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This sounds awesome but it seems to only work for skin cells, I'm not sure how they could repair an organ with it. Unless there is some aspect of stem cells where no matter where they're generated in the body they will gravitate to the organ where they belong automatically. It's insane stuff for...

I started looking into other coins to mine and Zcash is looking like a very strong successor to bitcoins. It can provide full transaction privacy, even to the sender. It pulls it off by using zero knowledge cryptography which allows them to validate transactions without decrypting their...

If he dies it's all over, and all his companies are sunk. I don't think you'll see him launch off to anywhere until this is all self sustaining and doesn't all hinge on him personally. Depending the gains they make it's probably a decade or more out.

What context are you using this in? Uber is trying to gain market share/increase revenue by any means necessary, and one of the pitfalls of that is failed market penetration and huge losses (Hi Groupon). If anything this is probably good for autonomous car manufacturers like Tesla who have plans...

Right now the charging issue is really a heat issue, if you pump too much into the battery at one time you'll heat it up and it'll potentially explode/catch fire. They're doing interesting things with cell phone batteries where they manage the power going to them to keep them from overheating...

Another thing to consider is that GPS isn't very accurate, it's more or less a 3 meter bubble with current tech. I'm not sure what the new constellation of GPS satellites can achieve but you need really accurate clocks to get very accurate positions, because it's using the time it takes the...

Consider it a bet.

Hah only if you want to push it to Dec 31st 2018, I definitely see Tesla not delivering by Q1 2018 but out before 2019. I've been reading over the tech that Tesla is pushing into the last little while, it's interesting stuff. I was quasi expecting that the AI would was actually learning to...

Tesla expects to have a level 5 (highest possible level of autonomy, never requires a driver) by the end of 2017 to early 2018. Every vehicle they roll off the line including the Tesla 3's are going to have this feature baked into them. There is a company that Uber owns that claims to have a...

Anyone else get the feeling that that little opener probably had a higher budget than than an entire series of BBC Top Gear? The first episode wasn't bad, but considering most people expectations I don't think anyone is going to be disappointed by the series. It'll only get better with time too...

Falcon heavy could do 120+, as high as 140 but I left some room there for whatever will have to hold those satellites and deploy them. The ITS Booster (First stage mars launcher) could do 750+ per launch, which makes this sound almost reasonable. It'll be pretty fucking cool to be able to go...

Apparently this article was completely misleading, dark energy still exists and we're still in an expanding universe. This does a really good job of explaining why the results don't really change anything that we know.

I see the positive in that you might make sewage treatment less costly which would encourage building more of them. A disturbing amount of raw sewage is dumped into rivers and oceans, even by first world countries.

A group has developed a way of making refinable crude oil directly from wet sewage. They've licensed the tech and they're planning to build a test plant in vancouver. Curiously they don't mention farm manure. Fuel from sewage is the future—and it's closer than you think

You're again confusing a lack of good tools and coordinated research with me saying these are simple problems. I don't know how else to explain this to you, it just seems like you some sort of mental block. Yes these are hard problems, yes it's difficult to identify them but that difficulty is...

Then what the fuck was your point? Some of them are going to be hard and take longer, others are easy targets. You can pick the ones you choose to research and prioritize based on the technology at hand and what will have the biggest impact. If this was organized the progress would be faster in...

That's a really stupid response, we develop tools to make tasks easier so we can accomplish more. Why would antibodies be any fucking different? If we followed your logic we'd have no progress at all because it was "difficult". @iannis thanks for the response, yea I could of worded it better...

I did a rather shit job of explaining why I thought cures were easy in the politics thread, here is my second shot at it. Vaccine's have dated back as far as the 10th century China and first recorded in western medicine in the mid-to late 1700's. We've known that unique markers (antibodies) are...

They successfully tested an autonomous truck last week, and they hope to have a commercial fully autonomous truck available by 2018. I'd be feeling really anxious if I was truck driver right now. Otto Moving with ‘Urgency’ to Introduce Autonomous Truck Tech | Trucks.com And Elon says that...

I contrasted long term alcoholism with long term heroin addiction, provided you have a clean free supply of heroin you're doing significantly less damage to your body than you are with alcohol. It's not even controversial and it's an example that lots of medical doctors use as prohibition...

I heard Jidenna on the rap caviar playlist on spotify, huge fan now. Can't wait till this guy releases a full album his whole style/sound is awesome.

So the universes expansion rate was calculated using about 70 type 1a super novas all over the observable universe which gave a sigma 5. (higher sigmas mean they're more likely to be real, the higgs boson was sigma 7 as an example) . Well they analysed 10x as many super nova in a recent study...

A group of scientists has always been bothered by the viking lander results testing positive for life in one experiment for metabolism but failed another to detect organic compounds. So they spent years analysing all the possible explanations and came to the conclusion that life is the most...

Not much really, just kind of shifts the accounting around and places us at a different point in galactic evolution. Presuming that empty space does produce some kind of static vacuum pressure that we describe as dark energy, having more matter in the equation just pushes the eventual demise a...

It's even a sign that their authority is being systematically eroded as more and more people become educated about drugs. People are asking them tougher and tougher questions and they can't answer them, hell they couldn't even admit that pot was safer than heroin! They're going to have to adapt...

Wow episode seven was like boon dock saints and chapelle had a baby that shit out a brilliant defense of free speech. Hilarious too.

From my perspective whoever did the hack did everyone a service. Though if if it was Putin he must be loving the irony of rampant political corruption in a country that lectures him on democracy. Hopefully the RNC gets leaked as well and the whole thing is laid bare. With enough pissed off...

Doesn't the US regularly fuck with Russian elections anyways? This is kind of par for the course.

Starshot plans on sending small probes to other systems in the near future provided they get all their funding together. I'm pretty sure they'll get their little probes up to 20% of the speed of light using a high powered laser and a light sail which makes for roughly a 20 year journey to Alpha...

Depending on what went wrong this could delay them for months :/ Plus it might undermine them flying humans to the ISS in the next couple years. Hopefully it was something really stupid and nothing wrong with the rocket itself.

After playing around with F1 fan cars in GT5 I can't fucking wait for this. I'm not super big into motor sports but watching some extremely high speed racing with crazy aerodynamic cars would be really exciting. Plus you never have to feel guilty about taking pleasure into an extremely...

Hah I feel like I should get this, I haven't really done any rendering work :( Or this is a straight up math reference that's over my head hah I love the concept of it on the surface, but there is just so much stuff we can't explain that going down the simulation route almost seems like the...

When people bring up the topic of us living in a simulation it always makes me think about quantum mechanics. Using probabilities and never having to determine a position until it was necessary are great ways from a computer science perspective to save on computing resources. I doubt that we...

Great video on Dyson Spheres (Swarms?) and how we could achieve type II/III status in a relatively short period of time (50-100 years?) if we wanted to. We could build a partial Dyson Swarm using Mercury as materials then use the energy from the swarm to make tiny black holes we could use for...

Cool quoting works from other threads~ From the political thread I don't think I am, mainly because the most expensive part of transportation is the human element. If you can eliminate humans AND keep your vehicles running 24/7 because they no longer have a driver who needs rest, well you're...