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FOX News - Science - Latest Headlines - 'Bigfoot' is part human, DNA study claims - Page 1 of 7 (http://scitech.foxnews.mobi/quickPage.html?page=43765&external=1823984.proteus.fma)

Mars, please! (http://www.space.com/18596-mars-colony-spacex-elon-musk.html)

Elon Musk, the billionaire founder and CEO of the private spaceflight company SpaceX, wants to help establish a Mars colony of up to 80,000 people by ferrying explorers to the Red Planet for perhaps $500,000 a trip.

In Musk's vision, the ambitious Mars settlement program would start with a pioneering group of fewer than 10 people, who would journey to the Red Planet aboard a huge reusable rocket powered by liquid oxygen and methane.

"At Mars, you can start a self-sustaining civilization and grow it into something really big," Musk told an audience at the Royal Aeronautical Society in London on Friday (Nov. 16). Musk was there to talk about his business plans, and to receive the Society’s gold medal for his contribution to the commercialization of space. "But we don't want the Irish!", Musk said, plagiarizing Blazing Saddles funniest line.

Creating moral machines - New Yorker (http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2012/11/google-driverless-car-morality.html)

Many approaches to machine ethics are fraught [with problems]. An all-powerful computer that was programmed to maximize human pleasure, for example, might consign us all to an intravenous dopamine drip; an automated car that aimed to minimize harm would never leave the driveway. Almost any easy solution that one might imagine leads to some variation or another on the Sorceror’s Apprentice, a genie that’s given us what we’ve asked for, rather than what we truly desire.

Love this topic.

^^Google’s Driver-less Car and Morality : The New Yorker (http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2012/11/google-driverless-car-morality.html#ixzz2ECYuk41G)

Building machines with a conscience is a big job, and one that will require the coordinated efforts of philosophers, computer scientists, legislators, and lawyers.

dibs.

^^Google’s Driver-less Car and Morality : The New Yorker (http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2012/11/google-driverless-car-morality.html#ixzz2ECYuk41G)



dibs.

:argue:

Meant to post this a couple months back.


Warp Drives Might Be More Realistic Than Thought | Wired Science | Wired.com (http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/09/warp-drive-plausible/)


**** yeah!!! Warp drive bitches!! I'll be officially changing my name to James Tiberius Kirk.

^^Google’s Driver-less Car and Morality : The New Yorker (http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2012/11/google-driverless-car-morality.html#ixzz2ECYuk41G)



dibs.

If anyone has seen Terminator or BSG they know self-aware machines are bound to kill us all.

Nope, they just hire robot lawyers who will win every case b/c they will all be heard by robot judges and juries.

i use e-trial

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and here is a look at the interface

http://www.thewarpath.net/parking-lot/8823-super-happy-fun-thread-280.html#post971412