The Zen of Technology & Scientific Discovery! (& Robots)

[Jundo]

UPDATE:

Oh, ya gotta love folks who know their stuff! Some challenges on the authenticity of this PICTURE!

Beautiful but probably FAKE!

This is actually a montage of Earth sky on to Mars foreground. 'Mars' is near Regulus and Saturn is near Spica; so the sky images are from April 2012. ... the sky on mars is not so dark at night ...
https://www.facebook.com/SocialJunki...43315067435809

Sorry folks, although it is lovely.

This truly BREATHTAKING JAW DROPPING MIND BLOWING 360 degree view of the night sky on MARS, taken by the Rover ...

... do not miss this.

(Thank you, Bion, it popped into my Facebook feed from you)

Use your mouse to look around ...

https://www.facebook.com/SocialJunkieTravel/posts/243316277435688

[Rousei]

I'm very much a humanities person, however I find the sciences and mathematics to be fascinating. While I do not understand any of it, the concepts alone really open my eyes. Case in point, a British mathematician called Roger Penrose and I just learnt won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2020.

I learnt about him through his idea of a cyclical universe. That is to say, according to him when the universe has expanded so far for so long it's mathematically no different to the moment before the big bang. So the Universe births itself anew, a rebirth so to speak over and over and over. This aligns quite nicely I thought to the Buddhist idea of aeon/kalpa.

Gassho
Mark
ST

[Jundo]

"Samsung Electronics Puts Forward a Vision To ‘Copy and Paste’ the Brain on Neuromorphic Chips"

The future of AI looks interesting...

https://news.samsung.com/global/samsung-electronics-puts-forward-a-vision-to-copy-and-paste-the-brain-on-neuromorphic-chips

Gassho
Sat

So, will our phones someday be "sentient beings?" MU!

Gassho, J

STLah

[Jundo]

There was a time that I could have walked from Japan to New Mexico. When I went to visit Shinshi this summer, I just flew and drove.

(Now, who says that America was "discovered" in 1492??)

Fossilized footprints show humans made it to North America much earlier than first thought

North and South America were the last continents to be settled by humans, but exactly when that started is a topic that has divided archaeologists.

The commonly held view is that people arrived in North America from Asia via Beringia, a land bridge that once connected the two continents, at the end of the Ice Age around 13,000 to 16,000 years ago. But more recent -- and some contested -- discoveries have suggested humans might have been in North America earlier.

Now, researchers studying fossilized human footprints in New Mexico say they have the first unequivocal evidence that humans were in North America at least 23,000 years ago.

...Bennett and his colleagues were able to accurately date 61 footprints by radiocarbon dating layers of aquatic plant seeds that had been preserved above and below them. The prints, which were discovered in the Tularosa Basin in White Sands National Park, were made 21,000 to 23,000 years ago, the researchers found.

https://us.cnn.com/2021/09/23/americ...scn/index.html

They walked all that way ... but no shoes!



Gassho, J

STLah

[Inshin]

"Samsung Electronics Puts Forward a Vision To ‘Copy and Paste’ the Brain on Neuromorphic Chips"

The future of AI looks interesting...

https://news.samsung.com/global/samsung-electronics-puts-forward-a-vision-to-copy-and-paste-the-brain-on-neuromorphic-chips

Gassho
Sat