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Chris ran across a good article recently on the worth of manned spaceflight. It's preaching to the choir. I've always said the space shuttles have no real purpose since the majority of activities could be robotic. I understand the need to get and keep humans in space since it's really the only way I...
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Here's a million dollar idea that I'll give away for free -- Create a voice synthesizer to convert spoken Indian English accent into an American English accent. People will no longer get that sinking feeling when they call tech support and hear the Bombay sing song English accent. This will really sell...
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Ok here's a couple of ideas that would sell very well and shouldn't really be all that hard to accomplish. 1. Be able to change the snooze time on an alarm clock. How hard can it be to include this? It's all on a chip. My alarm clock has a 7 minute snooze time and therefore have my alarm set to 6:39...
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So I've been reading this book Hominids by Robert Sawyer . As usual he's put together a good story. About a parallel universe in which the Neandertals became the dominant Homo species instead of us. So one them gets transported over to our universe with a wave of the scifi author's magic wand and so...
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So Gregg and I finally got around to seeing the movie What the Bleep Do We Know? I give it a 6 out of 10. It's sort of reminded me of some of the jazzed up specials on Nova or Discovery channel when they try to explain something in science that's esoteric. Throw in a little animation and cool special...
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So if I wore a button that said "I am a suspected terrorist" how long would it take for me to end up in jail? The truth is we are all suspected terrorists in the eyes of our goverment, no one is innocent. The danger is that we are falling into a 'lusion that it's ok to give up our civil rights such as...
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I have an idea to make the lotteries more popular, as if they aren't popular enough. Why not limit the winnings to say $10 million per winner. That should be plenty to live life work free and yet very comfortable. For instance the lottery right now is somewhere around $120 million. Lets say only one...