Category: technology / video games
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Real Live Cyborgs
Related to yesterday’s post about warp drives, I came across this story about people who implant chips in their hands in order to control electronic stuff. In other words, cyborgs. Unlike yesterday’s post though, this future-like technology is actually less futurey than it seems. People have already done it, and anybody can do it themselves,…
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Intergalactic, Planetary, Planetary, Intergalactic
Check out this story at New Scientist about faster than light space travel. It describes how, in theory, a “warp drive” could be created which would allow a ship to travel to distance planets quickly, and even to distant stars. On one hand, it’s very exciting. We could finally send people to Mars, and then…
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Spiffy Iffy Shitty, Volume 2
It’s time once again for Spiffy Iffy Shitty, where I pass judgement on the best, worst, and most confusing things in the universe. Spiffy: Battlestar Galactica. I got the DVD set of the first season for Christmas, and V and I have watched almost every episode already. Battlestar Galactica is a great show on so…
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