Starship Century is a symposium coordinated by the new Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination in collaboration with Gregory and James Benford, presenting ideas from their anthology of science and science fiction. John Cramers gave a talk, which was based on his May 2012 AV Column, “Shooting Wormholes to the Stars.” [full article at …
Regardless of the final outcome of the situation in the Ukraine with Russia. US and European relations with Russia will be bad for many years. Europe will try to have less dependence upon Russian Natural Gas. Europe now gets about 30% from Russia. Europe and American Banks and investors will try to have less exposure …
SpaceX founder, CEO and Chief Designer Elon Musk says the company’s production schedule is too tight to support a test flight of the Falcon Heavy rocket from Vandenberg AFB, Calif., in 2014. With plans to compete with ULA for launches of heavier payloads in the coming years, SpaceX is also preparing to test and qualify …
China is planning another engineering marvel: the world’s longest tunnel – built under the sea. The 123-kilometre tunnel will be more than twice the length of the Channel Tunnel (50 kilometers) that connects the U.K. and France, China’s latest mega project is not short of ambition. It will run between the northern city of Dalian …
What is the future potential of exoskeletons ? What should be achievable in reality compared to the fictional Iron Man ? Here is what I think are the most realistic ways to solve the motor power and energy storage issues for far more powerful exoskeletons. Something that could power fairly high speed flight and be …
A senior Pentagon official said on Tuesday that, due to cuts to the defense budget, the Pentagon’s plans to pivot to Asia “can’t happen.” The pivot, part of a larger plan to focus deployments and military ties to the Asia-Pacific region to combat the rising threat of China, has been a central tenet of Pentagon …
Investigators from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center have reported more encouraging news about one of the most exciting methods of cancer treatment today. The largest clinical study ever conducted to date of patients with advanced leukemia found that 88 percent achieved complete remissions after being treated with genetically modified versions of their own immune cells. …
Max More and Natasha Vita-More are the Keynote Speakers of TRANSHUMAN VISIONS 2.0 – EAST BAY, plus there’s 15 other speakers: John Smart, Zoltan Istvan, Monica Anderson, Brian Wang, Linda MacDonald Glenn, Michael Annissimov, Grace Walcott, Hank Pellissier, Gray Scott, Dr. Egil Asprem, Kevin Russell, Brad Carmack, Abelard Lindsay, Andres Watson, Gennady Stolyarov II, Wendy …
Japan argues that the islands were vacant until 1895, when the Japanese government laid claim to them. Japanese nationals used and lived on them in the following decades—a fish-processing plant owned by a Japanese national once chugged away here. China did not dispute Japan’s claim to the islands during this period. Nor did China object …
Startup Hampton Creek’s mission is to find plant proteins that can replace eggs in spreads, sauces, baked goods, and breakfast favorites. With the help of a few million in venture funding, and an investment from Bill Gates, the company’s scientists have spent the last year scouring the world’s flora with start-up scrappiness. So far, they’ve …
Finance ministers and central bankers from the Group of 20 have said they will work to grow their collective gross domestic product (GDP) by an additional two percent of world GDP or about $2 trillion over five years. This would be an increase of 10-12% over projected world GDP growth that was expected for the …