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Feb 23, 2020

This is a newspaper story about C

Posted by in categories: energy, military

Earl Ammann and his ‘atmospheric generator’ powered car:

Denver Post — Monday, August 8, 1921 Denver Man Invents Generator That Takes Electricity From Air & Propels Automobile Believes He has Apparatus that will Revolutionize Power & Lighting & Gives it a Test on Streets of City.

Has an invention been made that will revolutionize the electrical world? Will the apparatus conceived by a Denver man light buildings, run automobiles, battleships, power plants by the unlimited supply of electricity in the air? Denver electrical experts say “yes”, and the young inventor, C. Earl Ammann, Monday demonstrated his invention by attaching it to an old automobile and running it about the city.

Feb 23, 2020

RAFT 2035: Roadmap to Abundance, Flourishing, and Transcendence, by 2035 by David Wood

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, drones, information science, nanotechnology, robotics/AI

I’ve been reading an excellent book by David Wood, entitled, which was recommended by my pal Steele Hawes. I’ve come to an excellent segment of the book that I will quote now.

“One particular challenge that international trustable monitoring needs to address is the risk of more ever powerful weapon systems being placed under autonomous control by AI systems. New weapons systems, such as swarms of miniature drones, increasingly change their configuration at speeds faster than human reactions can follow. This will lead to increased pressures to transfer control of these systems, at critical moments, from human overseers to AI algorithms. Each individual step along the journey from total human oversight to minimal human oversight might be justified, on grounds of a balance of risk and reward. However, that series of individual decisions adds up to an overall change that is highly dangerous, given the potential for unforeseen defects or design flaws in the AI algorithms being used.”


The fifteen years from 2020 to 2035 could be the most turbulent of human history. Revolutions are gathering pace in four overlapping fields of technology: nanotech, biotech, infotech, and cognotech, or NBIC for short. In combination, these NBIC revolutions offer enormous new possibilities: enormous opportunities and enormous risks.

Feb 23, 2020

Philip Haney, DHS whistleblower, found dead, police say

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, security, weapons

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) whistleblower Philip Haney was found dead in Amador County, Calif., on Friday, according to local authorities.

Haney, 66, “appeared to have suffered a single, self-inflicted gunshot wound,” the Amador County Sheriff’s Office said in a release. Sheriff and coroner Martin A. Ryan shared the initial details of the case.

“On February 21, 2020 at approximately 1012 hours, deputies and detectives responded to the area of Highway 124 and Highway 16 in Plymouth to the report of a male subject on the ground with a gunshot wound,” the release read.

Feb 23, 2020

Scientists Found Breathable Oxygen in Another Galaxy for the First Time

Posted by in category: space

Molecular oxygen is a key component of the air humans breathe, and now astronomers have spotted it a half-billion light years away. But don’t hold your breath for quasar whippets.

Feb 23, 2020

Rejuvenate Bio launches to help dogs live longer, healthier lives

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, life extension

“Science hasn’t yet found a way to make complex animals like dogs live forever, so the next best thing we can do is find a way to maintain health for as long as possible during the aging process,” said Church.

And the goal was for this to hit a market and use the income to pay for human trials lasting 10 years.


Combination gene therapy developed at Wyss Institute and Harvard Medical School treats four age-related conditions.

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Feb 23, 2020

AI Just Discovered a New Antibiotic to Kill the World’s Nastiest Bacteria

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, information science, robotics/AI

An AI algorithm found an antibiotic that wipes out dozens of bacterial strains, including some of the most dangerous drug-resistant bacteria in the world.

Feb 23, 2020

AI discovers antibiotic that kills even highly resistant bacteria

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, robotics/AI

The machine learning invention could wipe out resistant bacteria strains.

Feb 23, 2020

Los Angeles: Healthy Aging

Posted by in category: life extension

Ira Pastor, ideaXme exponential health ambassador, interviews Ms. Laura Trejo, General Manager of Los Angeles’s Department Of Aging.

Ira Pastor Comments:

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Feb 23, 2020

A powerful new antibiotic discovered using machine learning

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, robotics/AI

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Feb 23, 2020

SubTv — Between the Rounds — DARPA Subterranean Challenge

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Robots are resting, but the #SubTChallenge humans are hard at work today, prepping the course for Round 2 of the Urban Circuit. Have questions about the SubT Challenge? Submit via #AskSubT. We’ll answer as many as we can 2pm ET/11am PT Sunday. Watch: