Cheers!.. I’ll put on the kettle shall I?
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What does one buy for one’s sister for her 50th birthday?
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A jewellery designing, forging kit and a small bar of gold?
Mini furnace smelter appears to be about $120 - $200, bar of gold, enough for a ring…?
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Uhhhhh, is that an inexpensive gift? Should I specify that the gift buyer is on a pretty tight budget?
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A lump of ore…
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$35?
Cheapest smelter furnace I can quickly find is about 100 bucks but I guess you could find cheaper with a longer search?
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Beware the digital sheep!?
Am I insane for being a skeptic when we can’t clone a pinky without it being rejected?
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Isn’t that why I was asking about time scales?
The first humans projected to live to 200 were born in 1960, now, that’s probably the purview of a billionaire, born to billionaires, with healthcare on that level throughout their lives but 2160 is going to look very different from 1960 and very, very different from 1760… another 150 years of relative stability is going to fruit some pretty advanced technologies, especially after the advent of super-intelligence, or any of its preceding technologies have started to spin up the research and technological development cycles… don’t I think even us common folk are likely to see some pretty fabulous tech if we can stay healthy?
Don’t I agree that all this ‘10 years’ nonsense is just ruining what could be a Quite Interesting conversation?
(and don’t I not mean ‘10 years’ as a criticism but as a mal-assumption?)
(looks like the only real path forward in brain imaging as of now would be to either grow a brain around trillions of tiny electrodes or to grow the electrodes into a brain… sounds a little mad-sciencey though eh? Where’s @shaddack?)
(Apparently electro-conductive nano-fibres are a thing now, currently being leveraged for tissue generation… guess it’s not too much of a stretch to apply it to brain tissue…? Yeeeech!?)
did y’all see this?
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Given the medical research, won’t we see even more tech, fairly up close, if we won’t be healthy? 
Here I am, was kicked out for… pretty much for bitching about groupthink and intolerance to dissenting opinions.
Thought. What about some nanoparticles that’d be friendly to extremely high resolution imaging, and change some observable state (EPR resonance?) based on the neuron activity? EPR imaging can reach micrometer resolution, though I am not sure how it would work with bulk matter. The temporal resolution in that mode is in the range of seconds. If we’d get micrometer resolution even in significant depth, and temporal resolution to at least milliseconds, we could potentially observe individual neurons.
The nanoparticles would then serve as de facto neuron-state-dependent contrast agent.
Omnomnomnomnom??? Do tell? Keywords?
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Why am I only allowed one like for things like this?
(now excuse my while i go take care of that dust in my cubicle)
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Sorry to be a broken record, but even if you are a billionaire and get pancreatic cancer aren’t you still not gonna make it to 200 (hell, statistically not even six months)?* Don’t we have a huuuge gap in understanding what life Is let alone How it works untill we get to demi-god stage?
Again, not to be cynical, but can I get a call when we have determined whether addiction is actually a good or bad thing, and if it is bad how to treat it more than 18% of the time?
* my grandad died of pancreatic cancer, and I just came home with a diagnosis of acute pancreatitis (treatable).
(Rambling :D)
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Why won’t the power at work just finally fail instead of intermittent light flickers all damn day?
‘electro-conductive nano-fibres’ doesn’t work for you?
Sorry about your grandad, pancreatic cancer is terrible… but to your question about those who contract it, I would say, yeah, that’s very bad for them, even billionaires with massive resources but the easy antipode to that line of thought is, ‘what about the billionaires that don’t get fatally ill before they get very old’?
And really, my point is that the timescale question is really the central point of importance in the whole discussion… are we really going to extend our rational scepticism to technological developments over the course of an accelerating trend which stands to make previous developments pale in comparison?
ETA: You feeling ok? Treatment going well?
Well certainly, and isn’t this likely the most exciting time to be alive? I am debating deep issues affecting humanity, on a phone, while doing my day job on a phone, slurping miso soup and sketching out bunker plans for wine and cheese–is this not the future? 
I bellyache a lot (heh, literally), and I am exceedingly sceptical, but isn’t it nice to appreciate the wonders we have?
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ETA: You feeling ok? Treatment going well?
Similar to Herr Banana here, isn’t good timing good? But now a get a lifetime six month date with the Tummy doc, isn’t that great? :D. (Could be a hellava lot worse, I am noooot complaining)
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“Native” in reference to precious metals means that it’s mostly pure already and doesn’t need smelting because it’s not ore.
Got it?
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Isn’t that the demon core?
And did you intend for your post to be unreadable?
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Wasn’t the experiment referred to as tickling the dragon’s tail?
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