Explosions at Boston Marathon

[Docfeelgood]

[kentonio]

It amuses me that the government is supposedly clever enough to fake huge incidents with the worlds media watching, yet apparently stupid enough to use the same 'actors' and images.

[Dr Strangelove]

so doc
in your medical opinion

do you think brain/computer interfaces will be possible?

In any but the crudest sense, not for a long time.

[Dr Strangelove]

i can't imagine the world is going to be here in 100 years

Well for you it's not.

[-Jrabbit]

In any but the crudest sense, not for a long time.

Really? Seems like S. Hawking has gotten pretty far (though I admit I know next to nothing about it).

[snoopy369]

The concept of this being any actual group is pretty much dead now - right wing militia, left wing militia, arab group, any of them would've claimed responsibility now. The point for those groups is to get publicity; that publicity is lessening by the day now.

It's very much possible it's a single person belonging to [group of your choice] but at that point it's just a crazy person doing crazy person things and it's utterly irrelevant.

9/11 I was asleep, my eventually-wife called me and told me to wake up there was a plane crash into a building, I told her to go away and went back to sleep.

[snoopy369]

Really? Seems like S. Hawking has gotten pretty far (though I admit I know next to nothing about it).

I don't think Hawking really has all that much beyond a very crude interface (though I don't know the significant details). But some of this depends on your definition of 'crude' and 'interface'; after all, a keyboard and hands is a brain-computer interface in some sense.

[Docfeelgood]

It amuses me that the government is supposedly clever enough to fake huge incidents with the worlds media watching, yet apparently stupid enough to use the same 'actors' and images.

This is why conspiracy's run ramped.

[MrFun]

Freedom of speech!

[Dauphin]

For me it was 9/11. I was only in elementary school at the time--3rd grade, but I knew something was up because a bunch of kids went home early and there were cryptic messages on the PA, and all the teachers looked really upset. The administration decided not to tell us anything but as soon as I got home my mom was super upset, I can't remember if she was crying, but the news was on the television in the living room and I saw the towers collapsing. It was the far and away scariest thing I had seen in my life up to that point. I think I had nightmares about being in a collapsing building that night.

I was at elementary school in CT when Challenger blew up. My first 'global event' memory.

[PLATO]

In any but the crudest sense, not for a long time.

From what I have read there is some interesting stuff being made in interfaces with the optic nerve for the blind, but still years away from anything that would remotely be considered "normal" vision.

[DinoDoc]

Looks like we'll soon know if Oerdin's fervent hope of who did it is well placed or not: First on CNN: Authorities believe they have identified a suspect, source says

[Dauphin]

CNN has been saying (on TV) it's a dark skinned man for the last hour or so. Great descriptor.

[snoopy369]

I was 5 when Challenger blew up, and in school, but don't recall it occurring; perhaps my teachers and parents just didn't talk about it. Dunno.

[DinoDoc]

CNN has been saying (on TV) it's a dark skinned man for the last hour or so. Great descriptor.

Poor Oerdin.