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Frito's avatar
Frito
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13 years ago

Dr Kaku's Holodeck

So I watched this yesterday, quite interesting, yet have in mind its at least 2/3 years old

Heres the second half, couldnt find it full ...its season 2 ep11 of Physics Of The Impossible ;)




I found the ODT to be the most interesting aspect, even if it has a very scifi recreation

Bonus:


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  • raidho36's avatar
    raidho36
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    13 years ago
    Isn't it that dude who's known for being science freak? That is to promote unsicentific things that won't really work and scalping the money off people who fell for it? I might be mistaking him for someone else though but I'm almost positive it's him.
  • Frito's avatar
    Frito
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    13 years ago
    "raidho36" wrote:
    Isn't it that dude who's known for being science freak? That is to promote unsicentific things that won't really work and scalping the money off people who fell for it? I might be mistaking him for someone else though but I'm almost positive it's him.


    He is a theoretical physicist.

    Why dont you google him instead of givig away your ignorant and baseless opinion? really?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michio_Kaku
  • raidho36's avatar
    raidho36
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    13 years ago
    Of course I was googling for it. His massive pop-science background is the basic reason why I'm almost positive rather than "looks just like that guy".
  • raidho36's avatar
    raidho36
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    13 years ago
    LOL! :lol:

    No, I remember now. I mistook him for scifreak Petrick, from russia. They have similar look.

    Why I thought he could be a science freak is his holodeck thing model and how he proposes it to happen - it doesn't work that way, it's already proven.
  • ezkiel777's avatar
    ezkiel777
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    13 years ago
    "raidho36" wrote:
    LOL! :lol:

    No, I remember now. I mistook him for scifreak Petrick, from russia. They have similar look.

    Why I thought he could be a science freak is his holodeck thing model and how he proposes it to happen - it doesn't work that way, it's already proven.


    Proven? Has it been proved wrong? You have a reference for that claim? I am quite interested if so. While I remain skeptic of 'in the near future Holodeck technology', I wont write it off until I am told why I should.

    That said, I have never really been impressed with the concept of haptic devices. Not that I don't think they could work, because I do think they could. I just never really fell in love with the idea.
  • raidho36's avatar
    raidho36
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    13 years ago
    I can't give exact links, but back in the day I was browsing through a lot of collaborative robots research, and while idea sounded very promising, it all fell into the fact that these machines are utterly helpless, the whole thing doesn't goes much beyond collaboratively forming figures on the floor.