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mtmerrick:
--- Quote from: Zebediah on 21 May 2013, 14:24 ---Things that disturb me when they pop up in a Facebook ad: "Minimally invasive robot-assisted surgery". The mental image of Pintsize in a surgical mask makes me doubt how "minimally invasive" it's actually going to be.
But still, it wasn't that long ago that robot-assisted surgery was pure science fiction. Isaac Asimov wrote an interesting story about it called "The Segregationist".
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I'd take robotic surgery or robotic assisted surgery over pure human surgery any day. So much faster, easier, and safer.
LTK:
Yeah, about that... do you ever think about who programmed the robot?
mtmerrick:
So? Is the best tool for the job.
Also, that won't be an issue for much longer. Google displayed self-creating code at I/O. It's damn impressive.
pwhodges:
--- Quote from: LTK on 21 May 2013, 15:30 ---I was going to tell you to put a cup on a high shelf, thereby storing gravitational energy in the cup, but then the forum had a seizure. :x
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Yeah, I've no idea what the seizure was; I don't recall any previous one like it.
As for storing electricity as potential energy, there's nothing futuristic about that; I remember studying the design of a plant that was doing that in the mountains of Wales in the 1960s (in particular the blade profiles for reversible pump/turbine usage).
Redball:
Upstate Michigan has one about 40 years old operated by the state's two largest utilities, located near the Lake Michigan shore with a peak output of 1,872 megawatts.
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