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Oct 6, 2020
NASA Develops a Computer Chip That Won’t Fry on Venus
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: robotics/AI, space
At 870 degrees Fahrenheit and 90 times Earth’s atmospheric pressure, we’re going to need something a little more robust than your Macbook to run future rovers.
Humanity has sent four rovers to Mars, and worldwide there are four more missions in the works to continue populating the red planet with robotic explorers. Why haven’t we sent a rover to Venus, our other next door planetary neighbor? Because the caustic surface of Venus will incinerate electronics with its 872º F temperatures and seize mechanical components with its immense atmospheric pressures. At 90 times the surface pressure of Earth, the surface of Venus is the equivalent of being almost 3,000 feet underwater.
The Great Galactic Ghoul might devour half the spacecraft we send to Mars, but Venus torched any ghouls living there long ago.
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Astrobiology students cultivated leafy greens, sweet potatoes, and even hops in simulated Martian dirt.
NASA and private entrepreneurs are pushing to land people on Mars within the next generation. To survive on Mars, colonists will need a lot of gear, not least of which is food. Since lugging food adds a lot of weight to spacecraft — and packaged food only retains its nutrients for so long, anyway — any would-be Martians will need to grow food on site in order to survive.
Oct 6, 2020
We are approaching the fastest, deepest, most consequential technological disruption in history
Posted by Eli Sklar in categories: economics, energy, food, governance, sex, transportation
The next decade is going to be a transforming decade as many many technologies (some of which we all like to share in this group) are converging and maturing enough to rearrange our society in almost any aspect we can conceive.
I’m calling to those who are interested in creating and implementing an alternative model for the current social and governance systems, let’s build an open state that we can all support and trust regardless of our age, sex, geographical location, or belief system.
In the next 10 years, key technologies will converge to completely disrupt the five foundational sectors—information, energy, food, transportation, and materials—that underpin our global economy. We need to make sure the disruption benefits everyone.
Oct 6, 2020
SpaceX in the News Episode 115
Posted by Malak Trabelsi Loeb in categories: internet, space travel
Today we catch up on all the latest Starship and Super Heavy updates. Go over recent Dragon news. Talk Starlink and other upcoming missions, and finish with today’s Honorable Mention.
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Does this make you feel uncomfortable?? Take a look at the tech 🤩 in this truck! Mercedes-Benz truck of the future…thoughts?
Oct 5, 2020
A Thai scientist and his family decide to cryonically freeze their cherished, dying toddler
Posted by Derick Lee in categories: cryonics, education, life extension
Oct 5, 2020
Tesla in talks with Vale to buy Canadian nickel for electric cars
Posted by Kelvin Dafiaghor in categories: Elon Musk, sustainability, transportation
Tesla CEO Elon Musk in July urged miners to produce more nickel, a key ingredient in the batteries that power the company’s electric cars. Musk offered a “giant contract” if supplies could be produced in an environmentally sensitive way.
While EVs are expected to help reduce global carbon emission, environmentalists are concerned that production of EV parts and increased mining may damage the environment.
Oct 5, 2020
Futurist Neologisms You Should Know As We Enter the Cybernetic Era
Posted by Alex Vikoulov in categories: neuroscience, robotics/AI, transhumanism
Terms such as ‘Artificial Intelligence’ or ‘Neurotechnology’ were new some time not so long ago. We can’t evolve faster than our language does. We think in concepts and evolution itself is a linguistic, code-theoretic process. Do yourself a humongous favor, look over these 33 transhumanist neologisms. Here’s a fairly comprehensive glossary of thirty three newly-introduced concepts and terms from The Syntellect Hypothesis: Five Paradigms of the Mind’s Evolution by Russian-Amer… See More.
Oct 5, 2020
Researchers find ‘Queen of the Ocean’ ancient great white shark off Nova Scotia coast
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: futurism
The shark, named Nukumi by researchers, is more than 17 feet long, 3,541 pounds and believed to be about 50-years-old.
Researchers off the coast of Nova Scotia found a nearly 2-ton great white shark believed to be roughly 50 years old, dubbing her a true “Queen of the Ocean.”
Coming in at more than 17 feet long and 3,541 pounds, she is the largest shark the group has been able to sample in the Northwest Atlantic, according to a Friday Facebook post by OCEARCH, a non-profit marine research organization. She’s been named Nukumi for “the legendary wise old grandmother figure” of the Indigenous Mi’kmaq people, a First Nations group native to that region of Canada.
