A digital Eternal life
Imagine never having to truly die. Being able to upload all of your memories to a computer, to live on in a humanoid robot when your human body can no longer upgrade.
It is a fantasy that is still a long way from reality but several companies taking the first steps in that direction.
The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise.
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" There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved."
We separate the future from the past by looking at the direction in which entropy increases.
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Atmosphere of the Earth
Earth's atmosphere is composed of 74% Nitrogen, 24% Oxygen, and roughly 2% trace gases. Earth's mean temperature is about 288 K, or 15°C, and atmospheric pressure at sea level on Earth is about 1×10⁵ N/m².
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Internet of Things (Things start to talk)
Inanimate objects are talking to us. An umbrella sends a text message you are about to leave it behind. A dog bowl signals it is time for Fido's walk by reporting his water consumption. A tampon signals it needs to be changed.
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In the 1930s, multiple teams on both sides of the Atlantic labored to create the first digital computer. Amazingly, they were ignorant of Babbage's work and how their efforts had been preceded a century and half earlier by the genius of one man and the excitement of the Age of Steam
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The issue is that nothing can go faster than the speed of light. ... as you go faster and faster, the mass ratio increases more and more, to the point that going at the speed of light will require an infinite mass ratio. Simply to get to 90% of the speed of light, we would need a mass ratio of 3.9 billion
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Brain
"The brain weighs only three pounds, yet it is the most most complex object in the solar system."
[ Michio Kaku]