Hirobo makes a lot of remote controlled model planes. Hirobo plans to make a one man micro electric helicopter and have it ready for market in 2016. Lack of regulations by the United States Federal Aviation Authority would be the inhibiting factor for market availability. Selling price will be in the range of US$240,000. It …
Retrograde orbits around the moon are stable and can be used as places park redirected near earth asteroids. Possible Selenocentric Distant Retrograde Orbits (SDRO) Applications In Addition To Redirected Asteroid Storage • Remote operation of lunar surface robotics with humans in SDRO • Reusable interplanetary transport infrastructure “garage” between missions in SDRO Trades Between EML1/2 …
US daily crude oil production is at 7.896 million bpd and total crude oil production is at 12.525 million bpd. If you liked this article, please give it a quick review on ycombinator or StumbleUpon. Thanks Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 million readers per month. …
On Monday, October 7th, Grasshopper completed its highest leap to date, rising to 744 meter altitude. This is two and half times the previous height of about 300 meters. The view above is taken from a single camera hexacopter, getting closer to the stage than in any previous flight. Grasshopper is a 10-story Vertical Takeoff …
A recent report from the Oxford Martin School’s Programme on the Impacts of Future Technology attempts to quantify what jobs are must vulnerable to computerization. It concludes that 45 percent of American jobs are at high risk of being taken by computers within the next two decades. 1) Computers will start replacing people in especially …
The Carnival of Nuclear Energy 171 is up at Atomic Power Review Atomic Insights reviews how the major news outlets (CNN, Fox, Reuters etc…) all repeated the claims of a paper written by a political affairs student that had no peer review which claimed that all of the US nuclear reactors were vulnerable to terrorist …
A collaboration between Vanderbilt mechanical engineer Robert Webster and neurosurgeon Kyle Weaver has designed a special robotic system that uses tiny, steerable needles to suction out brain clots formed by intracranial hemorrhaging. It is an image-guided surgical system. It employs steerable needles about the size of those used for biopsies to penetrate the brain with …
Major trade and finance hubs into India are based in Dubai, Mauritius, Singapore and Sri Lanka. Dubai More than 40% of long-haul journeys from India go via a non-Indian hub, often in the Gulf. Indian airports no longer make grown men cry (Delhi’s is first rate), but few foreign airlines want to make them their …
The AWARE series of DARPA multiple cameras show that optics and electronic sampling provide no barrier to camera information capacity. They already have 10 gigapixels and will soon have 50 gigapixels. There is a technical plan to achieve petapixel imaging (a million gigapixels). Capacity is ultimately limited by photon flux and atmospheric turbulence. There is …
If our universe slammed into a neighboring one during a growth spurt in its first second, the collision would have left a mark. Half of the young cosmos was slightly coarser than the other. Details about the Higgs Boson also suggest that there is a multiverse. ““When they smack into each other, there’s kind of …
In order for the Higgs boson to make sense with the mass (or equivalent energy) it was determined to have, the LHC needed to find a swarm of other particles, too. However, None turned up. With the discovery of only one particle, the LHC experiments deepened a profound problem in physics that had been brewing …