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Aug 9, 2018
Anthropocene vs Meghalayan—why geologists are fighting over whether humans are a force of nature
Posted by Bill Kemp in category: climatology
https://youtube.com/watch?v=giIsJ1LhtLU
The Earth discovered it was living in a new slice of time called the Meghalayan Age in July 2018. But the announcement by the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS) confused and angered scientists all around the world.
In the 21st century, it claimed, we are still officially living in the Holocene Epoch, the warm period that began 11,700 years ago after the last ice age. But not only that: within the Holocene, we are also living in this new age – the Meghalayan – and it began 4,250 years ago.
If an earthbound technology might be revolutionary in space, what does it take to find out?
Aug 9, 2018
‘The Beginning of a Wave’: A.I. Tiptoes Into the Workplace
Posted by Derick Lee in categories: robotics/AI, transportation
But the grand work-changing projects of A.I., like self-driving cars and humanoid robots, are not yet commercial products. A more humble version of the technology, instead, is making its presence felt in a less glamorous place: the back office.
Artificial intelligence software is making its presence felt in subtle ways, in an unglamorous place: the back office.
Aug 9, 2018
NASA picks 13 companies to envision the future of orbital human spaceflight
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: futurism, space travel
Thirteen companies, including Boeing and Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture, will be doing studies for NASA on the future of commercial human spaceflight in low Earth orbit.
All of the studies are due in December, and are supposed to cost no more than $1 million each. NASA still has to negotiate the contract amounts with the study groups, but it expects the total cost of the effort to come in at around $11 million.
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Aug 8, 2018
Upcoming Perseid Meteor Shower Will Decorate Sky
Posted by Michael Lance in category: futurism
Watch this preview of the Perseid Meteror shower that’ll blaze through the sky this weekend.
Aug 8, 2018
ZS Mythos (3a/3): Twelve Foundation Stones
Posted by Mark Larkento in categories: entertainment, transhumanism
Transhumanity.net Social Futurism & the Zero State.
This article is part of a series about the Mythos (worldview-narrative) underlying the Zero State (ZS). Part 1 is about our highest concept, ideal, and level of organization, which we call The Array. Part 2 explains the Sections & Sessions our core activity revolves around, and Part 3 (below) covers the Twelve Foundation Stones that form the basis of our story.
A previous article I wrote for Tnet mentioned the need for entertainment that gives people a strong sense of meaning and purpose in their lives, and introduced an idea known as the twelve “Foundation Stones” of the ZS-ARG Mythos. The Foundation Stones are the seeds of our unifying narrative. Each is the fragmentary initial story of one of the twelve ZS Houses, outlined very briefly below and spelled out in full in the forthcoming Black Book.
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Aug 8, 2018
Egyptian students design car that runs on air
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: energy, transportation
CAIRO (Reuters) — A group of Egyptian students has designed a vehicle they say will battle rising energy prices and promote clean energy by running on nothing but air.