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11 of the Weirdest Solutions to the Fermi Paradox
Read more: 11 of the Weirdest Solutions to the Fermi Paradox
http://io9.gizmodo.com/11-of-the-weirdest-solutions-to-the-fermi-paradox-456850746
From the Nebula Award-nominated short story, “They’re Made Out of Meat” by Terry Bisson:
“They’re made out of meat.”
“Meat?”
“Meat. They’re made out of meat.”
“Meat?”
“There’s no doubt about it. We picked up several from different parts of the planet, took them aboard our recon vessels, and probed them all the way through. They’re completely meat.”
“That’s impossible. What about the radio signals? The messages to the stars?”
“They use the radio waves to talk, but the signals don’t come from them. The signals come from machines.”
“So who made the machines? That’s who we want to contact.”
“They made the machines. That’s what I’m trying to tell you. Meat made the machines.”
“That’s ridiculous. How can meat make a machine? You’re asking me to believe in sentient meat.”
“I’m not asking you, I’m telling you. These creatures are the only sentient race in that sector and they’re made out of meat.”
A little while later:
“They actually do talk, then. They use words, ideas, concepts?”
“Oh, yes. Except they do it with meat.”
“I thought you just told me they used radio.”
“They do, but what do you think is on the radio? Meat sounds. You know how when you slap or flap meat, it makes a noise? They talk by flapping their meat at each other. They can even sing by squirting air through their meat.”
“Omigod. Singing meat. This is altogether too much. So what do you advise?”
“Officially or unofficially?”
“Both.”
“Officially, we are required to contact, welcome and log in any and all sentient races or multibeings in this quadrant of the Universe, without prejudice, fear or favor. Unofficially, I advise that we erase the records and forget the whole thing.”
“I was hoping you would say that.”
“It seems harsh, but there is a limit. Do we really want to make contact with meat?”
“I agree one hundred percent. What’s there to say? ‘Hello, meat. How’s it going?’
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HandBrake – The open source video transcoder
Read more: HandBrake – The open source video transcoderHandBrake is a tool for converting video from nearly any format to a selection of modern, widely supported codecs
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Official Pytorch implementation of Detailed Expression Capture and Animation
Read more: Official Pytorch implementation of Detailed Expression Capture and AnimationDECA reconstructs a 3D head model with detailed facial geometry from a single input image. The resulting 3D head model can be easily animated.
The code is based on Learning an Animatable Detailed 3D Face Model from In-The-Wild Images
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Every Political Ideology and Government
Read more: Every Political Ideology and Governmenthttps://youtu.be/9cz4ikFcwMY?si=OSeQk8k6i8yO4r6f
https://youtu.be/rtUg_itWEz8?si=_A2I_ECHzjQDZ3x4
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K-Lens One – A Light Field Lens that captures RGB + Depth
Read more: K-Lens One – A Light Field Lens that captures RGB + Depthwww.newsshooter.com/2021/10/31/klens-one-a-light-field-lens-that-captures-rgb-depth/
A mirror system (Image Multiplier) in the K|Lens splits the light rays into 9 separate images that are mapped on the camera sensor. All 9 of these images have slightly different perspectives. The best way to picture it is if you imagine using 9 separate cameras in a narrow array at the same time.
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