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.com/donnad/27-science-fictions-that-became-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!?)

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"....

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"....

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

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

[Ath]

Sixty-ninth birthday today

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)

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)

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

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.

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  .