If we’re going to become a space-faring civilization and travel to Mars and beyond, we need to know how to live and work in space. So while space stations aren’t the most headline-grabbing aspect of the space race, they are vitally important.
In March, my Tesla Model 3 passed the 6-month mark, and I thought it would be a good time to update my experience with the car and give you my thoughts now that some time has passed.
Last year, a YouTube video announced the birth of the first genetically engineered babies from a secret lab in China, and the event set off a firestorm of controversy in the medical field.
Humans and dogs go way back, and share a connection unlike any other animal. So much that we may not have survived without them.
David Hahn was a Boy Scout in Michigan in the late 80s with a particular interest in radioactivity. An interest that led him to build a working – and dangerous – breeder reactor in his parent’s shed.
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Nuclear Fusion is the holy grail of energy, and getting closer to reality every year. Here are some of the biggest breakthroughs in fusion power over the last year.
Some of this year’s breakthroughs include:
China’s EAST tokamak reactor achieved a 100 million degree plasma for 10 seconds, a record for that temperature.
RF beams used to stabilize plasma by reducing magnetic bubbles that can cause plasma to destabilize.
TAE announces their Copernicus reactor – a scaled-up version of their Norman reactor that has proven successful enough to raise $500 million from companies like Google and Microsoft.
Physicists attempt a reverse D configuration in a tokamak and achieve more stable plasma
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In 2005, Robert Lanza introduced the theory of Biocentrism to the world. Using quantum mechanics and tests like the double-slit experiment, he argues that consciousness creates the universe and not the other way around
Since the famed Solvay Conference of 1927, the accepted explanation of quantum physics has revolved around the Copenhagen interpretation, which states that quantum particles exist in probability states until they are measured.
But there is another interpretation of the experimental results. One that doesn’t rely on waveforms or probability states – Pilot Wave Theory.
In 1961, two amateur Italian radio engineers recorded what many believe to be the voice of a female cosmonaut burning up on re-entry. If real, this would have been the first woman in space.
Achille and Giovanni Judica-Cordiglia were two highly regarded radio engineers from Italy who, starting with the launch of Sputnik, made a name for themselves by tracking and recording radio signals from satellites in orbit.
Over time, they bought an old WWII bunker and transformed it into a listening station they named Torre Bert.
From here, the recorded everything from the heartbeat of Laika, the dog on Sputnik 2, to Yuri Gagarin.
But they also recorded some mysterious sounds from missions that were never made public by the highly secretive Soviet Union. One of these was of a woman crying out in distress in May of 1961.
If real, this would have been the first female in space, a full 2 years before the current first, Valentina Tereshkova.
To this day, Russian officials have never named or acknowledged the existence of a mission that this could have been from. Was this a doomed cosmonaut in her final moments? Or a clever hoax?
The promise of the internet was that if we connect the world and give everyone a voice, we could move forward as one. It didn’t turn out that way.
The way we consume information has changed drastically over the years.
For the majority of modern history, newspapers were the arbiter of truth, and people read the newspaper once a day and then talked about the issues with friends, family, and coworkers.
When radio came around, the news was delivered 2-3 times a day, by distinguished and trusted broadcasters like Edward R. Murrow that delivered the news right down the middle.
Broadcast TV increased the amount of news to 3-4 times a day, but still news was just something people ingested in between other forms of entertainment. And different sides of the news were presented evenly thanks to the Fairness Doctrine.
But with cable TV and the first cable news network, CNN, all that changed. Then news became the entertainment and more cable news outlets like Fox News, MSNBC, Headline News, and CNBC split into different ideological camps.
But with the rise of social media, the news became an all-day every day feast, and worst of all, it removed the gatekeepers. Meaning anybody with any viewpoint could get their message heard.
This was supposed to be a good thing. But it has proven to divide us even further and be exploited by troll farms and moneyed interests.
Even more upsetting is this is happening at a time when we need together on the same page to combat various existential threats.
The post-truth era could be one of the contributors to the downfall of humanity if we’re not careful.
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