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Jun 23, 2019
You Can Now Buy A Practical Gauss Gun
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: robotics/AI, space travel
Occasionally we come across a piece of information which reminds us that, while flying cars are still nowhere to be found, we’re definitely living in the future. Usually it’s about some new application of artificial intelligence, or maybe another success in the rapidly developing field of private spaceflight. But sometimes it’s when you look at a website and say to yourself: “Oh cool, they have 1.5kW electromagnetic accelerators in stock.”
Arcflash Labs, a partnership between [David Wirth] and [Jason Murray], have put their EMG-01A Gauss gun up for sale for anyone who’s brave enough and willing to put down $1,000 USD on what’s essentially a high-tech BB gun. The creators claim it obtains an efficiency of 6.5% out of its RC-style 6S LiPo battery pack, which allows it to fire over 100 rounds before needing to be recharged. Firing 4.6g steel projectiles at a rather leisurely 45 m/s, this futuristic weapon would be more of a match for tin cans than invading alien forces, but at least you’ll be blasting those cans from a position of supreme technical superiority.
Jun 23, 2019
This Homemade Rail Gun Shoots ‘Ionized Plasma’ Bullets
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: energy
Of all the crazy garage-built weapons I’ve ever come across, this one from YouTuber/tinkerer Alex Smyth is definitely one of the craziest. Aside from the fact that it looks like a prop that was stolen from the set of District 9, Smyth’s “phased plasma” gun doesn’t just fire normal projectiles. It’s actually designed to fire rounds filled with ionized plasma, which in turn should, at least in theory, explode on impact.
If you’re unfamiliar, a railgun is a type of weapon that uses electricity instead of gunpowder to fire a projectile. Leveraging a phenomenon called the Lorentz Force, rail guns work by delivering a high power electric pulse to a pair of conductive rails, which in turn generates a magnetic field and rapidly accelerates the bullet situated between them.
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Jun 23, 2019
Would you like to be able to shoot laser beams out of your eyeballs like Superman?
Posted by Richard Christophr Saragoza in categories: entertainment, materials
The flexible lasers, less than a thousandth of a millimetre thick, work as free-standing films and can stick to different materials including banknotes and contact lenses.
https://www.gizmodo.com.au/…/science-has-peaked-we-can-now…/
Jun 23, 2019
Ministry of Defence appoints first female Chief Scientific Adviser
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: futurism
The Ministry of Defence has appointed an Oxford University professor as its first female Chief Scientific Adviser.
Dame Angela McLean, 58, will oversee the department’s core research programme and technology strategy in the role.
She has been a senior research fellow at Oxford University since 1990 and currently works on Theoretical Life Science at All Souls College.
Jun 23, 2019
How Jeff Bezos came up with the name ‘Blue Origin’
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: economics, space travel
What’s in a name? A little thought and a good cause, according to Jeff Bezos who was recently pressed about why he named his space company “Blue Origin.”
The Amazon founder recently spoke at the JFK Library for a fireside chat event. During the 50 minute conversation, he was asked about his other company, Blue Origin.
Jun 23, 2019
Carl Sagan’s Solar Sail Is Finally Ready To Fly
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: futurism
Jun 23, 2019
Nano-Tech in Mcdonald’s Fake So-Called All White Meat Chicken Nuggets
Posted by Richard Christophr Saragoza in categories: food, nanotechnology
Jun 23, 2019
The NSA Is Building An Artificial Intelligence System That Can Read Minds
Posted by Richard Christophr Saragoza in categories: computing, particle physics, privacy
Transistors are now the size of atoms.
Scary but real.
The NSA is working on a computer system that can predict what people are thinking.
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Jun 23, 2019
Freedom From Mental Slavery Photo
Posted by Richard Christophr Saragoza in categories: biotech/medical, computing, government, neuroscience
RFID in medical research helping researchers with lower error rates = better, more accurate results!
A CDC whistleblower has recently gone on record to expose nefarious government plans which would use the impending US Ebola pandemic as an opportunity to implant RFID technology in American citizens.
Brent Hopskins was a CDC contractor before coming forward with serious allegations against his former employer. Hopskins claims that an Ebola vaccine has been prepared for the general public in the form of disposable, one-use syringes. The downside, however, is that each of these syringes will contain not only the vaccine, but a micro RFID chip as well.