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Dec 13, 2020

Hybrid Spacecraft Could Send Humans to Habitable Exoplanets in 19 Years

Posted by in category: space travel

Interesting… 😃


We could reach a habitable exoplanet in 19 years! Check out what kind of spacecraft can do it.

Dec 13, 2020

New gravitational ‘superhighway’ system discovered in the Solar System

Posted by in category: space travel

A new ‘superhighway’ network running through the Solar System has been discovered by astronomers, and it could speed up space travel in the future.

Researchers from the University of California San Diego looked at the orbits of millions of bodies in our Solar System and computed how they fit together and interact.

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Dec 13, 2020

AI Trying To Design Inspirational Posters Goes Horribly And Hilariously Wrong

Posted by in categories: internet, robotics/AI, space

I think it has its own niche. 😃


Whenever an artificial intelligence (AI) does something well, we’re simultaneously impressed as we are worried. AlphaGO is a great example of this: a machine learning system that is better than any human at one of the world’s most complex games. Or what about Google’s neural networks that are able to create their own AIs autonomously?

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Dec 12, 2020

The Experimental Engine That Could Get Us Anywhere in the World in 2 Hours

Posted by in categories: futurism, transportation

Here’s our best hope for hypersonic flight yet: the sodramjet.


A Chinese-made “sodramjet” engine has reached nine times the speed of sound in a wind tunnel test. The engine could power an aircraft to reach anywhere in the world within two hours, the makers say.

➡ You love badass tech of the future. So do we. Let’s nerd out over this stuff together.

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Dec 12, 2020

The Indian Giant Squirrel is Almost Too Beautiful to be Real (Gallery)

Posted by in category: futurism

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When squirrel expert John Koprowski first saw a Malabar giant squirrel, also known as an Indian giant squirrel, he couldn’t believe his eyes.

Dec 12, 2020

Toyota to Release An Electric Car with 10 Minutes Fast Charging in 2021

Posted by in categories: sustainability, transportation

Electric cars from Toyota are coming! 😃


Toyota may have mastered the art of the solid-state battery. Get the details in here.

Dec 12, 2020

China eyes advanced ‘weather modification’ tech by 2025

Posted by in categories: food, geoengineering

Weather modification, according to the document, would support: forecasts of disasters such as drought and hailstorms, as well as zoning work in agricultural production areas; normal working plans for regions in need of ecological protection and restoration; and emergency response plans to deal with events such as forest or grassland fires, and unusually high temperature or droughts.


The country’s weather modification efforts would support emergency response plans to deal with events such as drought and hailstorms.

Dec 12, 2020

Mars Has Even Less Liquid Water Than Previously Thought

Posted by in category: space

New study upholds the view of Mars as a water-poor, frozen desert; devoid of liquid surface water.

Dec 12, 2020

Physicists Prove Anyons Exist, a Third Type of Particle in the Universe

Posted by in category: particle physics

Physicists give us an early view of a third kingdom of quasiparticles that only arise in two dimensions.

Dec 12, 2020

On the cutting edge: Carbon nanotube cutlery

Posted by in categories: biological, engineering, nanotechnology

Circa 2006 o.,o.


Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the University of Colorado at Boulder have designed a carbon nanotube knife that, in theory, would work like a tight-wire cheese slicer.

In a paper presented this month at the 2006 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, the research team announced a prototype nanoknife that could, in the future, become a tabletop tool of biology, allowing scientists to cut and study cells more precisely than they can today.

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