How to Build a Dyson Sphere - The Ultimate Megastructure

News: Robot Vs. Predator + Comment

My comment on TFM's video:

My opinion is that even if something increased the chances of crimes, that is not enough reason to infringe on the rights to freedom. Allowing people to own guns, assuming you had tech which could eliminate the black market, would increase the chance of gun related crimes.

  Allowing people to drink alcohol, probably also increases the chance of crimes and drunk driving, especially if you had tech which could eliminate the black market for such.

Again, allowing people to have privacy, probably increases the chance of crimes within the home and the planning of crimes or terrorist acts. If you had the technology to read people's minds, allowing them privacy of their thoughts, most likely increases chance of crimes.

Just because allowing something increases crimes does not mean it gives anyone the right to infringe on others freedoms.

In the future with organ printing, you could print all the organs, entire body without the brain just the brain stem, and replacing the brain with a computer able to control the nerves. A bioroid physically indistinguishable from the real thing in both behavior and feelings. But the laws could try and restrict freedom of what type of harmless physical property an individual owns.

To be honest the idea of depriving someone of their freedom and sending them to jail or killing them, either for drawings or blasphemy(as happens in some countries), is something that truly angers me, it is a complete injustice. The unfit rule, like a cancer that festers, but the birth of posthumanity will mark an end to their days of reign.

Comment on lithium batteries vs nickel metal hydride.

Comment on lithium batteries.  Lithium batteries are good if you remember to keep them charged, though chemistries are improving so things might've changed or might change for the better.  Right now, if a lithium battery is left to itself without charging for a few years, the battery loses charge and inflates becoming nonfunctional.   Nickel Metal Hydride might occupy more space and probably weight more, and might be more expensive, but some nickel metal hydride products claim to maintain a charge for over 10 years, they also claim thousands of recharge cycles vs the usual hundreds for lithium.  

So hypothetically if you get products with 10+years of charge and thousands of recharge cycles, you can just store large quantities of such, and they should work with no trouble, hypothetically speaking.

All in all in terms of survival gear, it would seem Nickel Metal Hydride solutions like the eneloop brand seem better.   Though if you're near the beach, you have to keep them in some box, as my last eneloop battery terminals became oxidized while I was near the beach for a good portion of the year.  

There are charger powerbank devices that can charge the AA and AAA batteries and can also use the batteries to charge usb devices.  These battery power banks from various brands can be obtained at amazon with free shipping in many cases if you've prime

Costco sells the eneloop with non-powerbank(can charge batteries but can't use charger to charge usb devices from batteries) charger for a good price.  

freesync tvs update tech news

AMD hints FreeSync-capable TVs might come to market, boost PS4 and Xbox One graphicsSeptember 16, 2016 at 9:02 am

Sly comments by AMD imply that FreeSync (Adaptive Sync) might come to TVs at some point in the future. This is a very good idea.-extremetech source

cool looking upcoming razor

Zafirro razor kickstarter, a very good razor but with seven days to go don't know if they'll reach the kickstarter funding goal.   Kickstarter link

Full color 3d printer tech

Video of the RoVa4D Full Color Blender 3D Printer
A cool upcoming 3d printer that's on kickstarter

Cool news about a new camera over at nextbigfuture

"Yi 4K camera is half the price and matches or beats the Go Pro Hero4 Black on a spec for spec basis"-source nextbigfuture

cool tech behind the scenes