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new ideas
author | Robert McIntyre <rlm@mit.edu> |
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date | Mon, 26 May 2014 01:40:11 -0400 |
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1.1 --- a/org/ideas.org Sun Mar 30 23:33:20 2014 -0400 1.2 +++ b/org/ideas.org Mon May 26 01:40:11 2014 -0400 1.3 @@ -31,6 +31,48 @@ 1.4 getting credit. 1.5 #+end_quote 1.6 1.7 +- stage magic rituals :: rituals should incorporate elements of stage 1.8 + magic. Foe example in Teller's tempest, they have a scene where 1.9 + they levitate a crown in front of someone, then put it on his 1.10 + head. They also have a wedding ceremony where they levitated the 1.11 + bride as well. Actual weddings and other ceremonies should 1.12 + incorporate stage magic as an enhancement. 1.13 + 1.14 +- isotope time dilation :: use a cyclotron to speed up rare isotopes 1.15 + developed in nuclear fusion experiments. The relativistic time 1.16 + dilation will stop the isotopes from decaying, and allow time to 1.17 + study them. This is based on radioactive isotopes that fall 1.18 + through the earth's atmosphere that take hundreds of times 1.19 + longer to decay than normal. 1.20 + 1.21 +- marsupial stimulation :: You take a freshly pouched marsupial baby, 1.22 + and show it videos and other interactive things while it matures 1.23 + in the pouch. What mental effects would this have? 1.24 + 1.25 +- dynamic re-keying :: Some older ways of tuning insturments sound 1.26 + better, but we use the even-tempered scale today because it makes 1.27 + it easier to switch keys. With electronic music, why not make 1.28 + key-annotations and dynamically re-tune the piece to sound good 1.29 + in the current key? Coule be done as a midi+annotation -> midi 1.30 + compiler for experimentation. 1.31 + 1.32 +- death always implies damage :: is is possible for a corpse to differ 1.33 + from a living person only in the fact that one is dead and the 1.34 + other is alive? NO! A corpse must always have some sort of 1.35 + molecular damage which causes the loss of function! 1.36 + 1.37 +- inner eye :: Surgically install a bunch of tiny cameras inside a 1.38 + person. Then, you can activate them all and get a 1.39 + picture of your internal organs for diagnostic 1.40 + purposes. 1.41 + 1.42 +- chaos rails :: should make a visulazation of the homoclinic tangle, 1.43 + it's truly beautiful. 1.44 + 1.45 +- context gobbler :: this would be in "inside-out macro" that takes 1.46 + the context (like you use for things like error, continuations, 1.47 + and friends) and transforms it to something else. Maybe useful? 1.48 + 1.49 - cryonics middle ages :: some people say that cryonics is an 1.50 experiment and that it is foolish to wait until we have revived a 1.51 human. There is a middle ground where the procedure has a dismal