# HG changeset patch # User Robert McIntyre # Date 1401082931 14400 # Node ID 7f5ec998409fc735644f2c51301042c264466a77 # Parent 70c493a87a7eea75a36a3841d7fd74d1cb0069ac# Parent e05b604a68433c9e7c47c5fd10f941644107de2d merge. diff -r e05b604a6843 -r 7f5ec998409f org/ideas.org --- a/org/ideas.org Mon Apr 14 13:09:20 2014 -0400 +++ b/org/ideas.org Mon May 26 01:42:11 2014 -0400 @@ -31,6 +31,48 @@ getting credit. #+end_quote +- stage magic rituals :: rituals should incorporate elements of stage + magic. Foe example in Teller's tempest, they have a scene where + they levitate a crown in front of someone, then put it on his + head. They also have a wedding ceremony where they levitated the + bride as well. Actual weddings and other ceremonies should + incorporate stage magic as an enhancement. + +- isotope time dilation :: use a cyclotron to speed up rare isotopes + developed in nuclear fusion experiments. The relativistic time + dilation will stop the isotopes from decaying, and allow time to + study them. This is based on radioactive isotopes that fall + through the earth's atmosphere that take hundreds of times + longer to decay than normal. + +- marsupial stimulation :: You take a freshly pouched marsupial baby, + and show it videos and other interactive things while it matures + in the pouch. What mental effects would this have? + +- dynamic re-keying :: Some older ways of tuning insturments sound + better, but we use the even-tempered scale today because it makes + it easier to switch keys. With electronic music, why not make + key-annotations and dynamically re-tune the piece to sound good + in the current key? Coule be done as a midi+annotation -> midi + compiler for experimentation. + +- death always implies damage :: is is possible for a corpse to differ + from a living person only in the fact that one is dead and the + other is alive? NO! A corpse must always have some sort of + molecular damage which causes the loss of function! + +- inner eye :: Surgically install a bunch of tiny cameras inside a + person. Then, you can activate them all and get a + picture of your internal organs for diagnostic + purposes. + +- chaos rails :: should make a visulazation of the homoclinic tangle, + it's truly beautiful. + +- context gobbler :: this would be in "inside-out macro" that takes + the context (like you use for things like error, continuations, + and friends) and transforms it to something else. Maybe useful? + - cryonics middle ages :: some people say that cryonics is an experiment and that it is foolish to wait until we have revived a human. There is a middle ground where the procedure has a dismal