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Alternate history has never been more entertaining than in the hit Apple TV+ series, “For All Mankind.” The science fiction television show is so popular that it was renewed for a fourth season even before Season 3 ended on August 12, 2022.

Unlike most science fiction, “For All Mankind” re-imagines the past instead of envisioning the future. Starting in the 1960s and running through the 1990s in Season 3, the series is built around the space race that began with the United States and the Soviet Union competing to reach the moon. But in the fantastical world created by “For All Mankind,” things turn out very differently. Here are five fictional realities showing how the series cleverly rewrites history.

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Acoustic location was used from mid-WW1 to the early years of WW2 for the passive detection of aircraft by picking up the noise of the engines.

Passive acoustic location involves the detection of sound or vibration created by the object being detected, which is then analyzed to determine the location of the object in question.

“Imagine how techology we see as innovative today will look to people in the future”

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Summary: A new predictive model is able to determine who will change their minds about contentious scientific information when presented with evidence-based research.

Source: Santa Fe Institute.

A new kind of predictive network model could help determine which people will change their minds about contentious scientific issues when presented with evidence-based information.

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Discussion panel with:
- Swati Chavda, a science fiction writer and former brain surgeon.
- Ron S. Friedman, a science fiction writer and an Information Technologies Specialist.

August 13th 2022, When Words Collide festival.

#booktube #authortube #writingtube #braincomputerinterface #neuralink.

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Meet ROSS, Russia’s new space station.

But unlike the ISS, ROSS won’t have permanent residents year-round. Instead, it will only host cosmonauts “twice a year for extended periods,” according to Reuters.

ROSS is still years out and shrouded in secrecy, so it’s hard to predict exactly how the new space station could surpass the ISS’s capabilities.

Roscosmos officials have told Russian state media that the station will likely orbit at higher latitudes than the ISS does. This could offer a better view of the Earth’s polar regions, which Russian researchers could analyze with optical, infrared, ultraviolet instruments. After all, Russia’s borders cover 53 percent of the Arctic Ocean’s entire coastline, and the country likely wants to use ROSS to chart northern sea routes as climate change melts Arctic sea ice.

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This Friday, Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg has shared another post on Instagram after being trolled for the previous one. He stated that Meta is actually working on the graphics, which seemed literally “poor” in the first image.

Must have seen all the mockings and the memes about the amateur-looking picture.

Mark Zuckerberg shared a post on Instagram: “Major updates to Horizon and avatar graphics coming soon. I’ll share more at Connect. Also, I know the photo I posted earlier this week was pretty basic — it was taken very quickly to celebrate a launch. The graphics in Horizon are capable of much more — even on headsets — and Horizon is improving very quickly.”. Follow their account to see 239 posts.

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