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There are at least two areas where code will continue to be optimized. 1) For horizontal scalability in a multi-processor/multi-computer environment - eg HPC and "the cloud". Generally because you can't just take an existing monolithic program and run it efficiently (if at all) on multiple processor...

Lots of oil/gas drills (more than 3000), terminal facilities and storage tanks plus Mississippi traffic for export or transit to the US coasts. A huge portion of the nation's economy goes through the Gulf. Perhaps using seal teams from a sub to place remotely triggered demo packs on the drilling rig...

Resources which are "depleted" have merely returned to the steady-state equilibrium production. We don't fish the true production of the sea, the algae. Everything above that is stored algae in one form or another. The debris problem is inconsequential - if you have the technology to be in space in...

Until we identify a "common sense" gene or some practical equivalent it's likely that we'll have to continue to regulate human behavior much more than would be otherwise necessary or desireable. Even in space. Maybe especially in space. Today, it would take a significant amount of knowledge, resourc...

Evolution of intelligence probably ended once we got intelligent enough that getting more intelligent didn't matter any more. Say when the Neanderthals were wiped out. It's an odd thing to say on a forum such as this that intelligence doesn't matter any more. Certainly it is requisite in many jobs....

Final thing - Aces, I don't think we're really at the point where we can manipulate our own evolution yet. We may not be able to directly manipulate germline cells to direct our own evolution but we certainly have other tools available to us to positively affect it. We have genetic sequencing which...

Given the negative effects of a large number of uncontrollable factors on the development of a fetus effecting both that fetus and subsequent generations at the genetic and epi-genetic levels I assert that the use of artificial wombs will not only become desireable but necessary for the development ...

That's the case. Spacex will be working with a life support system being developed by Paragon specifically for commercial crew transports under a NASA contract. It is an existing project and product but will without a doubt be developed further as work on the crewed version of Dragon progresses. Th...

The only unknown to me is the life support system. I think they do already have it ready, but I am not 100% sure. The Dragon capsule is divided into two sections - the crew section and what they are calling a trunk section (as in a car trunk). The crew section is already pressurized even when used ...

Certainly large companies can adapt and they have the advantage of resources. I think the problems lie in management attitudes. You can draw some generalizations, but you have to understand how those particular attitudes play in a particular company. ... A couple of problems plague many big busines...

Grow your own organs (from your own cells) http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/this-could-be-big-abc-news/grow-own-organs-173451147.html They are not talking about growing organs. The video talks about creating IPS cells from muscle fibroblast cells which may turn out to be very useful presuming the proces...

All you had to do to get the right answer to any question was to see what liberals thought, and do the exact opposite. Lolz. So according to your beliefs because that liberal President Truman nuked Hiroshima and Nagasaki we should have instead invaded the Japanese home islands, extended the war and...

However the part about the "immortal" Stalin type had more cred though. It wouldn't have to be a Stalin type. Just your average fortune 500 CEO who thinks only of his/her own stock options and doesn't care whether the company or country survives as long as they get their cut. The general danger is ...

What, no mothballed nuclear submarines they can use to provide temporary power with?

However the part about the "immortal" Stalin type had more cred though. It wouldn't have to be a Stalin type. Just your average fortune 500 CEO who thinks only of his/her own stock options and doesn't care whether the company or country survives as long as they get their cut. The general danger is ...