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Apr 26, 2020
Medicine of the Future: The End of Pestilence
Posted by TJ Yoo in categories: biotech/medical, futurism
Hey all! I hope you are doing fine! I have just made a video about the story of how humanity will conquer pestilence (all diseases). If this is something that might interest you, please check it out! And if you enjoyed this video, please like, share, and subscribe!
Pestilence has long been an enemy of mankind. But what if one day, in the far future, mankind can defeat pestilence of every form and achieve lifespans so long that the concept of “life expectancy” is no longer a thing. Join me in this video as I tell the story of how humanity can defeat its old enemy, pestilence.
Apr 26, 2020
Radioactive Decay Rates May Not Be Constant After All
Posted by Tracy R. Atkins in category: futurism
A number of technologies are predicated on the assumption that rates of radioactive decay are constant — but what if they aren’t?
Apr 25, 2020
Media reports say North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un dead
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: futurism
TYLER, Texas (KETK) – Multiple news outlets are reporting that North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un has died.
TMZ was the first to report the news, writing, “North Korea’s Supreme Leader/dictator Kim Jong-un has reportedly died, or is on his death bed with no hope for recuperation — according to media outlets in China and Japan.”
Britain’s Express has also reported the news, citing “multiple sources coming out of North Korea and the Far East.”
Apr 25, 2020
Topological effect creates unidirectional light source
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: futurism
Apr 25, 2020
Forget Hovercrafts. This New One-Person Electric VTOL Will Let You Live Out Your ‘Star Wars’ Dreams
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: futurism
Apr 25, 2020
Cannabis Product Reviewer Wanted: Smoke Weed and Get Paid Up to $36,000 a Year
Posted by Omuterema Akhahenda in category: futurism
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Apr 24, 2020
Highly quaternized polystyrene ionomers for high performance anion exchange membrane water electrolysers
Posted by Fyodor Rouge in categories: evolution, futurism
Water spliting got cheaper.
Alkaline anion exchange membrane (AEM) electrolysers to produce hydrogen from water are still at an early stage of development, and their performance is far lower than that of systems based on proton exchange membranes. Here, we report an ammonium-enriched anion exchange ionomer that improves the performance of an AEM electrolyser to levels approaching that of state-of-the-art proton exchange membrane electrolysers. Using rotating-disk electrode experiments, we show that a high pH (13) in the electrode binder is the critical factor for improving the activity of the hydrogen- and oxygen-evolution reactions in AEM electrolysers. Based on this observation, we prepared and tested several quaternized polystyrene electrode binders in an AEM electrolyser. Using the binder with the highest ionic concentration and a NiFe oxygen evolution catalyst, we demonstrated performance of 2.7 A cm−2 at 1.8 V without a corrosive circulating alkaline solution. The limited durability of the AEM electrolyser remains a challenge to be addressed in the future.
Apr 24, 2020
This is what special ops learned 40 years ago from Operation Eagle Claw
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: futurism
But our failure in Iran made us better! We established commands, units, relationships, mission sets, and joint tactics, techniques and procedures that survive to this day.
The lessons learned fixed a multitude of shortcomings and brought joint SOF operations into the 21st century. It also prepared a small cadre of leaders to meet the future challenges of an ever-evolving radical threat stream. It set us up for the next 20 years.
Ultimately, the lessons of Eagle Claw led to the establishment of U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) as a functional combatant command with service-like responsibilities to man, train, and equip special operations forces from every service. SOCOM also received a budget along with authorities to procure SOF unique equipment; and they gained an advocate on Capitol Hill with the establishment of the assistant secretary of defense for special operations and low intensity conflict (ASD-SOLIC).
Apr 24, 2020
Archaeologists verify Florida’s Mound Key as location of elusive Spanish fort
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: futurism
Florida and Georgia archaeologists have discovered the location of Fort San Antón de Carlos, home of one of the first Jesuit missions in North America. The Spanish fort was built in 1566 in the capital of the Calusa, the most powerful Native American tribe in the region, on present-day Mound Key in the center of Estero Bay on Florida’s Gulf Coast.
Archaeologists and historians have long suspected that the fort, named for the Catholic patron saint of lost things, was located on Mound Key. Researchers have been searching for concrete evidence in the area since 2013.
“Before our work, the only information we had was from Spanish documents, which suggested that the Calusa capital was on Mound Key and that Fort San Antón de Carlos was there, too,” said William Marquardt, curator emeritus of South Florida archaeology and ethnography at the Florida Museum of Natural History. “Archaeologists and historians had visited the site and collected pottery from the surface, but until we found physical evidence of the Calusa king’s house and the fort, we could not be absolutely certain.”
