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Feb 24, 2020
BREAKING: Strong Earthquake (4.8R) rockes South Italy
Posted by Prem Vijaywargi in category: futurism
A relatively intense earthquake was recorded today at 17.02, on central Calabria on the Sila massif. The earthquake was clearly felt over much of the region.
Feb 24, 2020
Lockheed to obtain Vector satellite assets
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: law, satellites
WASHINGTON — Lockheed Martin will acquire the satellite technology assets of Vector by default after a bankruptcy court received no qualified bids by a deadline last week.
In a Feb. 24 filing in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware, lawyers overseeing the bankruptcy proceedings for Vector said that they received no qualifying bids for the company’s GalacticSky software-defined spacecraft technology by a Feb. 21 deadline.
As a result, Lockheed Martin, which provided debtor-in-possession financing when Vector filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in December, will obtain the assets with a “stalking horse” bid of $4.25 million, according to the terms of a Jan. 24 filing. That deal will be finalized at a Feb. 28 court hearing.
Feb 24, 2020
3,000-year-old Canaanite temple discovered in buried city in Israel
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: futurism
A 3,000-year-old temple, built by the Canaanites around the time of the ancient Israelite invasion, has been unearthed in southern Israel.
Feb 24, 2020
Patents Secured for Revolutionary Nuclear Fusion Technology
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: materials, nuclear energy
Scientists in Australia are making some astonishing claims about a new nuclear reactor technology. Startup HB11, which spun out of the University of New South Wales, has applied for and received patents in the U.S., Japan, and China so far. The company’s technology uses lasers to trigger a nuclear fusion reaction in hydrogen and boron—purportedly with no radioactive fuel required. The secret is a cutting-edge laser and, well, an element of luck.
The laser doesn’t heat the materials. Instead, it speeds up the hydrogen to the point where it (hopefully) collides with the boron to begin a reaction.
Feb 24, 2020
Scientists Jump-Started Consciousness in Monkeys
Posted by Kelvin Dafiaghor in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience
Built on decades of previous research, a team from the University of Wisconsin-Madison teased out a tiny chunk of brain tissue within the thalamus, a nub above the brain stem, as a critical part of NCC. As proof of concept, they gave it several bouts of electrical shocks, and restored awareness in unconscious monkeys under heavy anesthesia.
The crux? As soon as the electrical stimulation stopped, the monkeys’ awareness also slipped away.
Although the thalamus has long been thought of as somehow involved in supporting consciousness, the study is one of the first to pinpoint exact neural circuits—highways between the thalamus and parts of the cortex—as “switches” for consciousness that we can control using brain stimulation. And that’s wonderful news for comatose patients.
Feb 24, 2020
The ultra-rich are investing in companies trying to reverse aging. Is it going to work?
Posted by Kelvin Dafiaghor in categories: biotech/medical, life extension
If you can’t defeat death, what if you could postpone it, or at least postpone the diseases commonly associated with getting old?
Many people, especially the ultra-wealthy in Silicon Valley, are investing money into companies trying to answer exactly those questions.
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and billionaire PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel have both invested in South San Francisco-based Unity Biotechnology, a company whose mission is to “extend human healthspan, the period in one’s life unburdened by the disease of aging.”
Feb 24, 2020
Kike Santillana added a new photo
Posted by Prem Vijaywargi in category: biotech/medical
Super Market of Italy Empty fear of coronavirus.
La gente en milan Italia esta vaciando los supermercados después del brote de coronavirus al norte de italia.
Feb 24, 2020
Automation vs. Jobs: The Long and the Short of It
Posted by Mark Sackler in categories: employment, robotics/AI
This chapter appears concurrently in Age of Robots and includes content and quotes garnered from interviews with James J. Hughes, Jerome Glenn, Ian Pearson, Richard Yonck, John C. Havens and Alexandra Whittington on the Seeking Delphi™ podcast between April of 2017 and November of 2018. **.
Feb 24, 2020
Passive space debris removal using drag sail deorbiting technology
Posted by Roderick Reilly in category: satellites
There are currently about 22,000 tracked objects in LEO, some of which are smaller than one centimeter. The focus of many current plans has been on the active removal of current debris.
But with a projected 57,000 new satellites expected to launch by 2029, the question becomes: how to prevent new debris? Currently, at Purdue University’s School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, David Spencer and his team are working on a passive debris removal system using drag sail deorbiting technology where these passive deorbiting systems are embedded within a spacecraft for deorbiting at the end of the spacecraft’s lifetime.
Licensed by Vestigo Aerospace and funded through a Purdue University Research Foundation grant, Spencer and his team hope to launch a drag sail prototype with Texas-based Firefly Aerospace, no earlier than this April. Right now, Spencer is the project and mission of LightSail 2, a solar sail currently in orbit.