Archive for the ‘space’ category: Page 922
Mar 28, 2017
NATO to spend 3 billion euros on satellite, cyber defenses
Posted by Roman Mednitzer in categories: cybercrime/malcode, drones, military, robotics/AI, space
BRUSSELS NATO plans to spend 3 billion euros ($3.24 billion) to upgrade its satellite and computer technology over the next three years as the Western military alliance adapts to new threats, a senior official said.
Seeking to deter hackers, and other threats including Iranian missiles, the investments underscore NATO’s recognition that conflicts are increasingly fought on computer networks as well as in the air, on land and at sea.
A senior official at the NATO Communications and Information Agency said the plans include a 1.7-billion-euro investment in satellite communications to better support troops and ships deployed across the alliance, as well as aiding the use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) or drones.
Mar 28, 2017
Physicist Wants To Beam Solar Energy Back From Moon’s Surface
Posted by Bruce Dorminey in categories: solar power, space, sustainability
The Moon as a collecting point for solar energy for use on Earth and maybe even into the outer solar system.
One man’s decades-long dream of harnessing sunlight from the lunar surface.
Mar 28, 2017
Why Aging Is a Disease
Posted by Zoltan Istvan in categories: biotech/medical, economics, ethics, policy, robotics/AI, space, transhumanism
The first of my major #Libertarian policy articles for my California gubernatorial run, which broadens the foundational “non-aggression principle” to so-called negative natural phenomena. “In my opinion, and to most #transhumanist libertarians, death and aging are enemies of the people and of liberty (perhaps the greatest ones), similar to foreign invaders running up our shores.” A coordinated defense agianst them is philosophically warranted.
Many societies and social movements operate under a foundational philosophy that often can be summed up in a few words. Most famously, in much of the Western world, is the Golden Rule: Do onto others as you want them to do to you. In libertarianism, the backbone of the political philosophy is the non-aggression principle (NAP). It argues it’s immoral for anyone to use force against another person or their property except in cases of self-defense.
A challenge has recently been posed to the non-aggression principle. The thorny question libertarian transhumanists are increasingly asking in the 21st century is: Are so-called natural acts or occurrences immoral if they cause people to suffer? After all, taken to a logical philosophical extreme, cancer, aging, and giant asteroids arbitrarily crashing into the planet are all aggressive, forceful acts that harm the lives of humans.
Mar 28, 2017
Space:1999 — Destination Moonbase Alpha trailer
Posted by Alireza Mokri in categories: entertainment, space
Mar 28, 2017
Moon Temple: Art Project Probes Spiritual, Cultural Needs of Lunar Colony
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in category: space
Humanity’s first church on another world could be a dome perched on the rim of a huge crater near the moon’s south pole.
European Space Agency (ESA) artist-in-residence Jorge Mañes Rubio has drawn up plans for a “moon temple” that would help meet the spiritual, social and psychological needs of lunar settlers.
Those needs will likely be considerable, given that the pioneers will be isolated from the rest of humanity on a world hostile to life as we know it, Rubio said. [Visit the Moon Temple: Jorge Mañes Rubio’s Lunar Art in Pictures].
Mar 26, 2017
Brian Greene: Five things to expect by 2037
Posted by Derick Lee in categories: robotics/AI, space
Will we land on Mars? Discover other life forms? Usher in the age of artificial intelligence Before his New Zealand talk tonight, celebrity scientist Professor Brian Greene talked to Jamie Morton about five big developments we can expect in the next 20 years.
When will the universe end? — New Zealand Herald.
Mar 22, 2017
Aerospace start-ups pitch futuristic concepts to military defense, private companies in El Segundo
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: business, drones, military, space
Ten of the most promising new regional aerospace start-up companies descended on El Segundo on Tuesday to pitch their futuristic concepts for the next wave of industry advancement, from orbiting cell towers in space to drones that communicate with each other.
The event, organized by new-tech business support company Starburst Accelerator, was held at The Aerospace Corp., the research and development arm of the adjacent Los Angeles Air Force Base.
Such meetings between legacy aerospace companies and energetic up-and-comers are becoming commonplace, as the industry works to keep up with a flood of technological advancements propelling the commercialization of low-Earth orbit.
Mar 22, 2017
Travel Tips From a Real Space Tourist: Get Ready to Feel Awful
Posted by Brett Gallie II in category: space
Mar 21, 2017
Breakthrough Starshot’s Interstellar Sail Works Best As a Ball
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: innovation, space
Breakthrough Starshot aims to launch a fleet of tiny interstellar probes to Alpha Centauri using laser-propelled sails. But the best sail might actually look like a ball.