Do you really want to see how a magnetic pole shift will affect you. Alright, stand facing north. Now look at your phone, now turn so that your facing south. Congratulation you just flipped the magnetic field in relation to your phone. It will affect magnetic compasses, so animal migration will be effected, but you and I don't migrate that way. as for aircraft and ship traffic, they use a magnetic compass as backup to a gyro compass which has to be calibrated. I know on board ships the gyro is calibrated using celestial navigation, not the magnetic compass because the magnetic compass can be thrown off by someone standing close to it with a set of keys in their pocket. or a wrench, or any large ferrous metal object.

Very cool stuff and can be used to screen for drug and discovery - the hope is reduce/eliminate animal models for certain things and at the same time increase ability mimick what is being studied. With that said it worries me about growing a brain organoid bigger and more complex and possibility of it becoming enthical is a possibility - we don’t need a bicomputer

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From the Article

>Engineers from UNSW Sydney have developed a miniature and flexible soft robotic arm which could be used to 3D print biomaterial directly onto organs inside a person’s body.
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>3D bioprinting is a process whereby biomedical parts are fabricated from so-called bioink to construct natural tissue-like structures.
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>Bioprinting is predominantly used for research purposes such as tissue engineering and in the development of new drugs – and normally requires the use of large 3D printing machines to produce cellular structures outside the living body.
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>The new research from UNSW Medical Robotics Lab, led by Dr Thanh Nho Do and his PhD student, Mai Thanh Thai, in collaboration with other researchers from UNSW including Scientia Professor Nigel Lovell, Dr Hoang-Phuong Phan, and Associate Professor Jelena Rnjak-Kovacina is detailed in a paper published in Advanced Science.
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>Their work has resulted in a tiny flexible 3D bioprinter that has the ability to be inserted into the body just like an endoscope and directly deliver multilayered biomaterials onto the surface of internal organs and tissues.

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Might be zero:

https://www.science.org/content/article/draw-down-carbon-and-cool-planet-ocean-fertilization-gets-another-look

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>Brain organoids are a type of lab-grown cell-culture. Even though brain organoids aren’t ‘mini brains’, they share key aspects of brain function and structure such as neurons and other brain cells that are essential for cognitive functions like learning and memory. Also, whereas most cell cultures are flat, organoids have a three-dimensional structure. This increases the culture's cell density 1,000-fold, meaning that neurons can form many more connections.

Also from the Article

>OI’s promise goes beyond computing and into medicine. Thanks to a groundbreaking technique developed by Noble Laureates John Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka, brain organoids can be produced from adult tissues. This means that scientists can develop personalized brain organoids from skin samples of patients suffering from neural disorders, such as Alzheimer’s disease. They can then run multiple tests to investigate how genetic factors, medicines, and toxins influence these conditions.
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>“With OI, we could study the cognitive aspects of neurological conditions as well,” Hartung said. “For example, we could compare memory formation in organoids derived from healthy people and from Alzheimer’s patients, and try to repair relative deficits. We could also use OI to test whether certain substances, such as pesticides, cause memory or learning problems.”

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There is no great filter. There is a multitude of smaller filters. The universe is just extremely dangerous and so the likely hood of technological civilizations living long enough to become interstellar is very very low. People like to oversimplify things. There is not one thing that can kill our civilization, there are many. Asteroids and comets, giant solar flares, AI, viruses, nuclear war, gamma ray bursts, super volcanoes etc. these are just the things we know about that could send us back to the Stone Age. The chance of one of these things crippling civilization in the next thousand years is pretty high. Then it might take us 5000 years to rebuild civilization. It is just so unlikely that single celled organisms will evolve to become an interstellar species. It might happen once per galaxy, and probably only in galaxies that are suitable.

Attempts to anthropomorphize this stuff just shows how early into it we are. There's no point to putting the human in it. It needs to be put in humans. Unless you want to accept redundancy.

Wasn’t Down Periscope the best? They didn’t offer that major in college so I couldn’t be a submarine captain on an old WW2 diesel sub that’s manned by a rag tag motley crew of misfits and a sexy first mate who’s clothes are too small for her. Because I could have also minored in hosting Village People concerts. Even though that didn’t work out, at least I wasn’t stuck with a communications degree.

It's bad news for navigation I suppose, but we have almost no idea if it's bad news for humans. Species have seemingly lived through many polar reversals with no signs of mass extinctions, so probably not too much to worry about.

The polar reversals appear to happen slow also, so we'd probably have plenty of time to adapt.

I'd say the most likely catastrophize is the field lowers enough some electronics get friend and some navigation gets screwed up, but I don't think it happens fast so it would probably be more like a trickle of problems, not an avalanche of problems.

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Racial stereotypes were upended during a recent study that involved artificial intelligence. New research from the University of Georgia found that Black bots were considered more competent and more human than white or Asian bots used in the same study. This contrasts with past research on human-to-human interactions.
The full study, which was published in the Journal of the Association for Consumer Research, can be read here.

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I wonder if it's because people stereotype black people as being dumb, so if you have an AI, which people consider hyper Intelligent, juxtaposed with that, that you end up with a feeling of an AI that is closer to human.

It’s really about having good priorities isn’t it?

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>NASA deputy administrator Pam Melroy, speaking at the livestreamed meeting(opens in new tab), urged the users' advisory group to consider recommending a fast refresh of space regulations to avoid "future barriers" to space exploration.
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>"We are not a regulator; that is not our role," Melroy said of NASA. Pointing to planned International Space Station commercial successors in the 2030s, she added: "We cannot be responsible for all activities on a commercial space station."

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>As NASA aims to put people and commercial payloads on the moon in 2025 with the Artemis program, and to open up the ISS to commercial astronauts and activities, more people and businesses have access to space than ever before. SpaceX and Axiom Space are among the beneficiaries, having flown ISS missions for astronauts themselves with NASA oversight. (SpaceX even flew a billionaire-funded independent excursion called Inspiration4.)
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>That said, space law is an immensely complex business. Most spacefaring countries have signed on to the United Nations' Outer Space Treaty(opens in new tab) that governs international space activities. The treaty, however, was negotiated in the 1960s when government activities dominated the scene. More recently, several dozen members of the NASA-led Artemis Accords(opens in new tab) have also agreed to peaceful work in the 2020s and beyond, and to eventually establish new norms for lunar exploration.

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When you are hurtling around a cellestial body at several miles per second it makes small differences in time important.

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Europe is taking the lead in adapting Elon Musk’s innovative idea for freight transport with the Swiss Cargo Sous Terrain (CST) project.

The idea behind this solution is to create a faster, more efficient, and safer means of transport rather than the conventional one which produce carbon emissions. It has been described as a combination between an airplane and a train and is mainly intended for the transport of passengers.

The technology is under development and has not been commercially implemented. Several projects are in different stages of implementation and testing around the world but it will take several years before the system is fully functional and operational.

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Headline is misleading.

What’s being demonstrated here is quantum teleportation of energy between two entangled atoms.

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I dont think he ever said he would or could; iirc it was more about getting the engineering and science end of it worked on, getting proof of concept vehicles, and broadly getting the whole thing moving

Same with EVs and rockets, his plan as stated originally was to push the rest of the industry towards these things, doing it himself if need be, but relying on the inevitability of other major corporations and governments signing on to these ideas as well

And if anything this is validation for Elon, since the anti elon folks kept whining it was impossible or impractical

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From the Article

>Engineers from UNSW Sydney have developed a miniature and flexible soft robotic arm which could be used to 3D print biomaterial directly onto organs inside a person’s body.
>
>3D bioprinting is a process whereby biomedical parts are fabricated from so-called bioink to construct natural tissue-like structures.
>
>Bioprinting is predominantly used for research purposes such as tissue engineering and in the development of new drugs – and normally requires the use of large 3D printing machines to produce cellular structures outside the living body.
>
>The new research from UNSW Medical Robotics Lab, led by Dr Thanh Nho Do and his PhD student, Mai Thanh Thai, in collaboration with other researchers from UNSW including Scientia Professor Nigel Lovell, Dr Hoang-Phuong Phan, and Associate Professor Jelena Rnjak-Kovacina is detailed in a paper published in Advanced Science.
>
>Their work has resulted in a tiny flexible 3D bioprinter that has the ability to be inserted into the body just like an endoscope and directly deliver multilayered biomaterials onto the surface of internal organs and tissues.

In Switzerland, such projects and ideas have been around since the 1970s, e.g. Swiss Metro.

We do have our share of enlightened innovators too. However, our DNA ae a whole loves being technically conservative. That's why "Hyperloop" projects have never been given any priorities.

However, the cargo thing this article is talking about isn't exactly what one would call a "Hyperloop", actually very far from it. It's just a very slow subway for cargo, that gets anywhere in the country in less than 24 hours...

Source: am Swiss.

From the Article

>Brain organoids are a type of lab-grown cell-culture. Even though brain organoids aren’t ‘mini brains’, they share key aspects of brain function and structure such as neurons and other brain cells that are essential for cognitive functions like learning and memory. Also, whereas most cell cultures are flat, organoids have a three-dimensional structure. This increases the culture's cell density 1,000-fold, meaning that neurons can form many more connections.

Also from the Article

>OI’s promise goes beyond computing and into medicine. Thanks to a groundbreaking technique developed by Noble Laureates John Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka, brain organoids can be produced from adult tissues. This means that scientists can develop personalized brain organoids from skin samples of patients suffering from neural disorders, such as Alzheimer’s disease. They can then run multiple tests to investigate how genetic factors, medicines, and toxins influence these conditions.
>
>“With OI, we could study the cognitive aspects of neurological conditions as well,” Hartung said. “For example, we could compare memory formation in organoids derived from healthy people and from Alzheimer’s patients, and try to repair relative deficits. We could also use OI to test whether certain substances, such as pesticides, cause memory or learning problems.”

Yeah, but this time I'm actually probably right. And this time it's nothing we can affect. Not unless there's some Dr. Evil Doomsday Device I don't know about, doing weird things to the Earth's core.

Humans can do a lot, but modifying the Earth's magnetic field is still currently in the realm of pure science fiction. We can't even drill down to the mantel successfully.