Human v2.0

Ahnimus
Ahnimus Posts: 10,560
edited April 2007 in A Moving Train
This was an excellent documentary film by BBC Horizon a while back. I finally got to see a torrent of it.

It made me aware of some discoveries I was ignorant of. Such as radio-controlled rats and bulls. And a monkey who learned to manipulate a computer using his thoughts connected by an electrode.

I recommend checking it out
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/programmes/horizon/broadband/tx/singularity/
I necessarily have the passion for writing this, and you have the passion for condemning me; both of us are equally fools, equally the toys of destiny. Your nature is to do harm, mine is to love truth, and to make it public in spite of you. - Voltaire
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  • RolandTD20Kdrummer
    RolandTD20Kdrummer Posts: 13,066
    Ahnimus wrote:
    This was an excellent documentary film by BBC Horizon a while back. I finally got to see a torrent of it.

    It made me aware of some discoveries I was ignorant of. Such as radio-controlled rats and bulls. And a monkey who learned to manipulate a computer using his thoughts connected by an electrode.

    I recommend checking it out
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/programmes/horizon/broadband/tx/singularity/

    I grabbed the BT of that about 6 months ago. V Interesting. Yeah the monkey takes his hand off the control because he realized he could the operate computer simulation using his mind...pretty cool moment.

    I like how he tests the bull. I think it's on youtube as well somewhere
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  • Ahnimus
    Ahnimus Posts: 10,560
    I think the debate over the safety is a good one. I myself am not afraid of computers, we can always set off an EM emitter and they are all dead.
    I necessarily have the passion for writing this, and you have the passion for condemning me; both of us are equally fools, equally the toys of destiny. Your nature is to do harm, mine is to love truth, and to make it public in spite of you. - Voltaire
  • RolandTD20Kdrummer
    RolandTD20Kdrummer Posts: 13,066
    Ahnimus wrote:
    I think the debate over the safety is a good one. I myself am not afraid of computers, we can always set off an EM emitter and they are all dead.

    Apparently EMP bombs are fairly cheap and easy to make:

    http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=43956

    http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/military_law/1281421.html?page=2

    this would fry most peoples cars as well...
    Progress is not made by everyone joining some new fad,
    and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
    over specific principles, goals, and policies.

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  • Ahnimus
    Ahnimus Posts: 10,560
    Cool, apparently EM can interfere with some parts of the brain, altering consciousness and possibly causing hallucinations. Think I'm gonna try some experiments with the neighbourhood kids :)
    I necessarily have the passion for writing this, and you have the passion for condemning me; both of us are equally fools, equally the toys of destiny. Your nature is to do harm, mine is to love truth, and to make it public in spite of you. - Voltaire
  • RolandTD20Kdrummer
    RolandTD20Kdrummer Posts: 13,066
    Ahnimus wrote:
    Cool, apparently EM can interfere with some parts of the brain, altering consciousness and possibly causing hallucinations. Think I'm gonna try some experiments with the neighbourhood kids :)

    I was reading the British police were testing some kind of ray gun on loitering street youth. People were detecting strange EM coming from unmarked police vans. They were probably testing something out for sure...

    EMP weapon vid
    http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=db8_1173412596

    maybe stock up on some Kraft dinner sometime just in case things get hairy for a few months :D

    I bought one of these for about $200 delivered
    http://www.zapchecker.com/zc270.html
    Progress is not made by everyone joining some new fad,
    and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
    over specific principles, goals, and policies.

    http://i36.tinypic.com/66j31x.jpg

    (\__/)
    ( o.O)
    (")_(")
  • soulsinging
    soulsinging Posts: 13,202
    do we get wings in the next version?
  • Ahnimus
    Ahnimus Posts: 10,560
    soulsinging wrote:
    do we get wings in the next version?

    That's a very real possibility. I hadn't thought of that. I was thinking more along the lines of upgrading my Central Processing Unit (CPU) otherwise known as my Central Nervous System. And possibly some enhancements to my input/output systems, otherwise known as sensory organs.
    I necessarily have the passion for writing this, and you have the passion for condemning me; both of us are equally fools, equally the toys of destiny. Your nature is to do harm, mine is to love truth, and to make it public in spite of you. - Voltaire
  • Rats of Multa
    Rats of Multa Posts: 250
    Ahnimus wrote:
    That's a very real possibility. I hadn't thought of that. I was thinking more along the lines of upgrading my Central Processing Unit (CPU) otherwise known as my Central Nervous System. And possibly some enhancements to my input/output systems, otherwise known as sensory organs.


    yeah,.. id love to have a new flash card, and probably some extra RAM if i could, to counter-balance all those bong hits,.... only 9 more days!!!
    we don’t know just where our bones will rest,
    to dust i guess,
    forgotten and absorbed into the earth below,..

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