Archive for the ‘futurism’ category: Page 1005
Jan 10, 2018
What’s it made of? Part II: Supra-local Supermaterials
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in category: futurism
A blog dedicated to helping Science Fiction authors create and discuss worlds where a realistic setting can still serve the fiction.
Jan 9, 2018
It’s Scientifically Possible to Boil Water Until It Freezes Solid
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: futurism
If you feel like having one of your fundamental beliefs thrown out the window, try this on for size — under the right conditions, you can boil water until it freezes solid.
Yep, as the Cody’s Lab video above demonstrates, after a few minutes of boiling, water starts to form solid ice crystals, and is actually cold to the touch. Crazy, right?
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Here, $$$$, turn that thing off, you’re making too much cheap power.
New figures show £53m was given to the wind industry last year to keep turbines switched off to regulate electricity supplied to National Grid.
Since wind farms first started receiving constraint payments five years ago, more than £100 million has been handed over in compensation for switching off. Photo: PA
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This op-ed originally appeared in the Dec. 12, 2017 of SpaceNews magazine.
America’s space program has long held a special place in the public’s imagination, but NASA missions are limited by budget constraints. NASA must use its funding wisely to implement balanced, cost-efficient programs to develop enabling technologies, such as technologies to power future NASA missions. Speaking as the former project manager of three successful missions — Voyager, Galileo, and Cassini — and the canceled Prometheus-Icy Moons Orbiter, I have a unique perspective to share.
http://spacenews.com/op-ed-an-argument-for-space-fission-reactors/
Jan 9, 2018
Bioquark Inc. — Ira Pastor — X-Zone Radio Show
Posted by Ira S. Pastor in categories: aging, bioengineering, biotech/medical, cosmology, cryonics, DNA, futurism, genetics, life extension, transhumanism
Jan 8, 2018
Bioquark Inc. — At The End of the Day Show
Posted by Ira S. Pastor in categories: aging, bioengineering, biotech/medical, business, cosmology, cryonics, DNA, futurism, genetics, transhumanism
This would be a nice way to get rid of having to use salt on the roads.
Never shovel your driveway again! ❄️ (via CNBC Technology)
Jan 7, 2018
Where China’s top leaders will hide to survive nuclear fallout
Posted by Derick Lee in category: futurism
China is not the only country with a nuclear bunker for its top leaders. Governments of major powers built similar bunkers during the cold war era, and while several have since been abandoned or opened to tourists, some are still used for defence purposes.
Scientists shed light on Beijing’s nuclear bunker located in ‘world’s most deeply buried karst caves’.