Straight Dope Staff Report: When the zombies take over, how long till the electricity fails?
Month: June 2004
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Ghostwheel Rocks Ulaanbaatar
Tal is in Mongolia, eating meat (in a bun), bitching about it but not letting people push him around. He’s glad Reagan’s dead and pissed off at America’s collective Alzheimer about the guy. Go read him, if you aren’t already.
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RSS2WAP
RSS2WAP, for Nimrod, who I notices syndicates my blog (on RSS) in WAP. (via Scripting News).
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Salon Mazal
I’m giving a talk on the 27th of June at Salon Mazal about Science Fiction. Salon Mazal is a alternative culture/indie/anarchist hangout, or something like that. Other talks by folks I know are Adi (Bracha Hagoleshet) Aliya about drugs (today, 10th of June), Neora Shem Shaul and Nimrod Keret on Open Source and cellular crypto stuff (17th of June), and Nimrod again on electronic paranoia on the 23rd.
exchange of letters between Eric “molecular assemblers” Drexler and Richard “Buckyballs” Smalley, from Chemical and Engineering News. See handwaving and chemistry slug it out…
Link from Evan Goer. Goer summarizes a talk by Drexler like this:
Now, let’s review the structure of Drexler’s argument:
- Molecular operations are millions of times faster than the mechanical operations of a robotic arm in a factory.
- Here is a molecular robotic arm.
- Here is a set of useful-looking molecular structures.
- …
- Profit!