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Oct 26, 2021

The Case of the Vegetarian Jet Engine: How GE Jet Engines Running on Vegetable Oil Mix Broke the Sound Barrier

Posted by in category: transportation

Circa 2012

Oct 26, 2021

Film Farming — Japan’s Top Inventions

Posted by in categories: entertainment, food

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VDsguNyJ0c&feature=share

Growing veggies on a thin film that allows nutrients and water to pass through while blocking viruses and bacteria.


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Oct 26, 2021

Tesla to make molecule printers for German COVID-19 vaccine developer CureVac

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, Elon Musk

Circa 2020 o.o Basically a molecular printer could make your own vaccine for any disease.


Tesla Inc is building mobile molecule printers to help make the potential COVID-19 vaccine being developed by CureVac in Germany, the electric-car maker’s Chief Executive Officer, Elon Musk, tweeted on Wednesday.

Oct 26, 2021

Microbes Could Help Produce Rocket Fuel for Return Trips from Mars

Posted by in categories: biological, space

Georgia Tech scientists believe that microbes could be the key to producing the rocket fuel needed to take humans from Mars back to Earth.

Oct 26, 2021

Dr Ann Marie Kimball, MD — Physician, Epidemiologist, Rotarian — Global Public Service, Saving Lives

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, health

Dr. Ann Marie Kimball (https://epi.washington.edu/faculty/kimball-ann-marie/) is a physician, epidemiologist and currently holds the roles of Associate Fellow at the international affairs think tank Chatham House, and Vice Chair, COVID 19 task force, at The Rotary Foundation / Rotary International.

Previously, Dr. Kimball served as a strategic advisor to the Rockefeller Foundation, supporting the strengthening and development of strategies for Ebola, post-Ebola, and health crisis response, including planning and guiding the formation of a regional disease surveillance network in collaboration with Connecting Organizations for Regional Disease Surveillance (CORDS).

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Oct 26, 2021

Live Q&A with Lynn Gillespie about Arctic Botany

Posted by in category: futurism

Wed, Oct 27 at 4 PM PDT.


If you haven’t been to Nunavut, you may not know it’s home to a vast variety of flowering plants, lichens, mosses, and more found on the land. Lynn Gillespie, a Canadian Museum of Nature botanist, has built a career studying Arctic botany. Lynn will be on Facebook LIVE on October 27th discussing plants you can find in Nunavut, what it’s like to conduct field research in the Arctic, and answering your questions. This interview will be facilitated by Joni Karoo, SOI Arctic 2019 alum from Taloyoak, Nunavut!

*This interview will be held in English*.

Oct 26, 2021

What’s better? Boeing Starliner versus SpaceX Crew Dragon

Posted by in category: space travel

The two commercial space taxis share a mission but differ in operations.


NASA’s two chosen commercial space taxis for taking crew and cargo to the ISS share a mission but differ in operations.

Oct 26, 2021

New Hypersonic Space Plane Is Called the “Sexbomb” for Some Reason

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, space travel

O,.o.


A Canadian aerospace company has chosen an eyebrow-raising name for a hypersonic space plane it plans to launch in 2022: “Sexbomb.”

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Oct 26, 2021

Astronomers may have discovered the first planet outside of our galaxy

Posted by in category: space

Signs of a planet transiting a star outside of the Milky Way galaxy may have been detected for the first time. This intriguing result, using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, opens up a new window to search for exoplanets at greater distances than ever before.

The possible exoplanet candidate is located in the Messier 51 (M51), also called the Whirlpool Galaxy because of its distinctive profile.

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Oct 26, 2021

About: Open the pod bay doors Hal… Single Person Spacecraft

Posted by in category: space

Mars, International Space Station (ISS), Space tourism, One person spacecraft, Satellite servicing, Space repair, Asteroid, Phobos, Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU), Space suit.