Tesla Gigafactory 3 Progress and an Estimate of 8000 Tesla’s Sold in China in 55 Days

烏瓦 uploaded a video of the current state of construction at the Tesla Gigafactory 3 in China. There are over a dozen large piledrivers creating the foundation for the Gigafactory 3. Media in China reports that the Gigafactory 3 should be completed in the summer of 2019. Tesla is stepping up its GF3 construction in …

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New SpaceX Starhopper Nose Cone Should Be Complete in a Few Days

SpaceX is building a replacement Starhopper nosecone. Fast progress is being made and the new nosecone should be complete in a few days. The previous nose cone was blown over and damaged in 50 mph winds. … most excellent view inside anticipated new #StarHopper nosecone. #SpaceX #RGV #FlyBocaChica (📷 credit @RGVaerialphotos) pic.twitter.com/OGtj0oigIl — Cowboy Dan …

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Zeihan Predicts Population Never Hits 10 Billion With Famine and Wars Ten Times 20th Century

At the end of a long talk, Peter Zeihan predicts the World Population will never hit ten billion. The UN and others are projecting that world population will hit 10 billion in 2050. World population is currently 7.7 to 7.8 billion. In 2017, the UN projected world population will hit 8.6 billion by 2030. Zeihan …

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Superintelligence as a Service is Coming and It Can Be Safe AGI

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 …

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China’s Semiconductor Catchup is Critical to Future Technology Competition

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 …

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After NASA JPL Reset the Curiosity Rover is Working Normally

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 …

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Gravity Wave Observatory Could Spot One Black-hole Merger per Hour by 2024

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.

If We Master Building in Space Then the Solar System Will Be Wide Open

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 …

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Elon Musk Thinks Tesla Self-Driving Will Be Safe for Drivers to Be Asleep by the End of 2020

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 …

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If These US Navy Patents are Made Then We Are in a Star Trek Technology World

Salvatore Cezar Pais is a US Navy researcher. Salvatore has three amazing patents that would be incredible breakthroughs in physics if they are true. The least extreme is a patent for Piezoelectricity-Induced Room Temperature Superconductor. The other two patents are gravity wave generator and inertial mass reduction. If these could be realized as technologies then …

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