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Hope for the future
Posted: Sun Jan 31, 2010 7:14 am
by goose
Just when i've given up on this spoiled, self-indulgent, x-box addled, facebook addicted, text calloused, over schooled yet undereducated younger generation, a story like this comes along:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/stor ... t=1&f=1001
impressive
Posted: Sun Jan 31, 2010 7:50 am
by motorpsycho67
Saw that. (NPR is my home page)
Smart kid.
Posted: Sun Jan 31, 2010 10:17 am
by Mental
Holy snot! That kid is 16?!? That is al kinds of brillance.
My ADD raddled brain doesn't understand the mechanics of electromanegtic waves, just theory. But I know enough to understand how smart he has to be to get it.
Posted: Sun Jan 31, 2010 12:07 pm
by WeAintFoundShit
It comes as little surprise. A kid living in Los Alamos at this point in time is the offspring of one of the very few, very fortunate people to still have a job at the Los Alamos National Laboratories.
Any person who still has a job at that place is either a turbo genius, or a very lucky janitor.
Not to say that the invention isn't totally rad, and that the kid isn't a total genius, I'm just saying that it makes sense that he'd be a kid from Los Alamos.
Posted: Sun Jan 31, 2010 5:38 pm
by Ames
Cool kid. Good for him.
Posted: Mon Feb 01, 2010 3:18 pm
by SidVicious
that's neat and all that he did that what with amounts to some spare parts, but ... this is news?
the US and Russian navies used
Extremely Low Frequency (ELF) transmitters to communicate (albeit one way and the transmission sites were huge) with submerged submarines for years.
Posted: Mon Feb 01, 2010 3:48 pm
by rolly
SidVicious wrote:that's neat and all that he did that what with amounts to some spare parts, but ... this is news?
the US and Russian navies used
Extremely Low Frequency (ELF) transmitters to communicate (albeit one way and the transmission sites were huge) with submerged submarines for years.
They have submarines that travel through solid rock?
Posted: Mon Feb 01, 2010 6:03 pm
by SidVicious
rolly wrote:They have submarines that travel through solid rock?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Core 
seriously tho, he just took an existing tech and applied in a different way. it IS interesting, but not revolutionary.
Posted: Mon Feb 01, 2010 7:10 pm
by Ames
rolly wrote:SidVicious wrote:that's neat and all that he did that what with amounts to some spare parts, but ... this is news?
the US and Russian navies used
Extremely Low Frequency (ELF) transmitters to communicate (albeit one way and the transmission sites were huge) with submerged submarines for years.
They have submarines that travel through solid rock?
Nope, that feat has only been accomplished by Dr. Banzaii with his Oscillation Overthruster.
Whatsa matter with you? Don'ta you watcha T.B.?
Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2010 11:14 am
by 12ci
rolly wrote:SidVicious wrote:that's neat and all that he did that what with amounts to some spare parts, but ... this is news?
the US and Russian navies used
Extremely Low Frequency (ELF) transmitters to communicate (albeit one way and the transmission sites were huge) with submerged submarines for years.
They have submarines that travel through solid rock?
and how did you think the candidate for Grand Chancellor acquired his name ?