Sandy Munro Rants on Stupid and Biased Treatment of Tesla FSD

Sandy Munro is the CEO of Munro Associates. Munro is working with manufacturers on the designs of two large EVs and several three-wheel electric vehicles, as well as several major OEM’s in the legacy auto sector looking to stay competitive in the EV shift. Munro has also secured several long-term defense contracts, and these projects …

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F-35 Still Has Safety and Basic Performance Problems and Big Cost Problems

The F-35 sill has problems that create risks for pilot safety and vastly limits its ability to perform its basic missions. * F-35B and F-35C pilots have limitations on airspeed to avoid damage to the F-35’s airframe or stealth coating. * Cockpit pressure spikes cause “excruciating” ear and sinus pain. * Issues with the helmet-mounted …

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NASA Buying Ten SLS Rocket Launches Through 2035 in a Show of Washington Corruption

NASA has provided initial funding and authorization to Boeing to begin work toward the production of the third core stage and to order targeted long-lead materials and cost-efficient bulk purchases to support future builds of core stages. This action allows Boeing to manufacture the third core stage in time for the 2024 mission, Artemis III, …

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California high-speed rail more than double the cost and ten years late if funded

California rail authority announced that the cost of connecting Los Angeles to San Francisco would be $77.3 billion and could rise as high as $98.1 billion. This is $13 billion higher than estimates from two years ago and doubles the original $33 billion. Nextbigfuture states the obvious that the $77.3 figure is still a lie …

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Bill Gates and other billionaires have a New Model for Investing in Energy Innovation and will ramp funding to $30 billion by 2020

By the middle of this century, the world will use twice as much energy as we use today. There’s good news in this: more energy means better lives and stronger economies. But it also means the world needs a new energy supply—one that doesn’t contribute to climate change. Climate change is a serious threat, especially …

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Recent Hydrothermal Activity May Explain Ceres’ Brightest Area

The brightest area on Ceres, located in the mysterious Occator Crater, has the highest concentration of carbonate minerals ever seen outside Earth, according to a new study from scientists on NASA’s Dawn mission. The study, published online in the journal Nature, is one of two new papers about the makeup of Ceres. “This is the …

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Quantum Machine Learning Google Tech Talk

Seth Lloyd visited the Quantum AI Lab at Google LA to give a tech talk on “Quantum Machine Learning.” This talk took place on January 29, 2014. Speaker Info: Seth Lloyd is one of pioneers in the quantum information science with several seminal contributions to quantum computing, quantum communication, and quantum control. He developed the …

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China’s Economic Transformation and the risk for the Global Economy of a Financial crisis that would be thirty times bigger than the 2008 Crisis

Reorient is a financial services group in Hong Kong Reorient provides a 62 page view of China’s economic transformation Why does this matter ? Because China’s Banks are collectively over thirty times bigger than Lehman’s was. It took the world a few years to recover from the worst of the 2008 financial crisis. A financial …

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Who wants to go to the Rejuvenation Biotech conference on behalf of Nextbigfuture Thursday Aug 21 and Friday 22

My schedule is messing up where I can only go to the 014 Rejuvenation Biotech conference at the Santa Clara Hyatt Regency on Thursday Aug 21 and Friday Aug 22. I will be able to go Saturday. It is all day both days. To go on behalf of Nextbigfuture. You will ideally liveblog the event. …

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Continuing improvement in oil well fracturing methods increases production level by 20% and nearly halves the time to complete some steps in well creating

Schlumberger announced the introduction of the BroadBand Sequence* fracturing technique, which enables sequential stimulation of perforation clusters in wells drilled in unconventional reservoirs. This new technique sequentially isolates fractures at the wellbore to ensure every cluster in each zone is fractured resulting in greater production and completion efficiency compared to conventional methods. The BroadBand Sequence …

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