Russia invades Crimea in the Ukraine

Ukraine accused Russia of staging an “armed invasion” of Crimea on Friday. Russia has admitted that its troops are in Crimea in the Ukraine Eight Russian transport planes landed in Crimea Peninsula in southern Ukraine with unknown cargo. Unidentified armed men were patrolling outside of Crimea’s main airport early Friday while gunmen were also reported …

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Fully Rejuvanating bodies two to four times for life extension to 180-280 years

Robert Freitas work on using nanomedicine to achieve lives that only end when fatal accidents occur. Robert had a chart that showed the improvement in life expectancy by decade and the sources. Sanitation (1890-1915) Vaccines (1920-1935) Antibiotics.(1940-1960) Notice that none of the big three here were purposely kept from the poor in the developed countries …

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Next Months launch of the SpaceX Falcon 9 will have landing legs as Spacex shifts to the eventual goal reusable boosters that are many times cheaper

Universe Today – The next commercial SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that’s set to launch in March carrying an unmanned Dragon cargo vessel will also be equipped with a quartet of landing legs in a key test that will one day lead to cheaper, reusable boosters, announced Elon Musk, the company’s founder and CEO. Blastoff of …

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The Bitcoining of the $5 trillion Foreign Exchange Market

John Fitzpatrick and his partners are planning to spend $50 billion and use a gigawatt of energy to power an Exaflop computer data center to game the $5 trillion foreign exchange market. Foreign exchange markets are 500 times bigger than the Bitcoin market. Foreign exchange affects the price of goods and services imported and exported …

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Evacuation deaths in Japan in 2011 were 2911

The Mainichi said statistics from Fukushima Prefecture as of Nov. 30 show 1,605 Fukushima residents died in the prolonged evacuation of the area, compared with 1,603 in the prefecture who died in the earthquake and tsunami. Additionally, 878 indirect deaths were reported in Miyagi Prefecture and 428 in Iwate Prefecture, municipalities adjacent to Fukushima. This …

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John Fitzpatrick is forming a company to make an Exaflop computer this year using 1000 megawatts of power, costing $50 billion and using Intel processors

John Fitzpatrick is in the midst of forming a company that he says will provide competitively priced commodity cloud-based services on what he’s calling the world’s first Exaflop Supercomputer. He will use foreign currency trading as the main application. This is the Bitcoin mining of the Foreign Exchange market The machine will cost $50 billion. …

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TESS exoplanet mission in 2017 and James Webb Space Telescope in 2018

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is an Explorer-class planet finder. In the first-ever spaceborne all-sky transit survey, TESS will identify planets ranging from Earth-sized to gas giants, orbiting a wide range of stellar types and orbital distances. The principal goal of the TESS mission is to detect small planets with bright host stars in …

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715 Newly Verified Planets More Than Triples the Number of Confirmed Kepler Planets

NASA’s Kepler Space telescope has confirmed..715 new planets… orbit 305 stars, revealing multiple-planet systems much like our own solar system. Nearly 95 percent of these planets are smaller than Neptune, which is almost four times the size of Earth. The histogram shows the number of planet discoveries by year for roughly the past two decades …

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Elon Musk could disrupt battery market while it enables higher electric car production and allow domination across transportion and energy

Telsa will be making a Model X crossover SUV available late this year or early 2015, followed in 2016 by the entry-level “Gen 3” platform, which Musk has said will retail for about $35,000, or half the price of a Model S. This is the car Musk is counting on to take EVs mainstream. Musk …

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China and Japans conflict over five small islands

Japan argues that the islands were vacant until 1895, when the Japanese government laid claim to them. Japanese nationals used and lived on them in the following decades—a fish-processing plant owned by a Japanese national once chugged away here. China did not dispute Japan’s claim to the islands during this period. Nor did China object …

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