[video=youtube;_A_w4nlTzhs]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_A_w4nlTzhs[/video]
[QUOTE][B]Don't mind us in the material science lab...just accidentally cookin' up some revolutionary strong, self-healing polymers over here.
[/B][URL="http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/132105-Watson-AI-Tasked-With-Improving-Africa-via-Project-Lucy"]
IBM[/URL], despite what 80's Apple fanboys will tell you, has always been a pretty rad, cutting-edge company. Of course much of what IBM does now doesn't even compare to the IBM of the past, like their polymer research division.
That division published its breakthrough new discovery in[I][URL="http://www.sciencemag.org/content/344/6185/732"]Science[/URL][/I] today, where the IBM researchers outline a new strong, self-healing polymer.[/QUOTE]
[url]http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/134552-IBM-Accidentally-Creates-New-Self-Healing-Polymer[/url]
That title gives me such a weird mental image.
"Hey guys, I made this strong self-healing polymer by mistake, what should I do?
"Jesus Dave, again?"
So now we've got self-healing polymers and computers running on literal electronic "blood". IBM rules
What the fuck have you been doing to save gaming, razor?
[QUOTE=Sir Whoopsalot;44825728]That title gives me such a weird mental image.
"Hey guys, I made this strong self-healing polymer by mistake, what should I do?
"Jesus Dave, again?"[/QUOTE]
"We've fucking told you about this, it's going in the bin, gimme it Dave."
"But John it's stronger than anyth-"
"Did I fucking stutter Dave? It's going in the bin, we're the accidental biology department, now get into the bathroom and pour some sugar on that mould that's growing under the sink."
Sounds like something Black Mesa from Freeman's Mind would do.
[QUOTE=bravehat;44825749]"We've fucking told you about this, it's going in the bin, gimme it Dave."
"But John it's stronger than anyth-"
"Did I fucking stutter Dave? It's going in the bin, we're the accidental biology department, now get into the bathroom and pour some sugar on that mould that's growing under the sink."[/QUOTE]
"Quick, use this protractor to cut two 90 degree right angles into this coke can, microwave it, blend it with a Blendtec™, don't breath this, and slap some graphene in that bitch"
I want to be a part of this department
how many inventions have humans made by accident now?
[QUOTE=_Maverick_;44825988]how many inventions have humans made by accident now?[/QUOTE]
Well while I wouldn't exactly call you an invention...
[QUOTE=Kite_shugo;44825904]"Quick, use this protractor to cut two[B] 90 degree right angles [/B]into this coke can, microwave it, blend it with a Blendtec™, don't breath this, and slap some graphene in that bitch"
I want to be a part of this department[/QUOTE]
What other kinds of right angles are there? On a related note, didn't someone else in the news do this recently as well? Wanting to study chemistry at degree level at the end of this year, I think I've fallen in love with polymers.
[QUOTE=James xX;44826540]What other kinds of right angles are there? On a related note, didn't someone else in the news do this recently as well? Wanting to study chemistry at degree level at the end of this year, I think I've fallen in love with polymers.[/QUOTE]
it's important to distinguish between a degree-based right angle and a radian-based right angle
[QUOTE=Itszutak;44826567]it's important to distinguish between a degree-based right angle and a radian-based right angle[/QUOTE]
They both come out the same whether it's in radians though don't they? I could very well be wrong, but to me it's like saying that the distance from my house to the nearest town is different when in miles instead of kilometres.
so lets check this off
*electric-blood -yep
*synthetic healing flesh -yep
*neural map -somewhat
[QUOTE=Sableye;44826597]so lets check this off
*electric-blood -yep
*synthetic healing flesh -yep
*neural map -somewhat[/QUOTE]
We've mapped the brain already, still decades away from being able to do anything useful with it, and that's not including the part where we still have literally no actual clue to how consciousness arises.
[QUOTE=_Maverick_;44825988]how many inventions have humans made by accident now?[/QUOTE]
This was made by accident: [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VX_Gas[/url]
[QUOTE=Mr. Foster;44826756]This was made by accident: [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VX_Gas[/url][/QUOTE]
What a fucking unfortunate thing to make by accident.
I mean shit they were trying to make pesticides and ended up making an extremely powerful, colorless, odorless nerve agent instead. I can't tell if the engineers behind it were amazingly good or absolutely terrible.
Don't forget graphene thermal imaging!
The Future Is Now.
Our creations are surpassing us in unimaginable ways.
[QUOTE=Mbbird;44827165]What a fucking unfortunate thing to make by accident.
I mean shit they were trying to make pesticides and ended up making an extremely powerful, colorless, odorless nerve agent instead. I can't tell if the engineers behind it were amazingly good or absolutely terrible.[/QUOTE]
IIRC nerve agents as a whole were discovered accidentally.
I was right, the very first, Tabun, was discovered in Germany while a team of researchers were looking for new insecticides.
[QUOTE=_Maverick_;44825988]how many inventions have humans made by accident now?[/QUOTE]
[img]http://aussiefavourites.com.au/cornershop/images/vegemite175.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=fruxodaily;44829860][img]http://aussiefavourites.com.au/cornershop/images/vegemite175.jpg[/img][/QUOTE]
The most evil of all inventions
Now make prosthetics out of this stuff.
IBM confirmed for researching into making cyborgs
:tinfoil:
IBM find off the wall things pretty randomly, they have a ton of my respect.
I could see this material being really useful in space, maybe as some sort of space glue to seal leaks (since it self repairs).
[QUOTE=Mio Akiyama;44829867]The most evil of all inventions[/QUOTE]
Maybe if you Americans realised that you don't put a whole fuckload on there and instead get a fine amount and spread it we wouldn't be having this problem!!
(fuck off flagdog)
Oh hey...Medigel.
If you want to talk about how nasty Vegemite is, I live near a fucking [I]factory[/I] for the stuff.
I don't know what's worse on a hot day, that, the brewery, or the sewage treatment plant.
[QUOTE=Xubs;44830656]maybe if you australians realized the stuff is nasty in any amount you wouldn't have to fight with everyone else when the world tells you the truth
this is how wars start[/QUOTE]
Vegemite consumption is a genetic trait, racist
[QUOTE=LuaChobo;44830602][img]http://ablokewhocancook.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/vegemite_02.jpg[/img][/QUOTE]
This is all wrong. Vegemite is delicious, slather that stuff on.
[QUOTE=Xubs;44830712]next you're gonna tell me australians do in fact wrestle with giant spiders and mutant kangaroos every day just to get to and from school[/QUOTE]
I had to wrestle a goanna to death yesterday when I took the garbage bins out. I won.
[QUOTE=Xubs;44830712]yeah right
next you're gonna tell me australians do in fact wrestle with giant spiders and mutant kangaroos every day just to get to and from school
I ain't fallin for yer tricks, aussie. I get how the world works, I invade it everyday *kicks my feet over and rests them on the cold-war era console I'm sitting at with my giant steel-toed boots with american flag print soles, chews on gum and adjusts my sunglasses*[/QUOTE]
get a LOAD of this yankee aye boys
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