Weirdly for a country so God-bothered, US Scientist are always out in front when it comes to defying YHWH, and it’s heartening to see they are still at it. Claims today reaching us that a full on new lifeform could be a possibility within 5 years. According to Prof David Dreamer of Cal U, labs are closing in on an ominously named ‘Second Genesis’.
Quotes from the scientific community involved are generally along the lines of:
“Until you try this you just don’t know”
And of course:
“There’s nothing we expect to go wrong…”
Luckily New Scientist is on hand to quell any fears you may have, stating that any initial life forms would be very primitive. Like Godzilla.
It’s nearly the weekend, which means tomorrow night is relaxin’ night. Maybe a few beers and a club? Possibly a small adventure on the night bus home. Or, if you live in Corpus Christi, Texas, you could go for another option. Make your way down to the state school for: Mental Patient Fight Club!
According to reports, staff at the local sanitarium had the bright idea of pitching the mentally disabled patients at each other. Local Police Captain Tim Wilson said:
“It’s pretty appalling. I’ve been in police work over 30 years and I’ve never anything like this,these people who were charged with caring for these clients were exploiting them for entertainment.”
The ring was discovered after the police received phone video footage of a bout, where one patient can be seen raising his arms in victory.Nice to see non-socialised medical care still working well for the US.
Exosuits. Good aren’t they? But apparently not good enough for the bods down at Lockheed, who’ve decided to pimp out the existing HULC Exo system with all kinds of groovy mods. As demonstrated in the corporate bumf above, get your hands on one of these and you too can carry up to 200lbs into combat easily enough (about the weight of Jesse Ventura’srailgun in predator by the way), and unlike the XOS Mechwarrior, relies on lithium batteries, instead of the combat-unuseful ‘being plugged into a wall’ method so far available. Super soldiers all round!
I’ve decided that it doesn’t really matter is this has been addressed on ES already. It warrents further reporting. What we’re dealing with here is this:
A giant flower beetle with implanted electrodes and a radio receiver on its back can be wirelessly controlled, according to research presented this week.
There’s not much else to say really, except to breathe “awesome” at the end of every sentence and possibly every comma.
The beetle’s payload consists of an off-the-shelf microprocessor, a radio receiver, and a battery attached to a custom-printed circuit board, along with six electrodes implanted into the animals’ optic lobes and flight muscles. Flight commands are wirelessly sent to the beetle via a radio-frequency transmitter that’s controlled by a nearby laptop. Oscillating electrical pulses delivered to the beetle’s optic lobes trigger takeoff, while a single short pulse ceases flight. Signals sent to the left or right basilar flight muscles make the animal turn right or left, respectively.
Click the link at the bottom as you are now already intrigued. Once again, this is developed by our friends at DARPA (who should maybe have a category of their own) who are always looking for new, exciting, highly improbable and goddamning ways for us to kill each other.
Everyone love Lolcats right? Despite Stiff competition they still ride the crest of the funny animals/porno warehouse that is the internet. But didn’t you ever feel guilty for laughing at those furry little guys, rather than with them? (No, me either, I hate cats.) Well, thanks to students in Sheffield, UK (you know…where Shaun Bean comes from…?) those kitties can now chortle along too, safe in the knowledge that goofy fangs won’t embarrass them. A group of students calling itself ‘Fangs A Lot’ (Bloody students..) today delivers an important scientific breakthrough: False teeth for cats! According to group member Rachel Gilbert:
“When animals suffer broken or rotten teeth, they have had to be removed, the gum can become infected and they find it difficult to chew food. We aim to reduce animals’ suffering and improve their quality of life.”
Nice to know our future scientists are solving society’s big problems isn’t it?
