Gaming and Warfare Derive Success From Similar Hormones...

[Elessar]

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn1 ... ngers.html

That's pretty neat. And it was done at University of Columbia! (30 miles away)

[Elessar]

Another neat article, this is BRILLIANT!

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn1 ... ation.html

I don't like the use of the term 'time lense' and 'time telescope' because it gives the wrong impression. What they're really doing is manipulating the frequency of the signal piecewise, which in and of itself is absolutely remarkable, but the trick is the way the light behaves in the waveguide allows the signal to bunch up and all be received at one, even though it wasn't all SENT at once. This is actually a great way to finally explain this whole 'left handed optics' thing I've been hearing about for the last 10 years or so and really wondered about.

[Silverbullet]

Actually, a sort of thing like this has been used. It is called Burst transmission. A message or data is compressed so that it can be sent in a burst of a few seconds. then it can be unwound so the message or data can be read. this was used in the Soviet Union by a Network formed by the US to send information to the US embassy by a russian person workinng for the US inteligence. He would ride by the Embasy on a bus and send his information to the Embassy in a burst transmission. Unfortunately, the net was exposed by a Traitor in the us so he and rest of thenet were caught and killed.

[justTripn]

That first article sounds like a good one for the journal of "Duh!" (for announcements of findings that are totally what you would have expected anyway). What!? A connection between testesterone and Playstation and testesterone and battle. Who would have thought?! How about anyone who has ever watched the kids play?

The second article highlights another reason why we are never going to simply "overhear" signals from outer space. The advanced aliens who are communicating intragalactically will have advanced ways of compressing and coding the data so it will appear to us as white noise.

[Elessar]

Actually, a sort of thing like this has been used. It is called Burst transmission. A message or data is compressed so that it can be sent in a burst of a few seconds. then it can be unwound so the message or data can be read. this was used in the Soviet Union by a Network formed by the US to send information to the US embassy by a russian person workinng for the US inteligence. He would ride by the Embasy on a bus and send his information to the Embassy in a burst transmission. Unfortunately, the net was exposed by a Traitor in the us so he and rest of thenet were caught and killed.

Yeah, compression has been around awhile.. but this is a little unique in that the nature of fiber data transmission makes it a lot trickier, and truly "physics spooky". I'm sure bak in the day it was a different transmission... coaxial, probably in the kilobits. These days we're talking hundreds of gigabits per second and now compressible over normal fiber to a few terabits in a single line. They have huge nests of cabling at CERN to achieve that kind of throughput. This will be truly a revolution for global and even continental data movement. Pings are gonna drop like a rock when this is fielded. This is such exciting stuff!

That first article sounds like a good one for the journal of "Duh!" (for announcements of findings that are totally what you would have expected anyway). What!? A connection between testesterone and Playstation and testesterone and battle. Who would have thought?! How about anyone who has ever watched the kids play?

The second article highlights another reason why we are never going to simply "overhear" signals from outer space. The advanced aliens who are communicating intragalactically will have advanced ways of compressing and coding the data so it will appear to us as white noise.

Yeah but I think the more interesting and practically applicable part of that second article is the definite observation that those testosterone levels don't spike (or as much) when they play each other. They also mention that they observed the same behavior in a dominos tournament among villagers in some Caribbean nation... that those who beat members of their own village had their testosterone actually dive and not come back up, while those who were beaten had it fall but level out.

That distinction says something truly noteworthy about human nature... that on a neurochemical level, we are able to better demonize and alienate others than those we've grown attached to - and not only that, but defeating those we've become close to is actually destructive, which is part of the psychological damage of friendly fire incidents in combat. This all may sound very common sense but it's ALWAYS valuable to put a scientific face on a truth that's been long known, it allows you to explore where the phenomena comes from and in time (depending on the particular thing you're studying), manipulate it. The same could be said of the study of electricity and electric shock.