President Trump meets with the National Space Council at the White House. It is expected that the council will discuss the role of private organizations in space travel and exploration.
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Will you get sick next flu season?
According to new Stanford research, it may depend on how many natural killer cells you have: https://stan.md/2I2IDZx (Photo by Kelly Sikkema)
Cleansing thermonuclear fire
…” Because unlike Konopinski-Marvin-Teller, it (the paper) actually focuses on those “necessary conditions”: what would need to be different, if you did want to have a self-propagating reaction?
What would it take to turn the world into one big fusion reaction, wiping it clean of life and turning it into a barren rock? Asking for a friend.
World’s Biggest Battery Proposed in California
A California utility is seeking permission to have a company build the world’s largest battery, joining a growing list of power companies investing in storing electricity.
Pacific Gas & Electric Co., part of PG&E Corp., detailed plans for four storage projects totaling nearly 570 megawatts in a Friday filing to regulators, including a 300-megawatt battery installation at a natural-gas-fired power plant owned by Vistra Energy Corp.
AI Will Thrash the Economy Like a ‘Tsunami,’ Allstate CEO Says
Much Worse than that. And, thankfully, They are too foolish and greedy to stop.
Artificial intelligence is coming for the service economy, according to Allstate Corp. Chief Executive Officer Tom Wilson.
“It’s going to rip through this economy like a tsunami,” Wilson said Thursday in an interview on Bloomberg TV from Aspen, Colorado.
Automation will affect a wide swath of workers, from traders to taxi drivers. McKinsey & Co. estimates that more than 400 million people worldwide could be looking for work by 2030 because technology took their jobs.
China Extends Lead as Most Prolific Supercomputer Maker
China has 206 of the top 500 supercomputers — compared to the U.S.’s 124.
America is now home to the world’s speediest supercomputer. But the new list of the 500 swiftest machines underlines how much faster China is building them.
The list, published Monday, shows the Chinese companies and government pulling away as the most prolific producer of supercomputers, with 206 of the top 500. American corporations and the United States government designed and made 124 of the supercomputers on the list.
For years, the United States dominated the supercomputer market. But two years ago, China pulled even on the Top 500 list. China moved decisively ahead last fall and extended the gap in the latest tally.
Elon Musk: This is why we have to build civilizations in space
“Humanity is not perfect, but it’s all we’ve got,” the SpaceX and Tesla boss said.
To safeguard human life requires moving beyond the blue planet, in Musk’s view, because earth is likely to become uninhabitable.
“There will be some eventual extinction event” if humans stay on earth forever, Musk said in an article published in academic journal New Space, which was published online in June 2017.