2012, In Review

I could go on about my life that I am sure you would all be interested in (year right) but it is at this time of year I like to remember just how awesome the world we live in can be.

NASA started work on a WARP DRIVE THAT COULD ACTUALLY WORK

The first commercial cargo delivery was an incredible success

Robot arms that you can control with your mind became a thing.

Self-Driving cars became legal in multiple states in America.

The most advanced robot ever built powered by a NUCLEAR ENGINE landed like a bad ass on Mars using what was essentially a jetpack like something out of Mission Impossible.

Google announced work on brining AR to the masses.

XNA was found to replicate like DNA and RNA making the possibility of synthesizing new life possible.
The Higgs bosson was detected and observations are very consistent that it is the actual thing.

ENCODE published a whole bunch of papers detailing pretty much every thing we know about DNA.
Autism was reversed in Mice. Not a cure but a huge step in understand it.

Speaking of Mice for the first time a mammal was created entirely from stem cells.

A FUCKING TRACTOR BEAM WAS MADE AND IT WORKED.

100 Year Starship was announced to make interstellar travel a real possibility within 100 years.

A bit of data was stored on 12 atoms rather than the million atoms it takes now.

3D printers became commercially available for under $1000 for the first time.

Quantum Cryptography was sent through normal fibre making piratically unbreakable encryption a possibility.

The genome of a pig was sequences opening the possibility that when we eventually get replicators we can have some fresh bacon... I mean helps us to study human diseases easier.

TITAN was created capable of 17.59 petaFLOPS, your average computer is capable of 3-4 gigaFLOPS.

That's it for now. These are just the flashy stuff that caught my attention this year and I am sure there are some amazing developments that I missed. If this is what happened in 2012 I can't wait to see what happens in 2013.

To quote Monty Python:  "Makes you feel so, sort of, insignificant, doesn't it?"