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Lechium

With no one to ever know

posted 10-28-2004 02:28:08 PM

Well, not an actual plane, a flight simulator of an F-22.

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Nae

Fun with Chocolate

posted 10-28-2004 02:40:03 PM

omg Sky Net!

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Bloodcookie

Pancake

posted 10-28-2004 02:40:04 PM

I honestly don't know which is more incredible - the fact that they have a direct neural-interface that could potentially work with a real plane, or the fact that they were able to grow a complete, functional brain. I mean, I know that they've been doing this kind of stuff for a while, but still

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Damnati

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posted 10-28-2004 02:44:22 PM

Given this and the braingate thing, does anyone seen Doc Oc in this? It's cool and all, but it's creepy at the same time.

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Alaan

posted 10-28-2004 02:48:57 PM

Woah. More crazy science stuff.

Edit: OMFG. Cyber Brains ahoy. Ghost in the Shell here we come!

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Nike

Pancake

posted 10-28-2004 03:52:16 PM

Brain cells die, and do not replicate themselves (unless stem cells are used to help become functioning brain cells)... What happens if the "brain" dies...?

Dun dun dun...

Sometimes technology should take it slow and try to solve more common problems in society. Not so say that that isn't really cool! I mean what they are doing with making the mind control things is great but to fly a plane?

I want a pill to make my butt smaller! Why can't they make one of those ?!

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Katrinity

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posted 10-28-2004 03:56:28 PM

Mother Brain is closer to becoming a reality...we need Samus, ASAP!

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Tegadil

Queen of the Smoofs

posted 10-28-2004 04:12:40 PM

So, what if you could put your brain in a robot body?

Best episode ever. BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ!

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Snugglits

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posted 10-28-2004 05:05:02 PM

quote:
Nike thought about the meaning of life:
Brain cells die, and do not replicate themselves (unless stem cells are used to help become functioning brain cells)... What happens if the "brain" dies...?
Dun dun dun...
Sometimes technology should take it slow and try to solve more common problems in society. Not so say that that isn't really cool! I mean what they are doing with making the mind control things is great but to fly a plane?
I want a pill to make my butt smaller! Why can't they make one of those ?!

People should be free to invent whatever they want, but not at the cost of society's problems. In other words, we shouldn't force civil engineers who want to end food shortage to develop computers, but similarly we shouldn't stop someone from being a computer engineer/quantum physicist and developing nano technology.

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Alek

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posted 10-28-2004 06:10:41 PM

quote:
Nike had this to say about Jimmy Carter:
I want a pill to make my butt smaller! Why can't they make one of those ?!

Because....

I like big butts and I cannot lie...

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Pancake

posted 10-28-2004 06:25:43 PM

This is great, another steps towards advanced prosthetics to replace our weak fleshy bodies with.

quote:
Nike had this to say about Jimmy Carter:
Brain cells die, and do not replicate themselves (unless stem cells are used to help become functioning brain cells)... What happens if the "brain" dies...?
Dun dun dun...
Sometimes technology should take it slow and try to solve more common problems in society. Not so say that that isn't really cool! I mean what they are doing with making the mind control things is great but to fly a plane?
I want a pill to make my butt smaller! Why can't they make one of those ?!

They could have used anything really, the point of the whole thing was the cultivation and stimulation of the actual neural net, they could just as well have used the same input / output to teach it to sweep floors or something.

A lot of corporate-funded research doe go towards diets, diet pills, diet magic elixirs, diet anything really, being able to promise people they'll slim while gorging themselves in grease is a huge moneymaker.

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Life... is like a box of chocolates. A cheap, thoughtless, perfunctory gift that nobody ever asks for. Unreturnable, because all you get back is another box of chocolates. You're stuck with this undefinable whipped-mint crap that you mindlessly wolf down when there's nothing else left to eat. Sure, once in a while, there's a peanut butter cup, or an English toffee. But they're gone too fast, the taste is fleeting. So you end up with nothing but broken bits, filled with hardened jelly and teeth-crunching nuts, and if you're desperate enough to eat those, all you've got left is a... is an empty box... filled with useless, brown paper wrappers.

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Nike

Pancake

posted 10-28-2004 07:50:45 PM

Yes I do agree that people should be free to make what they want, I was just giving my two cents as to what I think inventors should focus on. Tis all

Thanks Alek!

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Vise the Stompy

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posted 10-28-2004 08:04:11 PM

quote:
Alaan was listening to Cher while typing:
Woah. More crazy science stuff.
Edit: OMFG. Cyber Brains ahoy. Ghost in the Shell here we come!

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Alek

Not The Rapist

posted 10-28-2004 08:28:04 PM

quote:
Nike obviously shouldn't have said:
Thanks Alek!

You're welcome.

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`Doc

Cold in an Alley

posted 10-28-2004 09:02:57 PM

I'm more curious about how the heck they motivated a brain with no pleasure/pain sensors to do what they wanted? Why didn't it just crash the plane and go, "Oooh, pretty..."

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Burger

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posted 10-29-2004 01:20:00 AM

quote:
Nike had this to say about the Spice Girls:
Brain cells die, and do not replicate themselves (unless stem cells are used to help become functioning brain cells)... What happens if the "brain" dies...?
Dun dun dun...
Sometimes technology should take it slow and try to solve more common problems in society. Not so say that that isn't really cool! I mean what they are doing with making the mind control things is great but to fly a plane?
I want a pill to make my butt smaller! Why can't they make one of those ?!

Actually, human brain cells do keep replicating (albeit at a greatly reduced rate compared to fetal development) into the late teens and early twenties.

After that they don't repair themselves anymore. (from what I learned from NOVA)

Bite me.

No, Really. Bite me.

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PhattyMcPhat

Pancake

posted 10-29-2004 01:34:16 AM

...

you other brothers cant deny,

Not everything that can be measured counts, and not everything that counts can be measured."
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

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KaLourin

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posted 10-29-2004 06:07:42 AM

Shadowrun, Cyberpunk, Neuromancer anyone?

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Kaiote

Shot in the Face

posted 10-29-2004 06:51:46 AM

quote:
Nike impressed everyone with:
Yes I do agree that people should be free to make what they want, I was just giving my two cents as to what I think inventors should focus on. Tis all
Thanks Alek!

considering the subject.. at hand.. your choice of words made me "teehee" in real life.

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Ruvyen

Cartoon Broccoli Boy

posted 10-29-2004 09:58:40 AM

When can I grow myself a second brain? I always wanted to have two brains at once.

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--8-Bit Theater

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Katrinity

Cookie Goddess!

posted 10-29-2004 10:06:34 AM

quote:
Ruvyen stumbled drunkenly to the keyboard and typed:
When can I grow myself a second brain? I always wanted to have two brains at once.

What would you need two brains for? Brain-chucks?

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