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Aug 25, 2016
Aubrey De Grey — The Need to Dispel Longevity Sticker Shock
Posted by Steve Hill in categories: biotech/medical, life extension
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6eDDIyS_EA
Longevity sticker shock is holding back progress in rejuvenation biotechnology.
Filmed at BIL 2016 in Los Angeles.
Aug 25, 2016
Turkish court orders takeover of opposition media group
Posted by Karen Hurst in category: terrorism
Although this is an old article; it does raise an ongoing question about Social Media Companies and the US Government’s battle with terrorism and other mass murders who often use social media. Could Social Media Companies be pushing their luck within the US as well as other countries battling terrorism by not shutting down people’s pages who have ties to terrorism or promoting murder?
Feel free to respond because I want to hear others perspective on this important topic that many are having to figure out.
(2÷3) Amb Bass: Also watching with concern reports of teargas and rubber bullets against those protesting the takeover.— US Embassy Turkey (@USEmbassyTurkey) March 5, 2016
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Aug 25, 2016
First test of Breakthrough Starshot interstellar probe highlights likely damage due to gas and dust
Posted by Andreas Matt in categories: particle physics, space travel
(Phys.org)—A small team of researchers at Harvard University who are part of the Breakthrough Starshot team has been testing the likely damage to an interstellar spacecraft traveling at approximately one-fifth the speed of light as it makes its way to the Alpha Centauri star system. As they note in a paper describing their testing and results, which was uploaded to the arXiv preprint server, such damage could be catastrophic, but they believe they have a solution.
Earlier this year, Russian billionaire Yuri Milner announced to the world that he wants to send a probe to the Alpha Centauri star system—he put up $100 million of his own money to get the ball rolling on what is expected to be a multi-billion-dollar effort. At the time of the announcement, Milner told the press that his team of advisors had identified 20 main challenges that would have to be overcome in order for such a mission to be a success. In this new effort, the researchers have addressed one of those challenges—assessing the likely damage to the craft due to space dust and gases, and offering solutions to the problem.
The preliminary working design of a space probe able to travel at ∼0.2c is little more than a circuit board that has come to be known as a wafersat—it would be attached to a light sail that would be the target of a laser sent from Earth to push it during the initial part of the journey. The wavsat would be made mostly of graphite and quartz. Thus, the researchers focused the bulk of their testing on these two materials. They discovered that particles of space dust hit by the craft would mostly come in the form of collections of heavy atoms rather than particles—those collisions would cause two problems. The first would be the creation of pits on the surface of the craft, which would result in loss of material (up to 30 percent of the entire craft might be lost).
Aug 25, 2016
How Do You Know Your Lab-Grown Burger Is Safe To Eat? — By Jamie Condliffe | MIT Technology Review
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in categories: business, futurism, government, innovation
“Startups are making realistic lab-grown foods, but government food regulators aren’t sure how to police them.”
Aug 25, 2016
Forget ‘great,’ presidential hopeful Zoltan Istvan wants to make America immortal
Posted by Zoltan Istvan in categories: geopolitics, life extension, transhumanism
New feature story on transhumanism out on Digital Trends:
Zoltan Istvan is the Transhumanist party leader and independent candidate for the forthcoming U.S. elections. And he wants you to live forever.
What would we do if an asteroid was coming directly towards Earth?
Don’t worry, NASA has a plan.
Aug 25, 2016
China Eyes Manned Radar Station on the Moon
Posted by Dan Kummer in category: space travel
This is about the only thing that will kick start the US space program back to life.
Even though the #US was the first to make it to the #moon, #China might be the first to have man live there. #spaceexploration
Aug 25, 2016
Remote-controlled and crewless: is this the cargo ship of the future?
Posted by Dan Kummer in categories: robotics/AI, transportation
The future of cargo transportation will be autonomous, according to Rolls-Royce, which has revealed plans for a remote-controlled, unmanned ship that could take to the seas as early as 2020.