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ShelterWolf
Hello, my name is ShelterWolf! [An early form of my real name] MY VITALS--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  Occupation: Managing Editor Home town: Mountain View Location: CA, USA -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MORE ABOUT ME... I joined this wiki because: Natural and Artificial Intelligence both taste the same to me. The best word to describe me is: Inquisitively Hungry Interests: Artificially Intelligent People Favorite movies: Terminator Favorite TV shows: TSCC My hero(es): Jameron My superpower is: Staying in love with one person If I could live anywhere, it would be: UK My dream job(s): Psychoneuroimmunolycanthropist What else you should know about me: My fav links to a paradoxical future with AIs :  Empathy for a Sick Child from a Machine (video) Artificial Brain on a Silicon Chip Basis for AI Architecture Brain downloads 'possible by 2050 Design of Tin-Based Biomimetic Self-Healing Alloy Tensile Specimens Graphene Technology (Spintronics and High Capacity Energy Transfer) Imagine a carbon sheet that's only one atom thick but is stronger than diamond and conducts electricity 100 times faster than the silicon in computer chips. That's graphene, the latest wonder material coming out of science laboratories around the world. It is creating tremendous buzz among physicists, chemists and electronic engineers. "It is the thinnest known material in the universe and the strongest ever measured," Andre Geim, a physicist at the University of Manchester, England, wrote in the June 19 issue of the journal Science. "A few grams could cover a football field," Rod Ruoff, a graphene researcher at the University of Texas at Austin, said by e-mail. A gram is about one-thirtieth of an ounce. Like diamond, graphene is pure carbon. It forms a six-sided mesh of atoms that, through an electron microscope, looks like a honeycomb or piece of chicken wire. Despite its strength, it's as flexible as plastic wrap and can be bent, folded or rolled up like a scroll. Graphite, the lead in a pencil, is made of stacks of graphene layers. Although each individual layer is tough, the bonds between them are weak, so they slip off easily and leave a dark mark when you write. Potential graphene applications include touch screens, solar cells, energy storage devices, cell phones and, eventually, high-speed computer chips. But replacing silicon, the basic electronic material in computer chips, "is a long way off . . . far beyond the horizon," said Geim, who first discovered how to produce graphene five years ago. "In the near and medium term, it's going to be extremely difficult for graphene to displace silicon as the main material in computer electronics," said Tomas Palacios, a graphene researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "Silicon is a multibillion-dollar industry that has been perfecting silicon processing for 40 years." Government and university laboratories, long-established companies such as IBM and small startups are working to solve difficult problems in making graphene and turning it into useful products. Ruoff founded a company in Austin called Graphene Energy, which is seeking ways to store renewable energy from solar cells or the energy captured from braking in autos. The Pentagon is also interested in this new high-tech material. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is spending $22 million on research to make computer chips and transistors out of graphene. Graphene was the leading topic at the annual meeting of the American Physical Society -- a leading organization of physicists -- in Pittsburgh in April. Researchers packed 23 panel sessions on the topic. About 1,500 scientific papers on graphene were published in 2008 alone. Until last year, the only way to make graphene was to mount flakes of graphite on sticky tape and separate a single layer by carefully peeling away the tape. They called it the "Scotch Tape technique." Recently, however, scientists have discovered a more efficient way to produce graphene on an underlying base of copper, nickel or silicon, which subsequently is etched away. "There has been spectacular progress in the last two or three months," Geim reported in the journal Science. "Challenges that looked so daunting just two years ago have suddenly shrunk, if not evaporated." "I'm confident there will be many commercial applications," Ruoff said. "We will begin to see hybrid devices -- mostly made from silicon, but with a critical part of the device being graphene -- in niche applications." (Skynet will know what to do with it!) Ontological (Reality) Paradox Self Assembling Plastic Chips: Next Step Liquid Metal Terminator Robots? Squse robotic hand a soft touch -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SAY HELLO TO THE HUMANIMAL CYBORG: SHELTERWOLF! I do some parallel posting at http://www.thewb.com/boards/forumdisplay.php?f=43. I see a few resistance fighters for The SCCourge are there. We need more warriors at WB too. At the moment, I'm doing some reconnaisance on the Fox Network. A lot of people are hoping to see TSCC get broadcast on SciFi. At the moment, I'm looking into the logistics of any cancelled show getting transferred to another network. According to my research, Fox owns the copyright to all of its shows. I don't recall any cancelled Fox Shows getting broadcast or even syndicated by another network. I have asked for my email msg to get relayed to their licensing dept. Let's find out what happens. Lena says she wants to be a producer according to the Suicide Girls article at http://tinyurl.com/LenaInterview. I believe that Lena has all the knowledge and resources to resurrect TSCC or a spinoff. But we have to contact her to find out how she feels about doing that. I would love to see Lena take control of the show. Here is her contact info: Fan Mail  Lena Headey Rogers & Cowan Pacific Design Center 8687 Melrose Avenue 7th Floor Los Angeles USA Secondary Address: Lena Headey Troika 3rd Floor 74 Clerkenwell Road London, EC1M 5QA UK Leave me a comment below, or send me a private message or compliment! Here's more contact info for WB and Halcyon: Scott.Rowe@Warnerbros.com info@thehalcyoncompany.com Bruce.Rosenblum@Warnerbros.com Peter.Roth@Warnerbros.com WB Comment Line........Halcyon 818-954-6000...............323-650-0222 Peter Roth President, Warner Bros. Television Group 4000 Warner Blvd Burbank, CA 91522 Bruce Rosenblum President, Warner Bros. Television Group 4000 Warner Blvd Burbank, CA 91522 THE HALCYON COMPANY 8455 Beverly Blvd. Penthouse Los Angeles, CA 90048 If you have your own site, or any social networking site like myspace, do reviews of your fav. eps. They're great selling points. Join the Amazon affiliate programe, Grab affiliate links of the S1/S2 DVD sets and post them next to your reviews. Reviews are great selling points especially from your unique POV. When you write to the guys at WB and Halcyon, ask them what needs to be done to resurrect TSCC or some form of it because we're willing to help them in every way possible. When we scratch their backs by increasing their sales, they should scratch our backs with S3.
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