The Nasa Space flight forum has a report on the Mach Effect Thruster test. Above is what Woodward hopes to eventually build for propellentless space travel Here is the kind of device they are testing now February 2018, James Woodward loaned a good Mach Effect Thruster (accompanied by a specially designed isolation transformer) to Martin …
The U.S. trade deficit dropped in May which is causing Wall Street firms to increase GDP growth estimates for the second quarter. Macroeconomic Advisers raised its forecast to 5.3%. They have one of the most detailed forecasts. Others are also increasing their estimates to 4.5% to 5%. * Consumer spending is strong with a strong …
I have launched a new diet and fitness regimen. I am trying 16-hour intermittent fasting. This is not eating for 16 hours. I stop eating at 8pm and start eating at noon. This can shift by up to an hour each way. Some days it may only be 14.5 to 15 hours of fasting. So …
Science Fiction giant Harlan Ellison has died at the age of 84. He wrote the best Classic Star Trek episode – City on the Edge of Forever. He also wrote an Outer Limits episode “The Soldier”. This ended being a lawsuit against James Cameron for the Terminator movies. Ellison served as creative consultant to the …
Oneweb has raised about $1.7 billion for its smallsat constellation. $1 billion came from Softbank. Softbank has raised $100 billion in its vision fund. OneWeb Satellites is a joint venture between OneWeb and Airbus, the world’s second largest space company to manufacture low-cost, ultra-high performing satellites at high-volumes. Prior to OneWeb, in 2007 Greg Wyler …
Lucid is scaling its core 3D software technology into more mobile and smart devices featuring dual or multi-cameras. Lucid’s proprietary real-time 3D Fusion technology, which mimics how the brain processes and learns from what humans see with two eyes, will enable device manufacturers to leverage dual and multi cameras to capture 3D and depth. Lucid …
Crypto Invest Summit Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Expo will be in Los Angeles October 22-24, 2018. The Crypto Invest Summit is the largest investment conference and expo for ICOs, blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies on the West Coast. They had 4000 attendees in May and should have over 5000 at the Los Angeles Convention Center on October …
The European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA will each send a mission to the same binary asteroid to test if they can impact it alter its orbit. In 2022, a NASA mission called Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) will collide with Didymoon when the system will come 11 million kilometers close to Earth. The DART …
China has released CGI imagery of the Type 003 super aircraft carrier with catapult launching for fighters. The Type 003 aircraft carrier is a planned third generation nuclear-powered aircraft carrier design that will displace about 110,000 tons and pretty much match the new US Gerald Ford supercarriers. Like the Type 002, it will have an …
Boeing revealed its first passenger-carrying hypersonic concept plane at the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics conference in Atlanta this week. The passenger concept can be used for military or commercial applications. It is just one of several hypersonic vehicle concepts spanning a wide range of potential applications company engineers are studying. Engineers are working …
More than 10% of the variance in intelligence can be predicted by multipolygenic scores derived from GWAS of both intelligence and years of education. This accounts for more than 20% of the 50% heritability of intelligence. The heritability of IQ for adults is between 58% and 86%. More recent studies have 80-86% heritability of IQ …