diff org/good-ideas.org @ 159:ba80a6a67b55

more ideas.
author Robert McIntyre <rlm@mit.edu>
date Sat, 30 Jan 2016 11:49:46 -0800
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     1.4     easily sort out the rest and enable color vision. Furthremore,
     1.5     could we add some more colors to baesline human eyes? Theory --
     1.6     people who are color blind have better color spatial accuity for
     1.7 -   the colors they can see, because this it the tradeoff here involved
     1.8 -   with the retrovirus therapy. Re-purposing color detectors to see
     1.9 -   new colors at the expense of spatial acuity for the old set of
    1.10 -   colors.
    1.11 +   the colors they can see, because this is the tradeoff involved with
    1.12 +   the retrovirus therapy: Re-purposing color detectors to see new
    1.13 +   colors at the expense of spatial acuity for the old set of colors.
    1.14  
    1.15  ** Passion of the Christ Missed Opportunity 
    1.16   
    1.17 @@ -66,17 +65,19 @@
    1.18     Jesus does the sermon on the mount, he turns to the camera, and
    1.19     starts speaking in English, with no subtitles. It would have been
    1.20     1.) biblically accurate and 2.) awesome. It would have been such a
    1.21 -   powerful example of Jesus' divinity, and it felt like they were
    1.22 -   setting up for it the entire movie, and they missed it!
    1.23 +   powerful example to convey Jesus' divinity, and show off another
    1.24 +   miracle. It felt like they were setting up for it the entire movie,
    1.25 +   and they missed it!
    1.26     
    1.27  ** Xenobiotic Chimeric Methalation Rewriting
    1.28  
    1.29     You make chimeric sea urchins with human reproductive stem cells,
    1.30 -   so that the sea urchins produce sea urchin like HUMAN sperm and
    1.31 -   eggs. Then you can have two males / females reproduce without the
    1.32 -   methylation problem, by using the sea urchins as intermediades. And
    1.33 -   the normal problems of human chimeras are avoided because the sea
    1.34 -   urchins are too simple. 
    1.35 +   so that the sea urchins produce sea urchin-like HUMAN sperm and
    1.36 +   eggs. Then you can have two human males / females reproduce without
    1.37 +   the methylation problem, by using the sea urchins as
    1.38 +   intermediades. And the normal ethical problems of human/animal
    1.39 +   chimeras are avoided because the sea urchins don't have brains to
    1.40 +   begin with.
    1.41  
    1.42  ** Physical PGP Signatures
    1.43     
    1.44 @@ -253,7 +254,9 @@
    1.45     mechanism of immune cell death be co-opted for these purposes.
    1.46  
    1.47  ** Fuck-you Tetris
    1.48 -   Tetris that actively gives you the worst possible piece.
    1.49 +   Tetris that actively gives you the worst possible
    1.50 +   piece. Implemented!  http://fph.altervista.org/prog/bastet.html ,
    1.51 +   https://github.com/johnny-morrice/solumns/releases
    1.52  
    1.53  ** Pockets
    1.54     More things should have them! Chairs, tables, cups, hats,