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Nov 1, 2018
Danish physicists claim to cast doubt on detection of gravitational waves
Posted by Michael Lance in categories: physics, space
“The first direct detection of gravitational waves was announced on February 11, 2016, spawned headlines around the world, snagged the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics, and officially launched a new era of so-called “multi-messenger” astronomy. But a team of physicists at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, Denmark, is calling that detection into question…”
“Andrew Jackson and his group have been saying for the past few years that LIGO’s detections are not real,” says LIGO Executive Director David Reitze of Caltech. “Their analysis has been looked at by many people who have all concluded there is absolutely no validity to their claims.” Reitze characterized the New Scientist article as “very biased and sensational.”
“Nothing they’ve done gives us any reason to doubt our results.”
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Nov 1, 2018
There’s a modern space race between Pakistan and India
Posted by Michael Lance in category: space
Nov 1, 2018
Google Home Assistant Brings Disney Books To Life Using Artificial Intelligence
Posted by Michael Lance in category: robotics/AI
Nov 1, 2018
There’s a region over South America where NASA shuts down its satellites
Posted by Michael Lance in category: satellites
It’s called the South Atlantic Anomaly.
The closest radiation belt to Earth roams above South America. It is called the South Atlantic Anomaly and gives off high levels of radiation that has been known to destroy satellites.
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Nov 1, 2018
Bioquark Inc. — Eat This, Not That! — Ira Pastor
Posted by Ira S. Pastor in categories: aging, biotech/medical, chemistry, DNA, genetics, health, life extension, neuroscience, science, transhumanism
Tags: aging, anti-aging, bioquantine, bioquark, biotech, diet, health, nutrition, reanima, reanimation, regenerage, regeneration, wellness
Nov 1, 2018
I did a live 15 minute interview on Armenia’s Public TV and the country’s most popular morning show
Posted by Zoltan Istvan in categories: innovation, transhumanism
I did a live 15 minute interview on Armenia’s Public TV and the country’s most popular morning show, sharing information about transhumanism and the FAST Global Innovation Forum I spoke at. Give it a watch here:
Oct 31, 2018
Diwata-2 successfully launched to space, makes first contact
Posted by Michael Lance in categories: energy, satellites
Contact successful!
Diwata-2 was successfully launched to space on October 29, 2018 at 12:08 GMT+08 from the Tanegashima Space Center in Japan via H-IIA F40 rocket. It is one of the small satellites piggybacked with the main payloads IBUKI-2, also known as GOSAT-2 (JAXA’s Second Greenhouse Gases Observing Satellite), and KhalifaSat, a remote sensing Earth observation satellite developed by the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC) in the United Arab Emirates. The other small satellites are the Japanese-made Tenkou, PROITERES-2, Stars-AO, and AUTcube-2. Diwata-2 was inserted into the Sun-Synchronous Orbit at an altitude of 621 km, 43 minutes and 20 seconds after rocket lift-off.
On Oct 29, 2018 at 13:52 GMT+08, initial contact was established between Diwata-2 and the Ground Receiving Station (GRS) located at the Department of Science and Technology Advanced Science and Technology Institute (DOST-ASTI). Short telemetry data was received from the satellite on that day. Diwata-2 was initially tracked using pre-launch orbital parameters. As of 12:40 PM yesterday, October 31, 2018, the GRS can now read the satellite’s status, including vital signs such as fully charged batteries, normal power consumption, and good communication link. Commands were successfully sent and initial check procedures will continue throughout the first week from launch. Initial image captures from the cameras can be expected in the coming days.
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