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Jul 13, 2022
Fukushima nuclear disaster: Former bosses ordered to pay $97 billion for damages
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: futurism
More than 11 years after the disaster, a court in Tokyo has awarded executives at the nuclear plant to pay monetary compensation for the damages.
Jul 12, 2022
Microsoft July 2022 Patch Tuesday fixes exploited zero-day, 84 flaws
Posted by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz in category: futurism
Today is Microsoft’s July 2022 Patch Tuesday, and with it comes fixes for one actively exploited zero-day vulnerability and a total of 84 flaws.
Jul 12, 2022
Gods & Monsters: Space as Lovecraft Envisioned it
Posted by Dan Breeden in categories: futurism, space
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H.P. Lovecraft is known as the father of the Cosmic Horror genre of fiction. The creator of Cthulhu and many other terrifying dark gods in his novels paints a bleak and decaying view of our world and the Universe. Today we’ll examine what it might imply if that nihilistic and grim view of reality was correct.
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Jul 12, 2022
Giant sunspot threatens Earth as solar flare may cause blackouts
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in category: futurism
The Sun is expected to explode any day now.
Solar researchers have their eye on a massive sunspot dubbed AR3055, which measures more than 6,100 miles wide. These regions, which appear as dark moles on the surface of the Sun, are concentrations of relatively cooler temperatures caused by a magnetic flux.
“There is an incredible-looking sunspot crossing the center of the solar disk and a new large dark core has just appeared on the limb,” astronomer Apollo Lasky said in a Monday statement published on SpaceWeather.com.
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Antimatter represents both the most powerful weapon and most powerful fuel for a future humanity, if we can ever learn to make it efficiently and store it safely.
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Jul 12, 2022
Blooms are 3D printed sculptures designed to animate as they rotate under a strobe light
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in category: futurism
Unlike a 3D zoetrope, which animates a sequence of small changes in objects, a bloom animates as a single, self-contained sculpture. The animation effect of the flower is achieved by progressive rotations of the golden ratio, phi (ϕ), the same ratio that nature uses to generate the spiral patterns we see in pine cones and sunflowers. The rotational speed and frequency of the flower’s strobe light are synchronized so that a flash is produced each time the flower rotates 137.5° (the angular version of phi). The particular shape and behavior of each bloom is determined by a unique parametric seed that I call phi-nomial.
Sculpture: Blooms 2 by John Edmark.
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Jul 12, 2022
Richard Neutra’s Restored Lew House Is the Epitome of Midcentury Cool
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in category: futurism
After a yearlong restoration led by Marmol Radziner, Richard Neutra’s Lew House can now be rented for $26,000 a month.
Jul 11, 2022
Researchers remeasure gravitational constant
Posted by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz in category: futurism
The gravitational constant G determines the strength of gravity—the force that makes apples fall to the ground or pulls the Earth in its orbit around the sun. It is part of Isaac Newton’s law of universal gravitation, which he first formulated more than 300 years ago. The constant cannot be derived mathematically; it has to be determined through experiment.
Over the centuries, scientists have conducted numerous experiments to determine the value of G, but the scientific community isn’t satisfied with the current figure. It is still less precise than the values of all the other fundamental natural constants—for example, the speed of light in a vacuum.
One reason gravity is extremely difficult to quantify is that it is a very weak force and cannot be isolated: when you measure the gravity between two bodies, you also measure the effect of all other bodies in the world.
Jul 11, 2022
The Strange Mystery of Singularities And Evolving Universes
Posted by Dan Breeden in category: futurism
An exploration of the various types of singularities hypothesized to exist in the universe and an exploration of whether these singularities could lead to other universes.
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