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Jul 1, 2018
Musk’s Kent solar farm is green lunacy
Posted by Ian D. Pearson in categories: food, solar power, sustainability
Solar farms in Texas or California are fine, but Kent in England?
Solar farms should be placed in desert regions that have low value for growing food, and relatively low value to nature. Musk plans to install a massive solar farm in nice green Kent, where it is occasionally a little bit sunny. Look at the pics here:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5905675/Elon-Musk-bu…plans.html is simply green lunacy.
Jul 1, 2018
Astronaut Mark Kelly says Trump’s order to create a Space Force ‘is a dumb idea’
Posted by Michael Lance in categories: military, space
The US already has the Air Force Space Command and the Space Mission Force.
President Donald Trump on Monday said he wanted to create a sixth military division called the Space Force. But Mark Kelly, a retired NASA astronaut and Navy veteran, tweeted that it was “a dumb idea” because the US Air Force already has a Space Command and a space force.
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Jul 1, 2018
Google sister company and drug giant chip in another $1 billion to cure age-related diseases
Posted by Derick Lee in categories: biotech/medical, computing, life extension
Jul 1, 2018
The True Science of Parallel Universes
Posted by Michael Lance in categories: cosmology, science
Jun 30, 2018
Gateway Foundation Spaceport envisions large scale space construction
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: habitats, space
Jun 30, 2018
Rocket developed by Japan startup in flames after liftoff
Posted by Michael Lance in category: space travel
TOKYO, Japan — A rocket developed by a Japanese startup company burst into flames seconds after a failed liftoff Saturday in northern Japan.
The MOMO-2 rocket, developed by Interstellar Technologies, was launched in Taiki town on Hokkaido, Japan’s northernmost main island. It was supposed to reach as high as 100 kilometers (62 miles) into space.
Television footage showed that the 10-meter (33-foot) pencil rocket lifted only slightly from its launch pad before dropping to the ground, disappearing in a fireball. Footage on NHK public television showed a charred rocket lying on the ground.
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Jun 30, 2018
Oxygen On Earth Originated A Billion Years Earlier Than We Thought
Posted by Michael Lance in category: futurism
Jun 30, 2018
This AI Just Beat Human Doctors On A Clinical Exam
Posted by Nicholi Avery in categories: biotech/medical, robotics/AI
Jun 30, 2018
Faraday Future gets a $2 billion lifeline to build expensive crossover
Posted by Bill Kemp in categories: finance, health, sustainability, transportation
Faraday Future, the fledgling Tesla competitor working to build a $300,000 electric SUV, has been thrown a financial lifeline.
Evergrande Health, a division of a large Hong Kong conglomerate, has committed to invest $2 billion to keep alive the all-electric luxury SUV project, according to a report in TechCrunch.
Faraday Future showed off its ultra-futuristic—and ultra expensive—FF91 electric SUV at the 2017 CES show, but has struggled to bring the car to market.
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