We live as long as we fly
Damn LJ
Flash video from my own hosting doesn't work, only from YouTube and the like. Seems like it's by design. But WMV video starts playing right on load in Firefox, parameters don't help. Now that's a bug. No idea where or how to send a bug report.
The Latvian mega-ad about how you should bequeath everything except your brain to the organ donation center has been uploaded to YouTube
Why make nanorobots when you can make nanobiorobots?
Here's an article about how scientists are going to create biological organisms from scratch, because nature screwed up and did a half-assed job on the existing ones.
https://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18882828/site/newsweek/page/2/
I had no idea things had gone this far. The boys, by the way, are saying that artificial intelligence will also be here in about ten years.
For Christians, the first created organism will be a terrible shock. Mind you, far more unpleasant things await them down the road - when they start upgrading everything around, humans included.
After articles like this, it seems the singularity really is a matter of the coming decades. And if not that, then World War III and total kaput. So I changed my mind about saving up for retirement.