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Florida Schools Deploying Armed Drones to Battle School Shooters
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Several schools in Florida will be fitted with dozens of armed drones, which can supposedly confront a shooter within fifteen seconds.
theconversation.com/researchers-created-sound-that-can-bend-itself-through-space-reaching-only-yo...Researchers created sound that can bend itself through space, reaching only your ear in a crowd
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By combining ultrasound with a concept called nonlinear acoustics, you can create sound that stays silent until it reaches a specific location.
www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-15009851/Scientists-amazed-discover-interstellar-tunnel-c...Scientists discover 'interstellar tunnel' connecting our solar system
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Space might seem like an empty, featureless void, but new research has shown that this is far from true.
AI Experts No Longer Saving for Retirement Because They Assume AI Will Kill Us All by Then
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Some researchers have given up saving for their retirement, based on the assumption that AI has guaranteed the downfall of humanity.
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The man behind Google's first generative AI program has some stark advice for advanced degree-seekers: don't do it, because AI will beat you.
According to msn.com links another Beverly Hills Cop, Ghostbusters, Punisher and Austin Powers films are being planned. I won’t be surprised if a someone in the film industry plans to remake Equus(the movie). To answer the question bungalow or bunker? I prefer a highly advanced, user friendly, ecofriendly and energy efficient spaceship. Love the show.
The lives of Che and Liberace might come to the big screen. Benecio Del Toro as Che, Michael Douglas as Liberace and Matt Damon as Liberace’s so called lover who sued Liberace for more than $100 million dollars. (Sources:imdb.com and msn.com)
What movies would you like to see remakes of?
I like Peter Hyams’ “Capricorn One,” but would love to see a new version. Of course it would have new surveillance technology used to track down the astronauts and computer generated effects to pull off the hoax.
Drone aircraft flying through the desert in search of Brubaker, Willis and Walker. No O.J. in the remake, of course. He kinda stunk in the original anyway.
“2010: The Year We Make Contact” MUST be remade. It was just crap.
“Contact” was okay, but I want to see a remake with more from Carl Sagan’s novel. No Jodie Foster, no stupid religious fanatic, A little more science, more of H.R. Hadden.
I’d like to see someone else in the role of Clarice Starling in “Silence of The Lambs.” I don’t know what it is about Foster than sort of annoyed me. I think she overacts at times and the alpha-female thing was pushed too hard. Clarice Starling needs to be more timid, but highly intelligent. She matches Lecter’s intellect, but lacks his psychopathy. her humanity and cunning is what gets her into Lecter’s head. Her drive to save the lives of victims, not the motivation of advancement.
I wouldn’t have minded much if Dr. Lecter ended up eating Clarice Starling. That’s the problem.
I’m glad to have come across Night Shift on WBAI a few years ago.
Ennio Morricone
The mini-series created by NHK (Japan) called “Musashi” had great music composed by Ennio Morricone.
The credits were in Japanese, and because I’m illiterate in that language, I had no idea who composed the music. It’s beautiful stuff.
If I get a copy somewhere of the soundtrack, I’d like to share the music with anyone interested.