Showing posts with label Amelia Earhart. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Amelia Earhart. Show all posts

Thursday, 11 January 2024

Nik Nak’s Daily Teaser — 11-1-2024 — Amelia’s First Flight.

11th January, 2024: Amelia’s First Flight.


Right … it’s officially Thursday, an episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds* is playing in the background … and I’m expecting a visitor, today.

Yep: I’m due a repairman, one who’s due to fix the extractor fan in my bathroom.

Here’s hoping he can do something: I’d like to have an un-steamed bathroom!

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Monday, 24 July 2017

Nik Nak’s Daily Teaser — 24-7-2017

You know, you have to thank Twitter, sometimes, don’t you … ?

It does throw up some interesting discussions.   Including one triggered by Old Peculiar regular, Debbi Mack.

Back when she re-tweeted this …
The basic, but very SF idea?

Is that a research company owned by Tesla owner, Elon Musk, is working on what he called a Neural Lace: a device attached to the brain — inside the skull — that allows its wearer to directly control a computer.

Personally?

Screaming technology watcher I’m all in favour of this sort of thing.   And wouldn’t mind one myself!

But VERY aware that Debbi raised a issue.

I’m with Isaac Asimov.   His basic arguments about the Three Laws of Robotics was that — as humans — we build safety features, into new bits of kit!

I’m also aware the game, Cyberpunk 2020.   The game featured hackers wired into their computers with similar ways, directly hacking target computers mentally.   And having epileptic fits induced by those targets’ cyber-defences.

Which I think is Debbi’s basic point … 

Where’s the safety features … ?

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JUST so we can have a cheerful — ish — note?

JUST to introduce a cheerful note, it’s official.

The trailer for Dr Who’s Christmas Special — Twice Upon a Time — has officially hit YouTube … 


I have to ask … 

Am I the only one thinking Mark Gatiss looks like he’s having a WHALE of a time … ?!?

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Sunday, 24 July 2016

Nik Nak’s Daily Teaser — 24-7-2016

Right … 

I’m officially back at work, today.

Over lunchtime.

Which is sort of nice.

Frankly?

That means I can — hopefully — catch the first episode of the rebooted Robot Wars: on at eight, on BBC 2.

Frankly?

It sounds even madder than the original: as there’s a POV camera on the House Robots!

Wow!


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