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Dr Sonny White updates on space warping and emdrive experimental work
NASA Ames Research Director’s Colloquium, August 12, 2014. Human space exploration is currently still in Low Earth Orbit. But what would it eventually take for humans to explore the outer solar system?...
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Theory of a Mach Effect Thruster
Theory of a Mach Effect ThrusterThe Mach Effect Thruster (MET) is a device which uses Machs principle in Einsteins general relativity to produce a constant acceleration in a device which is undergoing...
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Recent Mach Effect Theory and Experimental Work from presentation to NASA
Theory and Experimental Work on Mach Effect Thrusters (MET) presentation.How do METs Mach Effect Thrusters work?• METs depend on “Mach’s principle” being correct.• Mach’s principle is the proposition...
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Mars Curiosity Rover measures a tenfold spike in methane which could mean...
NASA's Mars Curiosity rover has measured a tenfold spike in methane, an organic chemical, in the atmosphere around it and detected other organic molecules in a rock-powder sample collected by the...
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Baidu Deep Speech system 81% accurate in noisy environments compared to 65%...
Arxiv - DeepSpeech: Scaling up end-to-end speech recognitionBaidu researchers present a state-of-the-art speech recognition system developed using end-to-end deep learning. Our architecture is...
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Terminator: Genisys will be first of reboot trilogy and then rights revert to...
Paramount Pictures is amping up its rebooted “Terminator” franchise, dating two sequels to “Terminator: Genisys,” [aka Terminator 5] which opens July 1.The studio has dated “Terminator 2″ for May 19,...
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Nextbigfuture will change discussion system and UI tonight
Nextbigfuture will be changing its discussion system and UI tonight.Hopefully this will done with minimal disruption.A new logo will also be implemented in a few days.Read more »
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Carnival of Nuclear Energy 240 - Bad Energy Plans driving up New England...
The Carnival of Nuclear Energy 240 is up at Yes Vermont YankeeForbes James Conca - New England Utility Bills could be double the US average. Gas needs pipelines. Reliability requires nuclearConsumers...
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Carnival of Space 385 - Understanding dunes of Titan which are as tall as...
The Carnival of Space 385 is up at Photos to space.The Meridiani journal - Strong winds explain Titan’s immense dunes, according to new studySaturn’s largest moon Titan is one of the most Earth-like...
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Opening ceremonies for start of Nicaragua Canal project
There were protests as Nicaragua started work on a $50 billion interoceanic canal project [UK Guardian]Wang Jing a chinese telecoms magnate launched construction in Rivas.A Chinese company has launched...
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100,000 genome sequences will be used to find DNA targets for new tests and...
11 Genomics Medicine Centres are being set up in English hospitals to gather DNA samples to help devise targeted treatments for a wide range of diseases.It is focusing on cancer and rare genetic...
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China gaining greater influence as lender of last resort for Russia,...
Quotes from the Godfather Movie about Debts and favors owedBonasera: How much shall I pay you?[the Don turns away dismissively, but Bonasera stays on]Don Corleone: Bonasera, Bonasera, what have I ever...
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China and Russia are leaders in Illicit Financial Flows
The Illicit Financial Flows from Developing Countries: 2003-2012 report reaffirms the $1 trillion estimate of unrecorded money shifting yearly out of emerging market and developing countries.They use...
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Fastest Internet in the world is in Minneapolis with 10 gigabits per second
US Internet announced Tuesday that it will use that network to offer 10-gigabit-per-pecond Internet speed, which is among the fastest Internet service available today. That’s 400 times faster than the...
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Sony, Microsoft and Google fighting North Korean Cyber Oppression over The...
"The Interview," the Sony Pictures film about a fictional plot to assassinate North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, opened in more than 300 [335] movie theaters across the United States on Christmas Day,...
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Picosecond readout of diamond nitrogen-vacancy centres coupled to graphene...
Nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamonds could be used to construct vital components for quantum computers. But hitherto it has been impossible to read optically written information from such systems...
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Pre-2015 Open thread
I hope everyone had a great Christmas.We have another open thread. We are also in the season on Festivus so you can air grievances but please still be polite and try to be amusing and interestingRead...
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Ambri's long lasting and low cost electrical grid scale triple liquid batteries
Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are building a low-cost long-lifespan battery designed for grid-scale stationary energy storage.The battery, which promises to provide a...
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Railguns are a better military project than improving chemical guns
The National Review thinks that Railguns will be a waste of money and believe it would be better to develop light gas guns for better long range navy and artillery guns.We will look in some detail at...
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Ido Bachelet announces 2015 human trial of DNA nanobots to fight cancer and...
At the British Friends of Bar-Ilan University's event in Otto Uomo October 2014 Professor Ido Bachelet announced the beginning of the human treatment with nanomedicine. He indicates DNA nanobots can...
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