This is a very bad omen for the future of home electronics. Tethered technology is coming into our homes, technology that does less and less with each manufacturer software patch. Technology that "won't remember" or skips certain news broadcasts that the manufacturer or other parties would rather you not know about.

Sterile technology is coming and we must stop it. And always remember, if you can't open it you don't own it.

I'd recommend reading "The Future of the Internet--And How to Stop It" by Jonathan Zittrain for more.

This is why I want the LHC to be turned on so we can figure out the science to do this.

Heh. Really appreciate that note to TSA. Had my own experience shipping robots to other countries via airline. Only my robot was made of PVC and filled up with BBs, which made it look like a pipe bomb on an X-ray. Fortunately they didn't damage anything, and I got stuff taped back up with really cool 'TSA inspected' tape.

#25 the problem isn't pruning the jacket it's having a big enough containment vessel to make an actual jacket.

#25 I too wouldn't eat this thing, not because of the laboratory experiment food factor, but because it's primarily composed of necrotic(dead, yucky, and degraded tissue) tissue. Any tissue thicker than a centimeter tends to dies because it can't get acces to nutrients. We can't get good tasty artificial meat until someone figures out how to get blood vessels to grow.

Two questions: Why relativity? And why turbulence?

Oh yeah, and does the universe run linux?

Even though it's abandoned it still looks pretty darn cool.

These billboards are missleading, they only display the amount of noise at the point of the measuring device. Sound level decreases as an inverse square of distance from the sound source.

My mind is going

EUROPEAN! That's not European, it's STEAMPUNK!

Internet rule #41: "Any fully mechanical device that performs the function of an electronic device must be declared Steampunk."

That was the coolest thing ever. Period.

I could imagine Ender doing something like this.

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#9 already been done: http://fabathome.org/wiki/index.php?title=Fab%40Home:Gallery#House_of_Cheese
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http://home.att.net/~castleisland/rp_int.htm

Reminds of something GLADOS would say.

6.2 kilograms of pure evil.

Well, I actually have a bunch of spherical magnets from this company: http://www.engconcepts.net/list_of_sphere_magnets.asp

Coolest things ever. Except, I'd recommend getting epoxy coated ones because the nickel plating on mine is coming off after hours of "use."

But the price for 216 5mm sphere magnets is a bit much $86.

Well, this would generally be bad for the spider. Insects are more prone to avoid bright red thread than clear spider web.

OH NOES! DANGEROUS CHEMICALS IN MY FOOD!

There may in fact be dangerous chemicals in your food, but these dangerous chemicals usually are in very small amounts and not able to harm you.

Take for instance, almonds, they're all natural so they must not contain ANY toxic chemicals, right?

WRONG! Almonds, surprisingly, naturally contain a bit of cyanide(not enough to harm you!) which gives them their "almondy" smell.

The goggles! They do nothing!

Well, it seems no one has really done a study on if this works or not so the jury is out. Also, please note that anecdotal evidence(IE, "this one restaurant I visited used them...") is not an acceptable argument.

But there is the possibility it might mess with the insects visual systems.
http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~weg22/opticFlow.html

Clearly, we need to get the Mythbusters to test this.

This is not an RC car, this is what is know as a tether car, or gas powered car that runs around a pole that it is connected to by a tether.

They have been documented at going 209 mph.
http://tethercar.com/

"Spy's sappin' mah sentry."

We all know this is going to lead to real life reenactments of Team Fortress.

Hey wasn't that the bathtub thing for the precogs in Minority Report?

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In Soviet Russia, baby take candy from you!!!

Well, I think replacing Plum Island with ANYTHING is a good idea. Plum Island has had a pretty bad record of biocontainment failures. The heart of the problem is that Plum Island wasn't built as a high-level biocontainment facility. It is also old, just like Pirbright(albeit, likely better maintained). Not to mention, Plum Island ain't too far away from a whole lot of people and subject to storm surges which can flood the facility(bad). But this still does not justify putting a biosafety level 3 lab near livestock. It would make more sense to put the facility in the middle of the desert, where no contact with domestic or wild animals is possible.

This might call for some revising of the diamond-water paradox. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_value

Creepiness factor measured at 100 Mega-Kings. For reference 1 King is equal to the amount of creepiness experienced reading one page of one of Stephen King's novels.

Oh great, the LHC is getting delayed again, thus antigravity machines, warp drives, and other cool stuff utilizing advanced knowledge of physics is now delayed.

@13, is it gold plating? No, its probably anodized aluminum or paint, which is much cheaper to do.

@ all of you who don't like the idea. First of all, you can't just send an electrified SUV or a bike to the moon, SUVs, bikes, and other off road have a chance of tipping over. On Earth this would not be much of a problem, you just right the vehicle, possibly using a winch, you fix any broken parts, and bandage any cuts.

On the Moon, however, a vehicle tipping over could be disastrous, pressure suits might get breached, the nearest replacement part is 384,403 km away, and any vehicle breakdown might jeopardize the mission, and possibly astronauts lives.

@15, How this might help gas prices go down?
Any vehicle you put on the moon has to be electric, as there aren't any gas stations on the moon. Not only that, but it has to be an extremely efficient electric vehicle, you need to get the most range out of the least weight of batteries as weight is expensive. Not to mention you also need solar panels to charge the vehicle. This means that better batteries, motors, and solar panels need to be developed before we can go to the moon.
It just so happens, that all of these things would be useful in getting off our addiction to oil.

Wow, the predictions regarding computers are actually accurate.

"Computers also handle travel reservations, relay telephone messages, keep track of birthdays and anniversaries, compute taxes and even figure the monthly bills for electricity, water, telephone and other utilities." Yup, got that right.

Hey wasn't there something like that, in the game Myst from a while back?

It doesn't matter if the laser system works, it only matters that the people launching the rockets think it works and are deterred from launching rockets by it.

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It's even more curious that they can occur naturally:
http://www.lateralscience.co.uk/rupdrop/index.html

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I am sorry for posting in all caps, but this is just to good to pass up

I'm betting $10 that a culture jammer did it.

Either that or someones going on a suing spree.

@9, Godwin's Law.

Wow, absolutely amazing stuff. Now, all they need to do is make a winder that uses pressure differential like this "perpetual" clock: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cox's_timepiece

Coincidentally, they released the release date for an evolution game on Darwin day.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_Day

Expect more, 3d printing is getting cheaper and cheaper.

It's not plagiarism, it's convergent evolution!

Reminds me of a sci-fi story I read a while back about some dystopian government banning a color, now it looks like it is an reality.

Being a florist in Saudia Arabia must be a pretty hardcore job. I mean they have to smuggle flowers, of all things!

You know, I have really discovered youtube and other online video websites during the strike. In fact I don't watch TV anymore.

$ gcc segfault.c -g -o segfault
segfault.c: In function ‘main’:
segfault.c:4: error: assignment of read-only location

It's strange Fedex, DHL, UPS, and even USPS don't open up every package and letter to make sure there's copyrighted material inside. In fact in the US it is a violation of federal law for anyone other than the receiver to open mail. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mail)

So why should AT&T be able to open up the virtual equivalent of "mail," have some program look at it to decide if it can pass?

The reason I am apposed to this is that it is going to slow the internet down to the flow rate of pitch at absolute zero. AT&T will have to look at every packet flying through, which takes time. Which means online gaming is going to die. Youtube will die. And if we are lucky AT&T will die too.

If AT&T starts doing this we should all start laying down our own fiber and setting up mesh networks.

I propose a simple test for any perpetual motion machine especially this one, its called the box test. You simple put this machine in a perfectly isolated box like a safe, and let it run while monitoring it with a camera. No one is allowed to open the box at all for any reason what so ever. Any machines that stop moving are not perpetual motion machines and do not violate the conservation of energy. If the inventor of the perpetual motion machine claims that mechanical breakdown occurred they are allowed to repair the machine under careful video surveillance.

I wonder if it looks flat if you move? I have some ideas for this given the cheap price of projectors...

There are 2 ways in which this device could work:
1) It makes the water look like it is boiling
2) It actually boils the water

In case 1, ultrasonic waves create cavitation, or rapidly expanding and collapsing vacuum bubbles. You can see a really cool example of this here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oNZcLyCR_Q&feature=related

It could also work like an ultrasonic mist maker and give the illusion of steam production(http://www.physlink.com/estore/cart/UltrasonicMistMaker.cfm) .

In case 2 it might actually work, I have heard reports of the water around ultrasonic humidifiers feeling hot where the sound focuses. Then again this could be a sensory illusion due to the high-power ultrasound(which can tear apart cell walls). I also found this report on using focused ultrasound to heat a spot up to 120 C in seconds to kill cancer cells. http://ndeaa.jpl.nasa.gov/nasa-nde/medical/heating.htm

Of course, it is dubious if the device could actually focus ultrasound.

If all else fails and this device does not actually heat the liquid up, it could at least be used to stir stuff up and possibly enhance flavor, as high energy ultrasound devices called sonicators have been used to emulsify, produce colloids, eliminate crystallization in honey, or potentially make the best damn coffee in the world.

More information on this device is definately needed.

Well gaming performance can actually be tested quite easily, especially since games have a point system. Someone should do a study on this complete with placeboes.

But I certainly found some interesting wording in the terms of service:

"TOMARNI GmbH does not warrant for defects which are caused by incorrect installation through the custumer..."

In other words you have to "install" it for it to work properly so it's probably just nanobots or something.

I also found this funny:
"
II. If time for delivery is not being observed, and it can be proven to be due to mobilization, war, riots, strike, lockout, incorrect or late delivery by suppliers or owing to unforeseen events which lie outside of the power of TOMARNI GmbH or its suppliers, the time period for delivery is extended appropriately."

So even if there is a nuclear war, the time period for delivery will be extended appropriatly.

I got an idea let's get the mythbusters to test it for us! Start spamming them now!

Hey if your gonna start posting instructables, check this home-made 3D printer: http://www.instructables.com/id/Build-a-Polar-3-D-Printer-from-Legos/

This reminds me of something I saw on Cosmos the other day. Well there is this one species of crab that looks remarkably like a human face, because we superstitious humans did not the ones that looked like they had a human face and threw them back in the sea. So they evolved to look more like human faces.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heikegani

Maybe carp will start looking human-like 1000 years from now.

Now you just need to involve Steampunk, Daleks, or Unicorns and its a true Boing Boing meme.

He should make the next unicorn chaser.

Does anyone have any more information on the actual process after cell extraction?

I don't know if this will help anyone, but if I remember right you can make cell growth scaffolding by dissolving a crab shell in vinegar and then putting the resulting solution in the freezer.