Animedragon Posted February 5, 2023 Share Posted February 5, 2023 1 hour ago, efaardvark said: We're not living in the Apollo era anymore, that's for sure. This is true, and I'm glad I lived through the excitement of the Apollo era and was able to watch each of the missions as they happened. Sitting with my parents in our living room in the early hours of the morning to watch the Apollo 11 moon landing is something I'll remember for the rest of my life. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
efaardvark Posted February 5, 2023 Author Share Posted February 5, 2023 8 hours ago, Animedragon said: This is true, and I'm glad I lived through the excitement of the Apollo era and was able to watch each of the missions as they happened. Sitting with my parents in our living room in the early hours of the morning to watch the Apollo 11 moon landing is something I'll remember for the rest of my life. Same here. I was born in ‘64 so one of my earliest memories is watching the moon landings on our family’s first TV. (Side note.. the TV was a Heathkit that my dad built. It was b&w for the first moon landings but later he upgraded it to color for the Miss America pageant. ) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
efaardvark Posted February 5, 2023 Author Share Posted February 5, 2023 YKYITFW CNET gets taken over by a chatbot. (Not exactly, but I can do clickbait too. ) Seriously though, I find it interesting that the company execs seem not so much worried about the poor-quality AI-generated articles being published without attribution as about Google's possibly finding out how to detect them and reducing their prominence (and thus ad revenue) in google searches. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clayton Posted February 10, 2023 Share Posted February 10, 2023 (edited) In anime you know you're in the future when you did something to turn it into a wasteland and have to fix it. Edited February 10, 2023 by Clayton Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
efaardvark Posted February 10, 2023 Author Share Posted February 10, 2023 Looks like both the booster and the launch stand survived the static-fire test. Musk tweeted that one engine was disabled by command and one was shut down by the vehicle software but the remaining 31 would still have been enough to get to orbit. So I guess next up is launch and, hopefully, orbit. There's still the question of, "just how do you land this thing?" however. The "chopsticks" seem to work well enough for stacking and unstacking, but the choreography of snatching flying things out of the air is going to be on a whole other level. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Animedragon Posted February 11, 2023 Share Posted February 11, 2023 9 hours ago, efaardvark said: Looks like both the booster and the launch stand survived the static-fire test. Musk tweeted that one engine was disabled by command and one was shut down by the vehicle software but the remaining 31 would still have been enough to get to orbit. So I guess next up is launch and, hopefully, orbit. WOW!! That was spectacularly impressive! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clayton Posted February 17, 2023 Share Posted February 17, 2023 I didn't post that Booster video... here's the future Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
efaardvark Posted February 18, 2023 Author Share Posted February 18, 2023 (edited) YKYITFW NASA sends a nuclear-powered helicopter (octocopter) to explore Saturn's moon Titan... Currently funded and in prototype/testing phase here on Earth: There's also the Psyche mission to a metal asteroid that's probably the remnant core of what was once a planet in the asteroid belt.. You won't have to wait as long for this one since Psyche is launching later this year and the asteroid belt is a lot closer than Titan. Probably launching this year.. at least we're already doing software testing. Edited February 18, 2023 by efaardvark 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
efaardvark Posted March 18, 2023 Author Share Posted March 18, 2023 YKYITFW drone deliveries have been a real thing for years... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
animechat Posted April 4, 2023 Share Posted April 4, 2023 On 10/22/2022 at 5:06 PM, Dimitrios said: Looking at some food traveller videos, i've noticed a lot of robotic machines making people's food, coffee, drinks..etc, pretty well - and It's quite amazing! Although, they do sometimes need assistance from humans - as the machines are liable to get an order wrong...so...in other cases, it's innovative, but we are decently far from a robot apocalypse Intriguing about robot make food and coffee in future mostly got better don't need people assistent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Animedragon Posted April 5, 2023 Share Posted April 5, 2023 10 hours ago, animechat said: Intriguing about robot make food and coffee in future mostly got better don't need people assistent. One of the places I worked at had a drinks machine that was rather like the Nutrimatic machine in Douglas Adams HHGTTG, in that it dispensed something that was almost entirely quite unlike tea, fortunately the hot chocolate was quite nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Digimon_Sommelier Posted April 6, 2023 Share Posted April 6, 2023 Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is running for President in 2024! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
efaardvark Posted April 6, 2023 Author Share Posted April 6, 2023 2 hours ago, Digimon_Sommelier said: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is running for President in 2024! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Digimon_Sommelier Posted April 7, 2023 Share Posted April 7, 2023 Yes, he is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
efaardvark Posted April 7, 2023 Author Share Posted April 7, 2023 (edited) Might not be long before we have Star Trek level replicator technology. We already have 3D printers producing everything from wrenches on the ISS to orbital-class rockets to replacement parts on military naval vessels. Now they can even print cheesecake. Edited April 7, 2023 by efaardvark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Animedragon Posted April 7, 2023 Share Posted April 7, 2023 51 minutes ago, efaardvark said: Might not be long before we have Star Trek level replicator technology. We already have 3D printers producing everything from wrenches on the ISS to orbital-class rockets to replacement parts on military naval vessels. Now they can even print cheesecake. Am I the only person who thinks that the whole concept of printing cheesecake is totally weird? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
efaardvark Posted April 7, 2023 Author Share Posted April 7, 2023 49 minutes ago, Animedragon said: Am I the only person who thinks that the whole concept of printing cheesecake is totally weird? For me food is mostly about taste and presentation. As long as it looks and tastes ok I'm good. How it gets to the table is secondary. That said, I do think that printed meat is.... questionable. (Especially the kind that isn't actually made-from-animals meat.) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Animedragon Posted April 8, 2023 Share Posted April 8, 2023 9 hours ago, efaardvark said: For me food is mostly about taste and presentation. As long as it looks and tastes ok I'm good. How it gets to the table is secondary. That said, I do think that printed meat is.... questionable. (Especially the kind that isn't actually made-from-animals meat.) As far as I'm concerned any kind of "meat" that's not real made-from-animals meat is highly questionable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
efaardvark Posted April 15, 2023 Author Share Posted April 15, 2023 "Live in 40 hours"! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zafkiel Posted May 2, 2023 Share Posted May 2, 2023 When I am offered a red light-saber to join the Dark Side and be a Sith. I am always been more of an Dark Side type so the choice will be easy to make here ^^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clayton Posted May 2, 2023 Share Posted May 2, 2023 (edited) Man I'd change a lot with a time machine... technically we'd knwo if we were int he future b ecause they world would have been destroyed bya corrupt casino owner... Edited May 2, 2023 by Clayton Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Animedragon Posted May 4, 2023 Share Posted May 4, 2023 On 5/2/2023 at 12:56 PM, Zafkiel said: When I am offered a red light-saber to join the Dark Side and be a Sith. I am always been more of an Dark Side type so the choice will be easy to make here ^^ It that case. May the Forth Be With You. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zafkiel Posted May 5, 2023 Share Posted May 5, 2023 20 hours ago, Animedragon said: It that case. May the Forth Be With You. Thanks man!! ^^ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clayton Posted May 9, 2023 Share Posted May 9, 2023 On 5/4/2023 at 6:33 AM, Animedragon said: It that case. May the Forth Be With You. Wait, Star Wars happened a long, long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. That's the past, not the future. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Animedragon Posted May 9, 2023 Share Posted May 9, 2023 17 minutes ago, Clayton said: Wait, Star Wars happened a long, long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. That's the past, not the future. So we have a case of temporal displacement. Actually, I've just spotted a displacement of another sort which u could say changes the meaning of my comment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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