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  1. Might want to look at their accomplishment as a monument to their commitment. It isn't about the "what" it is about what they did to achieve that accomplishment.

     

    Anyways, based on what I've seen of the psych tests as long as you don't answer "Yes" to any of the more obvious questions you'll be fine.

     

    ie. "Do you hear voices?", "Do the voices urge you to harm yourself or others?", etc.

  2. Is there any form of flowing water available? That would be simplest for cooling.

     

    An alternative option would be to utilize the waste heat for producing hot water(showers, washing, etc). Necessarily the engine output will drop as the heat sink's temperature rises.

     

    Otherwise there is always air cooling which while not being as efficient could still work decently enough depending on the temperature difference.

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    Half the number would be written left to right, the other half right to left. Sometimes the whole number would be right to left. Sometimes only two numbers would be transposed.

     

    Was there any sort of consistency to the changes or were they random?

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    On a US Navy submarine, every breath you inhale has been repeatedly exhaled from the mouths of about 120 other people. This isn’t as suffocating, or gross, as it sounds, because submarines have ventilation systems that take the CO2 out of the air, and recirculate it with chemically catalyzed oxygen.

    I take that back, the air is gross, because the chemical used to remove CO2 smells like old diesel mixed with a dash of sulphur, and it permeates everything on board. This chemical, called amine, is known by every submariner (I was one for 3 years), as well as every submariner’s wife, husband, or anyone else who encounters that sailor’s laundry. However, a new CO2-capturing nanomaterial could bring an end to this most notorious of submarine smells (trust me, there are others).

    SAMMS1-315x407.jpg

    This is how the CO2-binding molecules coat the sand grain’s pores. Look at ‘em there, sucking up all that CO2!

    gallery-illo@2x.png Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

    Unlike amine, which is a liquid, the new material looks like sand. In fact, it is sand, except it is covered with tiny pores, each filled with molecules that selectively pull CO2 out of the airstream. Together, sand grain and molecule are called Self Assembled Monolayers on Mesoporous Supports, or SAMMS. The pores create nooks and crannies that let even a small amount of the material soak up an incredible amount of CO2—a teaspoon of the material has slightly less surface area than a football field. And it’s reversible. “With a slight amount of heat, you can also open that molecule back up and release the CO2, making it possible to use the same material over and over again,” said Ken Rappe, an engineer at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory who worked on SAMMS.

     

    http://www.wired.com/2014/11/nano-sub-co2-scrub/

     

     

    I wish we had this back when I was still onboard a sub. Amine has to be one of the most noxious substances in existence. Ideally we would have a means of splitting off the oxygen from the CO2, but this is at least a step in the right direction.

  5. Well its tragedy of the commons writ large. Part of the problem is that damage already done will persist. Second issue is that people keep eying up our atmosphere for power generation and as a dumping grounds. Related issues going on with the oceans. Acidification and a growing plastisphere. Increasingly the world is an agglomeration of natural evolution and man made changes. We are nothing if not adaptable so it isn't all doom and gloom, but there could well be minor and major issues along the way.

     

    Anyhow...

     

    A - Possible though BCI is still pretty crude and we still need to work on the input problem. It isn't enough that you send information out, your brain also needs to receive information back in. We typically piggy back on your optics system, but that can't provide fine control. Would need heavy safeguards to mitigate the risk of someone hijacking the sensory stream. Brings a whole new meaning to "zero day attack" when one could wipe out the human race.

     

    B - Brain in a Vat. You would need a support system to maintain your brain. Probably easier to keep the two separate and have you control a robotic body or bodies remotely. You'd need to handle nutrients, waste cleaning, some form of immune response, your thought process also closely relies upon different hormones so that may need to be factored in as well. This also doesn't rule out cancerous cells(though it does substantially lower your risk).

     

    C - I suspect this step will be more one of teaching than mapping. I don't personally think there is enough to speculate about what would be required.

     

    D- Holograms like Star Trek? Entertaining but holograms of that sort are in the "almost certainly impossible" range. Kind of pointless too if you are an algorithm interacting with other algorithms. If you feel like taking a stroll grab your lifelike robot body or even assume control of a biological one for awhile.

  6. Your set up wouldn't be an energy source. It'd be a version of a flywheel which only permits energy storage. I think it would actually stop even quicker than otherwise due to gravity differences.

     

    You can only obtain energy from gravity if there is a separation between masses. You want more energy out, better put more energy than you are planning to take out, back into the system.

     

    Brain is kind of fried tonight. Some of the others can probably explain it better.

  7. The mass concentration will effect both sides of the wheel bringing it to a stop as the initial energy provided to it is spent.

     

    You can make a mock up with magnets if you want to prove the logic to yourself.

  8. If we were to continue the jellybean analogy then there are trillions of jellybeans and people are only guessing in the 100's. There are things theoretically possible that remain improbable.

     

    Occasionally you see diamonds in the rough there, but it is always more developed analysis(provided by other posters) that causes it to amount to anything at all. For providing an avenue from which insights might be gleaned I almost feel a random generator could do as well if not better, as it would lack preconceived notions.

     

    Realistically there are other areas online open for discussion. This probably is though one of the few that speculators can approach those they are seeking to interact with.

     

    I do have to say I don't like the predictable path most discussions there tend to take. Recent thread left a bad taste in my mouth after a couple of attempts to get OP to succinctly describe some of the honestly interesting points in his hypothesis led nowhere but to a predicted thread lock. Makes me shy away from participating there if the result is a virtually foregone conclusion.

     

    This slide from the SFN presentation is relevant as well:

     

    http://philipp-burckhardt.com/files/Presentations/ScienceforumsPresentation/ScienceforumsPresentation.html#/11

  9. Almost sounds like you are describing a circumferentor with a mirror attached. Might be able to make a modern variant.

     

     

    Middle English: from Old French compas (noun), compasser (verb), based on Latin com- 'together' + passus 'a step or pace'. Several senses ( 'measure', 'artifice', 'circumscribed area', and 'pair of compasses') that appeared in Middle English are also found in Old French, but their development and origin are uncertain. The transference of sense to the magnetic compass is held to have occurred in the related Italian word compasso, from the circular shape of the compass box.

     

    http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/compass

  10. If you could measure mass to a high enough degree you would find that it does increase. For realistic measurements you need to be going an appreciable fraction of the speed of light and unless you're The Flash this is probably not the case.

     

    Time dilation isn't any kind of illusion. Two measurements of the same thing can differ and both measurements can be accurate for their respective frames of reference.

     

    Probably the best way to experiment with this concept:

    http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/relativ/muon.html

  11. Sadness, experience, knowledge...

     

    There is much more to life than pleasure alone, so I conclude that scientifically the premise is false.

     

    Ordinarily an unsupported statement like that would garner heated debate from the OP but based on past evidence, as interpreted by my brain, I deduce that this won't be the case. Now let us see whether this arbitrary interpretation of evidence is correct or not.

  12. A good creepypasta. I'm a fan of SCP Foundation stories myself.

     

    That creepypasta is mainly centered around:

     

    -The Big Rip/Chill

    -Recurrence or more accurately a physical form of reincarnation(infinite infinities)

     

    The "End" stages in the Big Rip scenario would be matter-lite relatively speaking and there's no good reason for it to form into you(even if there was a sufficient quantity). Both are also speculation about the future. Time could end on Monday or the Universe could give deflation a whirl. We only know what is probable based on past experiences.

  13. Well the initial statement is incorrect. What you are defining either needs to have a smaller event horizon or a greater mass to be a black hole.

     

    That 'Rosetta equation' uses an incorrect definition of the Lorentz factor.

     

    ie.

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    I think you are mixing and matching equations too, but it is late Halloween night here so I could well be mistaken on that.

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