US Missile defense is very limited today. There are only few dozen interceptor missiles and the system would be lucky to defend against about six ICBM missiles. Russia worried that the missile defense may intercept a large percentage of a second strike arsenal 20–30 years from now. Russia’s Status Six 100 megaton Tsunami weapon that …
Starving Venezuelan oil workers are growing too weak for heavy labor. They are too fatigued to act quickly which leads to more fatal accidents. Crude oil makes up about 95% of Venezuela’s exports. The country has no other source of foreign income. Nextbigfuture predicts that the Maduro government will be overthrown in a military coup …
There is much more technology in transforming furniture than the old sofa bed. There is revolving bed and shelves and telescoping tables. The cost is higher and the materials are stronger. The cost can be justified because of the high cost of living space easily exceeding $300 per square foot and up to several thousand …
The US has potentially launched a trade war with heavy tariffs on imported steel and aluminum. Steel imports will carry a 25% tariff and aluminum imports 10%. Stock markets dropped and there were threats of retaliation from Canada and the EU. The US is the world’s largest importer of steel. Germany and South Korea are …
Russia has a Russian liquid-fueled, MIRV-equipped, super-heavy thermonuclear armed intercontinental ballistic missile in development by the Makeyev Rocket Design Bureau from 2009, intended to replace the previous R-36M missile (SS-18 Satan). Its large payload of about 10 tonnes would allow for up to 10 heavy warheads or 15 lighter ones or up to 24 hypersonic …
SCTV in the 1970s had a skit about interview a large monster. Tim Ishimuni chats with his guest, Grogan, about radiation, his new book, what irritates him, whether he still has an irrational need to crush small things. In 2014, Stephen Colbert did an interview with the CGI dragon Smaug when the Hobbit trilogy was …
The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) will discover thousands of exoplanets in orbit around the brightest stars in the sky. In a two-year survey of the solar neighborhood, TESS will monitor more than 200,000 stars for temporary drops in brightness caused by planetary transits. This first-ever spaceborne all-sky transit survey will identify planets ranging from …
Lab-grown meat products will be offered in a number of restaurants in the United States and Asia, starting with chicken nuggets, sausage and foie gras. There will be factory produced meat on store shelves by 2021. Initially a lab-grown burger will sell for about $11. CDC reports that each year, 48 million people get sick …
Ray Kurzweil gives an MIT course 6.S099: Artificial General Intelligence. For this entire recording, Ray did not use slides, so the video does not show any slides. This class is free and open to everyone. The goal is to take an engineering approach to exploring possible paths toward building human-level intelligence for a better world. …
Stephen Hawking describes what came before the big bang. Hawking says the universe had no clear “bang.” You can wind back the clock to the edges of those first moments of existence, but asking what came before would be like asking why you can keep walking north when you get to the North Pole. Time, …
The US will increase hypersonic weapon funding by more than double (136 percent increase to $257 million.) * $139.4 million, Air Force-DARPA collaboration on rocket-propelled hypersonics, Tactical Boost Glide (TBG), which will produce an “operational prototype” by 2023; * $14.3 million goes to Air-Force work on jet-propelled hypersonics, the Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept (HAWC), which …