yeah but it’s not cool if there’s not a literal computer chip literally inside the brain 
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This is sooooo not news. But why is it in this thread?
Harry Cohn’s fanny quote.
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OH that, lol.
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I’ve been a fan of cyberpunk since the 80s and always wanted a DNI so I could jack into the 'net directly. However…
“It actually fits quite nicely in your skull. It could be under your hair and you wouldn’t know.”
Of all the ways to describe it, that might possibly be by far the creepiest. Sounds like something a serial killer would say.
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It reminds me of those hair-replacement commercials: 'It feels so natural, you can barely feel it!"
(but if you can barely feel it, then how do you know it feels natural?)
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The last I’d heard was that one of the more reproducible results was likely due to effects from the external wiring and gave the same thrust in the same direction no matter which direction the device was pointing. I didn’t realize this thing was still ongoing.
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The EnDrive—a very similar one often confused by writers with the EmDrive—is similarly still being worked on.
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What is an En-Drive?
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It’s like the Dean Drive, except instead of vibrating against the table, which isn’t necessarily available in space, it vibrates against the reference frame of the distant stars. /s
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Good question, all I found on some googling were AC-DC power management ICs, sine wave converters, a laparoscopic surgery tool, and a Finnish “hardcore, black metal, punk” band. Which is kind of an impressive range for the first few pages of a google search…
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Just a joke on the em dash (—) vs en dash (–).
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More numbers oriented, I’m sure. A whole range of possibilities.
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My propulsion unit pushes against dark matter. It is powered by dark energy.
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That’s what I immediately thought of, but I didn’t think anyone is as obsessed about those thing as I am. (And I couldn’t get around the possibility of there actually being an n-drive.)
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We’re heading for Venus (Venus)
And still we stand tall
'Cause maybe they’ve seen us (seen us)
And welcome us all, yeah
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MEDICAL EDUCATION
Citation : “Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil, Boris Johnson of the United Kingdom, Narendra Modi of India, Andrés Manuel López Obrador of Mexico, Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus, Donald Trump of the USA, Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey, Vladimir Putin of Russia, and Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow of Turkmenistan, for using the COVID-19 viral pandemic to teach the world that politicians can have a more immediate effect on life and death than scientists and doctors can.”
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