# HG changeset patch # User Robert McIntyre # Date 1454183386 28800 # Node ID ba80a6a67b55d9dfc40d213e2abd9959ef677e0f # Parent 043412f7a4299fff45b0365bd3e98f138ce84e8e more ideas. diff -r 043412f7a429 -r ba80a6a67b55 org/good-ideas.org --- a/org/good-ideas.org Thu Jan 28 09:36:35 2016 -0800 +++ b/org/good-ideas.org Sat Jan 30 11:49:46 2016 -0800 @@ -54,10 +54,9 @@ easily sort out the rest and enable color vision. Furthremore, could we add some more colors to baesline human eyes? Theory -- people who are color blind have better color spatial accuity for - the colors they can see, because this it the tradeoff here involved - with the retrovirus therapy. Re-purposing color detectors to see - new colors at the expense of spatial acuity for the old set of - colors. + the colors they can see, because this is the tradeoff involved with + the retrovirus therapy: Re-purposing color detectors to see new + colors at the expense of spatial acuity for the old set of colors. ** Passion of the Christ Missed Opportunity @@ -66,17 +65,19 @@ Jesus does the sermon on the mount, he turns to the camera, and starts speaking in English, with no subtitles. It would have been 1.) biblically accurate and 2.) awesome. It would have been such a - powerful example of Jesus' divinity, and it felt like they were - setting up for it the entire movie, and they missed it! + powerful example to convey Jesus' divinity, and show off another + miracle. It felt like they were setting up for it the entire movie, + and they missed it! ** Xenobiotic Chimeric Methalation Rewriting You make chimeric sea urchins with human reproductive stem cells, - so that the sea urchins produce sea urchin like HUMAN sperm and - eggs. Then you can have two males / females reproduce without the - methylation problem, by using the sea urchins as intermediades. And - the normal problems of human chimeras are avoided because the sea - urchins are too simple. + so that the sea urchins produce sea urchin-like HUMAN sperm and + eggs. Then you can have two human males / females reproduce without + the methylation problem, by using the sea urchins as + intermediades. And the normal ethical problems of human/animal + chimeras are avoided because the sea urchins don't have brains to + begin with. ** Physical PGP Signatures @@ -253,7 +254,9 @@ mechanism of immune cell death be co-opted for these purposes. ** Fuck-you Tetris - Tetris that actively gives you the worst possible piece. + Tetris that actively gives you the worst possible + piece. Implemented! http://fph.altervista.org/prog/bastet.html , + https://github.com/johnny-morrice/solumns/releases ** Pockets More things should have them! Chairs, tables, cups, hats, diff -r 043412f7a429 -r ba80a6a67b55 org/ideas.org --- a/org/ideas.org Thu Jan 28 09:36:35 2016 -0800 +++ b/org/ideas.org Sat Jan 30 11:49:46 2016 -0800 @@ -19,6 +19,19 @@ getting credit. #+end_quote + - sperm fitness correlation :: it's evolutionary advantageous for a + species' sperm to fail to function exactly when the fetus they + would create would fail. But it's really hard to make this + functoinal correlation happen because the sperm cell only + expresses a small subset of the genome. To the extent that thei + correlation effect exists, we can reverse it to find + "interesting" genes. My guess --- look for genes physiccally + next to sperm coding genes. + + - spinal repeater/relay :: a VERY fine mesh of directional paths, + much finer than the width of a spinal axon, which can connect a + bundle of nerves that has been cut together. + - auto book ::handwritten by machine; illuminated. Like old medieval books. Use a model of handwriting so the letters are different.