What kind of world do you want? (Homework edition)

[Nephew Twiddleton]

SCIENCE

SCIENCE EVERYWHERE

OPTIMIZE ALL THE THINGS

This.  We're doing MATERIAL SCIENCE up in this shit, and I am like the crew of Apollo 13.  You need more amps than we have?  ON IT.  You need sea level conditions?  GIMME 10 MINUTES.

For a while, I had a single-crystal sapphire the size of my head as a paperweight.

There is a block of transparent aluminum on my desk.

How could this be anything other than the future?

We are living in the future. We all have superpowers that people hundreds of years ago would have traded body parts for. I can access in a matter of moments nearly any book in the world, music, films, knowledge of thousands of years, I can control a quadricopter from around the world remotely. Goddsakes, I can go on google maps and find the exact dimensions of /any building in the world/, pictures from pretty much any place you can think of. There are all-terrain robots making their way across the surface of Mars. 2000 years ago, they thought that red rock was a manifestation of a DEITY! Now we're making tracks on it! Voyager has left the solar system, and it's still sending signals. People were standing on the /Moon/.

I can go into the lab, and with a simple process of mixing chemicals and cycling temperature, make /billions/ of copies of a piece of DNA.

Now, you know what? With the newest sequencing tech, /we don't even need to do that anymore/. These nanopore next gen sequencers can take entire chromosome lengths of DNA and read /the whole damn sequence in one go/. In hours, you can have /the entire genome of an organism stored on a flash drive./ And in short time this will all be cheap.

We've got "SCIENCE EVERYWHERE". Now it's time to optimize all the things.

I would really like to meet you and Phox in person one of these days.

I might make it a point to jump on Amtrak with my acoustic and play a gig in a dive of choice, just for that reason.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

SCIENCE

SCIENCE EVERYWHERE

OPTIMIZE ALL THE THINGS

This.  We're doing MATERIAL SCIENCE up in this shit, and I am like the crew of Apollo 13.  You need more amps than we have?  ON IT.  You need sea level conditions?  GIMME 10 MINUTES.

For a while, I had a single-crystal sapphire the size of my head as a paperweight.

There is a block of transparent aluminum on my desk.

How could this be anything other than the future?

We are living in the future. We all have superpowers that people hundreds of years ago would have traded body parts for. I can access in a matter of moments nearly any book in the world, music, films, knowledge of thousands of years, I can control a quadricopter from around the world remotely. Goddsakes, I can go on google maps and find the exact dimensions of /any building in the world/, pictures from pretty much any place you can think of. There are all-terrain robots making their way across the surface of Mars. 2000 years ago, they thought that red rock was a manifestation of a DEITY! Now we're making tracks on it! Voyager has left the solar system, and it's still sending signals. People were standing on the /Moon/.

I can go into the lab, and with a simple process of mixing chemicals and cycling temperature, make /billions/ of copies of a piece of DNA.

Now, you know what? With the newest sequencing tech, /we don't even need to do that anymore/. These nanopore next gen sequencers can take entire chromosome lengths of DNA and read /the whole damn sequence in one go/. In hours, you can have /the entire genome of an organism stored on a flash drive./ And in short time this will all be cheap.

We've got "SCIENCE EVERYWHERE". Now it's time to optimize all the things.

One of my younger mechanic's SO had a hole in her heart.  She found out when she collapsed at the age of 23.

They went in with those fiber optics thingies and fixed it.  She had a few stitches, less than I got the last time I cut my hand at work.

They kept her overnight, just for observation.  She was actually fit right after the operation.

Outpatient heart surgery, Kai.

That's some futuristic shit.

[Kai]

SCIENCE

SCIENCE EVERYWHERE

OPTIMIZE ALL THE THINGS

This.  We're doing MATERIAL SCIENCE up in this shit, and I am like the crew of Apollo 13.  You need more amps than we have?  ON IT.  You need sea level conditions?  GIMME 10 MINUTES.

For a while, I had a single-crystal sapphire the size of my head as a paperweight.

There is a block of transparent aluminum on my desk.

How could this be anything other than the future?

We are living in the future. We all have superpowers that people hundreds of years ago would have traded body parts for. I can access in a matter of moments nearly any book in the world, music, films, knowledge of thousands of years, I can control a quadricopter from around the world remotely. Goddsakes, I can go on google maps and find the exact dimensions of /any building in the world/, pictures from pretty much any place you can think of. There are all-terrain robots making their way across the surface of Mars. 2000 years ago, they thought that red rock was a manifestation of a DEITY! Now we're making tracks on it! Voyager has left the solar system, and it's still sending signals. People were standing on the /Moon/.

I can go into the lab, and with a simple process of mixing chemicals and cycling temperature, make /billions/ of copies of a piece of DNA.

Now, you know what? With the newest sequencing tech, /we don't even need to do that anymore/. These nanopore next gen sequencers can take entire chromosome lengths of DNA and read /the whole damn sequence in one go/. In hours, you can have /the entire genome of an organism stored on a flash drive./ And in short time this will all be cheap.

We've got "SCIENCE EVERYWHERE". Now it's time to optimize all the things.

One of my younger mechanic's SO had a hole in her heart.  She found out when she collapsed at the age of 23.

They went in with those fiber optics thingies and fixed it.  She had a few stitches, less than I got the last time I cut my hand at work.

They kept her overnight, just for observation.  She was actually fit right after the operation.

Outpatient heart surgery, Kai.

That's some futuristic shit.

With the right attachments, a smart phone is basically a tricorder.

[Pæs]

With the right attachments, a smart phone is basically a tricorder.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.danms.LCARSScanner&hl=en ?

[Kai]

With the right attachments, a smart phone is basically a tricorder.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.danms.LCARSScanner&hl=en ?

Did I say basically? I meant /is/. Just plain is.