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author Robert McIntyre <rlm@mit.edu>
date Wed, 29 Jul 2015 20:26:26 -0700
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18 There's no end to what a man can accomplish if he doesn't care about 18 There's no end to what a man can accomplish if he doesn't care about
19 getting credit. 19 getting credit.
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22 - spinal relay :: you have a small air-gapped repeater built into your
23 spine in order to help with spinal injury, connect with
24 prosthetics, and to monitor/control your body. Also, you could
25 add the ability to save "macros"!
26
27 - human cysts :: there should be communities of people with varying
28 enforced separations from the rest of society in order to gaurd
29 against various catastrophies.
30
31 - bioelectric synthesis :: have a device which stores a lot of energy,
32 and processes blood by creating sugar from waste produces over
33 the day. You still need water, vitamins, minerals, etc, but this
34 can handle the bulk of your energy demands and be recharged from
35 the wall.
36
37 - chelation as a method to improve cryoprotectant permeability ::
38
39 - transgender fruit analogy :: like tomatoes
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41 - video game controllers as actual controllers :: console controlers
42 like the n64 trident are excellent, durable tools for fine
43 control. We should use them to control all sorts of things like
44 robots by default. You should use it for your projects, since
45 it's unlikely you'll be able to come up with something
46 better. Compared to console controllers, the ones we use for
47 robots/RC stuff are hopelessly clunky.
48
49 - bubble computers :: bubble duality, bubble computing
50
51 - dark blood bag :: blood bags in hospitals should be dark colored to
52 protect the blood from damage from light.
53
54 - chimeric homozygous sex chromosomes :: chimeric organism with XX and
55 XX patterns from two males and two females. On average, it has
56 the correct methylation pattern. Would it work?
57
58 - horseshoe blood fixative :: would it work as a washout?
59
60 - fixed protein packets :: group of fixed proteins in a network which
61 is used as medicine. Hemoglovin, maybe?
62
63 - prove hauntings :: website where you enter your pgp signed encrypted
64 file and swear by all the gods that you'll haunt me with the
65 password when you die, along with whatever other messages you
66 have. protocol -- I video, throw rock, get password.
67
68 - earth air water :: species name their planet "dirt" in their
69 language, unless the're aquatic or flying, then they'd name it
70 "water" and "air" respectively.
71
72 - ethylene glycol alt name :: icebane
73
74 - overflow hiaku :: a hiku about buffer overflos, with garbage C code
75 inside.
76
77 - white knight :: his sword is named "Privledge" (an inherited family
78 sword) he rides along the land, defending the code of
79 chivralirary and keeping the orthodozy of society from fading
80 from the realm.
81
82 - technological deflation :: even the richest robber baron from the
83 1920's could not afford a cardiac bypass surgery, even with
84 literally all the money they had. As technology advances, the
85 price of bread may go up, but the capabilities which money gives
86 you also dramatically increase.
87
88 - cure for color blindness :: could it be possible to administer some
89 retroviruses via direct injection to the retina, to cause some of
90 the cells in the retina to begin expressing different color
91 pigments? The brain ought to easily sort out the rest and enable
92 color vision. Furthremore, could we add some more colors to
93 baesline human eyes?
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95 - mental integrity test :: if your brain starts to decay, you might
96 not notice the damage until it's too late. This would be a mental
97 integrity test that you take every few weeks that measures your
98 performance and compares it to a baseline. The tests are all
99 designed to catch the early signs of degenerative brain
100 diseases. For example, you might use performamce on a
101 smell-memory assoaction test to detect early-onset Alzheimer's.
21 102
22 - mind bank :: (in contrast to "brain bank") 103 - mind bank :: (in contrast to "brain bank")
23 104
24 - Passion of the Christ missed opportunity :: in the Passion of the 105 - Passion of the Christ missed opportunity :: in the Passion of the
25 Christ, they do the entire show using Latin, Aramaic, etc, with 106 Christ, they do the entire show using Latin, Aramaic, etc, with