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Aug 16, 2019

Beyond TESS: How Future Exoplanet-Hunters Will Seek Out Strange New Worlds

Posted by in categories: futurism, space

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Finding exoplanets marks just the beginning of what we can learn from these distant worlds, researchers said.

Aug 15, 2019

Summer Series Podcast – Mining the Moon for Fun and Profit

Posted by in categories: futurism, space

This week we have the first episode in this years Summer Series podcast where we feature three compelling talks from other creators.

In this weeks Summer Series podcast episode we hear from George Sowers who talked about “Mining the Moon for Fun and Profit.” Dr. Sowers is a Professor of Practice at the Colorado School of Mines who works on the world’s first and only graduate program in Space Resources.

This talk was featured in the mid-June Future In-Space Operations weekly teleconference. The slides are available below.

Aug 15, 2019

Scientists Made A Real-Life Flux Capacitor

Posted by in category: futurism

Great Scott!

Aug 14, 2019

DeepMind’s Losses and the Future of Artificial Intelligence

Posted by in categories: futurism, robotics/AI

Alphabet’s DeepMind lost $572 million last year. What does it mean?

Aug 14, 2019

UN Warning: Food Is Going to Get Really, Really Expensive

Posted by in categories: food, futurism

But there are ways to avoid this future food crisis.

Aug 14, 2019

The ‘lungs of the planet’ are in danger of reaching a tipping point that could turn the Amazon rainforest into a savannah

Posted by in category: futurism

Deforestation in the Amazon rainforest has broken records in July. Scientists warn that, after a point, the Amazon might not be able to recover.

Aug 14, 2019

The HumanCar — The Gadget Show #FuelFriday

Posted by in categories: futurism, transportation

Polly takes a trip to Oregon USA to meet up with Charles Greenwood and take a spin in his human powered car.

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Aug 13, 2019

Why aren’t rainbows blurred-out into nothing after they are produced?

Posted by in category: futurism

I understand how a prism works and how a single raindrop can scatter white light into a rainbow, but it seems to me that in normal atmospheric conditions, we should not be able to see rainbows.

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When multiple raindrops are side-by-side, their emitted spectra will overlap. An observer at X will see light re-mixed from various originating raindrops. The volume of rain producing a rainbow typically has an angular diameter at least as wide as the rainbow itself, does it not?

Aug 12, 2019

Pedophile Confesses to Killing JonBenet Ramsey in Letters to Friend

Posted by in category: futurism

In a series of letters, former suspect Gary Oliva reportedly told his friend that her death was “an accident,” but he saw it happen.

Aug 12, 2019

Simulation Theory “May Cause the Annihilation of our Universe.”

Posted by in category: futurism

Trying to prove simulation theory could invalidate whatever experiment our universe is being used for.

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