deanb Posted November 14, 2011 Author Report Share Posted November 14, 2011 Fast food restaurants with a "pound menu" be first to adopt €250,000 burgers? I think you're more likely to find it in places that do molecular gastronomy. I'm sure pale white meat slithers will go well with a dessert of ...blue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thursday Next Posted November 15, 2011 Report Share Posted November 15, 2011 Ooooh a blueberry foam. The most retarded stuck-up foody idea to date. I love that it looks like you fastened the blue jelly to my plate by first spitting on it. Delicious! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mal Posted November 19, 2011 Report Share Posted November 19, 2011 http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0024408 ALL FOR SCIENCE! And yeah, can be slightly NSFW but... ITS SCIENCE! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheFlyingGerbil Posted December 3, 2011 Report Share Posted December 3, 2011 Is it actually running? I can't tell. It kind of looks like it's just walking really fast. (difference between walking and running: in running both/all feet are off the ground at the same time, in walking at least one foot is always on the ground) I don't know if you found out the answer to this or no longer care (more likely!) but Asimo is definitely running. It's just been on QI and Stephen Fry specifically said it runs with both feet off the ground. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted December 4, 2011 Report Share Posted December 4, 2011 Cool. I'd completely forgotten about that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted December 6, 2011 Author Report Share Posted December 6, 2011 http://news.discovery.com/animals/woolly-mammoth-cloned-111205.html Russians now have pretty much all they need in order to clone a mammoth. So they're going to go ahead n hope to have one in 5 years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted December 6, 2011 Report Share Posted December 6, 2011 Even if the cloned animals were contained in special parks, there could still be a risk of spreading I see this viewpoint brought up repeatedly when discussing cloning extinct animals, despite how retarded it is. When was the last time you heard of elephants escaping the zoo and starting a breeding population in the wild? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted December 6, 2011 Author Report Share Posted December 6, 2011 I was going to comment on that. That final paragraph seemed a bit of absurd scaremongering cos it's a fucking mammoth. We've aided in their extinction once, we can do it again. It's hardly like they can hide much. We're not cloning smallpox or something. Main reason we're cloning extinct animals is because they're extinct. "oh no, a dodo broke loose, quick before they spread across the world and...oh wait dogs still exist". This will be the umpteenth animal we've made extinct, and we have become exceedingly efficient at it. Fuck, you know if pushed to it, I reckon say some alien species give us the ultimatum of wipe out all other animal life on earth within 10 years or face having the earth blown up I think we could actually do it. It's keeping them all alive that's the hard part. (I hear there's debate on just giving up on the panda, for example) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted December 6, 2011 Report Share Posted December 6, 2011 (I hear there's debate on just giving up on the panda, for example) One of my friends once said he hates pandas because they won't even fuck to save their own species. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted December 6, 2011 Author Report Share Posted December 6, 2011 That'd generally be the crux of the debate. They eat pretty much one food type, generally live solitary lives, a re black n white on a green background. Currently the only purpose of the Panda as a species is to be the butt of a dictionary joke. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Posted December 7, 2011 Report Share Posted December 7, 2011 But they are cute! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mal Posted December 7, 2011 Report Share Posted December 7, 2011 So, if pandas goes extinct... what happens all those pandas in all those games...? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Posted December 7, 2011 Report Share Posted December 7, 2011 The same thing that happened to the dinosaurs in games. We got a lot more of them 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted December 13, 2011 Author Report Share Posted December 13, 2011 Tyres like this have been in the works for some time, seems the first time they're doing a proper commercial release.Amazed no one told them it's pointless to reinvent the wheel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fuchikoma Posted December 13, 2011 Report Share Posted December 13, 2011 Video's been captured of light passing through a bottle of liquid... This is nuts... I love science. Some of the ideas they mention in the article reminded me of some research I saw a few years ago for from reflected light. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted December 14, 2011 Report Share Posted December 14, 2011 That's really cool, but the thing about reconstructing images from reflected light is even cooler. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted December 14, 2011 Author Report Share Posted December 14, 2011 I find it hilarious about him suggesting being able to re-create the look of an expensive light set up in a studio. Because of course studio lights are so much cheaper than a "titanium-saphire pulsed laser" 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thursday Next Posted December 15, 2011 Report Share Posted December 15, 2011 wrt the bridgestone tyres. Would like to know how much they weigh. Also, I don't care how pretty they think the spokes look, just stick a sidewall on the bloody things if that's what needs doing. The mass market won't give a crap about the silly green spokes, they just want low maintenance, safe tyres. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted December 15, 2011 Report Share Posted December 15, 2011 Yeah, that part was retarded. "We're trying to figure out how to prevent shit getting in the spokes and fucking them up." Um, how about you, I dunno, cover them? Also if all you're really worried about is preventing flats the military has been using foam filled tires for ages now for just that reason. The spokes are pretty cool, but I'm skeptical about their practicality. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted December 15, 2011 Author Report Share Posted December 15, 2011 The foam filling is only a temporary measure btw. It's pretty much a "this will keep you going for a few hours, that few hours is to get the wheel changed". They're in some commercial cars too, higher end stuff, rally cars also use them. The bridgestone stuff is practically zero maintenance, which as you can see their first market is mobility scooters. Since they're used mainly be old people, having low maintenance is good for that kind of thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted December 15, 2011 Report Share Posted December 15, 2011 Oh yeah, it looks like the spokes would work perfectly fine for that kind of thing. When I said I was skeptical about their practicality I was thinking more along the lines of cars and trucks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thursday Next Posted December 19, 2011 Report Share Posted December 19, 2011 I'm guessing that foam filled tyres don't deform properly, but I have no science to back that up. Solid rubber tyres would be too heavy, if these weigh around the same as a road tyre they would be far safer. You'd still have to change them regularly as the tread would wear out and you'd end up with no grip and green spokes flailing about, but they should fail more gracefully than air-filled tyres. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted December 19, 2011 Author Report Share Posted December 19, 2011 They shouldn't wear as quickly because they don't deflate you won't have the car leaning on them weirdly over time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thursday Next Posted December 19, 2011 Report Share Posted December 19, 2011 Indeed, but they will still wear out. It's not like this is an everlasting tyre so cost per unit, durability and weight are critical for mainstream use. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted January 8, 2012 Author Report Share Posted January 8, 2012 http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2012-01/monkey-embryo-mashup-results-first-primate-chimeras Monkeys made from several monkeys. Part of the importance here is that monkeys are primates. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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