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And yeah, it could only help the paper industry having a new technology based off of it.
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http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/24499/
A Blueprint for a Quantum Propulsion Machine
This is pretty damn awesome..... Worth reading the whole article.
A Blueprint for a Quantum Propulsion Machine
This is pretty damn awesome..... Worth reading the whole article.
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Scientist build a bipedal construction from strands of DNA.
http://www.botjunkie.com/2010/01/20/aut ... ut-of-dna/
http://www.botjunkie.com/2010/01/20/aut ... ut-of-dna/
I think this experiment provides evidence for a suspicion that has been growing on me for a little while. I think the entire academic world is in the thralldom of a single class, and no one is aware...not even...especially not even themselves. I speak of grad students, particularly PhD candidates.
Hear me out...
Think about all the research projects in aaalllll the arts and sciences. What drives the choice of the focus of these projects?
Some might contend that it is the corporate donor or alumni associations who provide the grant money. No. They just want to be on top of the next "big idea" that will provide them a big return on their investment.
Some might contend that it is the professors who who use their grad students as thinly disguised indentured servants to do the grunt work on their own research projects. But, why would a comfortably tenured professor go to the considerable trouble of keeping up the appearance of being up with the leading edge of his or her respective field by continuously publishing if not for the seething mass of grad students greedily eying the comfy-looking leather chair. And why would said professor bother struggling to think of new paths of research when he can just assign classes full of desperate students term papers in the general area and wait for one of them to have a brainstorm he can appropriate.
My point with all this ramble? How else can you explain the hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of dollars spent on this kind of experiment...amazing as it it is...when there are so many much, much more obvious subjects starving for research dollars.
But see...a PhD thesis has to be written on a unique topic. So even if it was a nifty idea ahead of its time and thus never acted on, it will almost certainly be passed over in favor of something "new and unique."
Like walking DNA strands...
Hear me out...
Think about all the research projects in aaalllll the arts and sciences. What drives the choice of the focus of these projects?
Some might contend that it is the corporate donor or alumni associations who provide the grant money. No. They just want to be on top of the next "big idea" that will provide them a big return on their investment.
Some might contend that it is the professors who who use their grad students as thinly disguised indentured servants to do the grunt work on their own research projects. But, why would a comfortably tenured professor go to the considerable trouble of keeping up the appearance of being up with the leading edge of his or her respective field by continuously publishing if not for the seething mass of grad students greedily eying the comfy-looking leather chair. And why would said professor bother struggling to think of new paths of research when he can just assign classes full of desperate students term papers in the general area and wait for one of them to have a brainstorm he can appropriate.
My point with all this ramble? How else can you explain the hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of dollars spent on this kind of experiment...amazing as it it is...when there are so many much, much more obvious subjects starving for research dollars.
But see...a PhD thesis has to be written on a unique topic. So even if it was a nifty idea ahead of its time and thus never acted on, it will almost certainly be passed over in favor of something "new and unique."
Like walking DNA strands...
The Light Side is Calling! . . . . . . . . . . .it's lonely...
