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Oct 15, 2022

Inclusive Integrated Information Theory?

Posted by in category: futurism

Is a molecule conscious? Is Gaia conscious? Are you?

Oct 15, 2022

Carl Sagan — Cosmos — Eratosthenes

Posted by in category: futurism

Oct 15, 2022

Cleared For Take-Off: Israel Flies World’s First All-Electric Airplane

Posted by in categories: sustainability, transportation

Eviation was the first to reach the aviation milestone, with an electric plane designed from scratch that took to the skies September 27th.

Oct 15, 2022

Man plays his saxophone through 9-hour, “very, very complex” brain surgery to remove tumor

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience

For the lead doctor, it was an opportunity not only to heal a patient, but to map real-time brain activity during “high cognitive function.”

Oct 15, 2022

Alzheimer’s disease: surprising new theory about what might cause it

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience

In 1906, Alois Alzheimer, a psychiatrist and neuroanatomist, reported “a peculiar severe disease process of the cerebral cortex” to a gathering of psychiatrists in Tübingen, Germany. The case was a 50-year-old woman who suffered from memory loss, delusions, hallucinations, aggression and confusion – all of which worsened until her untimely death five years later.

Oct 15, 2022

What if a Human Lived 1,000 Years?😱

Posted by in categories: drones, education, robotics/AI, sustainability

Hi, if you came to this video, you’re probably wondering what would happen if a man lived 1,000 years or more? What possibilities would be open to mankind and how many useful things could be done, if such a thing were possible? Well, then make some tea, make yourself comfortable, and let’s go!

00:00 — Intro.
00:36 — Problems we will face.
2:07 — Is it possible to realize this?
3:19 — How to make it happen?
5:27 — Repair System.
7:26 — Is humanity ready for such a long life?
8:55 — Final.

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Oct 15, 2022

Stable Diffusion VR is a startling vision of the future of gaming

Posted by in categories: augmented reality, information science, robotics/AI, virtual reality

A while ago I spotted someone working on real time AI image generation in VR and I had to bring it to your attention because frankly, I cannot express how majestic it is to watch AI-modulated AR shifting the world before us into glorious, emergent dreamscapes.

Applying AI to augmented or virtual reality isn’t a novel concept, but there have been certain limitations in applying it—computing power being one of the major barriers to its practical usage. Stable Diffusion image generation software, however, is a boiled-down algorithm for use on consumer-level hardware and has been released on a Creative ML OpenRAIL-M licence. That means not only can developers use the tech to create and launch programs without renting huge amounts of server silicon, but they’re also free to profit from their creations.

Oct 15, 2022

Space For All: From Goal to Reality

Posted by in categories: government, security, space travel, sustainability

Of their yearly balance of about €3 million, nearly the entirely is spent on the main congress and other events and conferences. Over the last few years, addressing geography, generation, and gender equities (3G), the International Astronautical Federation established itself as the youngest and most diverse space organization in the world. Over the same period, the IAF President Pascale Ehrenfreund, has pushed her excellent Global Innovation Agenda which “has brought emerging countries to our space family through conferences, expanded work with partner organizations, and created innovative systems for sharing information among members” [1].In his first newsletter [2] the incumbent President, Clay Mowry, communicated the IAF agenda for next 3 years: “Sustainability, Investment and Security”. According to Mowry, “the IAF should seek to influence conversations around the sustainability of the space environment. Securing orbits, spacecraft, frequencies, and physical resources is critical to the future viability of space exploration.” And: “The coming three years will see a shift towards the commercial development of low Earth orbit and major push to field systems in lunar orbits and on the surface of the Moon. We must be prepared to tackle the challenges of growing investment in the space sector head-on. Security refers to the freedom to operate safely in the space domain. Without it, investors and nation states can hardly be expected to pour the continued resources and attention required to secure humanity’s future beyond Earth.”

An agenda oriented to civilian space development? We may say yes, moderately. We want to encourage and further develop this orientation, and we’ll do our best to move IAF more on the side of human expansion into the Geo-Lunar space and the Solar System.

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Oct 15, 2022

West makes plans to avoid panic if Russia uses nuclear bomb in Ukraine

Posted by in category: military

Its still too early for nukes. i expect some weird event to escalate into a full scale conventional war between Russia vs. Nato; Russia will attempt an invasion into europe. When that takes place China decides might as well try an invasion across asia. India will be issue in doubt. All ^ above will last 3 to 6 months. Nukes will be end of it, when it takes place, ignore Anyone tellin you to Stay Inside of a blast zone, and run.


Western officials are engaged in “prudent planning” behind the scenes to prevent chaos and panic in their home countries in the event Russia was to detonate a nuclear bomb in or near Ukraine.

Although a nuclear crisis is considered highly unlikely, the insider said officials internationally were re-examining plans to provide emergency support and reassurance to populations fearful of nuclear escalation.

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Oct 15, 2022

Electroporation and cell killing

Posted by in category: futurism

All strength-duration curves expectedly climbed as pulse duration decreased (Fig. 9 A). The nerve stimulation thresholds rose much faster (similar to findings with H-FIRE17), thereby decreasing the ratio of cell killing and excitation thresholds for shorter pulses (Fig. 9 B). Nanosecond pulses showed a profound and unequivocal advantage over conventional 100-µs pulses: The ratio of cell killing and excitation thresholds dropped from as high as 500 for unipolar 100-µs pulses to 13 for unipolar 150-ns pulses. Engaging bipolar cancellation further decreased this ratio to only 4 for bipolar 150 ns pulses (Fig. 9 B). Thus, bipolar nanosecond pulses are the best choice for the reduction of neuromuscular stimulation from PEF ablation.

The stimulation boundaries for ablation with different pulse durations and shapes are illustrated by a hypothetical example in Fig. 10. Based on data in Fig. 9 and numerical simulations of the electric field distribution, we explored how far electrostimulation will reach from an ablation area. A tumor 0.7 cm in diameter was placed between two needle electrodes (0.5-cm diameter, 1.7-cm center-to-center distance) for ablation by PEF, and 300 pulses were delivered at the minimum amplitude needed for tumor ablation. Nerve stimulation occurred within a range of about 2 cm for bipolar 200-ns pulses, but as far as 20 cm away for unipolar 100-µs pulses.