EdEarl

Even if it is possible, the probability of run away climate change killing most life on Earth is more likely; in which case, medical advances will not be important.

IMO, the Mediterranean diet is a good alternative to a vegan diet, since meat and meat products are limited.

My wife, a special-ed teacher has a student she thinks is dyslexic. She is not trained to teach dyslexics, and thinks this student should be tested for dyslexia. He is a challenge for her, so she asked me if there was some kind of glasses that could straighten out the letters for him. I said no, but a computer program might be made that reads pages with a camera, converts the picture into characters (OCR), and presents him with the words with the characters rearranged to help him. In other words, if he confuses d as b and b as d, then the program would change them to whatever he needs. Such a program would need a training session with each user to learn what each dyslexic person needs. IDK if this idea would work, but thought it might be worth some PhD candidate evaluating the idea. If this is an original idea, I hereby donate it to the public domain. If it is not original, I'd be interested to learn how well or poorly it works.

Your question is complex, and the only way I know to satisfy yourself that any answer you get is correct is to learn the physics and math necessary to answer your question. I recommend khanacademy.org for physics and math; however, there are other online, free resources that teach physics and math. I think the answer to your question will be that your idea is not practical, but your description is not specific enough to fully understand what you intend. On the other hand, there are ways to levitate a body via either electrostatics or magnetics. The only practical application AFAIK is a mag-lev train.

It seems there is disagreement among scholars.

Perhaps someone will confirm this report by repeating the work.

For online help, https://www.khanacademy.org/

IIRC the distribution of dark mater is densest in a somewhat spherical shape around the center of galaxies with strands stretching between galaxies. However, the flux density of EMF (light) in the Universe would resemble the cosmic microwave background radiation I think. Thus, the distribution of the two are different, which does not suggest they are one and the same.

Wooden tooth pick pieces are not likely to cause problems, but it is possible they could. You could reduce the possible impact to near zero by using a plastic tooth pick. Moreover, replacement fans are not expensive.

According to the dictionary, optic means of or pertaining to the eye or sight.

The limit is not optics. There are several very large telescopes either under construction or seeking funds, including: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Extremely_Large_Telescope. However, a telescope thousands of times larger can only see light that enters the telescope, and as far as we know all that light comes from within our Universe, and none comes from beyond it. While we don't understand everything about cosmology, our current understanding is that light cannot come from another universe, not even if the Universe lasts 10^{10^{10^{10^{10^{1.1}}}}} years.

At this time, our understanding of physics and the Universe we see, which appears to contain about 100 Billion galaxies, limits what we can see to about 14 Billion light years, and there is no possibility of seeing any older light, because light cannot escape our universe nor any other universe, assuming there is a multiverse. In other words, money and resources are not a limiting factor in this scenario, provided I understand what you are asking.

In other words, for those at risk for type 2 diabetes, a diet of rice, vegetables, fruit and fish rather than meat and potatoes decreases the risk of becoming diabetic.

The antenna's used were high gain directional antennas, which are best suited for stationary application between two points. It really isn't a good fit for an aircraft, but it could be done.

WIFI has a range of only about 100m outdoors, whereas this drone flies at 20km altitude. Thus, it is too high for a WIFI transceiver.

@fiveworlds Did you post in the wrong thread? Your comment seems off topic.

In that case, a true Buddhist will kill himself first. Your logic escapes me, unless you are saying all Buddhists cause harm, which is nonsense.

Low Earth Orbits start at 160 km. These aircraft fly at about 20 km. Pictures of the earth can have160/20 = 8 times the resolution of satellite pictures. That can make Google maps better. IDK if that is a reason for their buying the company, but it seems likely.

Writing is certainly an important invention, and one could argue that the scientific method and mathematics require writing; thus, writing is more important, and furthermore that every scientific discovery should be attributed to writing. Otherwise, I think science has changed our lives more than writing. Each of us will have their own opinion about writing vs science being most important.

If we created language, it would be at least as important as the scientific method. Perhaps we were not the first to speak. We can define language to assure we created it, but most living things communicate one way or another, even bacteria. And, some animals, such as dolphins and elephants have communicate complex ideas. Scientists have concluded that Neanderthal spoke, more or less in the way we do. It is unknown whether homo erectus spoke, but bonobos regularly communicate. Some birds name each of their chicks, maybe dinosaurs did too. Maybe we were the first to speak, maybe not.

Hopefully this the significance of this discussion will be reduced by human organ chips used for testing instead of animals. http://wyss.harvard.edu/viewpage/484/ Buddhist philosophy considers it better to kill a person who will cause more harm than their death. However, when faced with having to decide whether to kill a person to save other lives, one can never know for sure whether unintended consequences will, in the future, indicate one made a mistake. It may be that using an animal for testing that damages or destroys the animal will result in greater good, or it may not. If greater good is achieved, then it is OK; otherwise, it is not.

I suspect in the not too distant future, perhaps now, programmers will make apps that respond to commands such as, "Get me a glass of milk." Library objects will include things like milk, glass of, get, etc. and the app will direct the robot to the kitchen, get a glass, open the refrigerator, pour the milk into the glass, and return to master. And, more.

That a person can read also means they can write, albeit not necessarily very well unless we practice writing. Keyboards will probably be replaced by voice input. However, writing will continue to be an output method for the foreseeable future. Because printers are rather large and not portable, I still write notes from time to time; although, my computer is usually handy. It's just easier to write a note sometimes, rather than key it in and print it. And, I think this trend will continue, since a printer with paper will probably continue to be rather heavy and not very portable. I realize your complaint uses writing as an example. Computers will displace some things, because they are better; however, some things computers do will not be completely replaced.