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An excellent science coffee topic! This is a true breakthrough in pure mathematics with plentiful applications in the lesser sciences (such as theoretical physics). People tell me quantum gravity is already practically solved by this. Conway's powerful theory of Alternative Facts can render many difficult problems tractable. Here we demonstrate the power of AF to prove the Riemann Hypothesis, one of the most important unsolved problems in mathematics. We further suggest applications of AF to other challenging unsolved problems such as the zero-equals-one conjecture (which is also true) and the side-counting problem of the circle.

alternative to Dropbox that is fully open source and installable on own servers - looks like a nice tool for us ...

.. and it's based on GIT! (the "proper geeky alternative to Subversion" thingie we are using to manage PaGMO's source code)

Following a discussion with Oisin maybe a kite type wind turbine would be an interesting alternative on Mars

An alternative idea to the standard WIMP halo picture for the DM distribution in the galaxy

Would be nice to also push for other alternative fuel and biofuel like the ones studied at Glenn Research Center for airacraft gas turbines (Fischer Tropsch Fuel instead of JP-8) and presented an the International Workshop on Environment and Alternative Energy at ESTEC

An international team of researchers have developed a new type of gyroscope that is the first to measure the "wobble" in the rotational axis of the Earth from a ground-based laboratory. Astronomers normally track this wobble by continuously monitoring the position of distant objects, such as quasars. But this new method will provide a much simpler and cheaper alternative to these large-scale astronomical readings, the scientists claim.

is this of any use for spacecraft?

mmm it's like saying that you can replace satellite tracking by accelerometers on-board satellites... for Leo: you'd better put an atomic gyro on a spacecraft these laser gyro are huge !

skype alternative - open source, no central server, encryption built in ....

its open source - go check it :-)

my ID: 7C53B574D888EE0E2A97FCD62B144DD14730E45C1B7158D4ED3EBCCB920CB93A68C62E6C9385

joke posting??

This is why i always post crazy stuff .... its disruptive. ..... although sometimes its a joke ;)

why not this one then? http://www.venganza.org/

can we contribute in any way to this - or alternatively benefit from this research already now?

that bad! wow ....

You know me, I'm the bullshitter... You remember Kurzweil and his Singularity-nonsense. In a way this was very similar. Though I think Kurzweil and Markram are very different characters (The Singularity essentially is a religion, I can't see anything like that in Markram's claims) they seem to share an important point: they are both complete nerds that apparently never spent a single thought on the limits of science (in its English meaning) in general nor of their particular research field in specific. One may find this excusable, I don't. But even then, they make claims that the nerdest nerd must know that they are completely unrealistic and thus I just have to assume that they claim their nonsense on purpose. The reason in Markram's case clearly seems to be money. But all this does not mean that these nerds cannot produce valuable results.

Old concept revisited - previously known as the Tower of Babel ;)

what about tags...?

Alternative to space elevator!!

That's very interesting. The algae can be used as an absorber of CO2. The problem is that in order to be efficient it has to cover a wide surface and needs water. Would it be possible to grow algaes in the clouds...? Do you know some plants that are capable of floating in the air ?

Yes. There are some epiphytic plants who do not have roots and remove CO2 and H2O from air. Oisin is doing some calculations on it.

"We pursue an alternative strategy, namely that of realizing monopoles not as elementary but rather as emergent particles-that is, as manifestations of the correlations present in a strongly interacting many-body system."

Alternative data distributing concept

nice tools but seem all to be commercial ... alternative to Qwaq?

a good alternative for going to Rome if there are pilot strikes until then

An alternative to curiosity cloning: Let millions of people have a look at the pictures...

Creating a viable free open source alternative to

I would propose that we test this as an alternative to collaborative writing on wiki or google docs? what you think? LS