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zmistAug 3, 2010
pretty damn awesome. love it
javandiverAug 4, 2010
Doesn't render in Chrome. Fail.
the2dquartetAug 4, 2010
Works fine on my netbook, if a little jumpy due to lack of decent graphics hardware.
(Atom N450, Ubuntu Lucid 64-bit, Chrome 5.0.375.99, Flash 10.1)
oryxAug 4, 2010
That's why I use Opera
(waits to be digg-down by FF Fanbois)
tiakAug 4, 2010
I'm using Chrome and I don't have a clue what you're talking about, renders fine...
zalysterAug 4, 2010
Renders fine in Lynx.
sedakoAug 5, 2010
You obviously don't know how to use a web browser. Fail.
geauxtig3rsAug 5, 2010
Renders perfectly in chrome....you are the fail, sir.
Closed AccountAug 5, 2010
Agreed, well designed. Bravo
risadAug 4, 2010
great food for thought. or for adding fuel to my fear of robot overlords. thanks.
tiakAug 4, 2010
Eh, it wasn't all that great. For example it never gives a justification for why human cloning would matter one bit. I don't see how it would change anything any more than the in vitro that has been going on for decades. Granted, human genetic modification would change quite a bit, but that's an entirely different boat from cloning.
Likewise, the asteroid bit was a bit sensationalized. While we may get an asteroid that could flatten a city built up to 19th-century standards every 200 years, the percentage of the earth's surface area actually covered by cities is pretty damn low. With the 5% chance it'll actually hit a reasonably large settlement it becomes a once in 4,000 year event, and even then modern building codes help things a bit.
kageryuAug 4, 2010
What about the return of Jesus? People keep telling me that he's like a Terminator and he'll be back!
andralynnAug 4, 2010
If Jesus came back he'd be involuntarily put in a mental facility, heavily sedated, and on so many anti-psychotic medications he wouldn't know who he was anymore.
"My name is Jesus. My father sent me here to help save your souls."
...
"Ha ha. Good one, "Jesus". Come over here and look at this padded room over here..."
abk0110Aug 4, 2010
"My God! You just turned that water into whine and fed thousands with just one fish or something... I guess I'll check myself in to that padded room"
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cococookyAug 5, 2010
You just described half the male patients in institutions. (The females usually think they're Cleopatra).
jonleibowitzAug 5, 2010
And locking him in an asylum would be perfectly logical, because given the collective experience and knowledge of mankind, the odds that such a person is, in fact, the son of an invisible, omnipotent god, and not merely a garden-variety schizophrenic, is roughly ZERO in 1,000,000,000,000.
That the authors of the Bible weren't aware of these "odds" is understandable. But in 2010?? f**king morons.
kerrigoreAug 5, 2010
"How come people always flip and think they're Jesus? Why not Buddha? Particularly in America, where more people resemble Buddha than Jesus. 'Ah'm BUDDHA!' 'You're Bubba!' 'Ah'm Buddha now..All I gotta do is change 3 letters on ma belt..."- Bill Hicks
specimen7Aug 4, 2010
How can someone who never existed return? That's like asking what would happen if Optimus prime returned.
hackwrenchAug 4, 2010
What are you basing on to come to the conclusion that Jesus didn't exist?
hackwrenchAug 4, 2010
There are several "miracles" that can be better explained through other methods. That doesn't make it true that Jesus doesn't exist. For example, the two times he supposedly fed the crowd with just a little food made more sense that the crowd knew that they would be out and brought their own food. Also the lepers may have gotten well on their own but didn't really know what they had to do to be found clean. so Jesus told them what to do.
zalysterAug 4, 2010
What are you basing on to come to the conclusion that Optimus Prime didn't exist?
testiculeseAug 17, 2010
Hackwrench, probably the fact that Jesus isn't mentioned anywhere but in the bible's books
Word of mouth travels far, and Egypt is renown for it's historical writings. Nothing? All those miracles? All those stories? Nothing?
Seems pretty suspicious.
Personally, I don't care if he did or not. If he didn't, not surprised. If he did, he was insane.
bretsky84Aug 4, 2010
I think I would rather meet Optimus then jesus
7king7kingAug 4, 2010
if it changes everything, isn't one event enough?
benmiller313Aug 4, 2010
What? this is a list of things that might happen, not things that are all going to happen. Any one of these things would change everything.
h0v3rb1k3sAug 4, 2010
Why is one event enough? Each one could change everything, right after the last one did.
h0dgesAug 4, 2010
Polar Meltdown
Extra Dimensions
Extraterrestrial Intelligence
Nuclear Exchange
Creation of Life
Room-Temperature Superconductors
Machine Self-Awareness
Cloning of a Human
Pacific Earthquake
Fusion Energy
Asteroid Collision
Deadly Pandemic
wastelanderAug 4, 2010
What, no super-volcanoes? No love for the Yellowstone caldera?
bipolarruledoutAug 4, 2010
It's been speculated that #8 has already happened but it's gone down the memory hole.
hackwrenchAug 4, 2010
Human cloning? I don't understand your comment.
nidstylesAug 5, 2010
Private Coporations have been at the freedom to work on Cloning for the past 20 year's. It's been estimated that at least 3 of these genetic research firm's employed by major medical coporations has already been successful in cloning a human.
dolleaterAug 5, 2010
If that's true, nidstyles, they might as well make it public. After all, this clone would've had to be born through a surrogate mother, and it'd just be some dude or some chick. It would be just another form reproduction, which we already do so well we often do it by mistake.
ryogaveeAug 18, 2010
Yeah, lets release this person identity so some nut job can kill them in the name of their religion.
socaldissidentAug 18, 2010
*citation needed
philogosAug 4, 2010
Quantum Computers
drdragunAug 4, 2010
The invention of full virtual reality porn will cause an abrupt cessation to all human productivity and advancement
razorguyAug 4, 2010
No thanks Mom, I'd rather make out with my Monroebot.
testiculeseAug 17, 2010
We'd sure save on dinners and movies...
dhughesAug 21, 2010
I think it's also a good way to prevent the 'Deadly Pandemic'.
jman491Aug 4, 2010
We didn't start the fire.
momsshizzleAug 4, 2010
Thank you Billy Joel.
jkalAug 4, 2010
Damn you man, that is the most annoying song, sounds like a nursery rhyme, something nya nyah nya nya nyah....
Now i can't get it out of my head...
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
anothrnbdyAug 5, 2010
It was already buuuuuuuuurnin
since the world was tuuuurnin
muffcakesAug 5, 2010
Singularity?
Accelerating affordability of WMDs makes them accessible to postal workers?
Ability to cure aging/reset ages?
This list could be much longer.
bibobAug 5, 2010
He forgot iPhone 5.
This changes everything. Again. Again.
winstonsmyth84Aug 21, 2010
Buried for lack of teleportation.
lukas1051Aug 4, 2010
This is brilliant. Very informative and well put together, and I love the interactivity of it.
governator88Aug 4, 2010
I suddenly feel like watching 28 Days Later.
gguillornAug 4, 2010
I feel like taking a nap and reading some Calvin & Hobbes.
imsabbelAug 4, 2010
Fusion energy the _least_ likely, even blow aliens showing up?
Somehow, I do not share that point of view of the author
sloiAug 4, 2010
I think the idea is that intelligence life is likely to be out there... which means it's only a matter of time until we find conclusive evidence that other civilizations have reached or surpassed our own technological development, whereas Fusion is still up in the air...
Come to think of it, that last part made for a pretty amusing pun. Anyway, I think that's what the author meant.
codeman65Aug 4, 2010
I'm going to have to quote Contact here: If we are alone in the universe, it seems like an awful waste of space.
I firmly believe that within the next 100 to 200 years we will unlock the secret to FTL travel, and interestingly current theories are starting to look more like Gene Roddenberry's idea from Star Trek.
slayerabAug 4, 2010
Proof codeman? Proof or it wont happen
Closed AccountAug 4, 2010
i'm pretty sure the entire article is based on whether or not it will happen by 2050...i for one think there is an equal chance neither will happen.
and the article on fusion needs to point out that we are capable of fusion, but we can't make it efficient enough at this point to use it.
uncoolcentralAug 4, 2010
I for one welcome our new aliens overlords and will gladly blow any aliens showing up.
testiculeseAug 17, 2010
Well that's a nice welcome. I wish someone would blow me after a long trip!
barryigginsAug 4, 2010
I am confident my virginity will withstand all of these things.
snafflepaffleAug 4, 2010
Oh come on. There are thousands of ways that something could happen that would change "everything" What's the point of this?
lartonesAug 4, 2010
Just to bring awareness to people who are unaware of some of the biggest potential events in human history.
ireneattoliaAug 10, 2010
The biggest change that could happen is for mankind to unlearn enmity. When man's enmity toward man disappears, the world will be different, and not before. All these other events are just cataclysms of a temporary (and localized) sort. Yes, they would change things, but they would not change "everything". The only true change there could be is in the human heart. For it to be universal - well, that would take a miracle.
askantikAug 4, 2010
This doesn't say anything worthwhile or new. It is just a pretty flash thingy.
Closed AccountAug 4, 2010
13. Sarah palin elected to power.
acknotswAug 4, 2010
Pentecostal+"bring jesus back now" weapons = #4
goweigusAug 4, 2010
lets see... that would lead to the nuclear exchange, which would cause more polar meltdowns, possibly even some of those pacific earthquakes
oh and a deadly pandemic
pirate7Aug 4, 2010
Very unlikely
goweigusAug 4, 2010
the pandemic would come from all the mutated viruses and bacteria around the nuked zones
tmyprodAug 5, 2010
And Deadly Pandas. Don't forget about the Deadly Pandas.
boutdemcanes91Aug 5, 2010
No worries, the world ends the month after the elections anyways.
sylxAug 4, 2010
14. The realm of fantasy becomes reality. (Ex. magick, elves, ogres, unicorns, etc...)
bravo1995Aug 4, 2010
What
ntecAug 4, 2010
Please stop talking about religion
sylxAug 4, 2010
Out of everything discussed on this article and thread ya'll dig me down? W.T.F.
Thought ya'll'd be more receptive with how many play video games on here.
...Especially! For all the talk about putting "freakin lazers on (creature's) heads.
I'm disappointed in you Digg...Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
ireneattoliaAug 10, 2010
@Sylx: Digg is not your mirror. You have to remember that Group Think is mindless, but it cannot herd you. Originality is too often penalized. People don't really want to think - they want to belong. So continue the revolution! Be one. Be unafraid.
lartonesAug 4, 2010
HEY! What about water powered engines! ha
iamdisappointAug 4, 2010
isn't that a keanu reeves movie?
artosrcAug 4, 2010
Fantastic presentation and wonderful information therein. This is how the news organizations should be presenting news of note on their websites.
fuzzzwuzzzAug 4, 2010
I'd rather be able to select and copy text and not have to wait through a 15 second animation every time I return to the home.
falcornAug 4, 2010
Gotta love Scientific American. It's put out by the Nature Publishing company, the same one that puts out the scientific journal Nature. The articles are actually challenging at times and may make you *gasp* look something up to understand it. Its a great read some someone scientifically minded but not necessarily an expert in a field.
artosrcAug 4, 2010
To each their own. This entertains me to no end.
Just like string.
byeverywordAug 4, 2010
Wow! That one click took me away from Digg for a long time! Awesome interactive article.
getisboyAug 4, 2010
That was one click?
rain12913Aug 5, 2010
He means the click that took him from Digg to the submission. I usually only spend a few minutes (at most) before returning back to Digg, but this one was really interesting and took up a lot of time.
stonedslackersAug 5, 2010
We knew you'd be back...
grantmoore3dAug 4, 2010
The thing I've never understood about the nuclear war scenario is why it would so "devastating" compared to the few thousands bombs that have already been detonated in testing. Is it simply because of the additional debris?
sloiAug 4, 2010
I think most tests were conducted underground, in controlled conditions. In those cases, I'm assuming wind wasn't transporting any of the particles around...
governator88Aug 4, 2010
There hasn't been a nuclear test, at least in the States since 1992. North Korea did a couple of tests last year which of course hit digg.
The difference is in a nuclear war all of the bombs would be going off within a very short period of time (Perhaps hundreds in a day or two). The size of the gas clouds would get trapped in the atmosphere according to that presentation for 10 years and over take the world in just weeks which would block the sun, therefore killing crops, plant life etc..
The testing that happened at least in the States were far apart (maybe once every couple of weeks based on the amount dropped in the 50 years of testing (about 1000). It was in a large deserted area although it apparently had a large impact on Utah where a lot of the children born in the 50s developed cancer from the radiation blasts.
I read this on wiki, there's several pages on nuclear warfare & testing.
grantmoore3dAug 4, 2010
Thanks! I'll have to read up more on that, nice to have a good explanation :)
kinseyincanadaAug 5, 2010
they you know would also be targeting cities, and not desserts.
testiculeseAug 17, 2010
Nuclear attacks on ice cream is hardly something I'm concerned about...
hashish16Aug 4, 2010
I totally agree with room temp superconductors. But what about the MEMRISTOR!
petebob796Aug 4, 2010
But MEMRISTORs have already been made and can be made on silicon.
hashish16Aug 9, 2010
Right they have been made, but they have not been integrated into society. Imagine instant on computers and smart phones, devices that don't leech electricity, high capacity SSD's with no endurance issues, etc.
captininsanityAug 4, 2010
Why are room temp superconductors 50/50 in the authors opinion. They're pretty close already with nano tech.
danj484Aug 4, 2010
Meh, would definitely have an impact, but not nearly as much as room-temperature superconductors.
dhughesAug 21, 2010
It's one thing to create it but you have to wait decades for someone to build something with it.
heaintheavyAug 4, 2010
14. Cubs win the World Series.
bravo1995Aug 4, 2010
Author's opinion: Extremely unlikely
xiamgambitxAug 5, 2010
Already confirmed for 2015 ;)
heybobAug 4, 2010
How about brain/machine interfaces?
It'll give the ability to:
- control anything electronic with our thoughts (eliminate the need to physically go to work, and all the infrastructure that supports this)
- receive direct communication to the brain (eliminate the communications industry and any physical media form (for music, movies, tv, print, even web)
snoogsAug 4, 2010
Already happened... people with missing limbs can have their nervous system hooked to the mechanical arm and control it. If you wanted to wire up your whole house with radio commands (and were an eccentric billionaire) it could be done.
samoutAug 4, 2010
Snoogs, not the same really.
tntbassAug 4, 2010
I just want a better interface between myself and my computer. My mouse and keyboard slow me down.
thizzlbafoolAug 5, 2010
mouse + keyboard > the s**t people try to play halo with
pillar007Aug 4, 2010
How would masturbating to porn work in this case?
godblewupAug 4, 2010
world war 3 is planned already i know the date but im keeping it secret to avoid mass panic
drcyclopsAug 5, 2010
I'll trade you for the date of first contact.
rain12913Aug 5, 2010
Ah, yes. Nothing like a war that's planned in advance....?
testiculeseAug 17, 2010
We'll, we're in two planned wars already...
jayhawk88Aug 4, 2010
It's the ET one that is the real biggie. Even the discovery of microbial life on Mars would touch nearly every facet of our lives. Science obviously, religion, the sociological impact (an "us v. them" mentality would naturally become more prevalent), media/entertainment, etc. Overnight SETI, or similar operations, become one of the most important endeavors, as people clamor to know what else is out there. If intelligent life were revealed, we would almost certainly end up with a world government of some kind (it might not be pretty getting there, but it would be a necessity), and this could theoretically happen in time even if microbial life were discovered. Space exploration and study suddenly becomes more important. At least one new major religion would be created, and existing ones would almost certainly be forced to revisit some of their traditional views.
The question of "What is out there?" has been the driving force of humanity pretty much since we learned to plant crops and build stable civilizations. We spent a great deal of time answering that question on Earth itself, and have of course asked it about space, but not because of any real desire or need. Proof of life "out there" would provide that desire and need. It's hard to imagine anything having a greater effect on humanity as a whole.
Closed AccountAug 4, 2010
i hate humanity for our selfishness...a single world order is the only way we'll ever successfully explore the universe and i'll never see it.Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
specimen7Aug 4, 2010
I think a true recursive self improving AI would eclipse anything on that list. An unchecked intelligence will become more powerful than any imagined god before we could even recognize what happened.
Assuming it doesn't destroy us, We will learn powers beyond omnipotence.
lartonesAug 4, 2010
I agree, humans are so ineffiecent, why keep them around.
scarycloudsAug 5, 2010
I'm with you specimen, the impact of sentient machines would (far) eclipse any of event. The social impacts would be huge as well as having a direct impact on the other 11 events. A sentient AI develop practical fusion power, room super conductors, discover additional extra dimensions, play major roles in life creation/manipulation, and a major role in finding/communicating with an extraterrestrial intelligence.
The major social implications will arise as machines would quickly replace an enormous amount of human functions. It would lead to serious philosophical questions as humanity might very well be reduced to simply existing as machines will be able to perform at far higher levels in all areas. Like Demolition Man, from a high level view the society seems utopian, but closer inspection reveals it is actually a dystopian society (this is assuming machines decide to be fully committed to serving us).
drcyclopsAug 5, 2010
Exactly. The emergence of true AI would cover all of the same issues as first contact, with a whole host of unique issues on top.
kgtheway2bAug 22, 2010
"" If intelligent life were revealed, we would almost certainly end up with a world government of some kind (it might not be pretty getting there, but it would be a necessity), ""
I'm glad you think so too! :D I'm actually writing a fiction novel roughly about this, some of the people I've talked to find it a little unbelievable that I came to this conclusion too.
Closed AccountAug 4, 2010
not necessarily new information, but worth browsing...and its interactive!
fuzzzwuzzzAug 4, 2010
There are millions of computer viruses out there. Without a doubt people will try to corrupt our automaton friends for espionage, swindling, and outright terrorism. I'm not as concerned about robots destroying us as I am of us using robots to destroy ourselves.
illepicAug 4, 2010
They will.
invaderdemAug 4, 2010
Wow, talk about a presentation that completely shot my work momentum.
nrajeshAug 4, 2010
Awesome site; very neatly presented!
aleman87Aug 4, 2010
Singularity definitely deserves a place on this list.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity
fuzzzwuzzzAug 4, 2010
Machine Self-Awareness IS on the list.
warpfieldAug 4, 2010
#13: Douchebags all over the world stop being douchebags.
"Hey, all this douchebaggery is taking a lot of energy and making everyone else mad at us. Maybe this wasn't such a hot idea."
Well, we can dream. :)
warpfieldAug 4, 2010
Self-awareness (or maybe observerness is a better word) could very well be intrinsic to sufficiently organized systems of matter/energy. The fundamental component of reality -- consciousness -- automatically scales itself to the complexity and organization of the physical landscape. The two are so tightly interrelated that all systems have some degree of observerness (e.g., jellyfish, bacteria, all the way down to viruses and then rocks and individual atoms). So a machine with sufficient sensory inputs, memory, and cognitive processes would be automatically self-aware. It's not that the machine has "come alive" or that there is any emergent effect but rather that its structure permits the ever-present observerness (which was there all along) to express itself at a higher level. In this framework, biological evolution can be seen as the arranging of matter under the constraint that maximizes consciousness at the expense of other possible designs. This happens naturally since observerness is a key survival differentiator. Other organisms that were more physically powerful but more zombie-like simply didn't compete as well.
gerrylazloAug 4, 2010
With sufficient inputs, memory, and cognitive processes, it's a pretty likely case that there will be emergent effects. I just don't think one of those will be intuition and creativity beyond the parameters the programming has bound it within.
jonleibowitzAug 5, 2010
Perhaps the most interesting comment I've read on Digg. Well done, good sir. Reminds me of the CogSci class I took in college, and makes me wish I hadn't dropped it.
ersh777Aug 4, 2010
Playing Tetris in 4D = Mind blown.
haikufuAug 4, 2010
I want a working mechanical Tesseract. f**king awesome.
subzero34gAug 5, 2010
did u get it working for u??? how :o
ncsuspoonAug 4, 2010
The author thinks extra terrestrial intelligence is unlikely? I think with the countless billions of starts and countless trillions of planets out there, it's improbable to think that it's not out there. Thinking we are alone is a huge misunderstanding about the chemical and biological relation to life. We are star stuff. We are bound by the same laws and dynamics as the rest of the universe. The odds simply come into play that there is a huge chance that we're not alone. We might not find this out in our lifetime, or for thousands of generations to come, but let's just wish upon a star that we don't destroy ourselves before we find out how small we are and how large of an impact we can make on a universal community.
fuzzzwuzzzAug 4, 2010
The author thinks FINDING ETI is unlikely.
zedbladeAug 4, 2010
I believe the author was saying that extraterrestrial intelligence being found by 2050 is unlikely, not that it's unlikely it exists at all.
akairennAug 5, 2010
"We are star stuff."
Just remember, open gun ports are a sign of respect.
nyx210Aug 5, 2010
I think the author meant the probability of being contacted by aliens is unlikely.
junon666Aug 4, 2010
Wow, I swear this was on Digg quite a while ago.
rain12913Aug 5, 2010
Even so, of all the s**tty things that make the front page of Digg numerous times, this one doesn't bother me in the least.
Closed AccountAug 5, 2010
Really? Or it could have been on digg a mere 24 hours ago.
ncsuspoonAug 4, 2010
Ha the author talks about reaching his arm into an extra dimension. He 1. has clearly no understanding that according to String theory, he's already is, and 2. We live in 4 know dimensions. 3 spatial dimesions and 1 time. You don't have to do any of those experiments to live in a 4D world.Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
fuzzzwuzzzAug 4, 2010
The article clearly specified it as extra SPATIAL dimensions.
ajaxmilAug 4, 2010
The earthquake one doesn't seem like it will "change everything". It just says that we will probably have another 6.7 (at least) by 2035. So? I live in LA and work in Northridge. We get rocked by huge quakes all the time. Our building codes are so strict that the last 3 really bad ones have caused almost no damage, and I think 1 death.
kgtheway2bAug 22, 2010
Dugg for Northridge. This latest heatwave sucks.
nainsellAug 4, 2010
I can't wait for self-awareness.
Then again, I'm also sexually attracted to robots. =(
mirzaadAug 4, 2010
Iphone 4? No?
lartonesAug 4, 2010
ha yes, we haven't forgot about you.
jalman1Aug 4, 2010
13. Triple Rainbow.
lukas1051Aug 4, 2010
OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO...
danj484Aug 4, 2010
ALL THE WAY
theeggandiAug 4, 2010
looks like the SyFy channel just got ideas for their next 12 s**tty movies
drcyclopsAug 5, 2010
Or one REALLY s**tty movie.
bloodboilerAug 4, 2010
Interactive multimedia presentation? How 1995 is that?
Content could be interesting but why the frack does it have to be crammed into so stupid interface just for the sake of having an excuse to create a toy flash application.
p.s.
Technology/science development have never changed the world all that much so why would e.g. human cloning, artificial life or super conductors change that much?
We already have the know how to produce almost any amount of energy we can think of a reason to use and do creepy biological s**t like glow in the dark mammals. What is more incredible is that basic ideas of topics like quantum physics and general relativity theory are familiar to anyone with an intellectually curious mind.
I doubt even contact with an extra terrestrial intelligent civilization would be little more than huge news story for a while. Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
atmosphereeeAug 4, 2010
Dang, that was a pretty sick interactive
oltpAug 4, 2010
The biggest event that will change everything - when the paradigm shifts from particle theory to wave theory, and we finally realize that deep down inside we really are all the same. Once we have that knowledge we can use it to change what we know as atoms, from waste into food, from lead into gold, an alchemist's dream come true. There will be no more hunger, no more suffering, we will travel the universe, and nothing will ever be the same again.
Closed AccountAug 4, 2010
And pigs will fly.
benmiller313Aug 4, 2010
What the f**k are you on about?
ireneattoliaAug 10, 2010
I like that concept. Yes.
monodedeAug 4, 2010
Listen to the radio sounds of space.
nraphaelAug 4, 2010
No, you listen.
monodedeAug 9, 2010
:( ok...
kaiyuAug 4, 2010
Who needs a radio?
notsofastenerAug 4, 2010
13. DNF released.
larssonk22Aug 4, 2010
Invention of teleportation
Food Replicators
World without currency
testiculeseAug 17, 2010
I would imagine it would exist just fine. People don't need to work. If society takes proper precautions so that the Wall-E scenario (fatties not lifting a finger for anything) doesn't occur, then the only concern will be overpopulation.
woundedcowAug 4, 2010
What? Star Trek fans will be in tears. Where is the "transporter?" When this becomes reality, there goes every truck driver's job, every taxi driver, every cargo ship, pilots, trains, post office, border patrol...even more.
drcyclopsAug 5, 2010
We're talking about science here, not magic.
thebigbadAug 4, 2010
They left out depletion of oil and that is going to happen within the next few decades.
max0Aug 4, 2010
Check out the sounds of space bit. Saturn sounds really cool
Closed AccountAug 4, 2010
There's a lot of science going on there. Are you sure the religious right can handle it ?
testiculeseAug 17, 2010
They just cover their eyes and *poof* it goes away!
Closed AccountAug 22, 2010
...or rather...the "proof"...it goes away!
specimen7Aug 4, 2010
This was an awesome presentation. I'd like to see an encyclopedia presented this way.
testiculeseAug 17, 2010
Or the hyperphysics dictionary.
grizzleytAug 4, 2010
I wasn't a fan of the UI. Returning Home meant having to click 'skip intro' again. I see they have the quick nav which helps, but the first thing I saw was "home", and that's where I wanted to go. And the text scrolling is disorienting for people who like to scroll small amounts regularly, rather than the "next page" type of navigation that occurs.
It looks slick, but the UI slowed things down for me. Comment is buried, click here to see the rest.
Closed AccountAug 22, 2010
I'm not sure why you're being Dugg down....good points.
remmizAug 4, 2010
This site would be very boring on an iPad.