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Nov 18, 2019

Third case of plague linked to Black Death found in China after hunter eats wild rabbit

Posted by in category: food

Plague reported after hunter eats wild rabbit is third such case of the illness in China this month. Officials said it is not linked to the other cases.

Nov 18, 2019

ALL Magnet Motor

Posted by in category: materials

This 13-year-old All Magnet Motor produces the acceleration, torque, and inertia to do work in the form of 3-phase electrical output, rectified for the purpose of charging high capacity Graphene Supercapacitors instead of lithium batteries. https://www.quantamagneticstore.com/

Nov 18, 2019

Google claims it has created the world’s most powerful quantum computer

Posted by in categories: computing, quantum physics

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Nov 18, 2019

(LIVE) EMYLE — “Walk On The Moon”

Posted by in category: space

Will they be singing this “up there” in a few years? smile


An original song performed live by EMYLE 11/18/19

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Nov 18, 2019

Can you trick yourself into feeling healthy?

Posted by in category: futurism

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Nov 18, 2019

Zoltan Istvan, Donald Trump’s new GOP challenger for president, wants you to live forever

Posted by in categories: geopolitics, life extension, transhumanism

Some important news out today, and we hope to have an official announcement in the next 24 hours or so as my team makes final preparations. Thank you for your support!


Zoltan Istvan, a leader of the transhumanist movement to merge humans with technology, is challenging Trump with a plan for America that’s beyond radical.

Nov 18, 2019

TJ Wass, futurist, political scientist, early adopter

Posted by in category: transhumanism

#IAmTranshuman and here is my story: https://iamtranshuman.org/2019/11/15/tj-wass/

Nov 18, 2019

Gravitational Waves Could Uncover Missing-Link Black Holes

Posted by in categories: cosmology, mathematics, physics

Scientists hope that the future of gravitational wave detection will allow them to directly observe a mysterious kind of black hole.

Gravitational wave detectors have seen direct evidence of black holes with roughly the mass of giant stars, while the Event Horizon Telescope produced an image of a supermassive black hole billions of times the mass of our Sun. But in the middle are intermediate-mass black holes, or IMBHs, which weigh between 100 and 100,000 times the mass of the Sun and have yet to be directly observed. Researchers hope that their new mathematical work will “pave the way” for future research into these black holes using gravitational wave detectors, according to the paper published today in Nature Astronomy.

Nov 18, 2019

Nanoracks just booked a SpaceX launch to demo tech that turns used spacecraft into orbital habitats

Posted by in categories: habitats, robotics/AI, space travel

SpaceX is going to launch a payload for client Nanoracks aboard one of its new rideshare missions, currently targeting late 2020, that will demonstrate a very ambitious piece of tech from the commercial space station company. Nanoracks is sending up a payload platform that will show off how it can use a robot to cut material very similar to the upper stages used in orbital spacecraft — something Nanoracks wants to eventually due to help convert these spent and discarded stages (sometimes called “space tugs” because they generally move payloads from one area of orbit to another) into orbital research stations, habitats and more.

The demonstration mission is part of Nanoracks’ “Space Outpost Program,” which aims to address the future need for in-space orbital commercial platforms by also simultaneously making use of existing vehicles and materials designed specifically for space. Through use of the upper stages of spacecraft left behind in orbit, the company hopes to show how it one day might be able to greatly reduce the costs of setting up in-space stations and habitats, broadening the potential access of these kinds of facilities for commercial space companies.

This will be the first-ever demonstration of structural metal cutting in space, provided the demo goes as planned, and it could be a key technology not just for establishing more permanent research families in Earth’s orbit, but also for setting up infrastructure to help us get to, and stay at, other interstellar destinations like the Moon and Mars.

Nov 18, 2019

Scientists discover body’s protection shield

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, chemistry

Scientists have discovered a way to manipulate the body’s own immune response to boost tissue repair. The findings, published in Current Biology today, reveal a new network of protective factors to shield cells against damage. This discovery, made by University of Bristol researchers, could significantly benefit patients undergoing surgery by speeding recovery times and lowering the risk of complication.

When a is damaged, (either accidentally or through surgery), the body quickly recruits to the injury site where they fight infection by engulfing and killing invading pathogens, through the release of toxic factors (such as unstable molecules containing oxygen known as “reactive oxygen species” e.g. peroxides). However, these bactericidal products are also highly toxic to the host tissue and can disrupt the repair process. To counteract these the repairing tissue activates powerful protective machinery to “shield” itself from the damage.

Now, researchers from Bristol’s School of Biochemistry studying , have mapped the exact identities of these protective pathways and identified how to stimulate this process in naïve tissues.