I was talking to Goldfinger on the CS:GO server and thought I should post this: Quantum Computing

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http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/02/ibm-quantum-milestone/
"If you then put two qubits together, they can hold four values at once: 00, 01, 10, and 11. And as you add more and more qubits, you can build a system that’s exponentially more powerful than a classic computer. You could, say, crack the world’s strongest encryption algorithms in a matter of seconds. As IBM points out, a 250-qubit quantum computer would contain more bits that there are particles in the universe."
 
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Ah, I see now. Seems like a pretty important detail to mention that you need to cool your shit with liquid fucking nitrogen to maintain quantum states long enough to actually compute anything. So it looks like they've only got a basic logic gate working which means we're probably at least a decade off from reaching the point where any of this will be filtering down to useful consumer-level gear.
 
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I don't think we'll have to wait long, remember the lead researchers at IBM didn't expect the first quantum computer for years, like 10-15 years, and that was just 2 years ago. At this point the resources inventors have at their hands can make things happen much sooner than expected, and things will only happen faster and faster than expected for a while. The first fusion reactor was set to be built in 2015, commercially in 2035 or 2050, but now there is one I believe being made in 2 years for commercial use.
 
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neither of those links seem to answer my question, or any question really. I'm glad the French are so confident in their ability to defy the laws of thermodynamics, but considering fusion research has been going on since Fat Man dropped, they need to be a bit more specific than 'we added a tungsten weathervane to the design' if they really expect anyone to believe it'll work as advertised.

Even worse is a promise from Lockheed about results a decade out. As if though any corporation is willing to throw money at a sinkhole project with such a long life cycle. Considering it's Lockheed, though, I wouldn't be surprised if there were taxpayer dollars supporting the fusion project while the company makes more record profits on their classic intercontinental ballistic transformer drone strike bunker busting freedom jihad dildos also paid for with taxpayer money. Shit, Lockheed could stuff a jet engine in a schoolbus, paint it gray and the joint chiefs of fucking you over will sign for it with your money.

So at the end of the day, what are we getting here? Promises about free power a decade out (repeating a trend that's been going on for the past four decades already) and we get stuck with the bill not just for the cost of building these fucking reactors but also for POWERING THEM because they're still operating at a net loss! At this point it seems like the only way we'll ever get our money's worth is if one of the reactors went KA-BLAMMO and someone posted the video on YT.
 
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http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/n...one-on-the-road-to-clean-energy-28875540.html Petrol from air.

http://environmentalresearchweb.org/cws/article/yournews/51437 Sugar to diesel.

http://environmentalresearchweb.org/cws/article/news/51497 Nanocrystals producing hydrogen directly from sunlight.

http://www.engadget.com/2012/11/21/thermal-nanotechnology-harvest-electricity/ Nanotechnology produces electricity from temperature fluctuations.

http://www.vtnews.vt.edu/articles/2013/04/040413-cals-hydrogen.html?utm_campaign=Argyle+Social-2013-04&utm_content=shaybar&utm_medium=Argyle+Social&utm_source=twitter&utm_term=2013-04-04-08-30-00 Large amounts of hydrogen produced from any plant.

http://scitechdaily.com/discovery-may-lead-to-the-creation-of-biofuel-from-co2-in-the-atmosphere/ Biofuel from CO2 in the atmosphere.

http://phys.org/news/2013-05-scientists-co2-sequestration-technique-supergreen.html Method to remove CO2 while producing hydrogen simultaneously.

To me, it's just a matter of time before certain things come to fruition. By focusing on fusion power I think you're missing the point. We're becoming more advanced than anyone every imagined. Some people had a certain scope, but the truth is people today in these fields can't believe what we're doing on such a wide basis. That is, and will continue to accelerate every month, day, and year.
 
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You do a hell of a lot better job than I, I can't recall a link to an article I read this morning lol
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I think I'm getting old, because I am remembering quite a bit less, I kept an extensive library of links for all different subjects and my computer crashed and I lost them all. Like how about the Emotive "game controller" which uses your brainwaves to control games may actually be able to be used to read your mind. Hackers have already figured out a way to steal pin numbers out of the heads of people that wear them, or credit card info. What's scarier is the first commercial model came out in like 2003, the science was publicly available regarding it since the early 90's, possibly 80's, and there may very well be models out there the government or whoever has said power to do so to listen to people's thoughts, remotely. I try to point out to people, Moore's law is really based on economics. And if you were a black ops section of the government that didn't follow any rules and had unlimited funding, you could easily have pushed designs to have processors as advanced as today 20 years ago. Imagine what you could do with a regular desktop today, back 20 years ago. Everyone says oh that's a conspiracy, it isn't possible. BS. Everything we have could've been invented a million years ago. Just because we don't hear about something being invented until next week, doesn't mean someone didn't have a working model already 3 months ago, or 3 years, or 3 decades. I think there are some very powerful people out there that do just this, they fund research and science and technology for their own means, whatever they be. Does that mean they figure EVERYTHING out before it's public? Of course not, but I'm sure they figure out quite a lot. And I'll end this conversation with a story that will leave you completely disbelieving everything I've said to this point. About 2 years ago, out east on Long Island I was at a friends house, there were easily about 14 of us who had just started drinking and playing beer pong. It was almost dusk, we could see the stars out, the sun was setting, but it was still fairly bright out. I pointed up to a star and told my friend, hey I think that's venus, and I asked to borrow his Iphone to use his cool star map app to prove it. Well sure enough, there were about 6 or 7 ufos, all a bright red. All 14 of us saw them. They weren't just floating, they were almost playing tag or a chase game. And they shot across the sky and changed direction like you wouldn't believe. My friends wouldn't even talk about it for easily a year after because they didn't know what to say, it disturbed them and they didn't want to admit it. Do I think it could've been aliens, maybe. What I really think was that it was someone here, someone that is far more advanced than we realize. Aliens would fly to some planet and then chase each other around in the sky? No, humans would be doing that crap, going oh cool look at this, can't catch me! At the end they all shot off, most in different directions, and I've never seen anything like that in my life before. So now that no one is listening anymore lol, I'll just post random stuff and expect to hear crickets from this point on.
 
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i remember reading some academic shit about that mindreader thing, that wasn't too long ago. IIRC the hacker angle was played up a bit but still pulling numbers out of heads is impressive. I'm waiting for microchips in brains and google glass implants but it will never happen in this fucked-up consumer society I mean who really wants google or microsoft in their head? Would be nice if the hardware itself is open source so anyone can just make applications to their own needs. Imagine X server ... for your cybernetic eyeball!

There's a lot of great proof of concepts but the problem is always that these mind-blowing technologies are rarely ever as effective as whatever alternatives we are already using. Just look at the electric car. Sure, great torque, but the thermal energy in an ICE still exceeds the kinetic energy of the electric motor. Or how about the hydrogen car, great idea if the infrastructure were established to support it. Fleet vehicles for years now have been using alternatives like biodiesel and propane to better success.

A lot of the wonderland technology is hype and vapourware. Few organizations are like IBM and actually consistent in making the future happen. Photonics is a cool example, I bet that would flow nicely with a quantum CPU.

The UFO story doesn't surprise me, I saw one in broad fucking daylight when I was a kid. Zipped right past my face (it was small) so I got a really, really good look at it. It's been almost 20 years since then and I still haven't found any evidence that would indicate humans are anywhere near being able to make anything move through air like that. It really sucks that it's not something you can just talk about without people thinking you're full of shit, especially when you know others saw it too. Yep, let's just collectively ignore alien spacecraft invading our personal space, that will make the problem go away.

So many fucking questions though, like what do aliens know about space-time to send ships lightyears to us, or how long ago might they have sent them, or hell maybe there's aliens blending in on Earth like in MIB. I wonder if they find Will Smith funny. I also wonder about the scale of any civilization that could send shit to probe us out while we've been waiting a generation already just for Voyager to tell us what's beyond the solar system. Maybe the UFOs were built by pangalactic versions of us and there's some crazy Empire out there with Yodas running around and shit.

That also makes me wonder about our place in it all, like there's so much information in our faces every day it's impossible to keep up just with a small segment of it. Could we even find space for a greater understanding of the universe? We kind of go through life acting like we're the final form of evolution but I bet in a few thousand years our bones will be in some archaeology exhibit and homo sapiens sapiens sapiens sapiens will be like: "look at these silly tards, they were burning oil for fuel!"

Well, I'm going to sleep.
 
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Google announced that in what, 5 to 10 years it will be implanting chips in people's head to allow them to "interface". You may face palm about my experiences, but if you met my fairly conservative friends who finally came to accepting what they saw, you might have different thoughts yourself. How would you explain what we experienced yourself? Mass hallucinations? As for the Emotive, it is open source and from what I understand has been from the beginning. As for not seeing any evidence that humans are that advanced, I have. If the fact that things like the stealth bomber and stealth fighter were literally developed in the 60's, even the late 50's, but not brought to the public eye until the 80's isn't enough, then I can't convince you anymore and I am wrong.
 
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