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The next decade of possible scientific progress
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Logan LaMort
Screaming Hayabusa
#1 - 2011-11-19 09:12:02 UTC
A good read about what a bunch of scientists think we could be doing in the next ten years based on the scientific breakthroughs of today (Okay it's a bit more complicated and technical than that but I'm too tired for a decent summary, just check it out P ).

Enjoy
stoicfaux
#2 - 2011-11-19 14:40:24 UTC  |  Edited by: stoicfaux
They're waaaaaaaaaay off the mark. Some of the top techs will be:

* bio-diesel - The military cannot run on electric powered tanks and planes.

* green energy - Solar, wind, nuclear for civilian use.

* hydroponics and massive, industrial scale indoor gardens - Need to grow the maximum amount of food possible in an protected environment once Climate Change/Global Warming borks the weather and traditional farming.

* big brother style surveillance and public indoctrination - Needed to track down Canadian rebels and insurgents running around in the US and its newly annexed Canada provinces. (I highly recommend that Quebec-ians stop with the French fetish, it just makes the transition to US rule unnecessarily difficult.)

* Durable engineering - Because tornadoes and storms will get worse (more powerful) and due to Canada's turning into a huge mud pit due to thawing out from warmer weather, engineers will need to build houses, roads, and industrial buildings and equipment that can handle extreme weather, erosion, flooding, etc..


edit: Improved tin foil hat production would be nice, IMHO.

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Grimpak
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#3 - 2011-11-19 15:43:21 UTC
stoicfaux wrote:
They're waaaaaaaaaay off the mark. Some of the top techs will be:

* bio-diesel - The military cannot run on electric powered tanks and planes.

* green energy - Solar, wind, nuclear for civilian use.

* hydroponics and massive, industrial scale indoor gardens - Need to grow the maximum amount of food possible in an protected environment once Climate Change/Global Warming borks the weather and traditional farming.

* big brother style surveillance and public indoctrination - Needed to track down Canadian rebels and insurgents running around in the US and its newly annexed Canada provinces. (I highly recommend that Quebec-ians stop with the French fetish, it just makes the transition to US rule unnecessarily difficult.)

* Durable engineering - Because tornadoes and storms will get worse (more powerful) and due to Canada's turning into a huge mud pit due to thawing out from warmer weather, engineers will need to build houses, roads, and industrial buildings and equipment that can handle extreme weather, erosion, flooding, etc..


edit: Improved tin foil hat production would be nice, IMHO.



good man, your tinfoil-hattery isn't enough to cover what you posted thereP

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Logan LaMort
Screaming Hayabusa
#4 - 2011-11-19 19:57:29 UTC
stoicfaux wrote:
* big brother style surveillance and public indoctrination - Needed to track down Canadian rebels and insurgents running around in the US and its newly annexed Canada provinces. (I highly recommend that Quebec-ians stop with the French fetish, it just makes the transition to US rule unnecessarily difficult.).


You just reminded me that I really need to play Fallout again.
Rodj Blake
PIE Inc.
Khimi Harar
#5 - 2011-11-21 17:22:22 UTC
We'll see a fair bit of progress in quantum computing and AI.

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Vicker Lahn'se
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#6 - 2011-11-21 23:07:10 UTC
stoicfaux wrote:
They're waaaaaaaaaay off the mark. Some of the top techs will be:

* bio-diesel - The military cannot run on electric powered tanks and planes.

* green energy - Solar, wind, nuclear for civilian use.

* hydroponics and massive, industrial scale indoor gardens - Need to grow the maximum amount of food possible in an protected environment once Climate Change/Global Warming borks the weather and traditional farming.

* big brother style surveillance and public indoctrination - Needed to track down Canadian rebels and insurgents running around in the US and its newly annexed Canada provinces. (I highly recommend that Quebec-ians stop with the French fetish, it just makes the transition to US rule unnecessarily difficult.)

* Durable engineering - Because tornadoes and storms will get worse (more powerful) and due to Canada's turning into a huge mud pit due to thawing out from warmer weather, engineers will need to build houses, roads, and industrial buildings and equipment that can handle extreme weather, erosion, flooding, etc..


edit: Improved tin foil hat production would be nice, IMHO.


Nuclear power is green now?
Slade Trillgon
Brutor Force Federated
#7 - 2011-11-21 23:10:31 UTC
Vicker Lahn'se wrote:
stoicfaux wrote:
They're waaaaaaaaaay off the mark. Some of the top techs will be:

* bio-diesel - The military cannot run on electric powered tanks and planes.

* green energy - Solar, wind, nuclear for civilian use.

* hydroponics and massive, industrial scale indoor gardens - Need to grow the maximum amount of food possible in an protected environment once Climate Change/Global Warming borks the weather and traditional farming.

* big brother style surveillance and public indoctrination - Needed to track down Canadian rebels and insurgents running around in the US and its newly annexed Canada provinces. (I highly recommend that Quebec-ians stop with the French fetish, it just makes the transition to US rule unnecessarily difficult.)

* Durable engineering - Because tornadoes and storms will get worse (more powerful) and due to Canada's turning into a huge mud pit due to thawing out from warmer weather, engineers will need to build houses, roads, and industrial buildings and equipment that can handle extreme weather, erosion, flooding, etc..


edit: Improved tin foil hat production would be nice, IMHO.


Nuclear power is green now?


There are those that would argue that it is currently the greenest Big smile


Slade
Caleidascope
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#8 - 2011-11-21 23:15:10 UTC
Nuc: Only the desperate and the authoritative government use it these days. Everybody else is folding.

Wind is ok, but who wants to listen to them and watch them spinning? Most don't.

Solar on the ground is pathetic, and made of toxic materials.
Solar in orbit and beamed down is so radical that nobody is even trying to touch it.

Basically the Greens want to turn us to bartering peasants where they are lording over the rest of us.

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Herzog Wolfhammer
Sigma Special Tactics Group
#9 - 2011-11-22 02:38:36 UTC
Caleidascope wrote:
Nuc: Only the desperate and the authoritative government use it these days. Everybody else is folding.

Wind is ok, but who wants to listen to them and watch them spinning? Most don't.

Solar on the ground is pathetic, and made of toxic materials.
Solar in orbit and beamed down is so radical that nobody is even trying to touch it.

Basically the Greens want to turn us to bartering peasants where they are lording over the rest of us.



EVERY faction wants to lord it over us, every damned one of them.

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leviticus ander
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#10 - 2011-11-22 04:21:40 UTC
Caleidascope wrote:
Nuc: Only the desperate and the authoritative government use it these days. Everybody else is folding.

Wind is ok, but who wants to listen to them and watch them spinning? Most don't.

Solar on the ground is pathetic, and made of toxic materials.
Solar in orbit and beamed down is so radical that nobody is even trying to touch it.

Basically the Greens want to turn us to bartering peasants where they are lording over the rest of us.

you missed hydro, it's pretty sweet, you get lakes (and hippies yelling at you for messing up a deer or 2) you get controllable consistent power, it's not very harsh on the environment except for something very close to the dam, and it will keep running as long as we have rain.
there are 3 or 4 hydro dams in British Columbia that prevent the west coast states from having blackouts at dinner time while still powering BC. they do that by just opening up another turbine and routing the power down.
Caleidascope
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#11 - 2011-11-22 07:58:53 UTC
leviticus ander wrote:
Caleidascope wrote:
Nuc: Only the desperate and the authoritative government use it these days. Everybody else is folding.

Wind is ok, but who wants to listen to them and watch them spinning? Most don't.

Solar on the ground is pathetic, and made of toxic materials.
Solar in orbit and beamed down is so radical that nobody is even trying to touch it.

Basically the Greens want to turn us to bartering peasants where they are lording over the rest of us.

you missed hydro, it's pretty sweet, you get lakes (and hippies yelling at you for messing up a deer or 2) you get controllable consistent power, it's not very harsh on the environment except for something very close to the dam, and it will keep running as long as we have rain.
there are 3 or 4 hydro dams in British Columbia that prevent the west coast states from having blackouts at dinner time while still powering BC. they do that by just opening up another turbine and routing the power down.

The OP started about scientific progress. Hydro is now old hat. Been around since blacksmiths started using water wheel to run their trip hammers. That is what? About 1500s?

Life is short and dinner time is chancy

Eat dessert first!
Moistmuffin RKHT
My Little Uniponisus
#12 - 2011-11-22 22:33:16 UTC
stoicfaux wrote:

* big brother style surveillance and public indoctrination - Needed to track down Canadian rebels and insurgents running around in the US and its newly annexed Canada provinces. (I highly recommend that Quebec-ians stop with the French fetish, it just makes the transition to US rule unnecessarily difficult.)


Oh our good ol' Canada shaped hat, speaking of which this article mentions nothing about how every country outside of the US is really just a province waiting for our flag to be placed over it. Twisted

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Adunh Slavy
#13 - 2011-11-23 00:21:01 UTC
Hydrogen

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KarmaFleet
Goonswarm Federation
#14 - 2011-11-23 02:17:58 UTC
stoicfaux wrote:

* bio-diesel - The military cannot run on electric powered tanks and planes.

Funny fact: The original Diesel engine, as built by Rudolf Diesel, was designed to run on bio fuel. All Diesel engines on the road can run biodiesel, and even mixed gasoline-based diesel with biodiesel.

Basically, running petrol based gas in your Diesel engine is not using it as intended, thats only how the oil industry wants you to use it, They've paid significant amounts of money to keep it that way

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