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Also see: https://www.nextgov.com/emerging-tech/2019/10/argonne-team-looks-insect-brains-models-computer-chip-innovation/160686/
1 posted on 10/19/2019 6:55:34 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
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Alien life has discovered the probe, and this was their message:


2 posted on 10/19/2019 6:58:59 AM PDT by MuttTheHoople
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Hmmmm. I always wanted to be the next Bobby Fischer.

It looks like I still have a chance at it. I just need to bury one of these chips in my head where nobody can see it, hook it up to my brain and play a lot of chess.


3 posted on 10/19/2019 7:18:09 AM PDT by InterceptPoint (Ted, you finally endorsed.)
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Already have that in Congress.


7 posted on 10/19/2019 8:17:15 AM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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Actually fascinating stuff. I did a “Senior Seminar” in mechanisms of memory in one celled and simple multicellular animals. How can a one celled organism have a “memory”? But they do.


8 posted on 10/19/2019 8:17:43 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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“Evolutionary pressure on insects produces very efficient, adaptive computing machines.

With zero acknowledgment or credit to the Creator of such with their DNA, and the (limited) adaptive ability with its species, and conditions relative to such.

10 posted on 10/20/2019 4:43:46 AM PDT by daniel1212 ( Trust the risen Lord Jesus to save you as a damned and destitute sinner + be baptized + follow Him)
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After 42 years, though, only six of Voyager 2’s 10 instruments still work...

42 YEARS!?!?!

And they are COMPLAINING??

11 posted on 10/20/2019 5:05:27 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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