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DARPA is giving $1.3 million for a four-year study of quantized inertia (QI) for possible breakthrough space propulsion. The QI theory predicts that objects can be pushed by differences in the...

Venezuela is on the brink of ruin. The former mayor of Caracas dared to challenge President Nicolas Maduro’s authoritarian regime—and was made a public enemy. The x-mayor is living in exile in...

The Carnival of Space 579 is up at Cosmoquest. Universe Today – Cassini Data Has Revealed a Towering Hexagonal Storm at Saturn’s Northern Pole Universe Today – Europan Space Whales...

Asian-American population will reach 25.7 million by 2019. Asian-Americans will outnumber U.S. Hispanics by 2055 according to U.S. Census Bureau projections. There are about 22.3 million Asian...

North Korea offers to permanently abolish its key missile facilities in the presence of foreign experts, in a new gesture by leader Kim Jong Un to revive faltering talks with Washington over his...

In 2017, Bitcoin enjoyed a historic and unprecedented price run, as its value increased from $900 to $20,000 in just 12 months. Towards the end of this run, the number of daily Bitcoin transactions...

The stablecoin market has been interesting to follow for the most cynical reasons. Due to the memory of the internet bubble from 1995-2000, many investors are aware of the dynamics of technology hype...

Heritage is a blockchain-enabled donation platform created by A^3, the Silicon Valley part of Airbus, the aerospace/flight company. Airbus is providing a decentralized application to accept and...

James Peyer has been a scientist, entrepreneur, and advisor to biotechs and pharma companies, always with a specialization for developing new classes of therapeutics. James founded Apollo to support...

SpaceX and other commercial companies have talked about launching thousands of satellites for massive global internet networks. The US military will not be left behind in the shift from a few big...

The Secretary of the US Air Force presented a plan to grow the Air Force from 312 squadrons today to 386 by 2030. This is 24% larger. The strategy is based on estimates of the expected threat by 2025...

The Philippines National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) sees 7-8% GDP growth making the Philippines an upper middle-income country by 2019 which would be 3 years ahead of a 2022 target. A...

IEA (International Energy Agency) and Saudi Arabia oil prices will go and stay above $80 per barrel as output from Venezuela and Iran drops. Saudi Arabia lifted output by 70,000 barrels a day to...

China uses electricity instead of chemical pesticides and fertilizers to boost the growth of vegetables and fruits. Electricity boosted vegetable output by 20 to 30 percent. Pesticide use has...

Singapore got independence from Britain in 1959 and was poor. Now it is among the top richest countries on per capita GDP basis. They also had a lot of poor slums. In 1960 they set up a Housing Board...

UBS analyst expects the tariffs on $200 billion of Chinese exports to take 0.5 to 0.7% off of China’s GDP growth. China will use easing and infrastructure projects to add back 0.3 to 0.5% of...

SpaceX is currently spending 5% of its resources on the BFR development. This will change and increase over time. Dragon 2 is scheduled for an uncrewed launch in December. The crewed flight is...

Elon has favored the design of the BFR to be like the spaceship from TinTin. The first SpaceX BFR to go to Mars will be named the Heart of Gold. This is named after the ship from Hitchhikers Guide to...

The top of the SpaceX BFR is the BFS (Big Falcon Spaceship) has three mini-wings with landing pads. It also has 7 Raptor engines. Two of wing-legs actuate. The major design decisions should now be...

Nextbigfuture wrote two days ago that its favorite pick of Japanese Billionaries was Yusaku Maezawa. SpaceX just announced he was the one who would be the SpaceX BFR tourist who will fly around the...

By 2030, two-thirds of the world’s population will be global middle class or wealthier (5.6 billion out of 8.5 billion). Asia will be over 75% global middle class or rich in 2030. By 2050, the...

PD Aerospace is a Japanese startup that is trying to build reusable spaceplanes. They want to reduce the cost of access to space by 100 times. They want to create sub-orbital space tourism. They want...

The USA produced 70% of the oil in the world in WW2. 20% of the oil was produced by the Soviet Union. The British did not surrender and used its navy to blockade Germany’s oil imports. Germany...

iMorpheus, the anonymous cryptographer and the founder of TAU Coin and their new Proof of Transaction (PoT) technology reveals his identity. PoT, the technology invented by iMorpheus, is a brand-new...

Elon Musk tweeted out new SpaceX BFR pictures with an updated design. There are three fins now on the upper half spaceship. Someone noted that the grid fins were missing. Elon Musk call that a good...

Venezeula is producing about 1.24 million barrels of oil per day in August. This is half of the oil production that Venezuela had in 2016. The US has two states and the Gulf of Mexico that is...

The United States passed Russia and Saudi Arabia to become the world’s largest crude oil producer earlier this year, based on preliminary estimates in EIA’s (Energy Information Administration). EIA...

Mike Dunn talked about the use of lava tubes for the Moon and Mars habitats. Mike has worked on The Mars Lava Tube Pressurization Project’s (MLTPP). The lunar soil is 40% oxygen. Lunar cement could...

A magnetic railgun that is only ten meters long can launch from the moon to Mars. It can have less than half the speed of the US Navy railgun. It only needs 3 kilometers per second versus 7...

A 5 km settlement radius corresponds roughly to the sweet design spot where earthlike radiation shielding is produced for free by the required structural mass. The paper is by Pekka Janhunen....

David Sinclair and his team at Harvard Medical School claim to be able to reverse the aging of blood vessels and it restores youthful vitality. Using the synthetic precursors of two molecules...

Ivan Ortega is a fan who is re-editing Star Wars the Last Jedi. He has completed a re-edited trailer for the Last Jedi. There is a history of editing save Star Wars movies. The original Star Wars was...

White House Council of Economic Advisors Kevin Hassett presents evidence of the difference of deregulation and tax cuts on the US economy. There seems to be improved capital spending and business...

Honeybee Robotics has two projects for near-term lunar ISRU-focused missions. Project one is developing a sampling drill for volatile-rich lunar regolith as part of NASA’s Lunar Resource...

Kris Zacny, Mining Water on Mars. From the 21st Annual International Mars Society Convention, held at the Pasadena Convention Center in Southern California from Aug 23-26, 2018. You have to launch...

For a few years there has been growing calls to curb the monopoly power of Amazon, Google and Facebook. Previously Republicans have been against monopoly regulation. Recent developments could cause...

The US Missile Defense Agency (MDA) will research aerodynamic controls capable of high G maneuvers for hypersonic interceptors. This could also be applied for maneuvers for hypersonic weapons....

One of the goals of photonics is to implement photonic quantum computation. Quantum interference of single photons at a 50:50 beamsplitter is a key phenomenon in quantum physics and lies at the heart...

On Monday, there will be an announcement from SpaceX of moon orbiting tourist. The word is that the tourist is from Japan. The cost of the flight will probably be over $150 million. Moon Orbiting...

Marsbees are robotic flapping wing flyers of a bumblebee size with cicada sized wings. The Marsbees are integrated with sensors and wireless communication devices. The mobile base can act as a...

Swarm Flyby Gravimetry is a concept to determine the mass of asteroid or comets during flyby using a collection of small, disposable tracking targets called probes. The probes are deployed from a...

Los Angeles’ first Blockchain Week will be on October 19th-25th, 2018. The following conferences and Universities are partnering : Crypto Invest Summit, StartEngine Summit, Women of Crypto, Expert...

How will the world be different in the 2050-2060 timeframe in terms of wealth and people? The wealth will double over the next forty years. This will be like the average moving from Romania to Czech...

There is a proposed $1.275 billion National Quantum Initiative to accelerating research and training in quantum computing. The funding would be provided over ten years. Several centers of excellence...

The UN has said the world needs to cut as much as 70% of greenhouse-gas emissions by mid-century to have any chance of avoiding 2 ËšC of warming. More than half of the carbon dioxide emissions...

SpaceX has shown a new rendering of the SpaceX BFR spaceship with three large mini-wings (fins). There is now a dark heat shield along the belly. SpaceX has signed the world’s first private passenger...

Boeing has an $805 million contract to build and support four large MQ-25A unmanned drones. The four drones will have initial operation in 2024. They will supply refueling. The Navy eventually plans...

Korean Fusion tokamak fusion reactor scientists have determined additional magnetic field can avoid a difficult plasma instability. Nature – 3D field phase-space control in tokamak plasmas...

SpaceX COO Gwynne Shotwell said most of the difficulty of designing and building BFR’s advanced Raptor engine was already behind SpaceX. The new SpaceX BFR schedule is for short hop testing late next...

Michael Griffin, defense undersecretary, gave a rough estimate for deploying space-based interceptors can be calculated on the $20,000 per kilogram is costs to send material into low earth orbit....