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DARPA Brain Stimulation can accelerate learning by 40%, know why it works, could be common by 2023

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HRL Laboratories, LLC, researchers have determined how non-invasive transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) could increase performance of associative learning. The researchers found that when applied to the prefrontal cortex, tDCS affects a wide portion of the brain, causing changes in functional connectivity between different brain areas that increased learning speed in macaques. They can now …

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Japan’s Abe wins two thirds and will be able to Amend Constitution

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Shinzo Abe’s Liberal Democratic Party-led (LDP) coalition won a combined 312 seats, keeping its two-thirds “super majority” in the 465-member lower house. Shinzo Abe will almost certainly secure a third three-year term as LDP leader September, 2018 and go on to become Japan’s longest-serving premier. It also means his “Abenomics” growth strategy centered on the …

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Space High Ground is better than Hypersonic missiles or new stealth bombers

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Billionaire Elon Musk and Spacex announced that they were devoting all of Spacex resources to the development of a large fully reusable rocket called the Spacex BFR (Big F**ing Rocket). It will have a payload capacity of 150 tons. It will use the Raptor engines which already have had many test firings since 2016. Development …

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Entirely automated giant 3D printing and robotics rocket factory

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Relativity Space wants is reimagining the way rockets are built and flown with massive 3D printing. * 100X fewer parts. * 10X faster iteration * entirely 3D printed Relativity is creating the first autonomous rocket factory. Their long-term goal is the 3D printing the first rocket made from Mars. Relativity is creating the rocket factory …

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Using US advantages over North Korea which is one hundred times less than the Soviets

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Michael J. Green and Matthew Kroenig put forward a plan that uses US economic and superior world position to put constant pressure on North Korea. 1. simultaneously refuse to recognize North Korea’s nuclear weapons while still planning for a serious deterrence policy 2. the Soviet Union was a peer competitor, but the United States enjoys …

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Israel converts artillery into a precision guided weapons

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Israel Aerospace Industries is course correction artillery fuzes. The fuze, called TopGun, is an add-on fuze mounted on 155mm shells. It allows guiding the shell to its a pre-defined coordinate after it has been fired. Small wings controlled by miniature avionics embedded into the fuze is used for the guidance. Use of the fuze essentially …

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Think tank hired by US Navy agrees with US Navy’s $13 billion a piece aircraft carrier plans

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A RAND study requested by the US NAvy looked at different american aircraft carrier options and concludes that the US Navy is correct with its current $13 billion a piece Gerald Ford Supercarriers. Slow and Expensive build problem Nextbigfuture thinks the US Navy problem is similar to NASA’s Space Launch System or with construction of …

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Boron Nitride Nanotubes potential material for future hypersonic planes

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Boron nitride nanotubes could be used to make hypersonic planes. NASA has one of the few facilities in the world able to produce quality Boron Nitride Nanotubes BNNTs. Carbon nanotubes can stay stable at temperatures up to 400 degrees Celsius but BNNTs can withstand up to 900 degrees Celsius. BNNTs are also able to handle …

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