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Aug 23, 2017
Colorado School of Mines plans to launch space mining graduate program
Posted by Montie Adkins in categories: economics, education, law, policy, space
You can go to school for space mining.
GOLDEN, Colo. — The Colorado School of Mines plans to launch a new graduate program that could help people inhabit other planets some day.
The school is working to launch the space resources graduate program that will teach students how to explore, extract and use resources not only on Earth but also on the moon, Mars, asteroids and more.
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Aug 23, 2017
What a Driverless World Could Look Like
Posted by Müslüm Yildiz in categories: biotech/medical, food, robotics/AI, transportation
What if traffic flowed through our streets as smoothly and efficiently as blood flows through our veins? Transportation geek Wanis Kabbaj thinks we can find inspiration in the genius of our biology to design the transit systems of the future. In this forward-thinking talk, preview exciting concepts like modular, detachable buses, flying taxis and networks of suspended magnetic pods that could help make the dream of a dynamic, driverless world into a reality.
“Some people are obsessed by French wines. Others love playing golf or devouring literature. One of my greatest pleasures in life is, I have to admit, a bit special. I cannot tell you how much I enjoy watching cities from the sky, from an airplane window.”
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Aug 23, 2017
Climate change to be a crisis for the 1%?
Posted by Harry J. Bentham in category: futurism
Point discussed at 1:31 in the video: https://youtu.be/VJ_qtKf64Is?t=1m3s
From the conference text at: https://www.academia.edu/34323947/Mont_Order_July_2017_Conference_Text
- “Climate change not likely to be stopped, likely to result in a crisis. No resources may be left for next generation.“
- “Crises occurred in the past, and the 1% lost the most. The 99% are likely to survive climate change by struggling through anything (droughts, resource shortages, food shortages, economic crashes etc.) whereas the 1% could lose everything.”
- “If the elite crack under pressure as Donald Trump does, this supports the above. The future of the 1% during a climate change crisis could be a larger scale version of the insanity that grips people who suffer a financial loss and become homeless after a relatively normal life.”
- “As above, the Great Depression did not impact average person, but drove stockbrokers and other wealthy people to ruin or suicide.”
Tags: climate change, futurism, Mont Order
Aug 23, 2017
Autophagy and How it Aids Longevity
Posted by Steve Hill in categories: biotech/medical, life extension
Autophagy means “eating of self” (“auto”= self; “phag” = eating)[1]. Although its name might sound harmful, autophagy appears to have longevity-promoting effects[2]. Here, we will explain what autophagy is, how it works, its benefits, and how it plays a role in aging.
What is Autophagy?
Autophagy is the way cells break down misbehaving or nonfunctional organelles and proteins in the cell[1,2]. This means autophagy can consume organelles such as, mitochondria, peroxisomes, and the endoplasmic reticulum[1].
Aug 23, 2017
Antoxerene closes $1.5M for drug discovery in aging
Posted by Steve Hill in categories: biotech/medical, life extension
Antoxerene performs pipeline testing for small molecule drugs that target protein-drug and protein-protein interactions. The platform is based on a patent-pending production technology, which enables manufacturing of impossible to express protein targets in biologically active form, at scale.
Aug 23, 2017
Introducing Rejuvenaction Italia and other news
Posted by Nicola Bagalà in categories: biotech/medical, life extension
The Italian version of Rejuvenaction is up and running! If you know Italian speakers who would like to know about rejuvenation biotechnologies and advocacy, please let them know!
I’m pleased to announce the launch of Rejuvenaction Italia, the Italian version of Rejuvenaction. As you might know, Italian is my native language, and while I have neglected/postponed online advocacy in Italian for over two years now, I realised that, as the topic of rejuvenation starts to reach broader audiences, there’s a necessity to make information available in several languages, for the benefit of those who don’t speak English. Regardless of one’s native language, the questions people have about rejuvenation are always the same: How do you do it? Why? Have you thought of overpopulation? And tyrants living forever? and so on. Thus, Rejuvenaction Italia (henceforth officially nicknamed RJi, and accordingly Rejuvenaction will be simply RJ) is essentially a clone of RJ, except in Italian. The blog won’t be nearly as lively as that here on RJ because, you know, there are only 24 hours in a day. I will translate some of the most substantial posts or important news from RJ to RJi, though, and there will be RJi -specific posts that won’t be worth translating into English.
If you speak Italian and/or know someone who does, it may be worth checking out RJ’s Italian clone and share the news on your social media. I would appreciate that very much. 🙂 There’s a link to RJi at the top of the sidebar.
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Aug 23, 2017
Quantum Internet Is 13 Years Away. Wait, What’s Quantum Internet?
Posted by Derick Lee in categories: internet, quantum physics, space
That’s because so much of the technology is still in its infancy. Physicists still can’t control and manipulate quantum signals very well. Pan’s quantum satellite may have been able to send and receive signals, but it can’t really store quantum information—the best quantum memories can only preserve information for less than an hour. And researchers still don’t know what material makes the best quantum memory.
A Chinese physicist hopes that quantum communications will span multiple countries by 2030. So… what’s it for?
Aug 23, 2017
SpaceX Spacesuit revealed by Elon Musk on his Instagram
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: Elon Musk, space travel
Aug 23, 2017
Amat Farm
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: finance, particle physics, solar power, space, sustainability
Amat farms (antimatter farms) consist of large banks of solar power collectors which power multicolliders optimally designed to produce antiparticles. The vast showers of collision products which result are sorted magnetically; antimatter particles and other useful species are collected, cooled and held in electric/magnetic traps.
The first amat farms were established in 332 orbiting Sol just outside the orbit of Mercury, known collectively as the Circumsol ring. Several power corporations were involved in this effort, including the Look Outwards Combine, Jerusalem Macrotech and General Dynamics Corporation. In 524 the Jerusalem Macrotech station B4 was destroyed during an unsuccessful raid by Space Cowboys.
Amat fields designed to produce anti-protons are typically 100km or more in diameter; fields which produce positrons are considerably smaller. The antiprotons and positrons are usually combined into anti-hydrogen and frozen for easier storage.