Awesome Whatevers & Doodads

[Storm Windfall]

I don't know about you all, but I like news stuffs. Specially when it's fun stuffs. So, tonight, looking for a reason why my Google searches suddenly turned Russian instead of Afrikaans or English, I found this article about external hard drives which made me think that maybe we can share all those great magoochies we may find while travelling long distance on the internet.

http://www.cnet.com/news/top-external-s ... ?ttag=fbwl

....which also made me wish for a McGafter to make tiny URL's....

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WOOOHOO! Awesome!

http://www.cnet.com/news/this-plastic-r ... s-damaged/


and this.....

http://www.cnet.com/news/mit-computer-s ... ?ttag=fbwl

[BLZBUB]

 I found a somewhat disturbing bit of news in the new X-Y pair of nucleotides in the DNA code.

http://www.thewire.com/national/2014/05/dna-letters-discovery-expands-genetic-alphabet/361892/

 

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What an awesome find, BLZBUB! 


"This type of discovery raises the normal fears associated with artificial life, but Dr. Romesberg assures the Times that the new base pair would not be able to survive in a different organism. "This could never infect something," he said. "


Now, where did I hear this before?

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http://blogs.palmbeachpost.com/realtime ... l#comments


Really, really REALLY want one of those! Anybody for a loan? Mmmm...maybe they will sell just two rooms...three! Sighhhh, noooo...FOUR!

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http://www.cnet.com/news/segway-invento ... -go-ahead/

Pretty soon it will be the legs, then the body and then the head! Well, it's quite possible to transplant a brain with the spinal cord intact. Yeah even the nerves! How great will it be for those who can't walk, or want to live forever? I know some that will jump at the chance!

[Jeff T]

http://www.cnet.com/news/segway-inventors-impressive-robot-arm-gets-go-ahead/

Pretty soon it will be the legs, then the body and then the head! Well, it's quite possible to transplant a brain with the spinal cord intact. Yeah even the nerves! How great will it be for those who can't walk, or want to live forever? I know some that will jump at the chance!

LOL... Hmmmmmmmm...  I wonder who Storm is referring too....

Anyway, let's give this guy a hand for his prosthetic invention.

[Kheren]

According to many articles and books since the mid 20th century, head transplants of rats, dogs and even monkeys have already been performed successfully, although the problem of reconnecting a spinal cord is not yet resolved satisfactorily. And so far, no Human has been known to undergo the procedure. The ethical and moral stands to this are still quite negative (not to mention emotional and even cultural reactions), despite the possible medical benefits (even if it leads to being a quadraplegic; more than a few would prefer to live as a quadraplegic rather than not at all... and it obvioulsy makes no difference to someone already quadraplegic and suffering from other severe problems like organ failure).

As Mr Spock is fond of saying: "There always are... possibilities."

[BLZBUB]

 Perhaps Dr. Stephan Hawking's is following this technology very closely. I know I would be.

[Jeff T]

Here's another interesting contribution by Storm:

http://www.cnet.com/news/scientists-design-a-collider-to-turn-light-into-matter/?ttag=fbwl