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I sit 2' away from 10'x3" rotating rods all day, ain't no big deal
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# ? Jun 25, 2015 23:09 |
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Cumslut1895 posted:thank god he escaped that deathtrap Reversed, it's just a guy catching a train.
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# ? Jun 26, 2015 01:58 |
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Wacky waving rotatable arm flailing doomed man?
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# ? Jun 26, 2015 02:02 |
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Odd that they'd go that direction instead of directly hooking into the optic nerve.
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# ? Jun 26, 2015 02:09 |
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Ursine Asylum posted:Odd that they'd go that direction instead of directly hooking into the optic nerve. I imagine the problem is encoding the electrical signals in the way the brain would understand, although I could be mistaken. Converting to some sort of stimulation-based system on the tongue seems comparatively simple.
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# ? Jun 26, 2015 02:14 |
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PT6A posted:I imagine the problem is encoding the electrical signals in the way the brain would understand, although I could be mistaken. Converting to some sort of stimulation-based system on the tongue seems comparatively simple. It's super hard to get nerve tissue to grow on an artificial substrate, much less the optic nerve. Way easier to get your brain to recognize tactile input on the tongue and relearn to interpret it than it is to make something small enough, robust enough, and not-ugly enough to use as a replacement eye. Plus the whole 'carve out your eyes for an experimental treatment' thing.
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# ? Jun 26, 2015 02:23 |
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Ursine Asylum posted:Odd that they'd go that direction instead of directly hooking into the optic nerve. Saliva is nice and conductive, and the tongue is a big accessible area for electrodes.
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# ? Jun 26, 2015 02:48 |
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Tunicate posted:Saliva is nice and conductive, and the tongue is a big accessible area for electrodes. "Paranoia" is real!
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# ? Jun 26, 2015 02:52 |
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Depending on the form of blindness, chips have been developed that implant into the retina to return some sight - two different techniques here and here.
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# ? Jun 26, 2015 05:41 |
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CampingCarl posted:Possibly posted before but videos of them beaching the ships are crazy too. The part where the guy is banging metal tools around liquid oxygen gives me pause. Hope they're bronze or brass tools that won't spark. Ever see steel boil? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gg9_zTlg4M Three-Phase fucked around with this message at 01:14 on Jun 27, 2015 |
# ? Jun 27, 2015 01:11 |
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I want one of these lasers! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExTLa6bAdFQ&t=449 That guy's whole house must smell like burned plastic/magic smoke. Three-Phase fucked around with this message at 01:27 on Jun 27, 2015 |
# ? Jun 27, 2015 01:25 |
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Methylethylaldehyde posted:It's super hard to get nerve tissue to grow on an artificial substrate, much less the optic nerve. Way easier to get your brain to recognize tactile input on the tongue and relearn to interpret it than it is to make something small enough, robust enough, and not-ugly enough to use as a replacement eye. Plus the whole 'carve out your eyes for an experimental treatment' thing. Would a blind person really miss them though?
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# ? Jun 27, 2015 01:34 |
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Methylethylaldehyde posted:It's super hard to get nerve tissue to grow on an artificial substrate, much less the optic nerve. Way easier to get your brain to recognize tactile input on the tongue and relearn to interpret it than it is to make something small enough, robust enough, and not-ugly enough to use as a replacement eye. Plus the whole 'carve out your eyes for an experimental treatment' thing. I get that it works and it's less invasive, it just feels like a really weird stopgap. Like setting up someone to manipulate their artificial arm's grasp by attaching a wire to their kegel muscles.
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# ? Jun 27, 2015 01:37 |
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Three-Phase posted:I want one of these lasers! Although you wouldn't believe it, this guy's apparently like a senior engineering manager at EON or something
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# ? Jun 27, 2015 01:40 |
Thump! posted:Would a blind person really miss them though? If I went totally blind and ended up having my eyes pulled out in a failed attempt to give me sight, I'd just replace the non-working cybernetics with giant googly eyes. Honestly, if I had cybernetics I'd probably dress them up to look like giant googly eyes anyway.
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# ? Jun 27, 2015 02:31 |
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Three-Phase posted:I want one of these lasers! From that description, I knew who it would be without seeing it yet. Lots of time at work as been passed watching him fry poo poo.
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# ? Jun 27, 2015 03:22 |
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The horror movie VHS 2 on Netflix has a guy with cybernetic eyes but it might put you off the idea
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# ? Jun 27, 2015 03:54 |
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chitoryu12 posted:If I went totally blind and ended up having my eyes pulled out in a failed attempt to give me sight, I'd just replace the non-working cybernetics with giant googly eyes. Nah, camera lenses with remote controlled irises and color LEDs in them. That way you can look at someone and narrow them while they glow red.
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# ? Jun 27, 2015 03:56 |
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# ? Jun 27, 2015 04:52 |
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Idiotproof
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# ? Jun 27, 2015 07:58 |
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# ? Jun 27, 2015 10:16 |
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All the torque equations I learned are rushing through my head right now.
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# ? Jun 27, 2015 15:02 |
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:
They'll be rushing through someone else's head if they stand on the wrong side of that.
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# ? Jun 27, 2015 15:25 |
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# ? Jun 27, 2015 15:31 |
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I've been seeing this gif the wrong way every time it's been posted. He's pushing that off the end of one of those metal truck platforms, not a loading dock. The edge of the ramp looked like a concrete seam to me.
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# ? Jun 27, 2015 15:55 |
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poo poo, you're right. That's how I'd always viewed it, too. The eye naturally follows the guy flying through the air and you don't noticed the platform moving.
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# ? Jun 27, 2015 16:15 |
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jetz0r posted:I've been seeing this gif the wrong way every time it's been posted. oh yeah huh, i thought the same thing
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# ? Jun 27, 2015 16:32 |
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tediore rockets irl
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# ? Jun 27, 2015 16:44 |
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-Zydeco- posted:We're working on it. OK?" Still waiting for a prosthetic arm manufacturer to show it making the most useful of gestures. Extension of just the middle finger is essential for communication.
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# ? Jun 27, 2015 17:27 |
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Budgie posted:Still waiting for a prosthetic arm manufacturer to show it making the most useful of gestures. Extension of just the middle finger is essential for communication. I'd be more interested in knowing if I could jerk off with one of those things without ripping my dick off.
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# ? Jun 27, 2015 17:34 |
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Budgie posted:Still waiting for a prosthetic arm manufacturer to show it making the most useful of gestures. Extension of just the middle finger is essential for communication. In one of the other videos of that guy he mentions that yes, he can give the middle finger as a modification of one of the preset gestures
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# ? Jun 27, 2015 17:37 |
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The Nards Pan posted:I'd be more interested in knowing if I could jerk off with one of those things without ripping my dick off. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvJ7KWlgCaU
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# ? Jun 27, 2015 17:53 |
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chitoryu12 posted:If I went totally blind and ended up having my eyes pulled out in a failed attempt to give me sight, I'd just replace the non-working cybernetics with giant googly eyes.
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# ? Jun 27, 2015 18:54 |
The worst part is that if you're doing everything right, you'll have a second guy check the outriggers when extending or retracting them to make sure they're in the proper place.
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# ? Jun 27, 2015 19:01 |
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chitoryu12 posted:The worst part is that if you're doing everything right, you'll have a second guy check the outriggers when extending or retracting them to make sure they're in the proper place. I'm guessing that didn't happen.
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# ? Jun 27, 2015 20:11 |
Darth123123 posted:I'm guessing that didn't happen. Either that or the second guy just went "gently caress it" and told him it was cool.
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# ? Jun 27, 2015 21:44 |
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chitoryu12 posted:Either that or the second guy just went "gently caress it" and told him it was cool. "Someone left the box of shims back at the shop" "gently caress it, good enough"
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# ? Jun 27, 2015 23:25 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03YcT74h5Mg Pleasure riding (horse with cart thing) class goes extremely wrong. Lots of nasty near-misses, and a few bad collisions. I especially like the guy who jumps in front of the horse trying to stop/catch it. (The horse wins - and my understanding is the man is lucky to be alive.) I'm no expert, but horse is completely panicked and these guys continue to leap at instead of all getting out of the ring (or moving to the center) and letting the thing calm down. Plus the person in charge doesn't issue any commands to the participants until things are pretty much out of control. Three-Phase fucked around with this message at 04:12 on Jun 28, 2015 |
# ? Jun 28, 2015 04:07 |
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chitoryu12 posted:Either that or the second guy just went "gently caress it" and told him it was cool. Driver was sleeping with the second guy's wife
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# ? Jun 28, 2015 04:11 |
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Horses are assholes, Volume VII: http://youtu.be/SeeFvmRi6xM
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