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Mar 3, 2016
An Interstellar Antimatter Engine Is on Kickstarter
Posted by Sean Brazell in category: space travel
Love this.
If it’s a successful kick start campaign, regardless of whether or not it actually gets built, it could go a long way towards showing the powers that be that this is truly mankind’s desire. and it’s ultimate manifest destiny. (I know the problem some people have with using that phrase, “manifest destiny”, but it fits this issue in a way that’s totally unrelated to the horrors we inflicted on native americans during our relentless push westward.)
It’s not a warp drive, but it could get us to the nearest star in two decades. If it works.
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Mar 3, 2016
Mars Had a Volcanic Blowup So Huge It Tilted the Planet
Posted by Sean Brazell in category: space
Mar 3, 2016
Dr. Sarif, Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Human Revolution
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: computing, existential risks, government
I am not in fact talking about the delightful Deus Ex game, but rather about the actual revolution in society and technology we are witnessing today. Pretty much every day I look at any news source, be it on cable news networks or facebook feeds or whathaveyou, I always see fear mongering. “Implantable chips will let the government track you!” or “Hackers will soon be able to steal your thoughts!” (Seriously, seen both of these and much more and much crazier.) …But I’m here to tell you two things. First, calm the hell down. Nearly every doomsday scenario painted by fear-mongering assholes is either impossible or so utterly unlikely as to be effectively impossible. And second… that you should psych the hell up because its actually extremely exciting and worth getting excited about. But for good reasons, not bad.
Mar 3, 2016
What One Year of Space Travel Does to the Human Body — By Marina Koren | The Atlantic
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in categories: space, space travel
“The goal of the yearlong expedition is to better understand how the human body reacts to microgravity for long durations. Researchers say they hope the data acquired in this mission will help them figure out how to send humans on even longer missions, like one to Mars, which would take two-and-a-half years, roundtrip.”
Mar 3, 2016
Spherical tire takes autonomous cars sideways into the future
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: robotics/AI, transportation
Mar 3, 2016
The Goodyear Eagle-360 concept tire
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: robotics/AI, transportation
Spherical tire takes autonomous cars sideways into the future.
Mar 3, 2016
Mercedes-Benz BIOME Concept – could cars be grown in a lab?
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: transportation
Mar 3, 2016
US Military Set to Unveil Concepts Based on Skylon Space Plane Tech
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: military, space travel
Within the next year, the U.S. Air Force
plans to unveil novel spacecraft concepts that would be powered by a potentially revolutionary reusable engine designed for a private space plane.
Since January 2014, the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) has been developing hypersonic vehicle concepts that use the Synergetic Air-Breathing Rocket Engine (SABRE), which was invented by England-based Reaction Engines Ltd. and would propel the company’s Skylon space plane.
In April 2015, Reaction Engines announced that an AFRL study had concluded that SABRE is feasible. And AFRL is bullish on the technology; the lab will reveal two-stage-to-orbit SABRE-based concepts either this September, at the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics’ (AIAA) SPACE 2016 conference in Long Beach, California, or in March 2017, at the 21st AIAA International Space Planes and Hypersonic Systems and Technologies Conference in China, said AFRL Aerospace Systems Directorate Aerospace Engineer Barry Hellman. [The Skylon Space Plane in Pictures].
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