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[scrdest]

I did a quick search and found no earlier mention, but a really cool way of genetic modification - CRISPR is making a lot of people at my faculty really excited. It uses what could be compared to the immune system in bacteria, hijacks it, and uses it to do the researcher's bidding.

[Sheb]

There was a mention in the BC/AD thread, go figure. :p

[Helgoland]

There was a mention in the BC/AD thread, go figure. :p

I didn't have this thread on my new replies list, and I was lazy...

[Reelya]

plastic problem solved i guess.

http://themindunleashed.org/2014/08/fungus-discovered-rainforest-capable-eating-plastic-pollution.html

That's not the first plastic eating microbe discovered. It's pretty much inevitable that something will end up eating all of it. If you can burn it, it's fuel, and potentially food for something. Whichever microbe cracks the plastic-eating code first gets a huge advantage, since nothing else eats it. Fully expect that animals with plastic-eating gut microbes would follow from that. Although if we don't keep pumping out the plastic it's likely to be a boom-bust cycle.

[i2amroy]

http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?_mc=sm_eet&doc_id=1324403&page_number=3

An experimental processor achieves 4x the performance compared to the currently existing approaches by using hardware multi-threading.

This may be the technology that will finally allows us to run DF at a reasonable speed! And also will make all people suggesting to add multi-threading to the game finally shut up.

I like how the cooling system for their prototype is literally just a desk fan propped at an angle.

[Osmosis Jones]

Bad week for the private space exploration industry.

Following on from Orbital Science's Antares rocket exploding 4 days ago, Virgin Galactic's Space Ship 2 just crashed. Sadly, this cost the life of one of the pilots, and injured the other.

[Dutchling]

oh no D:

rip in peace space pilot

[alway]

I doubt that second one is doing too well either. Based on the photos of it I posted in the space thread as it was disintegrating in combination from what I saw (and didn't see) in the news coverage of it... It looks like everything but the rotating part of the wings is just gone. And even those two parts of the wings were separated by a good 100+ meters, with one of the two entirely trashed. So unless they escaped prior to that (unlikely), that would have put them right in the middle of a heap of shrapnel made of metal and rocket fuel. It also looks less like an explosion and more like it lost stability somehow and was ripped apart by aerodynamic forces/stresses.

[Sirus]

Yeesh. Bad week indeed.

[MonkeyHead]

Well, that will be the end of Virgins space flight business. Shame.

[Il Palazzo]

Thus Mankind has been stripped of its beautiful dream of shooting Ashton Kutcher and Justin Biber into space.

And we were so close.

[Lagslayer]

Thus Mankind has been stripped of its beautiful dream of shooting Ashton Kutcher and Justin Biber into space.

And we were so close.

IDK, dow e really want the aliens to find them?

[smjjames]

Well, that will be the end of Virgins space flight business. Shame.

Not neccesarily, it'll definetly be a major setback though.

[MaximumZero]

Thus Mankind has been stripped of its beautiful dream of shooting Ashton Kutcher and Justin Biber into space.

And we were so close.

IDK, dow e really want the aliens to find them?

Might view it as a declaration of war.

That's why we point them at the sun, guys. Tell them that they're going to meet Earth's biggest star.

[Sergarr]

Thus Mankind has been stripped of its beautiful dream of shooting Ashton Kutcher and Justin Biber into space.

And we were so close.

IDK, dow e really want the aliens to find them?

Might view it as a declaration of war.

That's why we point them at the sun, guys. Tell them that they're going to meet Earth's biggest star.

Unless you can achieve 30 km/s speeds, you're going to have a hard time falling into the Sun.

It's actually harder to reach the Sun from Earth than it is to leave the Solar System for good.