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Dec 29, 2021
The largest solar farm in Kentucky will be built on a former coal mine
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in categories: employment, solar power, sustainability
The largest solar project in Kentucky will be built on an abandoned coal mine in Martin County and provide jobs for former coal workers.
Dec 29, 2021
NASA: Webb’s precision launch, correction maneuvers will significantly extend 10-year lifetime
Posted by Alberto Lao in category: energy
The observatory should now have enough propellant to support science operations well past its 10-year science lifetime. The space agency said the precision of the Arianespace Ariane 5 launch resulted in less propellant being used than anticipated. A smooth mid-course correction maneuver after launch, which added approximately 45 mph to the craft’s speed, also helped conserve fuel.
A second correction burn occurred on December 27, speeding up Webb by 6.3 mph.
NASA said that from this point on, all scheduled deployments on Webb will be controlled by humans. This means their deployment, or even their order, could change. Webb at this point is a little over a day into a six-day process to unfold its sunshield.
Dec 29, 2021
SpaceX fires up Starship SN20 prototype again ahead of landmark test flight
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: space travel
SN20 continues to prep for a landmark orbital test flight.
The Starship SN20 vehicle performed a “static fire” test today (Dec. 29) at the company’s South Texas site, briefly igniting its Raptor engines while remaining anchored to the ground.
Dec 29, 2021
Timelapse video shows construction of 3D-printed home
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: habitats, materials
A Virginia family received the keys to their new 3D-printed home just in time for Christmas. The home is Habitat for Humanity’s first 3D-printed home in the nation, according to a Habitat news release. The 1,200-square-foot home has three bedrooms, two full baths and was built from concrete.
Dec 29, 2021
Educating the Citizens of the Universe
Posted by Julia Brodsky in categories: existential risks, law, robotics/AI
We live in a very fast-changing world and quite an unpredictable one. In part, it is because we got lots of technological powers while our brain stays just the same as in pre-technological times. What do we teach children in this world? How can we help them to reflect on their thinking, get wiser in using the new technological powers, develop growth mindset and resilience, see the big picture and the interconnections within the complex systems (be that our body, ecological system, or the whole Universe)? We are trying to address these issues by teaching space science, AI and cognitive science, and existential risks and opportunities to pre-teens. In three years, the kids get an opportunity to talk to some of the most prominent thinkers in the field, reflect on deep questions, develop connections with specialists from multiple fields, from space law to ecology to virology, present their work at conferences. Check out our classes:
Art of Inquiry is an Online Science School for Young Explorers. We teach inquiry, thinking skills, and cutting-edge science. Our speakers and consultants are distinguished experts from academia, AI and space industry.
Dec 29, 2021
First signature of a magnetosphere around an exoplanet
Posted by Future Timeline in category: space
The first known magnetic field around an exoplanet has been detected, surrounding the hot Neptune HAT-P-11b.
Dec 29, 2021
As we have long suspected: Evidence for Mycelial intelligence
Posted by Josh Seeherman in category: neuroscience
“The fungus in these experiments showed spatial recognition, memory and intelligence. It’s a conscious organism.”
Article: https://psyche.co/ideas/the-fungal-mind-on-the-evidence-for-…telligence.
(Clickable links at PaulStamets.com)
Nicholas P Money is a professor of biology and Western programme director at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.
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Dec 29, 2021
The future of AR isn’t in gaming. Here are 5 industries to watch
Posted by Kelvin Dafiaghor in categories: augmented reality, entertainment
Putting aside interactive filters and fantasy games, augmented reality has the potential to be a vital tool for future innovation.
Dec 29, 2021
Why the Webb telescope will stare into the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole
Posted by Atanas Atanasov in category: cosmology
The telescope will join the worldwide effort.
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) successfully launched on Saturday, and it will soon be ready to reveal parts of the universe that have never been seen before including a very large, but very broody, cosmic object at the center of the galaxy.
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