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    A Device That Lets You Type With Your Mind

    Talk Monkey to Me: Monkey Language Contains Simple Sentences

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    Image of Roklimber Roklimber
    08:56 AM

    LHC well on its way

    A CERN bulletin dated December 14 (that's in the future!) talks about the awesome progress the LHC is making on its way to achieve its planned 3.5 TeV per beam.

    [cdsweb.cern.ch]

    1 eV = 1 electron-volt is the energy that an electron would receive if you were to accelerate it through a potential difference of 1 volt.

    1 TeV = 1 tera eV = 10^12 eV = 1 000 000 000 000 electron-volts.

    To put that energy in perspective, 1 TeV is enough energy to create about 1000 protons at once.

    The LHC is designed to achieve 3.5 TeV per beam, that is, 7.0 TeV when the two proton beams collide.

    So, to grasp what this means, this is like throwing 2 protons against one another with enough energy to produce 7000 more protons.

    (It doesn't actually happen that way, though. The proton-proton collision produces a lot of other stuff, rather than 7000 protons)

    Another way to grasp how awesomely powerful 7 TeV is, consider the fact that *all* chemical reactions (that is, all of chemistry and all of the biochemistry of life) take place at an energy level of a few tens of electron-volts per reaction, that is, about 100 billion times smaller than what the LHC produces in a single collision.

    #tips #LHC #CERN #madscience #physics
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    Image of Golem100 Golem100
    07:50 AM

    In reply to A Device That Lets You Type With Your Mind
    Hmmm, Didn't I first hear of this in "The Tommyknockers" by Stephen King.
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    Image of Roklimber Roklimber
    03:34 AM

    Bionic eyes!

    Artificial retina gives woman limited vision after decades of darkness
    [edition.cnn.com]

    #tips #madscience #technology
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    Image of Bigdamnhero Bigdamnhero
    02:24 AM

    In reply to A Device That Lets You Type With Your Mind
    Funded in part by the Society of One-Handed IMers... dedicated to abolishing sticky keyboards everywhere since 1998.
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    Image of The5thElephant The5thElephant
    12/10/09

    In reply to A Device That Lets You Type With Your Mind
    I finally get what I always wanted, a Lite-Brite board plugged directly into my head (see picture).
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    Image of RoboBagins RoboBagins
    12/10/09

    In reply to A Device That Lets You Type With Your Mind
    Eh, I'll wait till they come out with the bluetooth headset that does this.
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    Image of bornonbord bornonbord
    12/10/09

    In reply to A Device That Lets You Type With Your Mind
    "Shih's system does require a craniotomy, which is not a surgery to be taken on a whim"

    Considering the stupid reasons people cut their bodies open for, I doubt that the ultimate Matrix fans are really gonna care.
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    Image of aubreyf aubreyf
    12/10/09

    In reply to A Device That Lets You Type With Your Mind
    They should make it so raising your eyebrows while you think of the letter makes it uppercase. And have it read your emotions and auto-append an emoticon.
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    Image of Annalee Newitz Annalee Newitz
    12/10/09

    @aubreyf: Both fine suggestions.
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    Image of aubreyf aubreyf
    12/10/09

    @Annalee Newitz: The only drawback is that you'll be constantly shouting if you've recently been botoxed.
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    Image of cletar cletar
    12/10/09

    In reply to A Device That Lets You Type With Your Mind
    So, it's like Force typing?
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    Image of Dr Emilio Lizardo Dr Emilio Lizardo
    12/10/09

    In reply to A Device That Lets You Type With Your Mind
    wHat"s teh BGi deAl/ Im Useng 1 rite Nowwwwwwwww.
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    Image of ThisDudeRufus ThisDudeRufus
    12/10/09

    @Dr Emilio Lizardo: Dammit, I swore I would never actually laugh out loud at a blog comment. You've made a liar out of me, Lizardo.
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    Image of Roklimber Roklimber
    12/10/09

    In reply to A Device That Lets You Type With Your Mind
    Stephen Hawking might benefit from this, assuming that the surgery to implant the electrodes doesn't make him a person of normal intelligence.
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    Image of ThirzaLepidus ThirzaLepidus
    12/10/09

    @Roklimber: Wouldn't that make it even more beneficial?
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    Image of Michael Becker Michael Becker
    12/10/09

    @ThirzaLepidus: /facepalm You do know that Hawking is currently FAR ABOVE normal intelligence right?
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    Image of ThirzaLepidus ThirzaLepidus
    12/10/09

    @Michael Becker: ...
    joke
    you
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    Image of Bigdamnhero Bigdamnhero
    12/08/09

    In reply to Talk Monkey to Me: Monkey Language Contains Simple Sentences
    Also, the vocalization consisting of "zoom a zoom zoom" and "boom boom" has been shown to stimulate furious monkey rump shaking in many primate species.
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    Image of J_Frank_Parnell J_Frank_Parnell
    12/08/09

    In reply to Talk Monkey to Me: Monkey Language Contains Simple Sentences
    'Man can be domesticated.'

    Rock me Dr. Zaius.
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    Image of BangarangRufio867 BangarangRufio867
    12/08/09

    In reply to Talk Monkey to Me: Monkey Language Contains Simple Sentences
    and the combining of "Boom, Boom, Boom, let me hear you say Way-Oh! WAY-Ohhhhhh!" means:

    PARTY TIME! Monkeys love them some 90's music.
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    Image of Ruthless, If you let me Ruthless, If you let me
    12/08/09

    In reply to Talk Monkey to Me: Monkey Language Contains Simple Sentences
    Bad ... bad grammar overload -- error, error!
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    Edited by Ruthless, If you let me at 12/08/09 8:16 AM Ruthless, If you let me was starred Ruthless, If you let me was unstarred
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