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Re: ¡Science!
« Reply #440 on: June 13, 2011, 12:50:35 PM »

I'm 100% okay with that.

But it's still pretty damn bizarre to even think about.
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Re: ¡Science!
« Reply #441 on: June 13, 2011, 03:09:56 PM »

If it were any other organ this would be a non-story.

A womb is an organ. You might as well say it's "weird" to get your mother's liver because at one point in your life you were also using it.
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Re: ¡Science!
« Reply #442 on: June 13, 2011, 03:15:55 PM »

Firsts of any organ transplant are usually a big story.  There are tons of technological hurdles that may seem trivial in theory, but are largely unknown until attempted.

Plenty of people thought that that highly publicized face transplant a couple years back was bizarre.  Really any sort of xenograft challenges people's assumptions of self.
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Re: ¡Science!
« Reply #443 on: June 13, 2011, 03:17:22 PM »

One wonders the sort of impact this might have on transgendering.
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Re: ¡Science!
« Reply #444 on: June 13, 2011, 03:21:53 PM »

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Firsts of any organ transplant are usually a big story.

Yeah, I'm aware of that. I was addressing the "weird" aspect.
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Re: ¡Science!
« Reply #445 on: June 13, 2011, 04:06:20 PM »

It's not even that, it's just that my mind conjures up some sort of Escher-esque mental image.
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Re: ¡Science!
« Reply #446 on: June 13, 2011, 05:48:55 PM »

Eh, that photographer Clayton Cubitt - also known as Siege - has been saying that traditional still photography will transition to a video based one soon enough. As soon as the Canon 5D Mark II was released (which shot full-frame HD 1080p video), he began pioneering the Long Portrait, or portraits of people taken with video rather than just stills. Then he began saying about how the future of photography was filming something, then locating the exact moment for a still.

Last year, even, photographer Greg Williamsdid the same thing with Megan Fox for Esquire

It looks pretty cool, and the RED is really, really high-def. It's also like $50,000 so I don't see it being the future of photography just yet.

Well, even he acknowledges that right now the price point is too high. But pro photographers do spend quite a lot on gear and the cost will eventually come down (something else he acknowledges), so when the two vectors come close enough we'll probably see change take place.

I figure when the cost comes down to maybe a third of current costs, the early adopters will start picking it up (though obviously there are some moneyed pioneers trying stuff out right now). If they can get it down to $5,000 a camera, or even just in the $10,000-$5,000 range, that might the be the threshold where the majority crosses over.
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Re: ¡Science!
« Reply #447 on: June 22, 2011, 10:17:18 AM »

Lytro camera that takes multiple exposures and focuses of an image at once, allowing for adjustment of depth of field AFTER the picture is taken

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The Lytro is a light field camera which is much different than your standard digital shooter. It doesn't capture one angle, one lighting effect or one focus plane. It captures everything, all at once, in one photo. The image can then be manipulated to change the focus from an item in the foreground to an item in the background on the fly. The camera is targeted for an end of the year launch and could cost under $500 if Ng can pull it all together.

Has a demo of it at the bottom, but I'm still skeptical. The demo could be little more than a photoshop trick as far as I know.

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Re: ¡Science!
« Reply #448 on: June 23, 2011, 06:44:51 AM »

Impressive idea, but only giving two points of focus is a lackluster display.
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Re: ¡Science!
« Reply #449 on: August 03, 2011, 08:52:48 AM »

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Re: ¡Science!
« Reply #450 on: August 03, 2011, 09:07:41 AM »

Only in Sweden would A) a man call the radiation authority to see if his tests were legal and 2) the call be taken seriously.
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Re: ¡Science!
« Reply #451 on: August 03, 2011, 09:42:24 AM »

The best part was how he actually had a meltdown on his stove.

There's some kind of bragging rights right there. Not sure I'd WANT those particular bragging rights, but man, he's got 'em now.
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Re: ¡Science!
« Reply #452 on: August 11, 2011, 07:50:27 AM »

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Re: ¡Science!
« Reply #453 on: August 11, 2011, 08:05:19 AM »

Oh look a cure for Leukemia

WAY TO GO, SCIENCE.
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Re: ¡Science!
« Reply #455 on: August 12, 2011, 07:45:12 AM »

The best part was "Fuck you, Leukemia! We're gonna give you AIDS!".
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Re: ¡Science!
« Reply #456 on: August 12, 2011, 08:27:56 AM »




What's up with Zuul or whatever hiding in the background? And why did it have to go and remind me of Prince of Darkness? Fuck that movie.
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Re: ¡Science!
« Reply #457 on: August 12, 2011, 08:56:11 AM »

New drug could cure nearly any viral infection

Oh good. Now if we could only do something about the bacteria that are now Antibiotics immune.
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Re: ¡Science!
« Reply #458 on: August 12, 2011, 12:03:09 PM »

Eh, we'll just test it on apes first
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Re: ¡Science!
« Reply #459 on: August 12, 2011, 12:37:35 PM »

Do you have any idea how much apes cost? You test it on poor people, you irrational spendthrift!
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