Chromosphere photoshoot, friendly AI critical failure table, fish-blimps…

• 1 – Friendly AI Critical FailureTable

  “13: The AI locks onto a bizarre subculture and expresses it across the whole of human space. (E.g., Furry subculture, or hentai anime, or see Nikolai Kingsley for a depiction of a Singularity based on the Goth subculture.)” Heh.

  (tags: table failure friendly intelligence artificial AI RPG humour geek)

• 2 – If Operating Systems Were…

  “What would happen if different airlines had different operating systems running them? Maybe something like this…” I LOL’d.

  (tags: systems operating OS computer humour geek)

• 3 – What Should Be Left Unsaid

  “This is an attempt to pinpoint one of the things that makes a story resonate: that is, one of those qualities that makes a story stay with the reader long after she/he has finished reading it.” Jetse de Vries.

  (tags: minimalism narrative storycraft sf scifi science stories fiction writing)

• 4 – Blimps to swim through the air like fish

  “Blimps steered by artificial muscles may one day swim through the air like fish, suggest recent flight tests.” Old trope, new twist. Any bets on the time-till-included-in-sf-story of this idea?

  (tags: flight futurism air fish swim propulsion technology muscle artificial blimp airship)

• 5 – Students’ science project may become soldiers’ key defence strategy

  “Using what is called Electrochromism, the students created a soldier’s uniform that can blend into any surrounding.” Not bad for a couple of teenagers, wot?

  (tags: technology camouflage suit chameleon military project science kids teens student Singapore)

• 6 – From the Sun

  “Hinode, a collaborative mission of the space agencies of Japan, the United States, United Kingdon and Europe, captured these very dynamic pictures of our sun’s chromosphere…” Just totally awesome.

  (tags: probe HINODE picture image chromosphere solar sun space)