Interesting Articles.. post some interesting articles that other might enjoy.

Here is an interesting one

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-02-21-the-boy-who-stole-half-life-2-article

 

I've been following this since the first speculation. I find it very interesting that there still is not any kind of realistic explanation.
http://gizmodo.com/heres-how-astronomers-will-solve-the-alien-megastructur-1753665256

 

Here's a time lapse film of the Aurora shot in Alaska with a Sony A7RII.

 

http://waitbutwhy.com/2014/05/fermi-paradox.html
Mind blown. Every time I think about this I think too much, and with all these theories...I don't even know what I do think any more.

 

Siri, Google now, and Cortana's grandchildren are going to end us - and it is our fault.

A fabulous insight into AI and why some super intelligent people are "quiet worried" for our generation and beyond:

http://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/artificial-intelligence-revolution-1.html

 

You don't need to "use all of sun's power" given that it produces ample power. We just need to harness it.

Lets speculate (it's fun) and suppose there are just ten thousand civilisations like our own in our Galaxy. Given the advances in our science in 500 years, and we are not yet a class I civilisation, isn't it reasonable to sumise one of those 10,000 civilisations is perhaps, say a thousand years more advanced than us? And given a thousand years ago we had not yet invented printing surely E=MC² has been "gotten around" some how by someone out there? We, I think, for good or bad are on the cusp of finding out for sure. I hope it doesn't lead to our destruction by design or accident.

 

We might just approach Light Speed, if some unstable nations ever get hold of Nuclear weapons...
those MonoUnstable rulers won't even consider the "what if" of a return strike wiping out our whole globe.

The only saving grace to that event, is 99.9% of the population would not even realize the event had taken place, they would simply just not exist anymore.

those who witnessed the event, would suffer interminably like those in Japan back in WWII...
Too many civilians in that nation paid for the demagoguery of an Imperial Ruler.

 

Carbon dioxide captured from air converted directly to methanol fuel for the first time

 

omg, I had not thought of those things in decades.... obviously...
but, being a farm boy, none of those were affordable in my home... if it cost more than 25 cents, "that's too much son".

 

Yep, just find a younger tree and cut off a nice little fork and find some surgical tubing, and Whamo! that kid o'er there yelled OW!!!

 

Here we go folks:
"
Scientists may have come up with a way to read your mind

We're no longer in the realm of science fiction "

 

I also read that article, from a slightly different Technical Newsletter.
I was impressed with the idea of the potential to use the brain impulses to send am electric signal to the muscle that controls a finger digit, or the wrist bending action, the thumb pulling in, etc....

Back 40 years ago, my brother had a severe accident that impaled a metal object thru the center of his hand. The surgeon found all of the nerves, but not enough tendoms to repair the damage. For the middle finger, the surgeon moved a tendon from the thumb to that finger. Now, to get a "grip" on something, he had to "tell his thumb" to curl in, and that made the middle finger curl in tight.....

I caught that parallel immediately.... Science is moving forward, and one day, a lot of the things we have been reading in Science Fiction novels will be true.....

Our cellphones? anyone remember the "Dick Tracy" police detective???

 

Hey new neighbors!
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/hundreds-of-hidden-galaxies-glimpsed-behind-milky-way/

 

I've never been a fan of Peyton Manning.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articl...ng-is-a-far-bigger-prick-than-cam-newton.html

 

Youtube also has a brief sound clip from the LIGO detectors.