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Jan 18, 2016
SpaceX’s Mars Colonial Transporter: Rumors and Realities
Posted by Andreas Matt in category: space travel
SpaceX has been hinting for some time that it will develop the technologies that will transport people to the surface of the Red Planet. What might these systems look like and how will whatever the company is currently working on play into it.
Jan 18, 2016
Physicists Create Quantum Knots for the First Time
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: innovation, quantum physics
It will indeed be interesting to see how a Quantum knot can contribute in areas of technology, etc.
In a breakthrough discovery detailed in a paper in the journal Nature Physics, a team of physicists from Finland and the United States has found a way to create knotted solitary waves, or knot solitons, in a quantum-mechanical field.
Jan 18, 2016
Could this be humanity’s LAST century? Expert says ‘re-engineering our children’ will lead to the creation of a new species
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: alien life, engineering, habitats
Definitely something to ponder on.
‘We can eventually produce offspring that are as different from us as dogs are from grey wolves,’ said Seth Shostak in an opinion piece for Seti.
Jan 18, 2016
Report from Davos: 5 million jobs to be lost by 2020 because of tech advances
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: 3D printing, biotech/medical, economics, employment, genetics, robotics/AI
In less than 4 yrs. 5 million jobs will be lost is the prediction.
A new report predicts a loss of 5 million jobs in the next five years because of technological advances, but don’t blame it all on the robots.
The other culprits: artificial intelligence, 3-D printers and advances in genetics, biotech and more.
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Jan 18, 2016
Neura raises $11 million to create digital identities from consumers’ connected lives
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: biotech/medical, business, internet, mobile phones, robotics/AI
Interesting; your own Digital DNA.
Neura, an Israeli Internet of Things startup that pulls together data from users’ connected devices, has raised $11 million to expand its “business reach and make the service ubiquitous.” The Series A round was led by AXA Strategic Ventures and Pitango Venture Capital, with participation from Liberty Israel Venture Fund and Lenovo Group.
Founded in 2013, Neura launched in the U.S. out of UpWest Labs, a Silicon Valley-based accelerator specifically for Israeli startups. The following year, Neura announced a $2 million funding round.
Jan 18, 2016
It’s possible that there is a “mirror universe” where time moves backwards, say scientists
Posted by Sean Brazell in categories: cosmology, physics
Although we experience time in one direction—we all get older, we have records of the past but not the future—there’s nothing in the laws of physics that insists time must move forward.
In trying to solve the puzzle of why time moves in a certain direction, many physicists have settled on entropy, the level of molecular disorder in a system, which continually increases. But two separate groups of prominent physicists are working on models that examine the initial conditions that might have created the arrow of time, and both seem to show time moving in two different directions.
When the Big Bang created our universe, these physicists believe it also created an inverse mirror universe where time moves in the opposite direction. From our perspective, time in the parallel universe moves backward. But anyone in the parallel universe would perceive our universe’s time as moving backward.
Jan 18, 2016
Six-Legged Giant Finds Secret Hideaway, Hides For 80 Years
Posted by Sean Brazell in category: futurism
The insect is so large — as big as a human hand — it’s been dubbed a “tree lobster.” It was thought to be extinct, but some enterprising entomologists scoured a barren hunk of rock in the middle of the ocean and found surviving Lord Howe Island stick insects.
Jan 18, 2016
4 Cosmic Phenomena That Travel Faster Than The Speed Of Light
Posted by Sean Brazell in categories: particle physics, space
Hopefully one day soon we’ll be able to add a fifth cosmic phenomena that can travel faster than the speed of light to the list — humanity.
When Albert Einstein first predicted that light travels the same speed everywhere in our universe, he essentially stamped a speed limit on it: 670,616,629 miles per hour — fast enough to circle the entire Earth eight times every second.
But that’s not the entire story. In fact, it’s just the beginning.
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Jan 18, 2016
Lord Howe Island Stick Insect hatching
Posted by Sean Brazell in category: entertainment
Is it just me, or does that egg look an awful lot like the ones that hatch out the face huggers in the Alien film franchise?
Well, no matter — a pulse rifle or flamer should do the trick.