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100yr countdown to extinction? Hawking believes humans need to colonize new planet… or else
Post Date: 2017-05-15 00:50:49 by Tatarewicz
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RT... Stephen Hawking appears to be at pains to warn the world that humanity is doomed. His latest prediction urges mankind to escape an ailing Earth for a fresh start on a new planet… before it’s too late. Trends Viral The renowned astrophysicist will present his chilling forecast, which sounds like the plot of a Hollywood blockbuster, in a new BBC documentary entitled Expedition New Earth that is currently still in production. In the program, which is part of the BBC’s Tomorrow’s World science season, Hawking will posit that humanity’s time on Earth is coming to an end, while warning that there are only 100 years left to “colonize another planet.” ...
US Navy Prepares Decapitating Attack Against Russia
Post Date: 2017-05-12 18:50:39 by Ada
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The US preemptive nuclear strike capability has significantly grown. The strategic nuclear forces modernization program has implemented new revolutionary technologies to vastly increase the targeting capability of the US submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) arsenal. The Bulletin of American Scientists reports that as a result of improvements in the killing power of US SLBMs, they carry more than three times the number of warheads needed to destroy the entire fleet of Russian land-based missiles. Since only part of the W76 force would be needed to eliminate Russia’s silo-based ICBMs, the United States will be left with a substantial number of higher-yield warheads that could be ...
In a world where everything’s interconnected through the Web, one blackout and you’re done
Post Date: 2017-05-12 10:02:36 by Tatarewicz
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RT... The future is here. The vivid dreams of authors and filmmakers, scientists, and artists are coming true – virtual reality is booming, cars drive themselves, and the world is growing more interconnected every day with the Internet of Things. But the highest hopes are mixed with the darkest of predictions – the death of privacy, mass unemployment and, of course, the rise of robots against mankind. What does the future hold for us? Are we putting too much trust in technology? Futurist, bestselling author, adviser to the world’s top CEOs – Jacob Morgan is on SophieCo. Follow @SophieCo_RT Sophie Shevardnadze: Jacob Morgan, futurist, bestselling author and speaker on ...
Elon Musk Just Announced His Solar Roofs Will Have "Infinity Warranty"
Post Date: 2017-05-11 05:54:35 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... Last night, Elon Musk announced via Twitter that orders would begin today (10 May, 2017) for his revolutionary solar roof hardware. In another tweet, he promised that ordering would be available in most countries throughout the world. He also clarified that people could expect to see delivery begin in the United States in late 2017, and that deliveries would roll out sometime next year for overseas locations. But another announcement just came in that's even more revolutionary: The solar roofs will have an infinity warranty. Yes, you read that right. The Tesla website just released all the information that you will need regarding how to order their new solar roof ...
Bill Nye’s Fake Science
Post Date: 2017-05-10 19:04:26 by Ada
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Bill Nye became famous in the 1990s with a PBS kids’ show called Bill Nye The Science Guy. His new series for Netflix is called Bill Nye Saves the World. See the difference there? The title of the first show suggests objectivity. The title of the new show implies ideological activism with a touch of a messiah complex. Any alleged “scientist” who claims that his main goal is to “save the world” has forfeited his right to be called a scientist. Same principle applies for journalists. If your goal is to uncover anything but the unvarnished truth—no matter where the truth may take you or how brutally it may undermine your ideological leanings—then you are ...
The Secret of Terra Preta
Post Date: 2017-05-10 16:41:35 by Horse
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Soil Dwelling Bacteria: Streptomyces
Post Date: 2017-05-10 16:36:36 by Horse
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Gravitational Waves Could Be The Key to Discovering Extra Dimensions in Our Universe
Post Date: 2017-05-09 05:18:08 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... "Gravitational waves can walk along any dimension." If we want to find extra dimensions lurking within our Universe - something that string theory attempts to explain - gravitational waves could be our key to locating them, physicists suggest. This new hypothesis seeks to answer the long-standing mystery of why gravity appears to be weaker than the other fundamental forces in our Universe, by proposing that it's actually 'leaking out' into extra dimensions we're yet to detect. "Extra dimensions have been discussed for a long time from different points of view," Emilian Dudas from the École Polytechnique in France, who ...
The Air Force's Mysterious X-37B Just Landed After a Record-Breaking 718 Days in Orbit
Post Date: 2017-05-09 04:59:50 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... An experimental US Air Force space plane called the X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV) has landed after a record-breaking 718 days in orbit, but with military officials keeping tight-lipped about the specific details of the operation, we're no closer to understanding the objectives of its secretive mission. X-37B OTV-4 touched down at NASA's Kennedy Space Centre Shuttle Landing Facility at 7.47am ET on Sunday, rocking Floridians with a sonic boom before landing on a runway that hadn't been used for an orbital mission since the end of the Space Shuttle program in 2011. The solar-powered, uncrewed vehicle, which looks like a miniature, windowless space shuttle, is ...
The Sun and Moon are in the Wrong Place?
Post Date: 2017-05-09 02:50:43 by Horse
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ICE AGE BRITAIN: River Thames will FREEZE OVER on 'this date' – and could kill millions
Post Date: 2017-05-08 19:55:13 by Ada
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A GLOBAL cool down will “march in with vengeance” to usher in a 100-year mini-ice age that could freeze over the River Thames, climate scientists told Daily Star Online. Experts told Daily Star Online planet Earth is on course for a “Little Age Ice” within the next three years thanks to a cocktail of climate change and low solar activity. Research shows a natural cooling cycle that occurs every 230 years began in 2014 and will send temperatures plummeting even further by 2019. Scientists are also expecting a “huge reduction” in solar activity for 33 years between 2020 and 2053 that will cause thermometers to crash. Both cycles suggest Earth is entering a ...
Smart Meters Uncloaked And How To Fight Back
Post Date: 2017-05-05 16:58:21 by Horse
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The battle of AMI Smart Meters is heating up across the land. Too many utility customers are getting sick after those meters unknowingly are/were retrofitted on to their home utility meters. After researching the timeline on what happened either to them or their children’s health, customers realize it all started after AMI Smart Meters were retrofitted on to their electric, natural gas or water utility meters. The problem is the non-thermal radiation waves AMI Smart Meters emit, which causes electrosmog and an adverse health problem known as electromagnetic hypersensitivity (EHS). However, I want to share with readers information which may help in dealing with, and/or removing, those ...
Here's How SpaceX Plans to Give Everyone on Earth Internet Access
Post Date: 2017-05-05 05:37:39 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... The fact that you're able to read this article means you are one of the more than 3.77 billion people in the world that has access to the internet. While that's already a good number - more than half of the world's population, in fact - some 3 billion others don't have such access. Thankfully, a number of efforts are underway to bring the internet to the farthest corners of the globe, and one of those is being put forth by SpaceX. Back in November, Elon Musk's company filed an application with the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) as part of its plan to create a high-speed, global internet network. At yesterday's Senate hearing on US ...
Wi-Fi & phone signals could be used to map your home – study
Post Date: 2017-05-05 00:15:38 by Tatarewicz
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RT... Scientists are now able to create an image of objects in remote spaces using only wireless internet and phone signals, according to new research that’s likely to alarm privacy advocates. Researchers from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) created hologram images of an aluminum cross by bombarding it with microwave radiation from household Wi-Fi transmitters and measuring the distortions as the waves reflected off it. The result is a microwave hologram. Writing in the journal Physical Review Letters, Friedemann Reinhard, the director of the Emmy Noether Research Group for Quantum Sensors at the Walter Schottky Institute of TUM, said: “Using this technology, we can ...
Iran inaugurates its biggest solar plant ever
Post Date: 2017-05-04 02:37:43 by Tatarewicz
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TEHRAN, April 27, YJC - Iran has inaugurated a major solar power plant as the country is pressing ahead with an ambitious agenda to use renewable energy resources. Iran inaugurates its biggest solar plant ever TEHRAN, Young Journalists Club (YJC) - The plant was constructed with an annual production capacity of 10 megawatts over an area of 20 hectares near the central city of Isfahan would produce. Iran’s Ghadir Electricity and Energy Company and Greece’s Metka engineering firm cooperated over the project that took seven months to complete through an investment of around $15 million. The plant has around 39,000 solar panels each with an area of around 0.64 square meters, ...
The UK Just Switched on an Ambitious Fusion Reactor - and It Works
Post Date: 2017-05-02 08:35:09 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... The UK's newest fusion reactor, ST40, was switched on last week, and has already managed to achieve 'first plasma' - successfully generating a scorching blob of electrically-charged gas (or plasma) within its core. The aim is for the tokamak reactor to heat plasma up to 100 million degrees Celsius (180 million degrees Fahrenheit) by 2018 - seven times hotter than the centre of the Sun. That's the 'fusion' threshold, at which hydrogen atoms can begin to fuse into helium, unleashing limitless, clean energy in the process. "Today is an important day for fusion energy development in the UK, and the world," said David Kingham, CEO of Tokamak ...
10 Strange Facts About Pythagoras: Mathematician And Cult Leader
Post Date: 2017-05-02 08:00:54 by Ada
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Pythagoras, the man behind the Pythagorean theorem was more than just a mathematician. He was a spiritual leader with followers who thought he’d been sent from Heaven. For the Pythagoreans, math was a religious experience and some equations were divine secrets, unfit for public eyes.When your middle school teacher showed you how to find the hypotenuse of a right triangle, you probably didn’t get down on your knees and start worshiping him as a god. But when it first happened in ancient Greece, that was pretty much how people reacted.There was a whole cult behind the man who figured out how to measure the side of a triangle, and—as you might imagine—they had some pretty ...
Hyundai Motor picks CATL as 1st battery supplier in China
Post Date: 2017-05-01 06:47:37 by Tatarewicz
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(Xinhua) SEOUL, May 1 -- Hyundai Motor, South Korea's biggest automaker, has selected Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. Limited (CATL) as its first battery supplier in China to enhance cooperation in new energy vehicles. "We selected CATL as our first Chinese battery partner as Hyundai seeks to diversify its supplier base," a Hyundai official who declined to be identified told Xinhua Monday. The official said CATL was widely recognized for its competitiveness in the automobile battery market. The Fujian Province-based company will provide batteries for Hyundai's plug-in Sonata sedans that are expected to hit the Chinese market in the first half of 2018. The Sonata ...
Elon Musk Wants to Build High-Speed, Subterranean 'Car Sleds' to Finally Beat Traffic
Post Date: 2017-05-01 01:32:39 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... Elon Musk isn't a man who likes to be kept waiting. After hinting last year at a new venture to dig roads underground, it seems the super-billionaire visionary won't be satisfied with ordinary old tunnels. These ones will put your car on a sled and shoot it along at speed of up to 200 km/h (124 mph). Because why the hell not? In a conversation with TED's head curator, Chris Anderson, Musk explained his tunnel vision for a high-speed future. "You should be able to get from Westwood to LAX in 5 to 6 minutes," Musk said; a huge difference to the usual half-hour trip for Los Angeles commuters. This is a man who loves his tunnels – just as ...
The US Military Wants to Hack the Human Brain to Help Us Learn a Second Language Faster
Post Date: 2017-05-01 01:12:15 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... It's not easy being a soldier or a spy: you have to immerse yourself in dangerous situations, assess intelligence in the field, speak foreign languages, and handle all kinds of technical equipment and weaponry. Learning how to do all of that takes a lot of training, which is why the research wing of the US Department of Defence wants to figure out ways to make its workers learn these vital skills quicker – even if they have to zap them to do it. To explore these possibilities, the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has just awarded more than an estimated US$50 million in funding to eight teams looking into how electrical stimulation of the nervous ...
Physicists Just Came Up With a Mathematical Model for a Viable Time Machine
Post Date: 2017-04-30 06:25:29 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... "Mathematically, it is possible." Physicists have come up with what they claim is a mathematical model of a theoretical "time machine" - a box that can move backwards and forwards through time and space. The trick, they say, is to use the curvature of space-time in the Universe to bend time into a circle for hypothetical passengers sitting in the box, and that circle allows them to skip into the future and the past. "People think of time travel as something as fiction. And we tend to think it's not possible because we don't actually do it," says theoretical physicist and mathematician, Ben Tippett, from the University of British ...
Artificial intelligence to take over half of all jobs in next decade – China's top techie
Post Date: 2017-04-29 08:54:56 by Tatarewicz
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RT...New recruit "Pepper" the robot, a humanoid robot designed to welcome and take care of visitors and patients, Ostend, Belgium, 2016 © Francois Lenoir / Reuters Robots and artificial intelligence (AI) will replace humans in 50 percent of all jobs in just ten years, says Kai-Fu Lee, founder of venture capital firm Sinovation Ventures and a reputable Chinese technologist. Commerce Bot, a robot that provides customer service with artificial intelligence technology and voice recognition is seen at SK telecom's stand at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, 2017© Paul Hanna / Reuters AI is the “singular thing that will be larger than all of human tech ...
Physicist Pops Bermuda Triangle 'Methane Bubble' Theory
Post Date: 2017-04-29 08:13:10 by Tatarewicz
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C2C... One of the most popular prosaic explanations for the mysterious disappearances of ships and planes in the Bermuda Triangle has been debunked. Skeptics searching for an answer to the puzzling phenomenon have long suggested that lost ships and planes fell victim to a surge of methane gas erupting from the ocean floor. However, author and bubble physicist Helen Czerski says that the 'methane bubble' theory is simply scientific hot air. According to her explanation, if a large amount of methane erupted from the ground underwater, it would quickly form into tiny bubbles rather than a ship-sinking giant mass of gas. Additionally, these tiny bubbles would push the water below ...
The race to build the world’s first sex robot The $30bn sex tech industry is about to unveil its biggest blockbuster: a $15,000 robot companion that talks, learns, and never says no
Post Date: 2017-04-28 00:21:20 by Horse
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n the brightly lit robotics workshop at Abyss Creations’ factory in San Marcos, California, a life-size humanoid was dangling from a stand, hooked between her shoulder blades. Her name was Harmony. She wore a white leotard, her chest was thrust forward and her French-manicured fingers were splayed across the tops of her slim thighs. Harmony is a prototype, a robotic version of the company’s hyper-realistic silicone sex toy, the RealDoll. The Realbotix room where she was assembled was lined with varnished pine surfaces covered with wires and circuit boards, and a 3D printer whirred in the corner, spitting out tiny, intricate parts that will be inserted beneath her PVC skull. Her ...
Spotlight: Perfectly imperfect -- experimental dialogues between China-made humanoid, world's leading AI experts
Post Date: 2017-04-27 07:50:46 by Tatarewicz
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(Xinhua) Chen Xiaoping (R), director of a robot research and development team, and Jia Jia, an interactive robot that looks like a real Chinese young woman in traditional outfit, talk through internet with Kevin Kelly on screen, founding executive editor of Wired magazine, in Hefei, capital of east China's Anhui Province, April 24, 2017. Jia Jia was invited as a special reporter of the Xinhua News Agency to conduct the man-machine dialogue with Kelly on Monday. Jia Jia was unveiled in 2016 by Chen's robot research and development team at the University of Science and Technology of China in Hefei. It took the team three years to research and develop this new-generation interactive ...
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