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  1. OpanaPointer

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    Fluffy dinosaurs
     
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  3. Biak

    Biak Boy from Illinois Staff Member

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    No. And not Mall Of America either.
     
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    Roy Cross, whose incredible artwork adorned the lids of many, many Airfix model kits, celebrates his 100th birthday next week, on the 23rd of April.
    A man whose art was responsible for so many of us parting with our hard earned pocket money as we scoured the model shop for a kit that took our fancy!
    Happy 100th birthday, and thanks for the brilliant childhood memories Mr. Cross!

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    The US air force made history by organizing the first dogfight between a human pilot and an AI-controlled fighter jet. This happened at Edwards Air Force Base in California in September last year. The computer-operated F-16 faced off against a manned F-16 aircraft in aerial combat.
    The two jets, reaching speeds of 1,200 miles per hour, practiced defensive and offensive maneuvers, including close-range combat called dogfighting. They even got as close as 2,000 feet (610 meters) to each other during the exercise.
    The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) released video of the close-range air combat between the two jets. The footage shows the jets maneuvering around each other as they fly through the sky.
    The autonomous aircraft, named the X-62A Variable Stability In-flight Simulator Test Aircraft (VISTA), is a modified F-16 equipped with an AI program. Since its construction in December 2022, the jet has been on over 21 test flights, accumulating more than 17 hours of flight time. This marks the first instance of using machine learning to control a fighter jet.
    While flying, the AI algorithm on the jet examines data and makes instant decisions, a method known as machine learning. This mimics how fighter pilots develop their instincts through years of practice.
    Carrying out a dogfight between an AI-powered jet and a human marks a “transformational moment in aerospace history”, DARPA said in a statement.
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    Skynet won that one?
     
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    You bloody Americans are always training your next enemy…Quit it already!
     
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    My computer let's me post this, so I'm good.
     
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    Spent most of my life in a video game.
     
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    Ahem...me too. (Not sure the same video game though).
    Wonder what Einstein would have made of the "findings" - Seriously, he would pull that shit apart and get a better idea than anyone.
     
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    Me thinks this Academic needs a few more bits of information. Knowledge doesn't necessarily mean Intelligence. I've known some highly educated folks that are slightly above the rank of Idiot. And a few others that never earned a College degree but
    miraculously their commonsense superseded their IQ.
     
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    Remember his goof with the "Cosmological Constant"?
     
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    Sure...I think as physicists though their IQ would be well above average...Physics is not for dolts.
    Psychology on the other hand...
    He is not the only person to postulate this anyway...
    Even Einstein : "God does not play dice" - This relates to Einstein's reaction to the part of Nature described by Quantum Mechanics, which is undoubtedly one of the pillars of modern physics. He felt that natural laws could not be like the throw of dice, with inherent randomness or probability.
     
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    And yet it's that randomness that creates change. A different thought here, a misplaced decimal there and before you know it we've got a new propulsion system that works and it shouldn't.

    NASA Veteran’s Propellantless Propulsion Drive That Physics Says Shouldn’t Work Just Produced Enough Thrust to Overcome Earth’s Gravity - The Debrief

    Dr. Charles Buhler, a NASA engineer and the co-founder of Exodus Propulsion Technologies, has revealed that his company’s propellantless propulsion drive, which appears to defy the known laws of physics, has produced enough thrust to counteract Earth’s gravity.

    A veteran of such storied programs as NASA’s Space Shuttle, the International Space Station (ISS), The Hubble Telescope, and the current NASA Dust Program, Buhler and his colleagues believe their discovery of a fundamental new force represents a historic breakthrough that will impact space travel for the next millennium.
     
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    If this is still a thing in five years I'll take a look.
     
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    They've been working on a Plasma engine for 50 years so we'll see ?
     
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    Its embarrassing that we still use rockets...

    Previous scholarship places the rocket's origins in China during the Sung dynasty A.D. 960-1279
     
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