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Jul 21, 2017
Jeff Bezos’ Vision: ‘A Trillion Humans in the Solar System’
Posted by John Gallagher in category: space travel
At a recent gala celebrating the anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, Amazon.com founder and Blue Origin head Jeff Bezos laid out an ambitious vision of humanity spreading far and wide into the solar system.
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Jul 21, 2017
FreedomFest 2017: Eric Shuss, Ed Hudgins, Peter Voss, Zoltan Istvan, Gennady Stolyarov; Michael Shermer (mod) Artificial Intelligence & Robots: Economy of the Future or End of Free Markets?
Posted by Zoltan Istvan in categories: robotics/AI, transhumanism
If you’re at FreedomFest today, please come to the 2:30PM panel on AI I’m on (Vendome C). I’ll be partially discussing my Federal Land Dividend (#Libertarian #basicincome plan).Great line-up of panelists: Michael Shermer, Peter Voss, Edward Hudgins, Gennady Stolyarov, & Eric Shuss.
Of speaker https://freedomfest2017.sched.com/event/AzET/eric-shuss-ed-h…ee-markets #transhumanism
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Jul 21, 2017
Re-engineering Macrophages to Eat Cancer Cells
Posted by Steve Hill in categories: biotech/medical, engineering
Re-engineered macrophages to treat cancer.
Today we have a new study where researchers have created immune cells that ignore the way cancer tries to hide from detection.
Hiding in plain sight
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Jul 21, 2017
All hell breaks loose as the tundra thaws
Posted by Brett Gallie II in category: climatology
Aubrey de Grey’s famous ‘general answers’ to all concerns about rejuvenation.
Biogerontologist Aubrey de Grey, the father of SENS, always likes to answer to all objections to/concerns about rejuvenation with two general arguments. I think it is actually worth taking the trouble to answer each objection separately (which I did), but Aubrey’s answers are very good as well. I will discuss them here and add my own considerations. (If you’re interested in Aubrey’s pure thoughts, unpolluted by mine, you might want to try this short book.)
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Jul 21, 2017
Giving a push for in-space propulsion
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: government, robotics/AI, solar power, space travel
It’s a technology looking for a new mission.
The technology is solar electric propulsion (SEP), which NASA has identified in recent years as a key enabler for eventual human missions to Mars. SEP, the agency argued, could be used to propel cargo missions to Mars in advance of crewed missions much more efficiently than conventional chemical propulsion systems.
High-power SEP was to be tested in interplanetary space on the Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM), powering the robotic spacecraft that would travel to a near Earth asteroid, grab a boulder off its surface, and fly back to cislunar space. However, NASA announced earlier this year it planned to cancel ARM, and Congress, never much of a fan of the mission, has shown no signs of opposing it.
Jul 21, 2017
Infographic: A Timeline of Future Technology
Posted by John Gallagher in category: futurism
Jul 21, 2017
Scientists discover all quantum particles can travel BACKWARD
Posted by John Gallagher in categories: particle physics, quantum physics
In the study, researchers from the Universities of York, Munich, and Cardiff explored the phenomenon known as backflow in particles that are not ‘free.’
Free quantum particles exist without any external forces, but the researchers note that this setting is idealized.
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Jul 21, 2017
3D-Printed Gun Designs Are Selling for $12 on the Dark Web
Posted by John Gallagher in categories: 3D printing, computing, internet, security
A new report shows just how easy it is becoming to download designs for difficult-to-trace arms.
In the darker corners of the Internet where search engines cannot go, black markets offer pistols, machine guns, even explosives — and most worrisome to security researchers, computer aided design, or CAD, files for 3D-printed guns.
A new report from RAND looked at 811 weapons listings on a dozen dark-web markets, which continue to thrive despite the shuttering of sites like the Silk Road and, just this month, AlphaBay. Firearms were the top-selling category, with was 339 active listings, roughly 42 percent of the market. But the next-largest share, with 222 listings, was a variety of digital products, from build-it-yourself explosives manuals to CAD files.
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