One of the most likely places for a major power war or nuclear war is between India and Pakistan. They each have between 80 and 200 nuclear weapons. This is the most likely place where a major nuclear war could break out. It is important for us to understand the situation and the thinking of …
Drexler and the Oxford Future of Humanity Institute proposing that artificial intelligence is mainly emerging as cloud-based AI services and a 210-page paper analyzes how AI is developing today. AI development is developing automation of many tasks and automation of AI research and development will enable acceleration of AI improvement. Accelerated AI improvement would mean …
Elon Musk indicates that a new Tesla AI chip is twenty times faster than Nvidia GPUs for AI. Tesla has a patent for an accelerated mathematical engine for performing complex convolution operations based on matrix multiply operations. Elon Musk indicates data and AI software are the key to creating super safe self-driving cars. Tesla has …
Bill Faloon is the co-founder of the Life Extension nutritional supplement company and founder of the Church of Perpetual Life in Hollywood, Florida. Bill was at the Raadfest 2018, which is an antiaging conference which had an attendance of about 1000 people. Bill is like others who attend Raadfest who want to take any antiaging …
1. On the Venezuela-Colombia border, thirteen or more members of the Venezuelan security forces defected on Saturday. A military outpost near the Venezuela-Brazil border has been taken over by a militia loyal to President Maduro, according to VPI TV. There are competing but separate rallies of Maduro and Guido supporters. There has been violence and …
Dr. Walden Rhines, Chief Executive Officer, Mentor Graphics talked about the semiconductor industry. Semiconductors are critical to global technological competition. The world-class semiconductor companies are in the USA, South Korea and Taiwan. Japan and Europe have solid semiconductor technology as well. China lags about 5-10 years behind in this critical technology. China will invest hundreds …
NASA’s Curiosity rover is busy making new discoveries on Mars. The rover has been climbing Mount Sharp since 2014 and recently reached a clay region that may offer new clues about the ancient Martian environment’s potential to support life. Curiosity encountered a hurdle last Friday, when a hiccup during boot-up interrupted its planned activities and …
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is awarding Caltech and MIT $20.4 million to upgrade the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) into the Advanced LIGO Plus. Advanced LIGO Plus is expected to commence operations in 2024 and to increase the volume of deep space the observatory can survey by as much as seven times.
Marc G. Millis, Jeff Greason, Rhonda Stevenson of the Tau Zero Foundation provided a 69-page review to NASA of the Interstellar Flight Challenges and Prospects. A lot of the focus is on the massive speed, distance, and power challenges. We Are Crippled Because We Cannot Really Build in Space The most technically feasible ways to …
Virgin Galactic had a suborbital test flight with a passenger. SpaceShipTwo reached an apogee of: 55.87miles 295,007ft 89.9km Virgin Galactic flew at three times the speed of sound. Three people were on the test flight that flew to edge of space. There was a chief pilot, pilot and an astronaut instructor. Congratulations to our Chief …
Ark Invest is a firm believer in Elon Musk, Tesla and the self-driving car future. For many years, there were people who did not believe in Jeff Bezos and Amazon. Ark Invest believes Tesla will be proven out in a few years just as Amazon was. Ark Invest interviewed Elon Musk for a podcast. Tasha …