Fun Publications) which sees release of all BotCon news, club exclusives, and other fan desirables. Soon is when then will become now.

Peculiar properties of spacetime ensure that the perception of the magnitude of Soon is fluid and dependent, not on an individual's time-reference, but on spatial and cultural location. A marketer generally perceives Soon as a finite, known, yet unspeakable time-interval; to a fan, the interval appears greater, and may in fact approach the infinite, becoming Never. Once the interval has passed, however, a certain time-lensing effect seems to occur, and the time-interval becomes vanishingly small. We therefore see the strange result that the same fragment of spacetime may be observed, in quick succession, as Soon, Never, and All Too Quickly.
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Longes wrote:Image
Science is basically done. Nothing else is worth being invented.
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Tomorrow Today we land on a comet.

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and XKCD is giving live updates via comic...

http://xkcd.com/1446/
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