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Jul 12, 2018
The Hunt for Earth’s Deep Hidden Oceans
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: futurism
Jul 12, 2018
Transmetropolitan: Relevant or Rose-Colored Glasses?
Posted by Derick Lee in categories: environmental, futurism
It’s a fantastic comic that holds up well as a story for a number of reasons. It’s cyberpunk without the genre’s trademark dinge: Robertson, Ramos, and colorist Nathan Eyring deserve a lot of credit for making a future packed with information overload, but not obscured by smog or gloom or perpetual rain. It’s also genuinely funny. Angry Warren Ellis is gifted at turning the combination of rage, foul language, and body parts into something beautiful. It’s also appropriately cynical, and I think this is where a lot of the comparisons to the present day come from.
Holy mother of God, Transmet is over 20 years old. But is it still sharp commentary, or a relic of its time?
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Jul 11, 2018
How all your wheels are going to change
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: futurism, transportation
Jul 11, 2018
This watch turns your arm into a touchscreen
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: futurism
Jul 11, 2018
Imagine the Sun Switched Off for 24 Hours
Posted by Michael Lance in category: futurism
Is life extension at… odds with probability?
Does probability ensure that you will die, no matter what, once you are old enough? Does it throw the ultimate spanner in the works of life extension? The answer is not as clear-cut as you might think.
Recently, a study from Sapienza University in Italy has revived the idea of the so-called “mortality plateaus”—the apparent flattening of mortality rates in people aged above 100, suggesting that the maximum mortality rate of such people is 50% at age 105 [1]. However, even if this mortality rate remained constant for as long as you lived, you’d still be overwhelmingly likely to die relatively soon.
Jul 9, 2018
On July 28, 2018, we will witness the #TotalLunarEclipse at 1:13 AM (Philippine Standard Time), and it will last for approximately 4hrs
Posted by Michael Lance in category: futurism
On July 28, 2018, we will witness the #TotalLunarEclipse at 1:13 AM (Philippine Standard Time), and it will last for approximately 4hrs. and 30mins.
Mark the date! 🌔.
Jul 8, 2018
How Will Future Civilizations Survive the Accelerating Expansion of the Universe?
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: cosmology, futurism
If you think we have problems now, just wait a few billion years, when the accelerating expansion of the Universe triggers an energy crisis of cosmological proportions. Sounds grim, but as a new paper points out, an advanced civilization faced with doom won’t have to go gently into that good night—there may very well be a way to rage against the dying of the light.
Owing to the inexorable influence of dark energy, the space in our Universe is expanding at an accelerating rate. We don’t need to worry about this right now, but for those civilizations still around tens of billions of years from now, it’ll probably be a major headache. By this stage, galaxies outside of our Local Group—a conglomeration of about 54 nearby galaxies—will be moving away from us faster than their light can reach us, making them completely inobservable, and by consequence, utterly inaccessible.
