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Carnival of Space 366
The Carnival of Space 366 is up at CosmoquestUniverse Today - “We’re at the comet! Yes,” exclaimed Rosetta Spacecraft Operations Manager Sylvain Lodiot, confirming the spacecraft’s historic arrival at...
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Second Open thread for August
This is the second open August thread for discussing topics that you want to discuss or share links of interest.Let us keep the discussion polite and fact based. ThanksRead more »
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IBM has integrated the TrueNorth chips into 16 million neuron system and are...
The IBM TrueNorth neuromorphic chip is inspired by the brain. The inputs to and outputs of this computer are spikes. Functionally, it transforms a spatio–temporal stream of input spikes into a...
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10 meter Sub-Orbital Large Balloon Reflector (LBR)
A new NIAC Phase II project is hte “10 meter Sub-Orbital Large Balloon Reflector (LBR)”. They propose to develop and demonstrate the technology required to realize a suborbital, 10 meter class...
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IAEA projections for nuclear power in 2030
There are currently 435 operational nuclear power reactors in 30 countries around the world and 72 are under construction in 15 countries. Nuclear power generated 2359 terawatt-hours (TW·h) of...
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US Army Vision for Force 2025 and beyond
By 2025, a leaner, smarter, more lethal, and flexible Army must operate differently, enable forces differently, and organize differently to maintain overmatch, capable of responding to a myriad of...
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NASA will send a system to extract oxygen from the Mars Atmosphere in 2020
NASA plans to make oxygen, a central ingredient of rocket fuel, on Mars early in the next decade.Space agency officials on Thursday unveiled seven instruments they plan to put on a Martian rover that...
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Nanostructured Metal-Oxide Catalyst Efficiently Converts CO2 to Methanol
Separately Brookhaven National Laboratory scientists have discovered a new catalytic system for converting carbon dioxide to methanol. The new system offers significantly higher activity than other...
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Scaling ISRU for using Mars Resources for Space Missions
Being able to extract oxygen and produce Methane from the Mars atmosphere would greatly enhance colonization missions to Mars. Here we review how the obviously technical feasible technology would...
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China's Economic Transformation and the risk for the Global Economy of a...
Reorient is a financial services group in Hong Kong Reorient provides a 62 page view of China's economic transformationWhy does this matter ? Because China's Banks are collectively over thirty times...
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China's online payment volume is projected to be about US$3 trillion in 2017
China's online payment volume is projected to increase by 500% from 2012 to 2017. This will be nearly US$3 trillion. The estimated level for 2014 is US$1.2 trillion.Read more »
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Helion Energy now has a Helium 3 fuel cycle for its magneto-inertial fusion...
Helion Energy has an update on their project to achieve commercial nuclear fusion.Helion Energy uses Magneto-Inertial Fusion: By combining the stability of steady magnetic fusion and the heating of...
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On track to human brain scale neuromorphic systems with 20 billion neurons...
The DARPA 2015 budget (page 192) reported that the 1 million neuron chip that was announced by IBM and published research in the journal Science was developed in fiscal year 2013.The neuromorphic chip...
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Technological Takeoff and Resource Mobilization for Aspects of Mundane...
This site has looked at a list of technologies for what I call the Mundane Singularity. Technological Singularity and Transhumanism are often criticized because the primary technologies that justify it...
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Anti-population growth is anti-black and anti-minority
The New York Times had a recent article about reducing carbon by curbing population.It is projected that the world is expected to add about 1.3 billion people in Africa by 2050 and 700 million in Asia...
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Spacex success has made enemies of the allies of big government contractors
[Slate - Phil Plait] SpaceX, as you may know, is making good on its promise to make access to space cheaper and more reliable. Their Falcon 9 rocket is putting payloads into orbit for less money than...
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Machine learning algorithm is able to predict cardiac arrest 4 hours in...
[New Scientist] The researchers trained a machine-learning algorithm on data from 133,000 patients who visited the NorthShore University HealthSystem, a partnership of four Chicago hospitals, between...
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Stabilized Permanent Magnet Maglev promises the same cost as one lane of...
Engineers at LaunchPoint Technologies have been working with Applied Levitation and Fastransit Inc., to develop a completely new, revolutionary mode of maglev transportation using stabilized permanent...
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Skytran 62 mile per hour two person pods that are 90 times cheaper than subways
[Govtech.com] Tel Aviv may be the site of the first maglev PRT system [Personal Rapid Transit], which has been designed by skyTran, an American company headquartered in Mountain View, California.As of...
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