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. 🙂