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Are Ross Perot Jr. and Google's Founders Launching a New Asteroid Mining Operation?

If we start seeing investment activity in companies that manufacture mirrors, we'll know -- google "John Ringo Live Free or Die trilogy" for a... (read full comment)  

Posted on April 19, 2012 at 8:09 PM EDT

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Why the Popularity of Some Web Pages Doesn't Fall Over Time

Quick, someone, patent a "page full of iconic hyperlinks, each of which does a mouse-over popup summary of archived [content] and, upon exceeding... (read full comment)  

Posted on February 22, 2012 at 3:56 AM EST

Solar-Panel Giant Poised to Get Even Bigger

Sheesh... What people seem to be overlooking is that TRIVIAL voltage regulation and battery-charging circuitry exists to handle power "smoothing"... (read full comment)  

Posted on February 22, 2012 at 2:53 AM EST

Buy 'n' Sell

re "Acoustic Communication for Medical Nanorobots": I'm thinking power-source-constraints (using localized oxygen and glucose, really??) and... (read full comment)  

Posted on February 17, 2012 at 10:26 AM EST

Exploding Carbon Nanotubes Could Act as Drug Grenades

If your goal is to disrupt cellular structures in a very localized area, why bother with encapsulating DRUGS -- just go with the water, and... (read full comment)  

Posted on February 17, 2012 at 10:14 AM EST

Seismic Metamaterials Could Cloak Dams and Power Stations

I disagree -- when I read this title it was COMPLETELY informative -- I almost didn't need to read the article to understand the top three or four... (read full comment)  

Posted on February 17, 2012 at 10:01 AM EST

Embodiment, Computation And the Nature of Artificial Intelligence

Sad. If you didn't show up here to play productively, you're missing SO much of the point. We collectively form an ongoing "forcing function for... (read full comment)  

Posted on February 7, 2012 at 3:16 AM EST

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The Secret of Ant Transportation Networks

Makes a lot of sense. Particularly if you assume a "move THEN sample" instead of a continuous "sample while moving" trajectory mod curve --... (read full comment)  

Posted on February 6, 2012 at 2:20 AM EST

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Let's Talk, iPhone

Voice recognition in general... I'm trying to remember how many microphones the current iPhone has. Because in order to win out over one of the... (read full comment)  

Posted on October 3, 2011 at 4:56 AM EDT

'Big Data' Means Business Needs Mathematicians

"soon see mathematicians drifting??" We've been seeing this for years. An ex-apartment-dwelling-room-mate of mine was in a highly arcane position... (read full comment)  

Posted on September 29, 2011 at 3:47 AM EDT

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