Facts about Facts?

[cmpm]

An interesting article, to me anyway, maybe you too.
Some are questionable, that's why the ?.

27 Science Fictions That Became Science Facts In 2012

http://www.buzzfeed....e-science-facts-in-2

[jadinolf]

Well, it looks like a good read

Thanks

[Renegade]

The solar power panels at $0.40 per watt look very good!

[barney]

Veddy interrrestink.  (That works better verbally than visually, methinks  .)

Can't ya just imagine what tract housing would look like with that 3D printer?  Or what FEMA might - I did say might! - do with it?

And at my age, some of the prosthetic stuff is starting to look really attractive!  (Sixty-ninth birthday today, so I'm now officially sixty-eight (68)(and, fortunately, still counting) .)

But I have to wonder.  With the robot(s), driverless cars, pilotless spacecraft, and brain hacking,  how much longer are we going to be around/tolerated  ?!?

[TaoPhoenix]

Most of that stuff was just "kinda neat", but feels a bit peripheral to how regular life feels. The winner of the article is the Driverless Car. That's the one I think will lead to wholesale cultural adjustments. (But can they handle NY Cabbies using legally-questionable moves!?)

[barney]

Most of that stuff was just "kinda neat", but feels a bit peripheral to how regular life feels. The winner of the article is the Driverless Car. That's the one I think will lead to wholesale cultural adjustments. (But can they handle NY Cabbies using legally-questionable moves!?)

-TaoPhoenix (December 23, 2012, 07:06 PM)

If the driverless cars are built with any kind of failsafe functionality, life will definitely slow down - it'll take three (3) time as long to get almost anywhere  .

[Tinman57]

  And then there are all the science "facts" that they taught us in school years ago that are now science "fiction"....

[barney]

  And then there are all the science "facts" that they taught us in school years ago that are now science "fiction"....

-Tinman57 (December 23, 2012, 08:32 PM)

Maybe more like science friction ... it just slows things down  .

[MilesAhead]

  And then there are all the science "facts" that they taught us in school years ago that are now science "fiction"....

-Tinman57 (December 23, 2012, 08:32 PM)

Maybe more like science friction ... it just slows things down  .

-barney (December 23, 2012, 09:00 PM)

That reminds me. It's time to take a brake.

[Ath]

Sixty-ninth birthday today

-barney (December 23, 2012, 06:48 PM)

Is that a fact?

Congrats, Barn, "Make a good day..."

[MilesAhead]

And at my age, some of the prosthetic stuff is starting to look really attractive!  (Sixty-ninth birthday today, so I'm now officially sixty-eight (68)(and, fortunately, still counting)

-barney (December 23, 2012, 06:48 PM)

Sounds like you are counting down. Do you have some kind of Benjamin Button thing going on? 

[barney]

And at my age, some of the prosthetic stuff is starting to look really attractive!  (Sixty-ninth birthday today, so I'm now officially sixty-eight (68)(and, fortunately, still counting)

-barney (December 23, 2012, 06:48 PM)

Sounds like you are counting down. Do you have some kind of Benjamin Button thing going on? 

-MilesAhead (December 24, 2012, 12:21 PM)

Nope.  Birthdays start at year zero (0) - the date you come out of the womb  - but our age reflects the number of years we've been alive, so we're all one (1) year younger than our most recent birthday count  .

[cmpm]

I think it's that you have completed 69 years and now into your 70th.

[MilesAhead]

Eastern Age Reckoning

I don't know if I agree with the Lunar New Year aspect. But 1 year of age at birth seems more reasonable than 0 since the gestation period is 9 months.  Maybe on the first anniversary of one's birth a person should be considered 1.75??

Also your method has the detrimental effect of requiring a husband to get his wife an anniversary gift on his wedding day.

Instead of kissing the bride he gives her a gift certificate to Bloomies.  

[barney]

I think it's that you have completed 69 years and now into your 70th.

-cmpm (December 24, 2012, 01:39 PM)

Nope, I've completed sixty-eight (68), but that was the sixty-ninth birthday when you count the original date of birth.  It's an awkward concept, but it is, in line with this topic, fact  .