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The Navy’s Rail Gun technology hides a secret, that the Navy’s projectile accuracy has been substantially increased by about 45x.
But first some history.

The US government brought Prof Eric Laithwaite to help them build a rocket launcher based on linear motor principles. Today we call this the Rail Gun. In terms of its original objectives it was not a success, because astronauts could not survive the accelerations required to launch from a rail gun and cargo required a much longer rail gun than feasible with the then technologies.

The Navy succeeded with ship based rail guns as a means to shoot projectiles. Bloomberg TV has a good video on the Navy’s Rail Gun. http://www.bloomberg.com/video/watch-navy-s-new-supergun-lau…q9VzQ.html

Watching this video I realized that the secret to the Navy’s Rail Gun project was not the rail gun itself, but the substantially increased accuracy attained by the much higher muzzle velocity.

I present two important point. Using quick & dirty theoretical reasoning and real examples showing that the rail gun projectile has an increased accuracy of between 28x to 45x over conventional ship-based guns.

And the real possibility that the rail gun projectile traveling at Mach 7.4 has the ability to shoot down the X-51 traveling at Mach 5 at an altitude of 70,000ft.

PowerPoint is here http://www.iseti.us/pdf/NavyRailGun(2014-05-23).pdf
Enjoy.

White Swan Update by Andres Agostini, Countermeassuring Every Unthinkable Black Swan, at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2014/04/white-swan

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A new way to beam power to medical chips deep inside the body http://www.kurzweilai.net/a-new-way-to-beam-power-to-medical…e-the-body

Glasses-free 3D projector http://www.kurzweilai.net/glasses-free-3d-projector

Scientists discover how to turn light into matter after 80-year quest http://www.kurzweilai.net/scientists-discover-how-to-turn-li…year-quest

The 5 most interesting wearables on Kickstarter right now http://venturebeat.com/2014/05/13/the-5-most-interesting-wea…right-now/

Scientists discover how to turn light into matter after 80-year quest http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/newsandeventspggrp/imperialcolleg…;32-44

What Our Recent Obsession With Mindfulness Really Means http://www.fastcompany.com/3030601/the-future-of-work/what-o…ally-means

Data Point: The New Customer Service Pro: Your Gadget http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/05/06/data-point-the-new-cu…ur-gadget/

TransProse algorithm turns novels into music http://phys.org/news/2014-05-transprose-algorithm-novels-music.html

Report says Internet of Things will thrive by 2025
http://wraltechwire.com/good-and-bad-report-says-internet-of…cBOptPY.99

Beyond Silicon – Nanowires and Next Generation Devices http://www.21stcentech.com/silicon-nanowires-generation-devices/

When it Comes to Agriculture it is Nighttime Temperatures That Have Farmers Worried http://www.21stcentech.com/agriculture-nighttime-temperatures-farmers-worried/

Martian Rover Didn’t Come Alone http://www.21stcentech.com/martian-rover/

Does brain structure determine your political views? http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-27437799

Gecko-Inspired Adhesive Sticks 700 Pounds to a Wall http://singularityhub.com/2014/05/20/gecko-inspired-adhesive…to-a-wall/

Your Tastebuds Could Provide Clues On How Long You’ll Live, Study Says http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/20/taste-buds-longevit…ir=Science

Vinod Khosla has 3 predictions for the future of health. We’ve got 1 more http://venturebeat.com/2014/05/20/vinod-khosla-has-3-predict…ot-1-more/

Engineers invent a way to beam power to medical chips deep inside the body http://phys.org/news/2014-05-power-medical-chips-deep-body.html

Rejuvenation Biotechnology Conference 2014 http://sens.org/outreach/conferences/rejuvenation-biotechnology-conference-2014

New technique allows scientists to monitor the entire nervous system of a small worm. http://neurosciencenews.com/3d-imaging-neurons-neuroimaging-1036/

ESA’s XMM-Newton and NASA’s Chandra, were launched in the last century, and are still delivering world-class science. http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Technology/ESA_s_new_X-ray…t_Universe

Wildfires worse due to global warming, studies say http://phys.org/news/2014-05-wildfires-worse-due-global.html

Harvard researchers find protein that could reverse the aging process http://www.gizmag.com/gdf11-protein-aging-mice-harvard/31929/

Chinese military officials charged with stealing US data as tensions escalate http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/may/19/us-chinese…CMP=twt_gu

Elon Musk Says SpaceX Making ‘Progress’ Toward Mars Colony http://www.space.com/25934-elon-musk-mars-colony-spacex-rockets.html

Chinese Hackers Show Humans Are Weakest Security Link http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-05-20/chinese-hac…-link.html

Renewable Energy Study Shows That Benefits Outweigh Costs In U.S. https://exploreb2b.com/articles/renewable-energy-study-shows…osts-in-us

Singapore’s Rich Tapped by China Developers: Asean Credit http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-05-19/singapore-s…redit.html

Cybercriminals are eyeing these 5 targets in 2014 http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/cybercriminals-are-eyeing-…;1.2475721

Hacker Trends 2014: A frightening report http://www.mweb.co.za/TechnoZone/ViewArticle/tabid/3432/Arti…BA.twitter

Get the Cisco 2014 Annual Security Report http://www.cisco.com/web/offers/lp/2014-annual-security-repo…TE=twitter

CyberSecurity Trends for 2014 at http://www.cbh.com/cybersecurity-trends-for-2014/

How to create high-speed 3D movies of entire worm brains http://www.kurzweilai.net/how-to-create-high-speed-3d-movies…orm-brains

An ultra-sensitive chip for early cancer detection http://www.kurzweilai.net/a-chip-for-early-cancer-detection

Nanowire-bridging transistors open way to next-generation electronics http://www.kurzweilai.net/nanowire-bridging-transistors-open…lectronics

Mice with MS-like condition walk again after neural stem-cell treatment http://www.kurzweilai.net/mice-with-ms-like-condition-walk-a…-treatment

Cars could drive themselves sooner than expected after European push http://news.yahoo.com/cars-could-drive-themselves-sooner-exp…nance.html

New ultra-sensitive nano-chip capable of early cancer detection http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/healthcare/biot…334092.cms

GaitTrack App on Smartphone Assesses User’s Health http://www.21stcentech.com/gizmos-gadgets-gaittrack-app-smar…rs-health/

Global warming will harm sovereign creditworthiness around the world this century — http://thedailybell.com/news-analysis/35310/Desperation-of-t…6KFbD.dpuf

Do We Know The Cost of Dealing or Not Dealing with Climate Change? http://www.21stcentech.com/cost-dealing-dealing-climate-change/

Five brain challenges we can overcome in the next decade http://theconversation.com/five-brain-challenges-we-can-over…cade-25975

Physics ― Matter will be created from light within a year, claim scientists http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/may/18/matter-light-…?CMP=fb_gu

Foreign Affairs ― Strategic Intelligence Assessment for Ukraine – Setting the Stage https://www.redanalysis.org/2014/05/19/strategic-intelligenc…the-stage/

Software Development Process and Software Engineering ― Bottom-Up Manufacturing of Nanowires on Silicon Expands Its Capabilities http://spectrum.ieee.org/nanoclast/semiconductors/materials/…pabilities

A.I., Automation and Robotics ― Will Google’s Self-driving Cars Be Limited by “Map Anxiety”? http://spectrum.ieee.org/cars-that-think/transportation/self…ap-anxiety

Industrial Robots ― Need a hand (or an arm, or a leg)? Hi-tech app controlled and 3D printed prosthetics shown off http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2627412/Need-…n-off.html

Robotics ― Robot expert planning to turn Hong Kong into android city http://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/technology/article/1513567/rob…ve-android

CyberSecurity ― More than 90 people nabbed in global hacker crackdown http://edition.cnn.com/2014/05/19/justice/us-global-hacker-crackdown/

White Swan Update by Andres Agostini, Countermeassuring Every Unthinkable Black Swan, at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2014/04/white-swan


By Ted Greenwald — MIT Technology Review

Most tech startups are silent spaces where earbud-clad engineers peer into monitors. Not Hampton Creek Foods. The two-year-old company’s office—a filled-to-bursting space in San Francisco’s South of Market tech hotbed—grinds, clatters, and whirs like a laundromat run amok. That’s the sound of industrial-strength mixers, grinders, and centrifuges churning out what the company hopes is a key ingredient in food 2.0: an animal-free replacement for the chicken egg.

Silicon Valley venture capitalists have funded several food-related startups in the past year, but Hampton Creek has gathered the most momentum. It has A-list investors including Founders Fund, Horizon Ventures, and Khosla Ventures, and two undisclosed industrial food companies are experimenting with its plant-based egg substitute. The prepared-food counter at Whole Foods began using the startup’s egg-free Just Mayo mayonnaise in September 2013, with four other mainstream grocery chains lined up for the first half of this year. And, thanks to a recent investment round that boosted Hampton Creek’s funding to $30 million and drew in Li Ka-shing, the wealthiest person in Asia, Just Mayo soon will be sold by a large online grocer in Hong Kong.

Read more

White Swan Update by Andres Agostini, Countermeassuring Every Unthinkable Black Swan, at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2014/04/white-swan

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Transistors that wrap around tissues and morph with them http://www.kurzweilai.net/transistors-that-wrap-around-tissu…-with-them

Scientists discover protein that can slow brain tumor growth in mice http://www.kurzweilai.net/scientists-discover-protein-that-c…th-in-mice

The Military’s Spending Millions to Build Robots with Morals http://gizmodo.com/the-militarys-spending-millions-to-build-…1576221351

Alibaba’s IPO Is a Sign of China’s Rising Economic Might http://etfpm.com/chinas-rising-internet-giants-514/

Internet of Things and Wearables Will Dominate by 2025 http://mashable.com/2014/05/14/pew-iot-study/?utm_cid=mash-com-li-main-link

Teams from U.S. service academies demonstrate potentially transformative technologies http://www.homelandsecuritynewswire.com/dr20140514-teams-fro…chnologies

Strongly Interacting Electrons in Wacky Oxide Synchronize to Compute Like the Brain http://www.newswise.com/articles/strongly-interacting-electr…-the-brain

Forget an Apple iWatch, the U.S. military is the one really taking wearable technology to new levels. http://www.cnbc.com/id/101664183

Colorado Group To Provide Free Medical Marijuana To Veterans http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/07/free-marijuana-for-…83034.html

Russia planes fly to California coast in show of force over Ukraine, U.S. Pacific Commander Says http://www.redflagnews.com/headlines/breaking-russia-jets-fl…er-ukraine

White Swan Update by Andres Agostini, Countermeassuring Every Unthinkable Black Swan, at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2014/04/white-swan

White Swan Update by Andres Agostini, Countermeassuring Every Unthinkable Black Swan, at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2014/04/white-swan

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Employee Sharing – The New Employee-Employer Relationship https://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140512185957&#…lationship

MIT uses nanotech to hit cancer with one-two punch http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9248241

New West Antarctica Report Points to Rising Sea Levels from Melting Glaciers http://www.21stcentech.com/west-antarctica-report-points-ris…-glaciers/

The Future in 3D: How Micro-Manufacturing can Empower the Disenfranchised http://hplusmagazine.com/2014/05/13/the-future-in-3d-how-mic…ranchised/

Scientists create first living organism that transmits added letters in DNA ‘alphabet’ http://phys.org/news/2014-05-scientists-transmits-added-letters-dna.html

Physicists show unlimited heat conduction in graphene http://phys.org/news/2014-05-physicists-unlimited-graphene.html#jCp

Berkeley Lab Researchers Find that Viral Packaging Motor Rotates DNA and Adapts to Changing Conditions, Information that Could Help Future Drug Designs http://newscenter.lbl.gov/feature-stories/2014/05/12/all-in-the-rotation/

Speedy swarms of tiny robots build things in ‘microfactory’ http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2014-04/16/magnetic-microrobot-swarms

Human Learning Altered by Electrical Stimulation of Dopamine Neurons http://neurosciencenews.com/human-learning-altered-by-ehuman…igra-1034/

Google Is Not Your Enemy. (But it’s not your friend either) http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/mcgill20140513

West Antarctic Ice Sheet collapse is underway http://www.kurzweilai.net/west-antarctic-ice-sheet-collapse-is-underway

A DNA-based nanosensor that detects cancer by its pH http://www.kurzweilai.net/researchers-use-dna-to-build-tool-…-on-cancer

White Swan Update by Andres Agostini, Countermeassuring Every Unthinkable Black Swan, at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2014/04/white-swan

White Swan Update by Andres Agostini, Countermeassuring Every Unthinkable Black Swan, at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2014/04/white-swan

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Why Algorithms Are The Next Star Designers http://www.fastcodesign.com/3029756/why-algorithms-are-the-next-star-designers

Michio Kaku on Alien Brains http://www.sciencegymnasium.com/2014/04/michio-kaku-on-alien-brains.html

Can Compounds in Young Blood Fix Aging? http://www.technologyreview.com/news/527146/can-compounds-in…fix-aging/

Why Some Doctors Like Google Glass So Much http://www.technologyreview.com/news/526836/why-some-doctors…s-so-much/

Genome Editing. The ability to create primates with intentional mutations could provide powerful new ways to study complex and genetically baffling brain disorders. http://www.technologyreview.com/featuredstory/526511/genome-editing/

Increasingly, Robots of All Sizes Are Human Workmates (Until Humans become Bot’s Slaves) http://www.technologyreview.com/news/526691/increasingly-rob…workmates/

Now Your Phone’s Tilt Sensor Can Identify You http://www.technologyreview.com/news/527031/now-your-phones-…ntify-you/

Musk Reveals What Tesla’s Solar Backup Battery May Look Like http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-05-08/musk-reveal…-like.html

NASA’s TRMM Satellite See Spring Storms Hit the U.S. Great Plains http://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/nasas-trmm-satellite-see…3AIplcbErg

Bioprinting a 3D Liver-Like Device to Detoxify the Blood http://www.mdtmag.com/news/2014/05/bioprinting-3d-liver-devi…ign=buffer

How Inkjet Printers Are Changing the Art of Counterfeit Money http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/05/how-in…ey/361946/

A video explanation of the DWS 3D Printing Platform http://3dprintingindustry.com/2014/05/10/video-explanation-d…%2Btwitter

Millionaires bullish on tech stocks http://www.cnbc.com/id/101645709

Tencent to Invest in Map Company NavInfo http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405270230341710…31498.html

Bitcoin Breakthroughs Studied by Banks the Currency Is Out to Replace http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-05-07/bitcoin-bre…place.html

White Swan Update by Andres Agostini, Countermeassuring Every Unthinkable Black Swan, at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2014/04/white-swan

White Swan Update by Andres Agostini at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2014/04/white-swan

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This House’s “Bioconcrete” Turns Every Drop Of Rain Into Drinking Water http://www.fastcoexist.com/3030070/this-house-uses-bioconcre…king-water

Google Skunk Works May Tackle Energy and Agriculture http://www.21stcentech.com/google-skunk-works-tackle-agriculture/

Semi-synthetic bug extends ‘life’s alphabet’ http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-27329583

But What Would the End of Humanity Mean for Me? http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/05/but-what-d…me/361931/

Molecular high-speed origami: Researchers elucidate important mechanism of protein folding http://phys.org/news/2014-05-molecular-high-speed-origam…rtant.html

Only 2% Of People Can Actually Multitask — This Test Will Tell You If You Are One Of Them http://www.businessinsider.com/multitasker-test-tells-you-if…z31I9DitM6

As AI Advances into ‘Deep Learning,’ are Robot Butlers on the Horizon? http://www.livescience.com/45482-robot-butlers-deep-learning.html

Scientists create new lifeform with added DNA base pair http://www.kurzweilai.net/scientists-create-new-lifeform-wit…-base-pair

GaitTrack app makes cellphone a medical monitor for heart and lung patients http://www.kurzweilai.net/gaittrack-app-makes-cellphone-a-me…g-patients

The White Swan Treatise at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2014/04/white-swan

Based on the Bloomberg TV program “The Next Space Race” and other reliable sources, I determine the realistic payload costs goals for the next generation of private space companies.

I review NASA’s Space Shuttle Program costs and compare these with SpaceX costs, and then extrapolate to Planetary Resources, Inc.‘s cost structure.

Three important conclusions are derived. And for those viewing this video at my blog postings, the link to the Excel Spreadsheet is here (.xlsx file).

WHITE SWAN GRAPHICS BY MR. ANDRES AGOSTINI. — QUESTION: IN CORPORATE SETTINGS, IS THERE AN OUTRIGHT COUNTERMEASSURING WHITE SWAN TO THE BLACK SWAN? READ at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2014/04/White-Swan

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WHITE SWAN GRAPHICS BY MR. ANDRES AGOSTINI. — QUESTION: IN CORPORATE SETTINGS, IS THERE AN OUTRIGHT COUNTERMEASSURING WHITE SWAN TO THE BLACK SWAN? READ at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2014/04/White-Swan

Mr. Andres Agostini

Lifeboat Foundation Worldwide Ambassador: https://lifeboat.com/ex/bios.andres.agostini

The White Swan Treatise at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2014/04/white-swan

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