Science General Discussion

[Legend]

Yeah I know that but I thought that they're working on those laws right now. I know the UK government has just invested a large amount of money into driverless cars, I'd wager they'll want to push the laws through sooner rather than later if they can.

Also I'm not actually planning on not learning to drive because I'm waiting for driverless cars, I just have no reason to learn with being at Uni for the next 3 years and not being able to afford a car or insurance anyway. I think I'm gonna consider it in a couple of years and see if I think its worth it.

In America practically everyone who can afford a self driving car will already have a driver's license. Even if our government was investing in the cars, it wouldn't be a large priority to remove the license restriction.

I think seniors will be the driving push for making self driving cars not need a licensed driver at the seat. That'll take a decade though.

[Mmm_fish_tacos]

Same! I don't see the point in learning to drive with how close they are now.

Not that close even further away if you wanted Envision it like the movies.

[DD_Bwest]

[the-pi-guy]

There are languages that have absolute direction.  Instead of left/right, they need to know exactly what direction they are looking at all times.  Their brain takes care of this for them.  

It'd be cool if there were languages that knew exact colors.  

[Legend]

There are languages that have absolute direction.  Instead of left/right, they need to know exactly what direction they are looking at all times.  Their brain takes care of this for them.  

It'd be cool if there were languages that knew exact colors.  

Yeah that's a fun thing to learn about. Languages are crazy.



No such thing as exact colors in natural language though. Often it's the opposite. Languages "start" with just three colors: lightish, darkish, and redish. Everything fits as a variant of one of the three and they don't think any others would make sense.

[the-pi-guy]

Yeah that's a fun thing to learn about. Languages are crazy.



No such thing as exact colors in natural language though. Often it's the opposite. Languages "start" with just three colors: lightish, darkish, and redish. Everything fits as a variant of one of the three and they don't think any others would make sense.

I believe there have been studies about how language affects how we view the world, at least this specific example:
 Spanish speakers pick up what an object is before it's color, and English speakers are the opposite.  I don't know how true it is.  

Languages obviously teach people to discriminate between colors.  
English - red/pink
Russian - light blue/dark blue

It'd be kind of cool if there was some sort of like maximum point of discrimination where someone could back track any color to a wavelength or something crazy like that.  

[Legend]

I believe there have been studies about how language affects how we view the world, at least this specific example:
 Spanish speakers pick up what an object is before it's color, and English speakers are the opposite.  I don't know how true it is.  

Languages obviously teach people to discriminate between colors.  
English - red/pink
Russian - light blue/dark blue

It'd be kind of cool if there was some sort of like maximum point of discrimination where someone could back track any color to a wavelength or something crazy like that.  

Yeah it also changes how we classify things.

In English size tends to be the primary one while in pacific languages they tend to go by material.

A maximum point would be fun for a modern constructed language. Would also be helpful for optimizing which colors need higher precision in images and which could be lower without being noticed.

[Legend]

After completing a 9-day mission, Dragon became the first commercial spacecraft to return to Earth from the @Space_Station 5 years ago today pic.twitter.com/GSrAd4ixUv

— SpaceX (@SpaceX) May 31, 2017

[Legend]

When this post is 1 hour old NASA will do a press conference to inform the public about a new mission to fly through the sun's atmosphere for the first time : space

[the-pi-guy]

Spoiler for Large GIF:

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[Legend]

[Legend]

Mystery of the "Wow!" signal solved - it was just a comet and/or hydrogen cloud. : space

[DD_Bwest]

 

mars rover concept lol

[Legend]

Yeah it's a stupid fake designed to inspire people.

[Xevross]

Yeah it's a stupid fake designed to inspire people.

 I felt inspired before you said that!