UnarmedSnail
UnarmedSnail t1_jdejhts wrote
Reply to comment by ANewOof in New 'biohybrid' implant will restore function in paralyzed limbs | "This interface could revolutionize the way we interact with technology." by chrisdh79
Revolutions require the will to invest and develop in the new technology. These articles tend to ignore cultural inertia and monetization.
UnarmedSnail t1_jdeap6u wrote
Reply to Study has shown evidence of a specific pathway of cells and nerves linking the gut to the brain that may be responsible for irritable bowel syndrome and anxiety by giuliomagnifico
So when you have a gut feeling, you're actually having a gut feeling. I wonder if these nerve clusters are left over from the time when we were worms with multiple brains.
UnarmedSnail t1_jbi3zl4 wrote
Reply to comment by nrchicago in We live in the Jetsons now. A Flying Motorbike Company Gets Listed on the Nasdaq by jwright100
Likely. Also likely that's the type to buy such a thing.
UnarmedSnail t1_jbhpxys wrote
Reply to comment by megazen in We live in the Jetsons now. A Flying Motorbike Company Gets Listed on the Nasdaq by jwright100
Do you die by the amputation or the resulting crash, cause you just know someone will try stopping it with their own hands.
UnarmedSnail t1_j9uc83y wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in Almost 40% of domestic tasks could be done by robots ‘within decade’ | Artificial intelligence (AI) by Gari_305
Spousal automation. Now THERE'S the future.
UnarmedSnail t1_j9ublm0 wrote
Reply to comment by BlueHym in Almost 40% of domestic tasks could be done by robots ‘within decade’ | Artificial intelligence (AI) by Gari_305
No government is likely to survive explaining what full industrial automation means to a society and then actually trying to implement it.
UnarmedSnail t1_j9lhwad wrote
Reply to comment by ejoy-rs2 in Scientists Say They Gene Hacked Mice to Double Remaining Lifespan by Ok-Prior-8856
Greed gets more money than philanthropy.
UnarmedSnail t1_j9ih0c0 wrote
Reply to comment by SkrullandCrossbones in Scientists Say They Gene Hacked Mice to Double Remaining Lifespan by Ok-Prior-8856
This will absolutely spur all kinds of research funds into cancer cures.
UnarmedSnail t1_j9i9t4v wrote
Reply to comment by Vargock in Scientists Say They Gene Hacked Mice to Double Remaining Lifespan by Ok-Prior-8856
You start messing with cell longevity and you're asking to have cancer.
UnarmedSnail t1_j9i1a6t wrote
Reply to comment by Ok-Prior-8856 in Scientists Say They Gene Hacked Mice to Double Remaining Lifespan by Ok-Prior-8856
I expect lots of cancer even if it's effective.
UnarmedSnail t1_j82yd40 wrote
Reply to comment by r2k-in-the-vortex in Why is the Oort cloud spherical? by Outliver
The Sun's gravity scoops up debris from the interstellar medium. I bet some of it gets captured in the Oort cloud.
UnarmedSnail t1_j82y5ly wrote
Reply to comment by Cheshire-Kate in Why is the Oort cloud spherical? by Outliver
I suspect elliptical galaxies are the merger of galaxies where the collision canceled out both galaxies rotational energy.
UnarmedSnail t1_j45gor2 wrote
Reply to comment by xydanil in How are there more genetic differences between two of us than between us and Neanderthals? by bookposting5
I'm thinking that the viable variations in early Sapiens, Sapiens/ Sapiens, Neanderthalis were few, and so the differences between our population today and then would be small as there are few working combinations in the genome "lock" as it were. Was the study done between hybridised Sapiens, Sapiens populations vs Sapiens, Neanderthalis, or non hybridised vs. Sapiens, Neanderthalis?
UnarmedSnail t1_j459wed wrote
Reply to comment by 2011StlCards in Why are coastlines crinkly near the poles but smooth in the tropics? by emsot
Europe was a boiling cauldron of death, plague, and blood since the fall of the Roman Empire.
Then it met China again.
Then Europe was a boiling cauldron of death, plague, blood and innovation as they used the cross pollination of ideas to find more efficient ways of death, plague, blood. WWII ended this...
for now.
Edit: Russia has unpaused the game.
UnarmedSnail t1_j4533uv wrote
Reply to comment by coob in Why are coastlines crinkly near the poles but smooth in the tropics? by emsot
They did not have animals in north America suitable for domestication to magnify their work potential. They did not have farming technology on an industrial scale, and they didn't have the social structure suitable for long term growth in most cultures. There were a few exceptions in prehistory but they did not survive to contact with Europeans. The Aztecs being the only empire that did exist then. There were a long string of prehistoric empires in the Americas but for the most part they were separated by time and distance from each other.
Edit: the Incas also had contact with Europeans.
UnarmedSnail t1_j4527gk wrote
Reply to comment by BaldBear_13 in Why are coastlines crinkly near the poles but smooth in the tropics? by emsot
They had chemical batteries that would be connected to statues of Zeus that would shock when touched. They had primitive steam engines that would spin up when boiling water was heated inside them. They had the archimedes screw. Complex machines for milling,stamping, grinding. If someone had known of all these pieces and thought to combine these technologies to actually do work then you have an industrial revolution.
UnarmedSnail t1_j44xnwd wrote
Reply to comment by BaldBear_13 in Why are coastlines crinkly near the poles but smooth in the tropics? by emsot
There's a fair amount of randomness to it as well. You need all these important pieces, but you need them to come together in the right way, the right time, and in the right place. The ancient Greeks had all they needed to jumpstart the industrial revolution 3,000 years ago, but the pieces were locked away as religious displays and secret knowledge in mystery cults.
UnarmedSnail t1_j44t7s1 wrote
Reply to Is it possible that people born with genetic disorders is caused because humans are related to eachother in some way? by Skully_o7
Genetic disorders can happen both from random mutation that happens just to one person, and inherited mutation passed down from the original mutated ancestor to descendents. An inheritable mutation must happen in an egg or sperm originally to be passed down, such as sicle cell anemia.
Random mutations otherwise, such as bone cancer in example, are not passed down. Random mutations appear the same a lot of the time because our genes can be broken in some ways more easily that others that cause rare diseases.
Our genome is a patchwork thing from several different human and human ancestor lines and it's amazing it all works together as well as it does.
UnarmedSnail t1_jdelkjv wrote
Reply to comment by Drewsef916 in New 'biohybrid' implant will restore function in paralyzed limbs | "This interface could revolutionize the way we interact with technology." by chrisdh79
You're assuming that they won't just go after it reflexively by the name. Maybe if it's couched as helpful to wounded vets.