“Dutch boffins tout green petri-dish synthetic meat”
Another technology from lots of different science fiction stories, vat-grown synthi-meat has finally put in an appearance! Forget green eggs and ham. Here comes green ham and eggs! 😉
Archive of posts filed under the Amusing/Interesting/Appalling category.
Various amusing or interesting topics, or things that shock and appall me. Kind of a miscellaneous bin.
“DARPA to create brain-chipped cyborg moths”
This story, unlike the last one, is crap. Just my opinion, of course, but it’s too far beyond our current technology to have more than a very slim chance of making any progress without lots more basic research first. It smells like an attempt at the lucrative government defense pork barrel to me.
“Einstein researchers’ discover ‘radiation-eating’ fungi”
This is the kind of stuff that I love to find! Technologies that are currently found only in science fiction, such as interstellar travel, all rely on a number of unspoken assumptions… for instance, that the people traveling that way have some way of eating during the trip. (Even if they make the trip in …
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“RIAA and Universal accused of extortion”
A friend and I were discussing this kind of thing recently. As Mr. Doctorow says, “about time.” Of course, the case has almost zero chance of ever getting to court. The RIAA has a history of settling such counter-suits (as well as any lawsuit they bring, if it looks like they might not win) long …
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Speaking of Scientific Improbabilities…
…the flap over the recent film of a shadowy possibly-living-thing in Loch Ness is more interesting for what it says about people than the possible existence of the Loch Ness Monster. Like Bigfoot and captured aliens from Roswell, the Loch Ness Monster may actually exist — after all, scientists didn’t think that rogue waves really …
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“Journey to the center of the Earth, next year”
Call me a skeptic if you wish, but if there were a fog-shrouded hole in the Arctic Ocean that leads to the center of the Earth, wouldn’t it already be filled with the Arctic ocean?
TSA detains director Mike Figgis for threatening to “shoot a pilot”
Too bad this turned out to be a hoax. The Transportation Safety Administration has done enough stupid things in the name of “security” recently to make it easily believable.
“Roswell plans UFO theme park”…
…which just goes to show that you can turn anything mildly interesting into a cash cow. Don’t get me wrong, I’d love to believe that Earth has been visited by extraterrestrial intelligences in the recent past, and I like a good conspiracy theory as much as anyone. But the preponderance of evidence suggests that this …
“Man Clad in Underwear Pins Leopard”
Interesting sports they have in Israel.
How to Make OpenCola
Open source is an amazing software concept, even if the documentation often lags behind the program by a large amount. But OpenCola, “a freely licensed soft-drink”?!?