From: LARRY KLAES (ljk4_at_msn.com)
Date: Wed Jul 28 2004 - 07:31:23 PDT
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Amplified Intelligence
Will machines make humans smarter or just more dependent on our calculators, car navigators, and kitchen conveniences? Dr. Ken Ford of the Institute of Human and Machine Cognition reclassifies several key problems in developing smarter machines into a category called, "Amplified Intelligence". The field is about smarter humans. His description also includes a few recipes to make humans 'play nice' with their new toys.
Living Deep
Nearly three miles below the ocean surface waits a relatively unexplored and unexploited frontier. The Scripps Institute is tracking large animals that live at this depth, as they test the hypothesis that this unique ecosystem has entered a phase of starvation and food shortages.
Tiny Moon is No Space Station
Cassini's tour of Saturn's remarkable system of 31 moons has taken the probe past one of the ringed planet's natural wonders: Mimas. The 250 mile wide satellite suffered a catastrophic impact that opened a wound one third of its diameter and nearly split the moon in half. Today, Mimas bears a striking resemblance to the Star Wars' Death Star, which wrecked havoc on planets using its laser-focusing dish. In place of the laser dish, Mimas carries a crater peak the size of Mount Everest.
The Spillproof Earth
Texas A&M University and NASA are teaming up to bring new levels of planetary protection against forward contamination of other worlds from our space probes. The team hopes to sterilize future hardware using a well-known technique called electron beam irradiation. As employed already in the plastics and food industries, electron beams offer a lower temperature alternative to dry heat and thus may extend the categories of future searches for life uncontaminated by the home planet.
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