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Jun 5, 2017
Space station welcomes 1st returning vehicle since shuttle
Posted by Dan Kummer in categories: robotics/AI, space travel, sustainability
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The International Space Station welcomed its first returning vehicle in years Monday — a SpaceX Dragon capsule making its second delivery.
Space shuttle Atlantis was the last repeat visitor six years ago. It’s now a museum relic at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center.
NASA astronaut Jack Fischer noted “the special significance” of SpaceX’s recycling effort as soon as he caught the Dragon supply ship with the station’s big robot arm.
Jun 5, 2017
US company to start trials ‘reawakening the dead’ in Latin America
Posted by Dan Kummer in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience
The first attempts to bring people back from the dead are slated to start this year.
Bioquark, a Philadelphia-based company, announced in late 2016 that they believe brain death is not ‘irreversible’.
And now, CEO Ira Pastor has revealed they will soon be testing an unprecedented stem cell method on patients in an unidentified country in Latin America, confirming the details in the next few months.
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Jun 5, 2017
Scientists discover hottest giant exoplanet ever observed
Posted by Dan Kummer in category: space
Researchers have discovered an exoplanet that burns at a temperature of several thousand degrees.
Jun 5, 2017
Toyota flying car? Automaker pursues ‘aerial solutions,’ backs start-up
Posted by Dan Kummer in category: transportation
Project leader Tsubasa Nakamura said in a blog post that Cartivator would reveal a redesigned prototype in November.
“I really appreciate Toyota group companies, and other companies or individuals supporting us so far,” he said. “We are able to accelerate our development because of this support.”
Cartivator’s formation places the company in direct competition with many other high-profile flying-car ventures, including efforts by Google co-founder Larry Page and ride-hailing app Uber.
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Jun 5, 2017
Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex Is Debuting Their Fierce New Mars Rover Concept Vehicle
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: space, transportation
Jun 5, 2017
Panel Discussion “How to Promote Longevity?”
Posted by Steve Hill in category: life extension
Only one more day to go before the live longevity panel with Dr. Aubrey de Grey, Dr. Alexandra Stolzing and Dr. Oliver Medvedik plus guests!
June 6th at 13:00 EST/18:00 UK we are teaming up with LEAF/Lifespan.io for a special Longevity Panel featuring Dr. Alexandra Stolzing, Dr. Aubrey de Grey, Dr. Oliver Medvedik and guests.
We will be streaming the panel live to this page and we invite you to join us. It will also be made available later to view on Youtube.
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Jun 5, 2017
FM-2030: Are You Transhuman?
Posted by Johnny Boston in categories: philosophy, science, singularity, transhumanism
This film was compiled from audio of a discussion futurist FM-2030 held at the University of California on February 6th, 1994. In this discussion 2030 laid out an overview of his ‘transhuman’ philosophy and held a back and forth with other people present in the discussion. Discussion and debate included items such as the value of researching ‘indefinite lifespan’ technologies directly as opposed to (or in addition to) more traditional approaches, such as researching cures for specific diseases.
The excerpts in this archive file present a sort of thesis of FM 2030’s transhuman ideas.
About FM 2030: FM 2030 was at various points in his life, an Iranian Olympic basketball player, a diplomat, a university teacher, and a corporate consultant. He developed his views on transhumanism in the 1960s and evolved them over the next thirty-something years. He was placed in cryonic suspension July 8th, 2000. For more information about FM 2030, view the GPA Archive File: ‘Introduction to FM 2030′ or visit some of the following links:
Jun 5, 2017
Making flexible electronics with nanowire networks
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: mobile phones, nanotechnology
A smartphone touchscreen is an impressive piece of technology. It displays information and responds to a user’s touch. But as many people know, it’s easy to break key elements of the transparent, electrically conductive layers that make up even the sturdiest rigid touchscreen. If flexible smartphones, e-paper and a new generation of smart watches are to succeed, they can’t use existing touchscreen technology.
Your smartphone can’t do this – yet. (Image: Peter Sobolev)