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Food Crisis simulation game suggests eventual cooperation as food prices quadruple but actual food crisis in Venezuela and doubled global food prices triggered almost no actual response

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Food Chain Reaction: A Global Food Security Game is an international simulation based in the near future during a global food crisis. In November 2015, 65 thought leaders and policy makers from several countries came together in Washington, D.C. to participate in the exercise. Teams of participants represented governments, institutions, and businesses and responded to …

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Pakistan’s Nuclear Weapons

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Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal probably consists of approximately 110-130 nuclear warheads, although it could have more. Islamabad is producing fissile material, adding to related production facilities, and deploying additional nuclear weapons and new types of delivery vehicles. Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal is widely regarded as designed to dissuade India from taking military action against Pakistan, but Islamabad’s …

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Current American, Russian and Chinese hypersonic weapon timelines see initial deployments from 2020-2025

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US Air Force Chief Scientist Greg Zacharias said based upon the current trajectory, the US Air Force will likely have some initial hypersonic weapons ready by sometime in the 2020s. In the 2030s, the air force could have a hypersonic drone or ISR (intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance) vehicle. “I don’t yet know if this is envisioned …

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IBM promises a 200 Petaflop Supercomputer by 2018 but site and installation funding has not been awarded – Loss of US supercomputing leadership would have staggering consequences

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IBM is promising that a 200 petaflop supercomputer for 2018 that would top China’s 93 petaflop Sunway TaihuLight, which recently took the top spot in the Top 500 rankings of the world’s most powerful supercomputers. The machine, called IBM Summit, will be delivered to the US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory in early …

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Paul Allen Rocket Carrying Plane is 76% complete

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Paul Allen’s Stratolaunch is building a giant rocket carrying plane and it is 76% complete. two superjumbo-fuselages fully loaded weigh 1.3 million pounds six 747 engines 60 miles of wiring Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 million readers per month. His blog Nextbigfuture.com is ranked #1 …

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High Speed rail projects in Texas

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Local leaders in Dallas-Fort Worth, where traffic congestion is a near-universal concern among many of the region’s roughly 7 million residents, want the world’s biggest passenger rail operators to know that if they’re willing to build the super-fast trains in North Texas they will find a more-than-receptive audience. Texas Central Partners, a private company armed …

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Spacex could drive launch costs to low earth orbit below $1000 per pound this year and down to $10 per pound by 2025

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The modified Spacex Falcon 9 can get as cheap as $1233 per pound to launch to low earth orbit. The larger Spacex Falcon Heavy could reach $750 per pound to launch to low earth orbit. The Raptor prototype upper-stage engine is a bipropellant rocket engine being developed by SpaceX for a US Air Force contract …

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Starry Station solves cost of providing high speed internet to the the last mile

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Starry Station is a new internet provider who can use a two-foot-high rooftop unit able to serve between 600 and 900 customers within a roughly one-kilometer range with 300 Mbps to 1 Gbps internet. The cost per customer to setup is $25 instead of $2500 for other providers. This will solve the cost of providing …

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Spacex Superdraco engines and unmanned Red Dragon mission to Mars planned for 2018

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The Spacex SuperDraco’s technical specifications were submitted to the Federal Aviation Administration as part of an environmental assessment of engine tests at the MacGregor site. Each SuperDraco thruster can produce 16,400 pounds of thrust. The total power of the eight-thruster system, clustered in four pairs around the spacecraft, is 122,600 pounds. The lower thrust level …

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First drone command center installed on a Aircraft Carrier

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The USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) marked a historical milestone April 13 after installing the first unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) command center aboard an aircraft carrier. Capt. Beau Duarte, program manager of Unmanned Carrier Aviation program office (PMA-268), inspected the site and recognized Carl Vinson Sailors instrumental in the security, logistics and installation of the …

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