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October 16, 2017 |
brian wang |
Elon Musk answered questions about the Spacex BFR, Raptor Engine, Mars colonization and other space related topics. Here are Elon Musks answers to questions. * Elon on space radiation – Ambient radiation damage is not significant for our transit times. …
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October 15, 2017 |
brian wang |
Ray Kurzweil and Peter Diamandis presented an Abundance 360 webinar on Friday, October 13 on mind-boggling predictions and transformative (even “dangerous”) ideas. They discussed * Radical life extension * space * artificial intelligence * uplifting the developed world with internet …
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October 15, 2017 |
brian wang |
President Vladimir Putin has officially stated that Russia will issue its own ‘CryptoRuble’ at a closed door meeting in Moscow, according to local russian news sources (via Cointelegraph). The news broke through Minister of Communications Nikolay Nikiforov. The state issued …
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October 15, 2017 |
brian wang |
The Zilliqa team expanded their network to 3,600 nodes (6 shards), and they observed a peak throughput of 2,488 transactions per second. Zilliqa is a blockchain developed by National University of Singapore researchers. They are planning to write another article …
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October 15, 2017 |
brian wang |
In 2016, China developed its first 20,000-watt fiber laser, which will help to reduce the cost of such machines by 40 percent. Yan Dapeng, with the Fourth Research Institute of China Aerospace Science and Industry Corp, said the breakthrough had …
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October 15, 2017 |
brian wang |
The full virtual reality demo for Blade Runner 2049: Memory Lab is below. It was captured on the Oculus Rift, this free demo releases on October 19th. Blade Runner 2049: Memory Lab does not have good dialogue or acting. This …
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October 15, 2017 |
brian wang |
Early Saturday morning Oct 07, 2017, Spike Aerospace successfully test flew the subsonic subscale SX-1.2 demonstrator aircraft for the first time. The jet is an early unmanned prototype of the company’s 18 passenger S-512 Quiet Supersonic Jet. The SX-1.2 test …
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October 15, 2017 |
brian wang |
Yesterday, nearly 11,000 firefighters beat back the flames and made good progress towards the containment of now 15 large wildfires across California. 217,566 acres have burned in the current 15 large fires, with an estimated 5,700 structures destroyed. Sadly, the …
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October 15, 2017 |
brian wang |
Philip Lubin, University of California, Santa Barbara, Directed Energy for Interstellar Study Starting at 26 minutes of this video. They are making progress with laser locking over kilometer distances. They are making 2 gram starchip prototypes. they are looking at …
