Sky-Net: Not so far away?

[Denholm]

Recently a foundation known as CERN has been working on a Hadron Collider. On one of the foundation's promotional videos about the Hadron Collider it describes what is required to store the data created by the Collider. It requires, "a web of cooperative computing called, 'The Grid.' The Grid will allow thousands of research centers and universities to share their data storage resources and computing power transforming the Internet into a giant global supercomputer and building capacity for the science of tomorrow."

The video is here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJFllPVIcpg&feature=related
What I mentioned starts at 2:48



So... Just how far away is Sky-Net?

[Hangtime]

.. how far away is the video store?

[Mustaine]

obviously have heard of this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skynet_(satellites)

it is up and active.





yes some crazy banana up and made a military defense system called "skynet" and it is operational.

[Tac]

Its the same thing that CETI and other entities (namely cancer research companies) have been doing for almost a decade now.


They ask people to let them use their computers when on the internet to process small amounts of data. Your pc really doesnt use 5% of its cpu 90% of the time you use the computer so thats a lot of wasted processing power.

[mechanic]

when they switch on the black hole machine it should be interesting....

[crockett]

Sorry you are a bit late Skynet was launched last year..

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6434773.stm

 

[Excel1]

when they switch on the black hole machine it should be interesting....

no black holes?  jeez what a let down, it's just another boring geeky science experimemt after all

GENEVA - The world's largest particle collider successfully completed its first major test by firing a beam of protons all the way around a 17-mile (27-kilometer) tunnel Wednesday in what scientists hope is the next great step to understanding the makeup of the universe.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080910/ap_on_sc/big_bang

[mechanic]

ah crap, already? geuss i better go get a job then

[MrRiplEy[H]]

It would pay to read and understand what you read..

Todays test was the first loop test _clockwise_. Next they will test a loop on the other rail _counter clockwise_.

Then they will test a loop running simultaneously clockwise and.. well you get the picture.

[Eagler]

open your eyes

skynet exists in the US - it's called Verizon

look this thread up in 10 years and you'll agree

[CAP1]

It would pay to read and understand what you read..

Todays test was the first loop test _clockwise_. Next they will test a loop on the other rail _counter clockwise_.

Then they will test a loop running simultaneously clockwise and.. well you get the picture.

sadly, some don't/won't

[Rich46yo]

It would pay to read and understand what you read..

Todays test was the first loop test _clockwise_. Next they will test a loop on the other rail _counter clockwise_.

Then they will test a loop running simultaneously clockwise and.. well you get the picture.

Not really, and I dont much speak their lingo either. And OK, say we do figure out how the big bang happened? Who cares? It happened already so who cares? And this bosuns thingie? Even if we do find it whats it got to do with the price of fish? Plus theres the added excitement the thing will cause black holes that will gobble us up.

I know these big brains are all in a frazzle over this thing. But the money could have been better spent elsewhere. Like space exploration.

[mechanic]

It would pay to read and understand what you read..

Todays test was the first loop test _clockwise_. Next they will test a loop on the other rail _counter clockwise_.

Then they will test a loop running simultaneously clockwise and.. well you get the picture.

reading takes effort! why bother when people like you are so kind
so no job hunting yet then, sweet.

[Yenny]

LCH is probalby the coolest thing on earth !

[mechanic]

if it goes wrong....cool would be an understatement. freezing vacuum might be more appropriate.