Maslo55

Coolest will be something like the Rift + HOTAS + Leap

Holy shit, that would be awesome!!

the question we are most interested in is figuring out what the connections should be set to in order to produce human-like behaviour.

What about physically mapping the connectome of the real brain? Would this b a better approach than trying to reverse engineer the circuits purely by computation and comparing the results?

I disagree. If you go to a good cinema, the 3D is amazing.

50% is a little high, last time I checked it was a little over 20%, with hydropower and biomass (non-intermittent renewables) making a substantial part of it.

The whole article is hugely misleading. Debunked here: http://energyfromthorium.com/rees-article-rebuttal/

The LFTR waste is radioactive only for 300 years, compared to 10 000s of years in the case of traditional nuclear. Here is the fuel cycle comparison: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lwrvslftr2.png