Popular Physicist Talks Science in Mass Effect 2

[Antari]

A good scientist always knows how to make a ridiculous idea seem totally plausable. How else do you think they get funding?

And yes Dr. Michio Kaku rocks!

 

[Nincompoop]

I like Michio Kaku, as he discusses theoretical physics of my interest.

I don't think he really understood the biotic part though. What he explained was that we can use our brain to control machines, not manipulate random matter.

 

[Amnestic]

We get a wise cracking VI installed too, right?

"I delete data like you on the way to real errors."

 

[Lemon Of Life]

'Invisibility may sound cool, but everyone would just get really paranoid, and buy heat detecting glasses.' - Lemon Of Life, 1994-

 

[Kiithid]

At least can we get a Normandy in our lifetime?
Pretty please.

 

[JayDub147]

Another reason why Michio Kaku kicks ass.

If you haven't already, look up Sci Fi Science, a show hosted by Dr. Kaku. Nifty stuff.

 

[Shoes]

A spacecraft travels to the edge of the solar system, equiped with an untested theoritical drive designed for interstellar travel. They turn it on; and it rips a hole in space time a parsec wide.

And that, my friend, sounds like a plot of Event Horizon.

Cortex Command FTW. Just wish they didn't make a huge troll their main forum moderator. Stupid Grif.

I don't care for the forums, i just play the game.

And Event Horizon kinda sounds like Pandorum

 

[Boba Frag]

wow, cool guy. I wish he'd taught me physics in secondary school... I might actually have paid attention then! lol

Futurists get it wrong more often than not, but it's still heartening to encounter people with imaginations working in the sciences.

 

[tkioz]

Very interesting video, and the science dude is way cool

One think I'd like to say though is science doesn't have a time table, sure you can say it will be centuries before we have X based on current progress, but a break though could mean we could have it tomorrow or the underlying assumptions about it could be totally wrong and we'll never have it.

 

[Bruden]

I got exactly this far into this article: "Dr. Michio Kaku" at which point I threw up my arms and yelled aloud "DONE!"

Is Kaku smart? Yes, he's a leading theoretical physicist working on string theory.
Should Kaku be aloud to talk to anyone that isn't a scientist? NO! The man is insane! Look up some of Kaku's rants, like the time he made up a spaceship based on the principle of 'awesome' using theoretical technology that's incompatible with each other. Or the time he spoke on how all civilizations in the galaxy are one of 3 types. (Humans fit NONE of the types, and his "predictions" are based off star trek and star wars ffs!)

Kaku is insane, if he's not talking about string theory please allow everything he says to leave your brain as fast as it entered, if you want to fawn over an awesome scientist go read up on Nikola Tesla. (Who was also somewhat insane, but has certainly contributed more to science than Kaku ever will)

 

[Cpu46]

Linked this one because it stars Mr.Kaku.

Plus its awesome and Educational!

OT: I really like anything with Mr.Kaku in it, he is alway so full of energy and explains everything so well.

 

[Sirisaxman]

A spacecraft travels to the edge of the solar system, equiped with an untested theoritical drive designed for interstellar travel. They turn it on; and it rips a hole in space time a parsec wide.

And that, my friend, sounds like a plot of Event Horizon.

Cortex Command FTW. Just wish they didn't make a huge troll their main forum moderator. Stupid Grif.

I don't care for the forums, i just play the game.

And Event Horizon kinda sounds like Pandorum

Actually, Pandorum sounds like Event Horizon, since EH came out 1st. I'd still like to see Pandorum, though. Event Horizon kicked ass!

 

[fulano]

Never trust an old man with a full head of hair. Ever. No matter how many shiny things he offers you...

Joke aside, mr. Kaku is damn awesome. It's goo dto see th eguy talking about it.

 

[fulano]

I like Michio Kaku, as he discusses theoretical physics of my interest.

I don't think he really understood the biotic part though. What he explained was that we can use our brain to control machines, not manipulate random matter.

Nope. He's talking about the future of psychokinesis, which he understood to be associated with the biotics thingy.

In Mass Effect, the characters manipulate some kind of field that allows them to screw around with air pressures at macroscopic levels, what mr. kaku says is that in the future we might have machines that do that for us, namely some kind of foglets dispersed through the air, or whatever.

Besides, we shouldn't fault japanese Yoda for not being down with an explanation some dude gave him about some videogame he's never played, he's an OG from the oldschool. Back then they used phrases like "It's a doozy!"

 

[Silver]

I was so thrilled by this, until he said it was over 2oo years away. Then I was depressed...

Why did I have to be born in this century? I really wish I could see that sort of technology. No doubt if I was born in the future, I wouldn't appreciate that advanced technology.

Considering we may have immortality (well, at least we won't age) rather soon, that might not be too far off.

There's several ways of achieving that we're pretty close to, first one, and least enticing is the direct upload, making a copy of your brain on a computer. Secondly there's replacement organs that are getting better all the time, with the help of neural implants we could stop the last degradation in the body. Then there's that interesting girl that doesn't age, if we can figure out what makes her tick, cultivate some of those cells and figure out a nice way of utilizing it, we could stop ourselves from growing older. Combining all three would give us rather good chances of seeing the stars.