The World Of Tomorrow
Goldfish are capable of navigating on land, Israeli researchers have found, after training fish to drive. The team at Ben-Gurion University developed an FOV – a fish-operated vehicle. The robotic car is fitted with lidar, a remote sensing technology that uses pulsed laser light to collect data on the vehicle's ground location and the fish's whereabouts inside a mounted water tank. A computer, camera, electric motors, and omni-wheels give the fish control of the vehicle.
Hey, I’m just reading what it says here. And yes, there’s video.
Also, open thread. Share ye links and bicker.
A slightly more detailed account can be found here.
after training fish to drive.
I didn’t see that coming.
The comedy trundling is quite special.
Fish can use a bicycle?
There’s an old dad joke that goes something like:
“Two fish are in a tank. One turns to the other and says ‘How do you drive this thing?'”
Just how bored were these researchers, and just how much money did they spend on making that joke a reality?
“travel”
Goldfish are capable of navigating on land, Israeli researchers have found, after training fish to drive.
Stage II, when they train a dolphin* or a whale to navigate interplanetary space travel between Earth and Mars, is what I’m waiting for.
Now that’ll be something.
* Douglas Adams may have been on to something after all.
*checks calendar for April 1st*
Not the Challenger Main Battle Tank I was expecting. Much disappoint.
Of course goldfish can drive. I see them on the road every, speeding and playing the radio too loud and cutting other road-users up.
Just because they don’t look like goldfish behind the wheel doesn’t mean they don’t have the same IQ. Just don’t let them into the flying cars when we get them, okay?
Train an electric eel to drive and you have a self-charging EV.
Only just discovered this one, which is quite real, apparently.
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Alas, Steve’s tweets are now protected from any beastly sniggering and rebuttal. It remains unclear whether Steve has ever tried explaining, say, counterpoint to devotees of UZ’s Trap Shit V13.
Which, I’m told, is considered a classic of the genre.
Also this.
Also this.
“feminist, queer, and trans science”
Computer says no.
Computer says no.
Or, “Grifting, narcissistic mediocrity who chose easy, made-up pseudo-discipline is shocked to discover his chosen career is massively oversubscribed by all the other grifting, narcissistic mediocrities who wanted an easy ride too.”
But hey, remember the good times.
Our betters…
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-59946622
Our betters…
I understand that they’re edible too. Something to keep in mind once it gets warmer if things continue downhill.
“developed an FOV – a fish-operated vehicle.”
See: “Surface Tension”…
Fish can use a bicycle?
Heh. You beat me to it.
I first encountered that feminist slogan, “A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle”, in my teens. It was one of my first clues that feminism was not nearly as reasonable as its advocates claimed. (Mott and Bailey defenses of feminism: Shout that men are useless and inherently evil, and when challenged retreat to “feminists don’t hate men, they just want equal rights.”)
I understand that they’re edible too.
Do you mean pets or our betters? [ Assumes expression of innocent inquiry. ]
Goldfish are capable of navigating on land, Israeli researchers have found, after training fish to drive.
Interesting! I knew we’d gotten rats driving (ROVs?) but did not know we’d progressed to goldfish. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZ9rrQajzAQ
This definitely has a Hitchhiker’s Guide or Star Trek movie vibe to it.
Skynet smiles.
“the science of reincarnation”
https://gettr.com/post/pnnb9na2f1
“the science of reincarnation”
I see the standard of lectures at Penn State has in no way been compromised.
“A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle”: not only a clue that feminism was radical, but that the leaders were lesbians presuming that their personal sexual views were viable and valid for all women.
“trans science”–a nonsense term. Perhaps can be translated as “against science” which would be appropriate. I remember seeing where a college student in South Africa defended native black magic as “equally valid”–sure honey, just take that black magic telephone and use that…
I see the standard of lectures at Penn State has in no way been compromised.
Looks like it might be a debate or student event rather than a lecture, but even so…
I’m sure he’s just the kind of person to apply the same principled suspension of judgement to believing Christians and sincere vaccine doubters.
While he was saying that there was a shot (whether by directorial decision or not) of the front row with three whites and six browns, at least one of whom must have been thinking I came 6000 miles to learn Western science and engineering, not to listen to this tendentious perversion of my grandmother’s lore.
Our betters…
I didn’t know former President Jimmy “Cardigan Sweater” Carter was now writing blog posts.
I see the standard of lectures at Penn State has in no way been compromised.
This part from the male lecturer
Oops. Kind of gave away the whole cosplay game there, didn’t ya, dude?
I see the standard of lectures at Penn State has in no way been compromised.
I used to do sound and lighting for student theater productions in that room, many moons ago. Met the woman who was to become my wife at one of them, in fact.
This is why we can’t have nice things.
I can try to express myself as a woman whatever that is
When I am at a party and the guys are talking in one corner and the wives in another, there is virtually no overlap in the tone, content, or style of the two conversations. Men and women dream differently, fear different things, have different aspirations, different emotions. Men do not grasp what is up with women most of the time. If a man writes fiction from a woman’s point of view, you can usually tell. So how can a man claim he is a woman? Perhaps this is why it looks so fake.
The researchers at Ben Gurion University have discovered that fish can drive
Which is quite controversial
As the grant money they were given was for AIDS research.
I see the standard of lectures at Penn State has in no way been compromised.
A key point in the devolution of academia was when universities began to establish “Studies” departments: Black Studies, Women’s Studies, etc.
“A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle”: not only a clue that feminism was radical, but that the leaders were lesbians presuming that their personal sexual views were viable and valid for all women.
Those lesbians tended to actually hate men, so their assertions about how men should think and behave can be in part explained as attempts to harm men with bad advice.
Furthermore, lesbians saw men as competition and were happy to give them relationship “advice” which would not work.
@pst314
Do you mean pets or our betters? [ Assumes expression of innocent inquiry. ]
Heh. You beat me to it.
If a man writes fiction from a woman’s point of view, you can usually tell.
Ehhhh. As I’ve mentioned before, a fair bit of Harlequin’s library is written by men under various pseudonyms.
My experience has been that with exceptions like Nora Roberts/J.D Robb, it’s women who can’t write men more than the other way around. There’s no female Don Pendleton.
This experiment doesn’t show what it claims. The fish isn’t driving anything. All they’ve done is connected a camera to the wheels that moves the tank in the vector the fish is swimming. All the fish is doing is swimming towards a large coloured spot. The fish doesn’t even know it’s in a tank, much less that the tank is moving.
They’ve proved that fish can be trained to swim to a large coloured spot for food. We already know this. It’s how large public aquaria feed their stock.
This stinks of grant grift or else grad students having a laugh.
This is why we can’t have nice things.
Your wife is why we can’t have nice things?
Say it to her face. I dare you.
Do you mean pets or our betters?
Good point. Serve them to the pets and we’re all better off.
If a man writes fiction from a woman’s point of view, you can usually tell.
What? I thought you just picture a man and take away reason and accountability. Even womens agreed with that one…well some…the only ones I can remotely trust anyway.
Your wife is why we can’t have nice things?
[ Did I wear my new fireproof jacket? Yes, good. ]
And yet David is in charge of the bar snacks here.
Lend me a shovel so I can try to explain!
When I am at a party and the guys are talking in one corner and the wives in another, there is virtually no overlap in the tone, content, or style of the two conversations.
A few Christmases ago, my Lovely Bride (I’m still digging, honey!) wandered into the room where all of us guys were gathered, holding the newborn great-niece we’d just met for the first time. She spoke gently to the newborn:
In her defense — that side of the family really is totally fucking mental. And to be honest, us guys were happy to see the newborn and to congratulate the new father without all the saccharine required when one is performing in front of the women.
(Gimme a sec, honey. Still digging!)
She spoke gently to the newborn:
I believe I’m in love with your Lovely Bride. I grew up playing with the neighborhood boys and have always had much more interest in hanging out with the menfolk at dinner parties than with the hens (unless they, too, had a tomboy childhood and a dad who told the truth about boys to her).
When I am at a party and the guys are talking in one corner and the wives in another, there is virtually no overlap in the tone, content, or style of the two conversations.
A few decades ago, I was at a party, and a dozen of us men were gathered outside on the balcony, away from the wimmen. For some reason, the subject of p0rn came up. What followed was an intense discussion on how it perverts perceptions of gender and sexual behavior and agreed the world would be better off if it were banned.
. . .
Now the truth. Nearly every man there expressed enthusiastically specific and detailed opinions about the subject. I admit that I’ve seen and enjoyed a lot of the stuff over my life, but I thought I was an outlier. Listening to them discuss their preference for Christy Canyon over Kay Parker or how well Carol Cummings performed a certain act, and the general astonishment over Peter North’s abilities in general, was an education.
@Gov S
…without all the saccharine required when one is performing in front of the women.
I should have put in for disability years ago from the hearing loss due to the high-pitched squeals from the secr.., sorry, admin assistants when a colleague of theirs showed up with a newborn.
Oh, and can I borrow that shovel when you’re done?
I should have put in for disability years ago from the hearing loss due to the high-pitched squeals from the secr.., sorry, admin assistants when a colleague of theirs showed up with a newborn.
When Isaac Asimov’s daughter was an undergraduate, Isaac visited her and had lunch with her in the cafeteria in her females-only dormitory. He joked about the appeal of living among so many young women, to which his daughter replied that after a while the uniformly high pitched female voices began to grate on her ears and she longed for some tenors and baritones. He stopped, listened, and realized she had a point.
congratulate the new father without all the saccharine required when one is performing in front of the women
This. This all day.
a dad who told the truth about boys to her
Darleen, pray tell this cosmic truth if you would. I’m genuinely curious.
isn’t it a problem that 10 seconds after setting off they forget where they were going?
I’m genuinely curious.
That boys were different than girls. That the girl’s nature to engage in emotionally manipulative games would, eventually, backfire. He told me for a long term, enduring relationship, I needed to cultivate a direct and honest manner in speaking/dealing with males.
He was also frank about the way men’s nature about, and approach to, sex (and how they are visually oriented) and that it would be up to me to set the boundaries — honestly and with no games.
IOW, I needed to keep my nature under control as much as I expected any boyfriend to control his.
And he said that any boy who could not accept direct honesty from me didn’t deserve me no matter how much I “couldn’t live without him.”
He always answered my questions, showed me how to use basic tools to fix stuff and taught me how to throw a proper punch (while also telling me that boys were going to be stronger so avoid physical fights if possible). The punch came in handy when I had to rock a bully back on his heels, giving me time to run-like-the-wind home. 🙂
“This experiment doesn’t show what it claims. The fish isn’t driving anything. All they’ve done is connected a camera to the wheels that moves the tank in the vector the fish is swimming. All the fish is doing is swimming towards a large coloured spot. The fish doesn’t even know it’s in a tank, much less that the tank is moving.” -Daniel
Sure, that’s true as far as it goes. But, think! This system can be easily integrated into Tesla self-driving cars, as a replacement for that that expensive and erratic AI.
The fish doesn’t even know it’s in a tank, much less that the tank is moving.
As Saint Exupery said, perfection is attained when there’s nothing left to take away – at the end of its evolution, the machine is hidden. Our attention is no longer absorbed by the tool. We forget that the machine is there – it beats like our own heart. Beyond the tool, we find nature again. It is with the air that the pilot is in contact.
Mind you, Exupery’s books often end with the plane crashing, so Godspeed to the fish in its pioneer explorations of the oversea world.
“This system can be easily integrated into Tesla self-driving cars,”
Go into the light?
*ducks out*
All the fish is doing is swimming towards a large coloured spot […] This system can be easily integrated into Tesla self-driving cars
I have a sudden vision of every LGBTQWERTY rainbow pedestrian crossing being the site of a 14-car pileup.
The punch came in handy when I had to rock a bully back on his heels, giving me time to run-like-the-wind home
I am greatly concerned that all of the roundhouse-kicking-cop-chick media aimed at teenage girls is giving them a surrealistic understanding of their chances in a real fight. There is absolutely a huge increase in female physical aggression generation-over-generation, but how much of it is due to media and how much due to the realization that the men won’t hit back I can’t discern.
Your father sounds like he knew what he was about. It’s almost as if fathers have a crucial role to play in the development of young women.
But hey, remember the good times.
I don’t think I’d have a good time in that class.
I don’t think I’d have a good time in that class.
Again, note the familiar pattern. The selfies, the immaturity, the utter self-involvement. This isn’t the behaviour of a grown woman, a professional educator, but more like that of a thirteen-year-old girl, or a caricature of one. And note the replies from other, supposedly professional educators, albeit in subjects of little repute, and all signalling their “Dr” credentials, letting us know how grown-up and important they are. While indulging in adolescent cooing, or pretend cooing.
But then, this is a man who squees about the prospect of educating teenagers while wearing earrings and a vintage dress, and who declares his need to “live authentically and with abandon,” while acting out a trite, cartoonish fantasy.
It’s a strange game.
Runcie Balspune: ’ isn’t it a problem that 10 seconds after setting off they forget where they were going?’
Are we still talking about Goldfish, or all other motorists?
Are we still talking about Goldfish, or all other motorists?
“Anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac.”
– George Carlin
This stinks of grant grift…
When I was an undergraduate, still planning to become a research scientist, I was shocked to hear the professors talk about how they included language in every grant proposal about how it would help with whatever the cause du jour was in Washington DC (the Energy Crisis, at that time.) They said it was necessary to lie in order to get money from the bureaucrats, and had become very comfortable with doing so.
In other language news, life imitates art.
Shot
Chaser
“trans science”
*raises hand*
If I could draw I’d cartoon a taxi with passengers in back holding a wild-eyed cat and a goldfish in a bowl on the driver’s seat. The goldfish exclaims “Keep your damn cat under control, sir, or I shall expel you from the vehicle!”
“isn’t it a problem that 10 seconds after setting off they forget where they were going?’”
“So, honey – where would you like to go for dinner?…”
Darleen: I have 3 girls (grown now). I taught them to use tools, to kill spiders (though they still call me to do it if I’m around). I taught them about banking and stocks. This did not turn them into boys. I also made it very clear the difference in strength between girls and boys. I had them put their two hands out with the wrists overlapping and then I grabbed with one hand their two wrists–they could not get away. I said please remember this if tempted to hit a boy.
By the way, I’ve been punched by women several times (some joke I made?)–chest, shoulders–and they could not even hurt me. The movies are absurd.
Chaser
Oddly, it’s much more understandable when she says it.
while acting out a trite, cartoonish fantasy
Male-to-female dysphorics behave not like women but drag queens, and isn’t the trite cartoonish fantasy the entire point of drag?
They said it was necessary to lie in order to get money from the bureaucrats
Robert Zubrin wrote The Case for Mars (search for it using David’s Amazon link) precisely because when Bush I asked NASA to come up with a plan to go to Mars, every department presented their niche as being Absolutely! Critical! to the project, regardless of whether it had anything to do with going to Mars. The result was a $9Bn plan that involved creating a massive space station and orbital factory, building a huge transit vessel in LEO, and building a Moonbase first as “practice”.
Zubrin’s Mars Direct plan alleges that we could have gone on to Mars in the late 70s, as all the technology strictly needed existed at the time.
Male-to-female dysphorics behave not like women but drag queens,
It’s odd how the inner womanliness so often manifests as a tacky slapper.
Darleen: I have 3 girls (grown now). I taught them to use tools…
Big tip of the hat to ccscientist and Darleen’s father.
It’s odd how the inner womanliness so often manifests as a tacky slapper.
Interesting, all this time I thought a Tacky Slapper was something made by Cadbury’s, like Milk Puds, but then I thought Turkish Delight had something to do happy endings in Constantinople.
Male-to-female dysphorics behave not like women but drag queens, and isn’t the trite cartoonish fantasy the entire point of drag
Now, why can’t my oh-so-smart MENSA friends see this? Or am I just not smart enough to see the Hidden Truths? /sarcasm
[ Will post a link shortly to a relevant essay by Theodore Dalrymple ]
when Bush I asked NASA to come up with a plan to go to Mars, every department presented their niche as being Absolutely! Critical! to the project…
Yes. Shameful. But they would probably be quite indignant if I were to use the word “corruption”.
Okay, here’s the Dalrymple link:
From the closing paragraphs:
their need to curry favor, not necessarily of the majority, but of at least the most vocal minorities.
Hint-hint, wink-wink, nudge-nudge, knowwhatimean?
all this time I thought a Tacky Slapper was something made by Cadbury’s
Slapper – a coarse, promiscuous woman. A slag.
On intelligent people acting stupid: In order to fit in I have seen people say things that are simply impossible, violate time-order of events (claiming B causes A when A preceeds B), or are absurd. Not talking here even about the current political scene where a reporter can say “mostly peaceful” while standing in front of a burning store. A hint that this is happening is when the person believes two contradictory things. For example, the Woke claim that all races are identical, but then clearly implies that blacks are unable to obtain ID to vote or locate a polling place or learn to read. Feminists who claim that men and women are identical, but that women need safe spaces and extra help (oh, and then violate the safe spaces with trans people). Or the “party of science” who also want the origin story of aboriginies taught as equally valid as the big bang and geology. Or as they say “say anything”.
then I thought Turkish Delight had something to do happy endings in Constantinople.
And I thought a Tacky Slapper was something that was going on in a Turkish prison in Midnight Express.
Slapper – a coarse, promiscuous woman.
I really don’t like coarse women.
I really don’t like coarse women.
I know, they can really grate on you.
I know, they can really grate on you.
[ Fetches lighter fluid, points to alley. ]
but then I thought Turkish Delight had something to do happy endings in Constantinople.
Istanbul not Constantinople.
Feminists who claim that men and women are identical, but that women need safe spaces and extra help
See the lowering of American military recruiting standards. All the feminist women I know, without exception, have supported those changes. Among the arguments were that many soldiers, sailors and airmen serve in non-combat roles, that if something is too heavy for a woman to carry then it can be done by two women, that the standards are unnecessarily rigorous, and so on. There really should be consequences for such gross stupidity.
So much to laugh at: Zorro is being remade with a female lead: “in Zorro, a young Latinx woman seeking vengeance for her father’s murder joins a secret society and adopts the outlaw persona of Zorro.”
First, Latinos do not like “Latinx”.
Second, zorro is the Spanish word for fox. But a female fox is a zorra.
[ Fetches lighter fluid, points to alley. ]
Sorry, being a misogynist I don’t wear a jacket no matter how cold it gets.
Slapper – a coarse, promiscuous woman.
Because the lady loves Milk Tray
Zorro is being remade with a female lead:
There are so many true stories of heroines engaged in dangerous activities without this kind of nonsense of “recasting” male heroes as females.
Such women actually exploited their physical limitations as the “weaker sex” and used stealth and cunning.
As Darleen noted, there were women who were spies and did sabotage in Europe WWII–and were executed too.
Women in non-combat roles: in real war, unless you are stationed very far back, your position can get overrun and be in the middle of fighting. I read about a doctor (in Philipines?) whose position was overrun and killed 20 japanese before being killed. In spite of being not front line. In the Iraq war supply convoys with women drivers were ambushed. But feminists want women to be in combat roles, even though they can’t carry the full load of equipment, can’t carry a mortar, can’t load a howitzer, and can’t carry out someone wounded. When I was younger I could throw a guy over my shoulders and carry him just as a joke. These deficits will (are already) get people killed in combat.
women to be in combat roles, even though they can’t carry the full load of equipment
Women can do certain combat roles … sniper, pilot … roles where brute strength is not *the* key quality. If a woman cannot meet the physical standards of X position, the worse thing to do is to lower the standards. The military is not (or should not) be about anything other than fielding the best individuals for the mission of breaking the enemy. Women are not men and just can’t project that physical strength and intimidation factor.
This is why too many single women lose all influence over their teen sons and why boys need strong, functional dads in the home.
Women need to lean into their strengths rather than crying that they can’t be Brucelina Lee.
Zorro is being remade with a female lead
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Queen of Swords.
God I love Fireworks Productions.
Women can do certain combat roles […] pilot
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These deficits will (are already) get people killed
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Women need to lean into…
Interesting concept, you should write a book!
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To be fair she didn’t get other people killed.
Musk’s next car – the FISHLA.
@Darleen
“certain combat roles … sniper, pilot … roles where brute strength is not *the* key quality.”
Not to snark (hey, it happens some time). I refer you to the current winning contestant on Jeopardy! Unless, of course, the buttons on those signalling devices are hella tough.
To be fair she didn’t get other people killed
Furthermore, she may not have gotten herself killed had the standards not been lowered and she not been pushed through as a touted First Woman Something or Other.
It’s the lowering of standards, overlooking/excusing of mistakes, and pushing people into and through jobs/professions/training for which they are unqualified and never will be that gets people killed.
I refer you to the current winning contestant on Jeopardy!
A guy in a dress is still just a guy in a dress. So I’m not sure what you’re driving at.
Kara Hultgren
—>”the worse thing to do is to lower the standards”
Did you think I mumbled?
I read about a doctor (in Philipines?) whose position was overrun and killed 20 japanese before being killed.
Dentist, Saipan, Ben Salomon.
certain combat roles … sniper, pilot…
Snipers.
Pilots.
Dentist, Saipan, Ben Salomon.
He was just paving the way for the reception you receive at the dentist office during CoVid.
Snipers.
oops, hit post instead of edit.
Total babe alert. If I’ve got to be shot by a sniper, she’s got the job.
A provocation! Will David’s galleons sail at dawn?
@Darleen
First let me say I’ve enjoyed your posts over the years, and did not want to be snarky. Sometimes brevity is not the best approach.
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