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author Robert McIntyre <rlm@mit.edu>
date Mon, 26 May 2014 01:40:11 -0400
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30 There's no end to what a man can accomplish if he doesn't care about 30 There's no end to what a man can accomplish if he doesn't care about
31 getting credit. 31 getting credit.
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34 - stage magic rituals :: rituals should incorporate elements of stage
35 magic. Foe example in Teller's tempest, they have a scene where
36 they levitate a crown in front of someone, then put it on his
37 head. They also have a wedding ceremony where they levitated the
38 bride as well. Actual weddings and other ceremonies should
39 incorporate stage magic as an enhancement.
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41 - isotope time dilation :: use a cyclotron to speed up rare isotopes
42 developed in nuclear fusion experiments. The relativistic time
43 dilation will stop the isotopes from decaying, and allow time to
44 study them. This is based on radioactive isotopes that fall
45 through the earth's atmosphere that take hundreds of times
46 longer to decay than normal.
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48 - marsupial stimulation :: You take a freshly pouched marsupial baby,
49 and show it videos and other interactive things while it matures
50 in the pouch. What mental effects would this have?
51
52 - dynamic re-keying :: Some older ways of tuning insturments sound
53 better, but we use the even-tempered scale today because it makes
54 it easier to switch keys. With electronic music, why not make
55 key-annotations and dynamically re-tune the piece to sound good
56 in the current key? Coule be done as a midi+annotation -> midi
57 compiler for experimentation.
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59 - death always implies damage :: is is possible for a corpse to differ
60 from a living person only in the fact that one is dead and the
61 other is alive? NO! A corpse must always have some sort of
62 molecular damage which causes the loss of function!
63
64 - inner eye :: Surgically install a bunch of tiny cameras inside a
65 person. Then, you can activate them all and get a
66 picture of your internal organs for diagnostic
67 purposes.
68
69 - chaos rails :: should make a visulazation of the homoclinic tangle,
70 it's truly beautiful.
71
72 - context gobbler :: this would be in "inside-out macro" that takes
73 the context (like you use for things like error, continuations,
74 and friends) and transforms it to something else. Maybe useful?
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34 - cryonics middle ages :: some people say that cryonics is an 76 - cryonics middle ages :: some people say that cryonics is an
35 experiment and that it is foolish to wait until we have revived a 77 experiment and that it is foolish to wait until we have revived a
36 human. There is a middle ground where the procedure has a dismal 78 human. There is a middle ground where the procedure has a dismal
37 success rate on humans, say 1 in 20, so that you'd be a fool to 79 success rate on humans, say 1 in 20, so that you'd be a fool to