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Prisoners 'could serve 1,000 year sentence in eight hours'

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Future biotechnology could be used to trick a prisoner's mind into thinking they have served a 1,000 year sentence, a group of scientists have claimed.   Philosopher Rebecca Roache is in charge of a team of scholars focused upon the ways futuristic technologies might transform punishment. Dr Roache claims the prison sentence of serious criminals could be made worse by extending their lives.   Speaking to Aeon magazine, Dr Roache said drugs could be developed to distort prisoners' minds into thinking time was passing more slowly.   "There are a number of psychoactive drugs that distort people's sense of time, so you could imagine developing a pill or a liquid that made someone feel like they were serving a 1,000-year sentence," she said.   A second scenario would be to upload human minds to computers to speed up the rate at which the mind works, she wrote on her blog.    "If the speed-up were a factor of a million, a millennium of thinking would be accomplished in eight and a half hours... Uploading the mind of a convicted criminal and running it a million times faster than normal would enable the uploaded criminal to serve a 1,000 year sentence in eight-and-a-half hours. This would, obviously, be much cheaper for the taxpayer than extending criminals' lifespans to enable them to serve 1,000 years in real time."
Thirty years in prison is currently the most severe punishment available in the UK legal system.
"To me, these questions about technology are interesting because they force us to rethink the truisms we currently hold about punishment. When we ask ourselves whether it's inhumane to inflict a certain technology on someone, we have to make sure it's not just the unfamiliarity that spooks us," Dr Roache said.
"Is it really OK to lock someone up for the best part of the only life they will ever have, or might it be more humane to tinker with their brains and set them free? When we ask that question, the goal isn't simply to imagine a bunch of futuristic punishments – the goal is to look at today's punishments through the lens of the future."

Pretpostavljam da ne moram posebno da obrazlažem koliko je ovo kretenska ideja i da je sledeći korak naravno odsecanje (virtuelne) ruke džeparošima jer zašto da ne, simulacija trpi sve.

Ne bi bilo kretenski kad bi ta vremenska pilula uzrokovala ubrzane fiziološke promene. Kriminalci bi se sigurno užasavili kriminala. Moraću da napišem kratku priču na tu temu.

A mogli bismo da napravimo pilulu kojom bi kažnjenik izgubio sposobnost korišćenja ruku na određeno vreme. Ispalo bi jeftinije, jer ne mora ni da ide u zatvor.

Takvi bi otišli u Kumove. Rukama se bave samo mali kriminalci.

A, da ostanem u temi sa originalnim postom,  mogli bismo da napravimo pilulu koja čoveku daje da proživi simulirani životni vek od 80 (100... 200...) godina u sreći i berićetu pa se onda niko ne bi ni bavio kriminalom.

Naravno, ne moram da obrazlažem ni zašto je i ovo užasna ideja.

Civilizacija je zasnovana na loše implementiranim užasnim idejama.

Ne, ne, zasnovana je na najmanje lošim od trenutno dostupnih užasnih ideja. Ove ideje svakako ne spadaju u tu klasu.

To ne znamo dok ne probamo...

Ne preterujmo, ta logika kaže da nam možda ništa neće biti ako skočimo sa pedesetog sprata na beton - nismo probali.

Garant neće, ako do 20-og sprata naučimo da letimo. Ili ako imamo padobran.

Posle hrišćanske inkvizicije, staljinovog komunizma i hladnog rata nema tog socijalnog betona koji bi mogao civilizaciji da dođe glave. Ako nestanemo s lica zemlje to neće biti zbog nečeg što smo uradili, već zbog nečeg što nismo.

Nisi pomenuo nacizam i holokaust. I, pozdravio te Fukujama.

ako nam Fukujama ne dođe glave, niko neće!

Naciste sam namerno izostavio da izbegnem prizivanje Godvinovog pravila, ali evo upravo sam ga prizvao. Irony's a bitch...

Edit: mada ovo je situacija u kojoj nacistički holokaust zaista ima smisla spomenuti. Iako milioni to nisu preživeli, sama civilizacija jeste.

I misliš da je šteta manja?

Ne bih znao kako da procenim šta je gore, a naročito šta bi bilo bolje. Takođe, moguće je da ne razumem tačno pitanje. Šta je pitanje?

Pa, živimo u nekom čudnom vremenu u kome su neke štete veće, a neke manje. Kao da svako sranje nije civilizacijski poraz. Recimo, udaviše me sa seljenjem Tatara, a niko ne pominje da su isti Tatari, nešto ranije, pokupili i prodali u roblje po islamskom svetu cca. tri miliona Rusa, Ukrajinaca, Belorusa i Poljaka. Ispada da je veće zlo ono koje ima jaču medijsku podršku. Pitanje je da li neko zlo može biti manje ili veće, svežije ili bajatije?

Zlo ne postoji u prirodi, i ne postoji samo po sebi (poslednji čovek na Zemlji nema protiv koga da bude zao). Zlo je reč kojom označavamo činove odstupanja od normi za nas korisnog ponašanja. Tatari nisu sebe doživljavali kao zle, nego su to bili Rusi. I tadašnji neprijatelji Rusa verovatno nisu imali ništa protiv Tatara i njihovog zla. Ne bih da filozofiram duže, nego samo da zaključim da "zla" vredi porediti samo ako se "zlo" aplicira na osobu koja poredi. Ako je "zlo" načinjeno nekom drugom onda kvantifikacija nema više smisla. Možemo staviti sebe u poziciju Rusa, ali isto tako možemo staviti sebe i u poziciju Tatara. Besmisleno je.

Onda udri ceo spisak da ne mislimo da jedno jeste, a drugo nije.

Postoji samo jedna pozicija iz koje se može vrednovati šta je dobro i loše po civilizaciju, a to je pozicija same civilizacije, to jest celokupnog ljudskog postojanja. Mi, jadni bedni pojedinci nemamo dovoljno perspektive da bi umešno pričali iz te pozicije. Eto, desi se drugi svetski rat, i nastrada 2,5% celokupne tadašnje populacije, 80 miliona ljudi. Ali, preživesmo da bismo pričali o tome. U svetlu toga pilula koja bi kriminalcima povratnicima na određeno vreme oduzela ruke meni ne izgleda tako strašno.

mac, ti si neki inženjer? Mnogo su ti tehničke definicije.

Quote from: mac on 23-03-2014, 01:10:01
Postoji samo jedna pozicija iz koje se može vrednovati šta je dobro i loše po civilizaciju, a to je pozicija same civilizacije

mnogi se ne bi složili sa tobom, da ih ne nabrajam, kod nas je Basara među njima

I, šta kaže Basara?

uglavnom reciklira Ničea i Špenglera

zašto misliš da nacizam i staljinizam nisu bili pozicije same civilizacije?

Mogli su biti, da su prevagnuli. Na našu sreću nisu. Staljinizam nije ni mogao da prevagne, bio je neodrživ na duže staze. Nacizam je bio samo tragična epizoda opijenosti vođom, i sada je civilizacijski primer kako ne treba raditi. To je sva korist od njih sada, da kažemo deci "čuvajte se velikih vođa, jer ćete ovako završiti".

terminološki gledano, evropska demokratija je tek epizoda, a apsolutistička država sa velikim vođom na čelu je pravilo i najzastupljenije uređenje u evropskoj istoriji

demokratija suštinski postoji tek nekoliko decenija, odatle i onaj scallopov fukujamski pozdrav

Kako je to nacizam "civilizacijski primer kako ne treba raditi"? Pa, na delu je iz sve snage. A demokratija je projekat, a ne stanje. Neoliberalizam je eksploatiše kao da je iz prodavnice "Hleb & kifle". Kad sam bio klinac moja majka je takve projekte trpala u okrilje pesme "Sanjaj, Marela, dva dinara".

Aiii... ostaviš dlaku (ili malo sperme, jelte) na mestu zločina a policija iz toga napravi fotorobot tvog lica 


Genetic mugshot recreates faces from nothing but DNA

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A MURDER has been committed, and all the cops have to go on is a trace of DNA left at the scene. It doesn't match any profile in databases of known criminals, and the trail goes cold. But what if the police could issue a wanted poster based on a realistic "photofit" likeness built from that DNA?
Not if, but when, claim researchers who have developed a method for determining how our genes influence facial shape. One day, the technique may even allow us to gaze into the faces of extinct human-like species that interbred with our own ancestors.
It's already possible to make some inferences about the appearance of crime suspects from their DNA alone, including their racial ancestry and some shades of hair colour. And in 2012, a team led by Manfred Kayser of Erasmus University Medical Center in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, identified five genetic variants with detectable effects on facial shape. It was a start, but still a long way from reliable genetic photofits.
To take the idea a step further, a team led by population geneticist Mark Shriver of Pennsylvania State University and imaging specialist Peter Claes of the Catholic University of Leuven (KUL) in Belgium used a stereoscopic camera to capture 3D images of almost 600 volunteers from populations with mixed European and West African ancestry. Because people from Europe and Africa tend to have differently shaped faces, studying people with mixed ancestry increased the chances of finding genetic variants affecting facial structure.
Kayser's study had looked for genes that affected the relative positions of nine facial "landmarks", including the middle of each eyeball and the tip of the nose. By contrast, Claes and Shriver superimposed a mesh of more than 7000 points onto the scanned 3D images and recorded the precise location of each point. They also developed a statistical model to consider how genes, sex and racial ancestry affect the position of these points and therefore the overall shape of the face.
Next the researchers tested each of the volunteers for 76 genetic variants in genes that were already known to cause facial abnormalities when mutated. They reasoned that normal variation in genes that can cause such problems might have a subtle effect on the shape of the face. After using their model to control for the effects of sex and ancestry, they found 24 variants in 20 different genes that seemed to be useful predictors of facial shape (PLoS Genetics, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1004224).
Reconstructions based on these variants alone aren't yet ready for routine use by crime labs, the researchers admit. Still, Shriver is already working with police to see if the method can help find the perpetrator in two cases of serial rape in Pennsylvania, for which police are desperate for new clues.
To get a sense of the method's current power, New Scientist asked Claes and Shriver to predict the appearance of a young woman based on a scan of her DNA performed by the Californian company 23andMe. You can judge for yourself how closely their prediction resembles former New Scientist reporter Sara Reardon in the photos below.






Narrow the search The next step is to run larger studies in different populations to confirm that the variants found so far are statistically reliable. The researchers also plan to use the method to discover further genetic variants that affect facial structure. "I believe that in five to 10 years' time, we will be able to computationally predict a face," says Claes.
Even if it becomes possible to produce accurately reconstructed faces, the photofits wouldn't be used as evidence in a criminal trial. Instead, any person identified via the images would have their DNA compared to the crime scene sample in the usual way. In that sense, the technique is more like psychological profiling, used to narrow the search for a suspect, than conventional forensic DNA testing.
Bruce Budowle of the University of North Texas in Fort Worth, formerly the FBI's leading expert on forensic DNA analysis, hopes that the method will also lead to better facial reconstructions of people from skeletal remains. "It's an easier step, because the skull gives you an anchor," Budowle says. "If you have genetic information that could guide the artist, so that they're not just freewheeling it, that might help us identify the remains."
Then there is the intriguing possibility of producing facial reconstructions of extinct human relatives. Even for Neanderthals, where there are numerous fossil skulls, palaeoanthropologists have little idea about the soft tissues of the face. "We don't know how far out their noses extended," says Shriver. This means that artists' impressions of what the species looked like are partly guesswork. Shriver hopes that there will be enough overlap between the Neanderthal and modern human genomes for variants that influence face shape to start filling in such gaps.


For other ancient hominins, such as the Denisovans – who once occupied a vast expanse of Asia from Siberia to Indonesia – there are so far no confirmed skulls to go from, so reconstruction from DNA is the best hope of putting a face to the species name.
Both the Neanderthals and Denisovans interbred on occasion with our own ancestors, leaving telltale traces of their DNA in some modern human genomes. Indeed, evolutionary geneticists believe that early Homo sapiens hybridised with a variety of extinct hominins, which means that the human genome should be littered with signatures of these ancient cross-species sexual encounters.
Joshua Akey of the University of Washington in Seattle, who is looking for such DNA "fossils", is excited about the possibility of using these to reconstruct what the extinct hominins may have looked like. "We're not quite there yet," he says. "But this ultimately might be a really profound tool."
This article appeared in print under the headline "DNA mugshot gives cops another lead"

Svaki pametan zločinac će se pre pohoda depilirati kao plivač, a kao oružje poneti samo kondom. Treba samo pratiti linkove i redom gledati sve forenzičare na TV kanalima.

Ili to, ili da pusti brkove pre zločina, da zavara genecki fotorobot.

Ako gledaju hromozome, onda sigurno znaju da sam osedeo i propisno progledao odozgo... 

Da je samo to. Znaju i koja ti je dioptrija. Da ne govorim o knjigama koje ti nedostaju u kolekciji. Da ti je frka zbog Kaurinove kletve. I da je Plato zatvoren.

QuoteDa ne govorim o knjigama koje ti nedostaju u kolekciji.

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Pa ti pusti da te slikaju u radnoj sobi i šalju slike posvuda po svetu... Očito službe služe...

Tako ti i treba kad imaš radnu sobu.

Sobu? To je samo figurativno...

Ženi spasli život tako što su joj na 3D printeru odštampali najveći deo lobanje (od plastike, yes) i ugradili joj u glavu 
Medical First: 3-D Printed Skull Successfully Implanted in Woman

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Another day, another advance in 3-D printing technology.
Doctors in the Netherlands report that they have for the first time successfully replaced most of a human's skull with a 3-D printed plastic one — and likely saved a woman's life in the process.    The 23-hour surgery took place three months ago at University Medical Center Utrecht. The hospital announced details of the groundbreaking operation this week and said the patient, a 22-year-old woman, is doing just fine.
The woman, whose name wasn't released, suffered from severe headaches due to a thickening of her skull. She slowly lost her vision, her motor coordination was suffering and it was only a matter of time before other essential brain functions would have atrophied, Verweij said in a press release issued by UMC Utrecht.
Verweij noted that in some brain operations it's common for part of the skull to be temporarily removed to reduce pressure on the brain, then put back later or replaced by an artificial implant. In this case, doctors inserted nearly an entire plastic skull that was manufactured with the help of Anatomics, an Australian medical device company that specializes in 3-D printing,
"We used to create an implant by hand in the operating theater using a kind of cement, but those implants did not have a very good fit," Verweij said. "Now we can use 3-D printing to ensure that these components are an exact fit. This has major advantages, not only cosmetically but also because patients often have better brain function compared with the old method."
Three months after surgery, the woman's pain is gone and she can see again.    "The patient has fully regained her vision, she has no more complaints, she's gone back to work and there are almost no traces that she had any surgery at all," said Verweij.
In the video below, doctors describe the procedure in Dutch.

Volledige kunststof 3D-geprinte schedel geïmplanteerd

Još malo o 3D printanju i tome kako će promeniti ekonomiju i svijet:



The 3D Economy

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Last May, Cody Wilson produced an ingeniously brief but nuanced manifesto about individual liberty in the age of the ever-encroaching techno-state-a single shot fired by a plastic pistol fabricated on a leased 3D printer. While Wilson dubbed his gun The Liberator, his interests and concerns are broader than merely protecting the Second Amendment. As Senior Editor Brian Doherty documented in a December reason profile, Wilson is ultimately aiming for the "transcendence of the state." And yet because of the nature of his invention, many observers reacted to his message as reductively as can be: "OMG, guns!"


Local legislators were especially prone to this response. In California, New York, and Washington, D.C., officials all floated proposals to regulate 3D printed guns. In Philadelphia, the city council successfully passed a measure prohibiting their unlicensed manufacture, with a maximum fine of $2,000.
But if armies of Davids really want to transcend the state, there are even stronger weapons at their disposal: toothbrush holders, wall vases, bottle openers, shower caddies, and tape dispensers. All these consumer goods and more you either can or will soon be able to produce using 3D printers.
Imagine what will happen when millions of people start using the tools that produced The Liberator to make, copy, swap, barter, buy, and sell all the quotidian stuff with which they furnish their lives. Rest in peace, Bed, Bath & Beyond. Thanks for all the stuff, Foxconn, but we get our gadgets from Pirate Bay and MEGA now.
Once the retail and manufacturing carnage starts to scale, the government carnage will soon follow. How can it not, when only old people pay sales tax, fewer citizens obtain their incomes from traditional easy-to-tax jobs, and large corporate taxpayers start folding like daily newspapers? Without big business, big government can't function.
3D printing is a painstaking process, with extruders or lasers methodically building up objects one layer at a time. Most consumer-level devices currently only print in plastic, and only in one color. At online platforms such as Thingiverse.com, where 3D printing enthusiasts share open-source design files and post photos of their wares, the final products often look a little rough around the edges, without the spectacular gloss and streamlining we've come to expect from, say, a Dollar General toilet bowl scrubber.
In many ways, 3D printing barely seems ready to disrupt the monochromatic knick-knacks industry, much less the world. When it takes hours to produce a pencil cup, transcending the state may prove to be a tall order.
And yet in the industrial realm, where 3D printing has been around for decades and goes by the name "additive manufacturing," companies such as Boeing and General Electric are using much more sophisticated machines to produce parts for jet engines. Medical device companies use them to custom-manufacture hearing aids, replacement knees, and designer prosthetics. In time, Cornell University professor Hod Lipson predicts in the 2013 book Fabricated: The New World of 3D Printing (Wiley), 3D printers will be capable of constructing houses with plumbing and wiring in place, and printing "vanity organs" for people who want new or improved athletic abilities.
Inevitably, such technologies and capabilities will trickle down, and probably faster and more radically than many people anticipate. While MakerBot Replicators may still look a little too DIY for those of us who have yet to fully exploit the capacities of our microwave ovens, ease of use is evolving rapidly.
In January, Adobe announced that it is adding 3D printing capabilities to Photoshop, giving users the ability to design three-dimensional objects and send them to their own printers or 3D printers in the cloud. A California startup called AIO Robotics is developing a machine that points the way toward a future where the goods in the picture frame aisle at Target become just as easy to duplicate and manipulate as Metallica's back catalog. It's called Zeus. It looks like an unusually stylish kitchen appliance, and its creators, who met as students at the University of Southern California, describe it as the "world's first 3D copy machine."
Place an object in its central chamber, then push a button. Zeus scans the object in 3D. Push another button, and Zeus uses the 3D file it has created to reproduce an exact plastic replica of your object. In essence, Zeus makes "making" even easier than consuming. If you decide you really, really like the pasta bowl your mom gave you for Christmas, you don't even have to go to the mall, or surf Amazon.com to get another. Just throw it in Zeus and push a button!
In almost all visions of the 3D printed future, manufacturing changes dramatically. If a high-end 3D printer can fabricate a pistol or a panini press on demand, why bother with huge production runs, global distribution networks, warehoused inventories, and the cheap human labor that only under-regulated developing nations can provide? While it will still make sense to produce some goods in large quantities using traditional methods, manufacturing is poised to become a far more local, just-in-time, customized endeavor.
But if the nature of manufacturing is poised to change dramatically, what about the nature of consumption? In many ways, it's even harder to imagine a city of, say, 50,000 without big-box retailers than it is to imagine it without a daily newspaper. So perhaps 3D printing won't alter our old habits that substantially. We'll demand locally made kitchen mops, but we'll still get them at Target. We'll acquire a taste for craft automobile tires, but we'll obtain them from some third party that specializes in their production. Commercial transactions will still occur.
But if history is any guide, more and more of us will soon be engaging in all sorts of other behaviors too. Making our own goods. Sharing, swapping, and engaging in peer-to-peer commerce. Appropriating the ideas and designs of others and applying them to our own ends. Combining resources and collaborating on extremely large and ambitious projects we couldn't hope to accomplish alone. And over time these new behaviors will have consequential impacts on scores of products, companies, and industries.
Already, according to a study authored by Michigan Technological University engineering professor Joshua Pearce and six others, there are significant economic incentives for consumers to pursue 3D printing. According to Pearce's calculations, a person who constructs an open-source 3D printer called the RepRap at a cost of around $575 for parts can theoretically avoid paying between $290 and $1,920 a year to retailers simply by using the device to print 20 common items (iPhone case, shower curtain rings, shoe orthotics, etc.).


If you are willing to invest some time in its construction-Pearce estimates that the RepRap takes around 24 hours to build-the printer can quickly pay for itself, even if you don't use it all that often. If you start making orthotics for your neighbors, who knows, it could even turn into a profit center.


Soon, we'll begin to see the rise of manufacturing Matt Drudges and printer-sharing Reddits. So many different producers will be producing so many different products that it will become harder and harder for even well-established and trusted brands to charge for anything but the scarcest and most coveted goods. In a bid to survive, places like Walmart and Best Buy will begin to offer stuff as a subscription-you'll get 200 lbs. of goods per year for a monthly fee of $19.99.
But maybe even that will seem too steep to you, or just not as autonomous as you'd like. Ultimately, 3D printers and the distributed manufacturing they enable will democratize and mainstream survivalism. You won't need five remote acres, heavy equipment, and a lot of practical know-how to live off the grid. In the realm of your commercial life, at least, you'll be able to DIY in New York City.
Be prepared, however, to expect some pushback from your local regulators. Over the past decade or so, as newer technologies and fewer opportunities for traditional employment have prompted more people to act in entrepreneurially innovative ways, government's response has been the same: Consumers must be protected against strawberry balsamic jam made in home kitchens. Tourists must be protected against immaculately maintained carriage houses that can be rented on a daily basis for below-hotel rates. Travelers must be protected from cheap rides from the airport.
When government realizes that self-produced plastic shower curtain rings are far more potentially disruptive than self-produced plastic pistols, it'll be more than libertarian entrepreneur-iconoclasts at risk.

Teši što će neko morati da nosi i džakove sirovine za 3D printing. Jel ista za tanjir i makarone sa sirom?

Da ne kopiram ceo članak: 13 Unexpected Sources of Energy that Could Save the World

http://io9.com/12-unexpected-sources-of-energy-that-could-save-the-wor-1555080352

Slatko, Mac. Ali, daj ti nama objasni kako to ispada da je sve usmereno na gorivo za automobile i baterije za mobilne telefone? Jednostavnije bi bilo da se odreknemo personalnih vozila i da radikalno smanjimo broj SMS poruka i drugih kuckanja. Drugo pitanje bi bilo saldiranje tih procesa. Nekako mi sve liči na pravljenje šnicli. Potrošiš vola za kilo mesa. Već vidim zelenu planetu koja proizvodi benzin, a sirote pčele ni sada ne mogu da prelete zasade na kojima nema polena za njih. Mogli bismo i od meda da pravimo benzin, a da pčelica Maja slobodno zuji.

Uvek treba još energije. Slana voda neće sama da se filteriše u pijaću. A i taj javni transport mora da radi na neki krompir.

Sve što u krajnjoj liniji troši resurse je gubljenje vremena.

No April Fools: Real-Life 'Invisibility Suit' Created

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   Harry Potter's invisibility cloak may be the stuff of fiction, but a real costume that claims to make its wearer invisible was released today (April 1).    Produced by the costume company Morphsuits and designed by former NASA scientist Mark Rober, the "Hollow Man Morphsuit" uses sophisticated image projection and "light-bending" technology to render its wearer invisible to the naked eye, even while the person is moving, the company said.
"We were inspired by blockbuster movies and sci-fi enthusiasts that forever fantasized about the possibility of making someone invisible," Gregor Lawson, co-founder of Morphsuits, said in a statement. "We have created a range of costumes that inspire unrivalled shock and awe, and the Hollow Man Morphsuit is somewhat of a holy grail in that regard." [Photos: Best Science-Themed Halloween Costumes]
Rober caught Morphsuit's attention when he created a Halloween outfit that sported two iPads linked by video chat, which appeared to create a hole through the wearer. This costume was a major inspiration for the invisibility morphsuit.
   Rober was part of a team of scientists and engineers who developed the patent-pending "MirrorMorph" technology to make the costume's wearer invisible. The scientists designed more than 200 concept suits using different technologies in an effort to find one that achieves complete invisibility.
   The final suit consists of spandex material embedded with thousands of micro-LEDs and mirrors and dozens of small cameras perched at just the right angle to project an image "through" the wearer, making people blend in with their surroundings. The cameras capture the images, and the LEDs act like pixels on a computer screen to display them.
A person wearing the invisibility suit will be completely invisible — even while moving — unless the cameras are obscured, the company said in a statement. The suits are available for pre-order from the company's website for roughly $1,660 (999.99 British pounds).
   Previously, scientists developed cloaking devices that reroute microwaves to make objects invisible at those wavelengths of light, but these cloaked objects remain visible to humans.
Morphsuits manufactures spandex suits that cover the body from head to toe, but allow the wearer to breathe, see and drink through them. The company now makes 200 different suit designs, including Halloween outfits with smartphones that display beating hearts or open flesh wounds filled with maggots.
   Maybe Harry Potter would have liked to have one of those costumes, too.

Ima vode u tečnom stanju na Enceladusu:


http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/04/science/space/a-moon-of-saturn-has-a-sea-scientists-say.html?rref=homepage&module=Ribbon&version=origin&region=Header&action=click&contentCollection=Home%20Page&pgtype=article

Eksperiment simulira život kolonista na Marsu da bi se videlo hoće li poludeti 

Will Living on Mars Drive Us Crazy?

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Six humans are in Hawaii, testing the psychological effects of life on another planet.         

When human space travel made its transition from pipe dream to reality, one of the unknowns humans contended with concerned not just the physics of space, but the psychology of it. How would the human mind react to the final frontier? Would microgravity, combined with the isolation of a spaceship, cause a kind of claustrophobia? Would propulsion outside of Earth's bounds, in the end, cause astronauts to experience a psychic break? Was there such thing, as science fiction writers had long feared, as "space madness"?

Space, fortunately, does not drive us crazy. But that doesn't mean we've stopped caring about the effects its new environments will have on our psychology. The new version of the old "space madness" question is how time away from our home planet will affect us—in the long term. What could life on Mars do to that that other cosmic mystery: the human emotional state?

NASA is hoping to find out. This week, in partnership with the University of Hawaii at Manoa, the agency launched the latest version of its Mars simulation experiment, the Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation mission. On Hawaii's Big Island, 8,200 feet above sea level, conditions are as Martian as they can be on Earth: Mauna Loa's volcanic soil is quite similar to the volcanic regolith that can be found on Mars. HI-SEAS in general aims to replicate, as closely as is possible on Earth, what life would be like on Mars—and its latest iteration will put human emotions to the test. 

There are three men and three women participating in this second HI-SEAS mission—a purposely tiny group selected out of a group of 700 applicants—and they include, among others, a neuropsychologist, an aerospace engineer, and an Air Force veteran who is studying human factors in aviation. The team will share a 1,000-square-foot habitat that is shaped like a dome. They will do so ... for four months. (Consider that for a second: living with five other people—strangers. For four months. In what amounts to a high-tech yurt.)

"We're going to stress them," Kim Binsted, the project's principal investigator, told the Hawaii Tribune-Herald. "That's the nature of the study."

Indeed. That test involves isolating the crew in the same way they'd be isolated on Mars. The only communication they'll be allowed with the outside world—that is to say, with their family and friends—will be conducted through email. (And that will be given an artificial delay of 20 minutes to simulate the lag involved in Mars-to-Earth communications.) If that doesn't seem too stressful, here's another source of stress: Each mission member will get only eight minutes of shower time ... per week. The stressfulness of which will be compounded by the fact that the only time the crew will be able to leave their habitat-yurt is when they're wearing puffy, insulated uniforms that simulate space suits. In the Hawaiian heat.

Throughout the mission, researchers will be testing the subjects' moods and the changes they exhibit in their relationships with each other. They'll also be examining the crew members' cognitive skills, seeing whether—and how—they change as the experiment wears on.

The crew, at the same time, will be executing other projects that are relevant to life on Mars—including the testing of 3D-printed surgical tools, the growing of plants in Martian-like conditions, and, perhaps least stressfully, the repurposing of trash into tools that can be put to use in the Martian habitat. They'll also be doing projects outside of the habitat, in their "space suits"—like mapping nearby lava flows—to test their ability to work together under Martian conditions. (All this work, by the way, is a follow-up to HISEAS' previous experiment, from 2013, whose participants tried to make Martian meals that would be palatable to future colonists.)

So why does NASA care how these six humans react to an experience that amounts to pretty much the worst Hawaiian vacation ever? Because a manned mission to Mars is a priority for NASA; though funding for such a project remains in question post-sequestration, the agency still hopes to establish a Martian mission that would launch in the 2030s. And it needs to make sure that the humans it sends on that mission are equipped for the many challenges it will present—not just technologically, but emotionally.

KAd bi Kim Dzong naredio nekolicini svojih da moraju da odu tamo i da ne polude, eksperiment bi uspeo,
a ako posalju par amera koji bi da su face , cim im se istrose baterije za skajp, sve ode u majcinu....

Još jednom, iako je retko, da se potpuno složim sa tobom. Dodao bih samo Batu i Hiddena, a ja da kuvam za njih.

Sta, expedicija od nekoliko Kimdzongovih fajnest sa Batom i Hiddenom, plus Scallop da im svima kuva?

Al da im kuva samo ono što sami ulove na simuliranom Marsu 

Jok. Iz sopstvenih resursa.

Nekako mislim da bi u misiji kolonizacije Marsa (ili makar samo privremene istraživačke stanice) namirnice bile one najekonomičnije za transport i dugo skladištenje i da bi tu stvarno morao da uložiš pun magijski potencijal svog kulinarskog umeća da od toga napraviš raznovrstan i konzistentno primamljiv meni...