The STEM thread

[TipRoast]

 

[aloyouis]

Stunning.

Scary.

Creepy.

 

[John Locke]

Love it. How amazing is mankind that we can bring such a thing to fruition?

My best friend growing up works in robotics at MIT.

Amazing stuff.

 

[Undertaker #59*]

Thats funny, I watched this exact vid yesterday and then watched about ten more. One interesting one was watching one walk over uneven, snow covered ground.

 

[TipRoast]

I was expecting the kinds of responses I got from JL and UT.

I didn't expect the kind of response that aloyoius provided, but I should have.

Technology doesn't exist in a vacuum - it is developed by humans and it affects humans. Not all effects are beneficial, and it's incumbent upon both technology developers and society at large to examine the potentials for both good and bad for any new technology.

FWIW, I think dancing robots is a good thing.

 

[HSanders]

very cool, Tip.
your comments remind me of that Twilight Zone episode with the scientist who invents himself as a robot. he has good/not nefarious intentions in mind, but things don't go as planned. i'm a sucker for Twilight Zone.

 

[aloyouis]

I was expecting the kinds of responses I got from JL and UT.

I didn't expect the kind of response that aloyoius provided, but I should have.

Technology doesn't exist in a vacuum - it is developed by humans and it affects humans. Not all effects are beneficial, and it's incumbent upon both technology developers and society at large to examine the potentials for both good and bad for any new technology.

FWIW, I think dancing robots is a good thing.

I bet.

I love technology. All three of my kids are STEM college students (EE, ME, HuBio) and I could not be more pleased. My EE is a robotics nut. He wants to work on this stuff and does in flying technology at school.

I should explain my response.

"Stunning" is obvious.
"Scary" is because MIT sold this off to AsiaPac (Japan/S.Korea). We aren't winning this race and we need to.
"Creepy" is because when I watch them dance or run obstacle courses or do back flips I can't help but imagine how those abilities or others they don't show us might be used against humankind.

I don't trust we humans NOT to use this against humans.

 

[BostonTim]

Not all effects are beneficial, and it's incumbent upon both technology developers and society at large to examine the potentials for both good and bad for any new technology.

And now more than ever.

Cheers

 

[TipRoast]

An interview from 2015 with Eric Lander.




I was on my high school's math team. Unlike Lander's team, we met after school, not before.

 

[RoadNasty]

Now this is some science............ that I felt should not be overlooked:

Scientists finally figure out why wombats poop cubes

 

[RoadNasty]

Love to hear about discoveries like this:

In a mammoth's molar, scientists get a glimpse of evolution in action

A research team on Wednesday published a study detailing the successful collection of DNA from fossilized mammoths, making it by far the oldest genetic material ever studied.

www.nbcnews.com

 

[RoadNasty]

Beautiful and a much deserved gesture:

'A hidden figure no longer': NASA officially names DC headquarters after Mary W. Jackson

NASA officially named its headquarters after its first black woman engineer, Mary W. Jackson, in a ceremony on Friday.

abcnews.go.com

 

[TipRoast]

Beautiful and a much deserved gesture:

'A hidden figure no longer': NASA officially names DC headquarters after Mary W. Jackson

NASA officially named its headquarters after its first black woman engineer, Mary W. Jackson, in a ceremony on Friday.

abcnews.go.com

I didn't read the book, but I saw the movie Hidden Figures.

I do a little bit of orbital dynamics in my own work; I can't imagine trying to do those calculations by hand, with astronauts' lives dependent on having the results be correct.

People like Mary Jackson are the ones who should be getting Presidential Medal Of Freedom awards; not actors and athletes.

 

[TipRoast]

Here's an article about an advance in theoretical physics that may bring faster-than-light travel into the realm of the possible.

Breaking the Warp Barrier for Faster-Than-Light Travel: New Theoretical Hyper-Fast Solitons Discovered

Astrophysicist at Göttingen University discovers new theoretical hyper-fast soliton solutions. If travel to distant stars within an individual’s lifetime is going to be possible, a means of faster-than-light propulsion will have to be found. To date, even recent research about superluminal (faste

scitechdaily.com

 

[RoadNasty]

Looks like this amazing IR telescope will finally get off the ground later this year:

The Webb Telescope, NASA’s Golden Surfer, Is Almost Ready, Again (Published 2021)

After decades of fits and starts, the multibillion dollar successor to the Hubble telescope is expected to launch as soon as this fall.

www.nytimes.com

 

[aloyouis]

An interview from 2015 with Eric Lander.




I was on my high school's math team. Unlike Lander's team, we met after school, not before.

I sent this all three of our college kids. I sent it to each alone.

Thanks.

Jim

 

[aloyouis]

Here's an article about an advance in theoretical physics that may bring faster-than-light travel into the realm of the possible.

Breaking the Warp Barrier for Faster-Than-Light Travel: New Theoretical Hyper-Fast Solitons Discovered

Astrophysicist at Göttingen University discovers new theoretical hyper-fast soliton solutions. If travel to distant stars within an individual’s lifetime is going to be possible, a means of faster-than-light propulsion will have to be found. To date, even recent research about superluminal (faste

scitechdaily.com

Holy shit!

 

[patswin]

Looks like this amazing IR telescope will finally get off the ground later this year:

The Webb Telescope, NASA’s Golden Surfer, Is Almost Ready, Again (Published 2021)

After decades of fits and starts, the multibillion dollar successor to the Hubble telescope is expected to launch as soon as this fall.

www.nytimes.com

I have been looking forward to this for years!!!

 

[RoadNasty]

More on the James Webb - boy I hope they can pull it off successfully:
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pq_aV5hy7Bc

 

[RoadNasty]

Make way for some MUONS.....and nobody even had a faint hint they were there:
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0roQUZvU-As