{"id":745,"date":"2007-12-18T19:25:20","date_gmt":"2007-12-18T19:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2007\/12\/18\/dont-be-fooled-this-is-just-mo\/"},"modified":"2007-12-18T19:25:20","modified_gmt":"2007-12-18T19:25:20","slug":"dont-be-fooled-this-is-just-mo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/18\/dont-be-fooled-this-is-just-mo\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t be fooled &#8230; this is just more robots, and other matters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before I sign on to this, I want to know what happens when the vehicles become self aware and take over the planet:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.physorg.com\/news117200612.html\">Vehicles That Talk to Each Other Know What Lanes They&#8217;re In<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.physorg.com\" title=\"Science and technology news\">PhysOrg.com<\/a> <br \/>A standard GPS receiver has an average 2D-positioning accuracy of about 13 meters. While this precision is high enough to direct you to your hotel, it&#8217;s quite a bit lower than the accuracy required to determine which lane your car is in while driving down the highway.[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.physorg.com\/news117200612.html\">&#8230;<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>But wait, this could also be robots.  Robots fighting in outer space:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.physorg.com\/news117206623.html\">Intergalactic &#8216;shot in the dark&#8217; shocks astronomers<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.physorg.com\" title=\"Science and technology news\">PhysOrg.com<\/a> <br \/>A team of astronomers has discovered a cosmic explosion that seems to have come from the middle of nowhere &#8212; thousands of light-years from the nearest galaxy-sized collection of stars, gas, and dust. This &#8220;shot in the dark&#8221; is surprising because the type of explosion, a long-duration gamma-ray burst (GRB), is thought to be powered by the death of a massive star.[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.physorg.com\/news117206623.html\">&#8230;<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>And are we sure this is not just robots building their own immune system?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.physorg.com\/news117133544.html\">Biochip mimics the body to reveal toxicity of industrial compounds<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.physorg.com\" title=\"Science and technology news\">PhysOrg.com<\/a> <br \/>A new biochip technology could eliminate animal testing in the chemicals and cosmetics industries, and drastically curtail its use in the development of new pharmaceuticals, according to new findings from a team of researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the University of California at Berkeley, and Solidus Biosciences Inc.[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.physorg.com\/news117133544.html\">&#8230;<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before I sign on to this, I want to know what happens when the vehicles become self aware and take over the planet: Vehicles That Talk to Each Other Know What Lanes They&#8217;re In from PhysOrg.com A standard GPS receiver has an average 2D-positioning accuracy of about 13 meters. While this precision is high enough &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/18\/dont-be-fooled-this-is-just-mo\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Don&#8217;t be fooled &#8230; this is just more robots, and other matters<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-c1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}