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If that doesn't work. Consider studying slime mold... https://t.co/2PecjSzqpK
"Chemotaxis" (via humans?) "a pivotal response of many cell types to external spatial cues"https://t.co/XhJ3n6nWO6 https://t.co/sMacaUIMGv
We are machines slime mold built to increase environmental ATP.Complex ATP processors.https://t.co/eOlVoSSC0b https://t.co/aJo9QZMTz2
Are we building our own ATP processors by proxy?Imagine an economy: https://t.co/WuxYU2eduA as an AI: https://t.co/8w6eVis7L4
mars.png (incomplete) https://t.co/lxPHxgc010
Why?: "Humans need to be a multiplanet species"https://t.co/pL9n9zABIb∴ Humans need group level homeostasis. https://t.co/0zGn5KXK2U
"...invent something new, which his running what I like to call socio-cultural homeostasis;"https://t.co/G3PpvbjzNC https://t.co/BrR5KXWHUV
How do complex dynamic systems (evolution) adapt to existential threats? Black Swans? Hmm...https://t.co/8YNkxWn0Wd https://t.co/NQLZjSIOXd
"so-called Black Swans, may be an inherent feature of ecology and evolution"https://t.co/EJCtwGDSny https://t.co/zS0QFUMLm1
"... a world that maximises the probability that SpaceX continues its mission without me" <3https://t.co/8YNkxWn0Wd https://t.co/iIw26DztZU
"strong economic forcing function for the improvement of space travel" -> ATP -> slime mold... as crazy as Elon Muskhttps://t.co/yNf0EKGhwO
"it has all the underpinnings of human social behavior."https://t.co/lj6xA3dGvw https://t.co/a6xB8y866o
"...the core is very simple: I want us to stay alive, and I want us to have a long future." — @leashlesshttps://t.co/HmpoCSds5Y
The way we process ATP is pretty cool: https://t.co/DH38EEiO9A
"a molecular fuel called ATP. The enzymes split the ATP to release energy and cause shape changes in the enzyme" https://t.co/JvX0YWa1dZ
"behaviors such as tool use and walking upright and social cooperation all follow from a single equation." - @alexwg https://t.co/wb4XuHOKPl
Human homeostasis or bust:"... until we have seen them make Oakland safe for human habitation." https://t.co/g2CyXLVdfX
Am I crazy for believing in using swarms of robotic ants to colonize mars?Yes.https://t.co/aHFezJ2cNW
Stigmergic Synergy. To build toward mars, build for home first. Most human problems don't go away when we colonize.https://t.co/Dr8CL0NEbI
Musk on regulations:"If you are working on rocket technology, that's considered an advanced weapons technology..." https://t.co/KgWjlE6pTE
Rockets, Batteries, Solar are covered. What we need is Mars-like orientation in industries for other human problems.https://t.co/aFdDQl8xR8
Methane powered mars rockets? Greenhouse gas is a great way for slime mold to engineer an environment for more food.https://t.co/CkNnniKCOZ
My conspiracy theory: The rise in cyanobacteria was a direct result of a feedback due to slime mold shenanigans. https://t.co/m12et2hBwQ
Seriously though. Slime mold poop feedback loops lead to oxygen.https://t.co/ZnHNRpXvBL https://t.co/w4IDJFrP00
... And oxygen leads to more complex lifeforms that inevitably take care of growing slime mold's favorite food.https://t.co/8iq1cAnm8Y https://t.co/6ziu4V1wcm
It's a conspiracy: Policy makers use statistical shenanigans to mislead about impact of cow farts. #WakeUp #sheeplehttps://t.co/XyQuDrGJhj https://t.co/V3ooprl65B
Jokes aside... Complex ecological interactions of slimemold and cyanobacteria are important to understand: https://t.co/Jq2R7abSMy
Did you hear that SpaceX want's to use "Robotic Mining Drones" to live in underground bunkers? #AntsOnMars https://t.co/FA0QcjezrO https://t.co/X64a0zIbi3
Based on the latest reddit AMA, @elonmusk is literally laying the groundwork for my dreams. Thank you!https://t.co/A4NOASt4mc
Technically, he says "mining/tunneling droids", but close enough. These *ARE* the droids I'm looking for.https://t.co/SoWnrShpdy https://t.co/2910pYVDeB
Swarms of mining/tunneling ants...https://t.co/93ucBv1j0r
When your idea maze has idea mazes. https://t.co/rp8r7XTlM9
Robotic ants on mars as a precursor for cyborg bananas?https://t.co/8mSloGKNkl https://t.co/GusPVEfWfd
"…uses a network of tiny tubes filled with cytoplasm to both sense its environment and decide how to respond to it."https://t.co/rKnzlmdTt0 https://t.co/zL9po94NBQ
If you have trouble imaging a cyborg slime mold in your imaginating…it looks a lot like a crab.🦀🐜 https://t.co/XTp9DlyFNr
If cyanobacteria had a spoken language, they'd tell jokes to plantae about how animalia is breathing tree farts. 😂https://t.co/sKpGTPemqi https://t.co/j6Y3x8Nq8Y
Cow farts and tree farts. Methane, and Oxygen. But what about ATP?https://t.co/2VJIhQZ9Hg https://t.co/nqHuoAwMEo
Oh wait, they're using the ATP subsystem to do that, haha.https://t.co/g9UrNFnJBS https://t.co/oLmkYjqar1
By the way...Yeast Farts = CO2Yeast Piss = Beer"Yeast eats sugar, craps alcohol, and farts carbon dioxide."https://t.co/OaB5eovSbL
"A spaceship with 20 women and a freezer full of sperm is likely enough to start a growing population." 🤔https://t.co/p0w4Yvk9ba
Gaussian correlation inequality: moon hunting w/ shotguns & moon shot.https://t.co/372kBEFviZin "Bold" by @PeterDiamandis & @steven_kotler https://t.co/Jn6nC3vowT
Tesla, SpaceX, SolarCity? They are all shapes with overlapping areas.When aiming for mars, make your darts count.https://t.co/ZolD3MHKyf https://t.co/kb8PTcTkNf
When throwing darts, you can improve your aim, or you can make your misses count for more by having overlapping targets. https://t.co/iKwbFfBHQG
Reading about how Apple's new campus has a 'breathing' ventilation system: they've done their research.https://t.co/TbyPUoifb5 https://t.co/83thb7wK5F
Did someone say robotic mining drones? @BuiltRobotics is making automatic digging robots for construction jobs.https://t.co/6Hr5OC2ePo
@BuiltRobotics Oh neat, they're using ROS and python. Same stack I settled on when trying to do that for lawnmowing ants.https://t.co/rgRCrR6mSa
Also in my feed: those martian bricks from back in April. Tl;DR: a swarm of brick laying robotic termites anyone?https://t.co/fLbovKl1is
Here's the paper they published on the bricks: https://t.co/o053GQ1c9n - found it while researching 'air crete'.https://t.co/OslDC95U6B
The @wyssinstitute had done some stuff on swarms of brick laying robots in 2014: https://t.co/cZbAHpG3mh Hope it syncs up.
Also, Volvo is building battery powered excavators and transport drones: https://t.co/aY7md5QClW
3d Printing Ice in 2013: https://t.co/Qzg57qQaKwIgloos in 2015: https://t.co/DsKJl8E9VnNow a mars project 2016 https://t.co/knyAHqGPeI
Mining ice on mars is now competitive: https://t.co/haKZCNXjj4
Can you create a foaming version of ice using materials found on mars? Carbonated Ice?https://t.co/azgezelEih
Oh wait, that's just ice cream. Can we use algea farts to build insulated ice igloos?https://t.co/9BUg76WNPz https://t.co/VK9Uv8mY1l
Robotic termites with bacteria in their gut that produce ice cream on demand?https://t.co/b2wNcq8tg2
I'm… not joking:Real life termites are basically a swarm of biological 3d printers using their butts as glue guns.https://t.co/349OTHzXgS https://t.co/KuibeIKmtg
I want to own a successful gelato company... so I can build ice cream pooping robots for mars.https://t.co/fmqu0Fniky
You now realize why I'm interested in spider butts.https://t.co/wCVG52L3OS
Puzzles are interesting because they inherently lend themselves to collaboration. A literal map of territory.https://t.co/6M9Qr8vIuJ
But what really amuses me about this: teams who cargo-cult'd the MLM tactics employed by Red Balloon, lost.https://t.co/OfuinRtrY4
With these kind of open ended problems presented in Darpa challenge, the optimal solution is an adaptive one.https://t.co/KF1Jbf5R7j
We locks on the winners' strat - by telling stories.The swarm biased by expert notions propagated by the swarm.https://t.co/Q7yzfpOaEr
But there's a meta-foraging strategy at play.https://t.co/EiASm9DJfx
Searching for novelty within the infinite game. Playful ants.https://t.co/fdwpd9IGQl
"Science is the Belief in the Ignorance of Experts""I'm smart enough to know that I'm dumb."https://t.co/Y0CTfZaP3j
So yeah. Guy who invented roomba built a solar powered lawn mowing robot. https://t.co/tk2kQuMXCr https://t.co/NINgIHW6TM
Same wheel design. Same passive solar power design. Same cutting mechanism. Cutting mechanism works really well btw.https://t.co/Mdx0A5SRbO
Solar powered swarms of robot ants?!I'm so happy that someone made it where I couldn't @JoeRobotJones https://t.co/R105xfZJUI
I spent so many hours trying to figure out a simple way to make the robot mud-proof. Don't have notes, but the angled thin disk is a design they're using is the same as one I found from in a custom designed vehicles for a muddling competition. It works really well.
Replicated it by using strips of hotglue on the cd-rom and angling the motors. 95% of the features of https://t.co/qed6Al76YA with simple parts.
Its why I know about this stuff:"This simulation utilizes a virtual "sand box" to test how planetary rovers respond to different terrains while traversing them."https://t.co/rijDRC21TL
I actually kickstarted ouya so I could get access to a 5 watt cuda core.https://t.co/Fc5eBxoXJ1
Visually based mapping systems to help coordinate a swarm of gardening robots? yes please.https://t.co/0MxRlFP9wI
I'd really love to know if @john_c_chase went with a clockwork spring mechanism to store energy for the cutting blade. https://t.co/C4HXUlfLcU We thought about it for a bit, but didn't fit cutting grass. would work for single weeds tho!
The other three things I kickstarted were directly related to this robot.A DIY solar panel machine.https://t.co/G9LxbOrIRkA DIY drone package https://t.co/ULLcg42NACA DIY wireless arduino https://t.co/I8sekIAkaK
Robotic lawn mowers have been a long time coming.https://t.co/JUKOkkkQkL
TFW: realizing I was literally being taught rocket science at Vermont Tech.https://t.co/gzeB91y4MMhttps://t.co/mjjZAVdzuo https://t.co/zKQpdONOcH
I can personally vouch for people behind this project being in the blockchain game for more than a profit. They know drones and want to solve interesting real world problems involved in delivery in a way that is truly a distributed common good. https://t.co/lw8aAgRHcd
I have no skin in the game with them. I don't own any tokens and have no money to be able to support them. But their idea is one of a handful of ICOs that I would contribute to in a heartbeat. Not as an investor, but just to see their ideas take flight.
Delivery drones are coming. Either we bootstrap systems that create an open distributed market for anyone, or we watch big corporate platforms slowly eat their way into being the soul provider & begin rent seeking the commons.The everything store should belong to everyone.
Anothr: Hydnophytum Formicarum patterned + bacteria driven sand building: reseed a desert with moisture? #AntsOnMars https://t.co/A26zjZl3tR
Ant puke networks on mars:https://t.co/sRqtNMdnrq
How do Saharan Silver Ants manage tunnels in the Sahara? What else dig in sand that we could use? Trap door spiders?https://t.co/rijDRC21TL
"electronic rose project, or one like it, might one day lead to living flowers that house working computer chips."https://t.co/nOfJ1J6hoV
All my ideas are connected. I can't make it stop.https://t.co/WxuH8Bscik