Black Panther: rhino domestication, click languages, and Killmonger overheating

Published: Sept. 18, 2018, 7:45 a.m.

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Wishing there were more of this in popular media.

\\n\\n Invisible cities \\n\\n

A review of invisibility technology: spatial, temporal, and spectral light cloaking. Vibranium to the rescue.

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Space impactors. Resource

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Body armor, stationary armor. Avoiding concussive force. Reactive armor in tanks: shaped explosives that explode at the other thing that\\u2019s gonna explode! Molecular springs of carbon for storage of mechanical energy from kinetic. How not to turn into Black Panther jelly when the suit releases its energy (be superhuman).

\\n\\n Absolute monarchies \\n\\n

Bas Rutten for king. Right hoooook.

\\n\\n Scars and sweat \\n\\n

Killmonger\\u2019s scarification and scar damage to the dermis. Sweat patterns around scars.

\\n\\n Telepiloting \\n\\n

Remote vehicle control. Light-speed communications delays. AI-assisted remote human driving.

\\n\\n War Rhinos \\n\\n

Domestication vs trainability. Extinct war elephants and why we can\\u2019t have war rhinos. D\\xfcrer\\u2019s rhinoceros, drawn from notes on the first rhino seen in Europe since Roman times.

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Xhosa! Bantu languages. The possibility of a connection to the earliest human languages.

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