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[Not_A_Llama]

All this cool stuff and still no cure for cancer. Maybe there is, they just make to much money off the drugs to TREAT it.

Cancer is a much more complicated and complex collection of biology problems than the endless progression of electronic-mechanical technology. In some sense and some cases, cancer is a natural byproduct of us humans living far longer than our evolution has prepared us for. We've only known about telomeres for 40 years - it's going to be a long time before a solution appears.

[mx'r]

Cancer is a much more complicated and complex collection of biology problems than the endless progression of electronic-mechanical technology. In some sense and some cases, cancer is a natural byproduct of us humans living far longer than our evolution has prepared us for. We've only known about telomeres for 40 years - it's going to be a long time before a solution appears.

Easy there. You may find yourself touching on something thats sensitive to others (like SixGun)..

[spyder]

Touchable holograms... Holodeck, here we come!

[Byte Stryke]

Cancer is a much more complicated and complex collection of biology problems than the endless progression of electronic-mechanical technology. In some sense and some cases, cancer is a natural byproduct of us humans living far longer than our evolution has prepared us for. We've only known about telomeres for 40 years - it's going to be a long time before a solution appears.

Easy there. You may find yourself touching on something thats sensitive to others (like SixGun)..

I am going to wager that allot of us here have been directly impacted by cancer in one way or another.
Ive lost plenty of family members one either side of 40

Not all of them are blood relatives, so its not a genetic thing.

[spyder]

Hows about a flying car?


Maybe the water is your thing. Here is a car that you can buy for $1.5 million bucks. It doubles as a submarine. It is an all electric car that can cruise at the speed limit.

[spyder]

Some new tech from the Israeli's. Could turn into new armor.

Tougher than stainless steel and even the previous record holder, bulletproof Kevlar, a new, transparent material developed by scientists in Israel is the hardest organic nanostructure known to man.
Inspired by an unlikely source -- the beta-amyloid proteins found in patients with Alzheimer's disease -- the new material could be applied to make steel tougher and may also lead to cheaper and lighter body armor.
"In principle it may be possible," to print body armor, said Ehud Gazit, a scientist at the Tel Aviv University and a co-author of a new article in the journal Angewandte Chemie international edition.
Watch videos about the future of military body armor.
"But we are thinking of more straightforward uses: to improve the mechanical properties of composite structures, such as ceramics and bulletproof glass," he added.
The new material is similar, but not identical, to the brain plaque linked with Alzheimer's disease. Dozens of amino acids form those beta-amlyoid proteins. The new synthetic proteins only have a fraction of those amino acids and are covered with an additional protective layer to create super-strong spheres.
The spheres are microscopic, ranging in size from about 30 nanometers to two micrometers. The material itself is transparent and easy to manipulate and manufacture.
It is also incredibly tough. Only a diamond-tipped probe could penetrate the material -- and to make a dent the probe needed to use twice the pressure of what it would take to make a mark in Kevlar.
All of these properties suggest the new material could be used in a range of applications, from bulletproof armor to stronger, lighter steel.
"I think this is an amazing discovery," said Kenneth Woycechowsky, a scientist at the University of Utah familiar with the research. "The rigidity and stiffness of these spheres is unique, and surpasses any other known organic molecule, even Kevlar."
Despite the promise of the new material, it could be decades before scientists are able to translate its design into functional applications.
"We have several patents and it is being licensed, so we hope to see it on the market soon," said Gazit. "But it always takes more time than one expects. Kevlar was invented in the 1960s but only in the 1980s did it become incorporated into body armor."

[theGinsue]

That all-terrain sequay device looks cool and it tears up the trail in a dirt environment, but I wonder how it would hold up to the rocky CO mtn passes/trails.

[Irving]

Spyder, thanks for bumping this. I must have missed it when I was very busy with starting work again back in Feb. If you don't browse www.slashdot.org, you should.