Linksthroughspace has the Carnival of Space 268 Nextbigfuture – A Hypervelocity Asteroid Intercept Vehicle (HAIV) mission architecture, which blends a hypervelocity kinetic impactor with a subsurface nuclear explosion for optimal fragmentation and dispersion of hazardous near-Earth objects (NEOs), has been developed through a 2011 NIAC Phase I study. Despite the uncertainties inherent to the nuclear …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Starry Critters is hosting the Carnival of Space 171 This site provided the interview of John Hunter of Quicklaunch.Quicklaunch is hoping to create a method for launching unmanned payloads into orbit for $500 per pound. The Quicklaunch approach shoots payloads into orbit using a large hydrogen …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Eliezer Yudkowsky on Simplified Humanism and Positive Futurism I will discuss a complex of related ideas that together form a more powerful whole: The idea of an upward-sloping future, as opposed to a worldview that locates utopia in the past and sees an inevitable downward slope …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software The Carnival of Nuclear Energy 14 is up at the Nuclear Energy Institute blog NNadir is now blogging at Nuclear Green and has an article about Whither the Steel. NNadir discussed a number of topics including “one of [his] favorite things to do”: discredit Amory Lovins …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software The Carnival of Space 166 is up at the Gishbar Times This site provided these two articles: High school student Erika DeBenedictis made prototype software for calculating and navigating low energy orbits using gravitational manifolds. This will enable autonomous robotic spacecraft to go anywhere in the …