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This Is What It’s Like to Be a Space Rocket Launcher in Alaska

May 20
2018

After a massive explosion puts everything at risk, workers at Kodiak Island’s spaceport prepare to launch a new rocket into orbit.

Google’s Selfish Ledger is an unsettling vision of Silicon Valley social engineering

Posted by Klaus Baldauf in business, futurism

May 20
2018

Google has built a multibillion-dollar business out of knowing everything about its users. Now, a video produced within Google and obtained by The Verge offers a stunningly ambitious and unsettling look at how some at the company envision using that information in the future.

What are plus codes?

Posted by Klaus Baldauf in futurism

May 19
2018

Are short codes for locations, for places that don’t have their own street address.

‘Explosive’ eruption at Hawaii volcano’s summit shoots ash more than five miles high

Posted by Genevieve Klien in futurism

May 17
2018

The effects of the short-lived explosion were limited, but scientists warned there may be more to come.

China launches first rocket designed by a private company

Posted by Genevieve Klien in futurism

May 17
2018

BEIJING (Reuters) — China launched its first privately developed rocket from a launchpad in northwestern China on Thursday, state media said, the latest milestone in the country’s ambitious space exploration program.

“Chongqing Liangjiang Star” rocket, developed by Chinese private firm OneSpace Technology, takes off from a launchpad in an undisclosed location in northwestern China May 17, 2018. Wan Nan/Chongqing Ribao via REUTERS.

Warning and Aviation Code Red Alert Issued For Hawaii

Posted by Genevieve Klien in futurism, transportation

May 17
2018

Red is the highest level of alert to aviation, meaning that either an eruption is forecast to be imminent with significant emission of ash into the atmosphere likely — as is the case currently in Hawaii — or an eruption is underway with significant emission of ash into the atmosphere. Either way, this could mean disruptions are possible in aviation around the big island of Hawaii for the foreseeable future, depending on what happens.

Ash clouds from volcanoes can clog the engines of airplanes and cause them to malfunction — or stop working altogether. According to this article from the World Organization of Volcano Observatories:

The inside of a proton endures more pressure than anything else we’ve seen

Posted by Genevieve Klien in futurism

May 16
2018

For the first time, scientists used experimental data to estimate the pressure inside a proton

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Hawaii goes on RED ALERT for ‘major eruption’ of Kilauea volcano

Posted by John Gallagher in futurism

May 16
2018

Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano could have a major devastating eruption at ‘any time’, the US Geographical Survey has said.

The volcano has been erupting for 10 days, and more than 2000 residents have already been evacuated.

‘At any time, activity may become more explosive, increasing the intensity of ash production and producing ballistic projectiles near the vent,’ the USGS said on Tuesday afternoon.

Meet Surface Hub 2

Posted by Klaus Baldauf in futurism

May 15
2018

A new culture of work is emerging. One where unlocking the power of the team has never been more important. I see it with our team daily. People coming together, creating together. Making products stronger through collaboration, whether they’re in the same room or separated by thousands of miles.

Three people working with four Surface Hub 2 displays

Goldwasser, O. 2006. “King Apophis of Avaris and the Emergence of Monotheism.” In: Timelines, ed. E. Czerny et al., vol. II, Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 149/II, 129–133. Peeters: Leuven

Posted by Steve Nichols in futurism

May 15
2018

This evidence firmly identifies Set of Avaris as the first monotheistic deity (150 years before Akhnaten). Since monotheists claim there is only one “God”, aren’t they all really worshipping Set under different names and guises? The cruel cult of baby sacrifice throughout the OT clearly resembles the deity worshipped by King Apophis, Set, who becomes sole ruler by murdering his rivals (and banning their prieshoods).

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