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Monthly Archives: December 2011
The Worms Crawl In, the Worms Crawl Out
The recent discovery of a habitable, earth-like planet has renewed buzz and speculation not only about the possibility of humans living on other worlds, but also about whom or what else is living out there. Are there Vorlons out there … Continue reading
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Tagged agar, discovery, elegans, gravity, interface, kepler, liquid, planets, radiation, reproduction, royal society, science, sesame street, soil, space, space colonization, space travel, star wars, stephen hawking, szewczyk, weightlessness, worms
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Uncle Sam Wants…Who?
Imagine meeting the Terminator on the battlefield. You might try and run–that is, if it didn’t kill you while you were pissing yourself. What about an army of Terminators? A common image in science fiction: massive armies of identical robots … Continue reading
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Tagged alphadog, armed robotic vehicles, army, ARV, boston dynamics, clone, clone wars, cylon, DARPA, drone, iran, Iraq war, kurzweil, MIDARS, MULE, P.W. Singer, robot, santa, sentience, soldiers, star wars, stealth, TED, terminator, UAV, UGV
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Eye Eye, Matey
Remember when Mom said she had eyes in the back of her head? She might not be speaking metaphorically. Scientists at Tufts University have found a way to develop cells into eyes. In a discovery reminiscent of Frankenstein (the movie, … Continue reading
Who Needs Fingers?
This blog’s for you. Welcoming couldthishappen.com’s first guest blogger, Spanky! You’re involved in a high-stakes poker game of epic proportions. Your entire life savings sits in front of you on the table (approximately $55). You’ve got what could be a … Continue reading
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Tagged bionic, contacts, display, emissions, eye, eyeball, governator, hands free, information, lens, pixel, pupils, radio wave, robot, smartphone, terminator
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Is That a Nightstick in Your Pocket or are You Just Happy to See Me?
So we’re not fighting a war against the cylons or any kind of AI just yet. Nor do we have armies of robots fighting for us, yet. But we’re getting there. South Korea has announced that it will begin using … Continue reading
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Tagged armies, dalek, guard, hubo, humanoid, OFRO, r2d2, robot, robot theme park, robotland, soldiers, south korea, warden
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