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Adam Crowl is going to write a journal article out his blog post analyzing the details and choices for sending the Spacex BFR to the moon and Titan. The article is at his Crowlspace website. The...

China is building the world’s fastest wind tunnel to simulate hypersonic flight at speeds of up to 12 kilometers per second (mach 40, 43200 kph, 26843 mph). A hypersonic vehicle flying at this speed...

Tesla CEO Elon Musk will unveil an electric semi-truck tomorrow. Tesla Semi Truck unveil to be webcast live on Thursday at 8pm! This will blow your mind clear out of your skull and into an alternate...

The US and China are both having worsening pension and medical costs which will vastly restrict the money available for military programs and wars. By 2040, China could have $10 to 100 trillion in...

Venezuela has defaulted on two of its US dollar-denominated sovereign bond issues. S&P says that it expects Venezuela to default on other bond payments. This comes as absolutely no surprise. A...

A planet just 3.4 parsecs away either having liquid water or just shy of having some makes an extremely appealing characterization target. Stellar activity is probably the highest concern regarding the emergence of life, and even the survival of an atmosphere, on planets orbiting M dwarfs. Restricting the target list to quiet stars would disqualify Proxima Cen b and leave Ross 128 b as the best temperate planet known to date. This will certainly make this new temperate exoEarth a top target for characterization with the 39 meter extremely large telescope ELTs. The ELT is under construction and should be

Pay close attention to this cobalt chart. Demand could be about to surge from 2k tonnes today… to over 300k tonnes in 2030. That’s a 14,900% increase in demand. This cobalt chart is the only one you really need to understand. Simply: Cobalt is never going to be cheap again, thanks to the electric vehicle revolution and a massive supply chain bottleneck coming out of Africa. Not only will investors never find cheap cobalt again, but all indications suggest that cobalt prices could go even higher. Smart investors are now looking for the small cobalt miners whose share prices will

Amazon has posted just a handful of profitable quarters in its two-decade history and now has a $550 billion valuation. “Bezos’ ability to paint an extraordinary vision (i.e., ‘Earth’s Biggest...

Hong Kong is looking into building a trade-financing system using blockchain technology, a senior official said. Blockchain, the decentralized encryption technology behind cryptocurrencies, could...

Tupolev Tu-160M2 strategic bomber prototype will take to the skies for the first time from the airfield of the Kazan Aviation Enterprise in February 2018. Serial production of Tu-160M2 bombers should...

Space Telescopes placed at the gravitational lens points of 550 AU can image exoplanet surfaces down to 1 kilometer resolution. This would be like 13000 X 13000 pixel images of the earth. 169...

Founded in 2010, B-TEMIA is a privately-owned dermoskeletic technology company. Based in Quebec City, Canada, B-TEMIA develops, manufactures and commercializes cutting-edge products in the growing...

NAVYA unveiled as a World Premiere the first 100% autonomous robot-taxi on the market this Tuesday November 7, 2017 at La Cité du Cinéma (Paris) : AUTONOM CAB, two years after the launch in 2015 of...

Fisker makes luxury electric cars. They have filed a patents on breakthrough solid state batteries. Fisker’s solid-state batteries will feature three-dimensional electrodes with 2.5 times the energy...

GE has spent the last three decades developing a special kind of heat-resistant ceramic that is as tough as steel. The material, called a ceramic matrix composite (CMC), can withstand temperatures...

GE revealed the beta version of the world’s largest 3D printer for metals, which uses a laser and a powder bed to make parts. It is capable of printing parts as large as 1 meter in diameter directly...

Woodward in 2016 indicates that there were multiple experimentalists replicating the initial experiments. Most of the videos are from the Sept 2016, Breakthrough Propulsion Workshop. Woodward is...

Firefox is releasing its new quantum browser which uses 30% less memory than other browsers. Firefox Quantum is over twice as fast as Firefox from 6 months ago, built on a completely overhauled core...

Research in interstellar travel technologies has seen a paradigm change over the last few years. Early concept studies, like Project Orion and the Daedalus project, envisioned gigantic fusion based...

Credit Suisse has its latest Global Wealth Report. From mid-2016 to mid-2017, total global wealth rose at a rate of 6.4%, the fastest pace since 2012 and reached USD 280 trillion, a gain of USD 16.7...

SpotMini is a small four-legged robot that comfortably fits in an office or home. It weighs 25 kg (30 kg if you include the arm). SpotMini is all-electric and canA go for about 90 minutes on a...

Andy Weir wrote the Martian. His new book is about a lunar colony of 2000 people late in the 21st century. He looked at the science and economics of a lunar colony. Eighty-five percent of the rocks on the surface of the lunar highlands are anorthite, which contains aluminum as well as a massive supply of oxygen. Smelting aluminum in the quantities necessary to construct and maintain Artemis would produce so much excess oxygen—eight atoms for every two of aluminum—that they would be constantly venting it. For every kilogram of payload, you need an additional 3.73 kilos of fuel. So

There are some videos of business advice and motivation from Elon Musk and a transcript of a commencement speech Elon gave. 1. If you want to start a company, you need to work super hard. So what is...

James Clement has collected blood, skin or saliva from supercentenarians in 14 states and seven countries over a six-year period. Lifestyle and luck, it seems, still factor heavily into why people...

Planetary Resources is planning to mine the asteroids in the 2020s. Planetary Resources delivered the Arkyd-6 spacecraft, their second technology demonstrator. The spacecraft has officially begun its...

DRL Nikko Air Race Drone Vision 220 FPV Pro. 5.8 GHz analog transmission delivers real-time video display without image delay. Speeds of 25+ miles per hour! Includes FPV googles allowing you to see exactly what your drone sees as it happens. Comes with 3 variable flight modes and 3 speeds this is the perfect Race Drone for all skill levels- beginners to advanced. Also includes a 4gb Memory card to save your photos and videos. DRL Nikko Air Race Drone Vision 220 FPV Pro is $245 on Amazon and also needs $18 for delivery. It comes with eight batteries to

General Electric cut its dividend in half and is restructuring to focus primarily on three units. Industrial analyst Brian Langenberg said on CNBC’s Squawk Box – To really turn this...

Startup Boom Supersonic is developing a 55-seat plane which it claims will be able to more than halve the flight time from San Francisco to Washington DC to just two-and-a-half hours. The company is...

Texas A and M researchers investigated how helium behaves in nanocomposite solids, materials made of stacks of thick metal layers. Their findings were a surprise. Rather than making bubbles, the...

Bill Gates has personally invested $50 million in the Dementia Discovery Fund—a private fund working to diversify the clinical pipeline and identify new targets for treatment. Most of the major...

China has overtaking the US in the total number of ranked supercomputer systems in the top 500 by a margin of 202 to 143. It is the largest number of supercomputers China has ever claimed on the...

Current and former NSA (National Security Agency) officials say the Shadow Brokers disclosures, which began in August 2016, have been catastrophic for the N.S.A., calling into question its ability to...

Uber Technologies Inc. approved SoftBank Group Corp.’s offer to buy a multibillion-dollar stake in the ride-hailing company, setting the stage for one of the largest private startup deals ever. The...

Blue Frontiers is the first seasteading company. Floating Islands can mitigate sea level rise. Rising seas are hurting island and coastal nations. Environmentally conscious technologies will create...

New York Magazine David Wallace-Wells decided to go full doomer with “When the Earth will become uninhabitable”. They got their most read article ever, so they will probably keep it up....

The US Navy Strategic Systems Program and the Department of Defense this week tested a conventional (hypersonic) prompt strike capability that could one day be fielded from guided-missile submarines....

Bill Gates has bought a majority interest in 25,000 acres of land about 45 minutes west of Phoenix, in an area called the West Valley. It is an area called Belmont. According to Belmont Partners, a...

There is realtime air quality tracking from around the world.

Citing toxic smog that one official said has turned India’s capital city into a “gas chamber,” United Airlines has canceled flights to New Delhi until the air gets better. New Delhi’s air quality is...

The U.S. military budget is $824.6 billion. That’s the budget for Fiscal Year 2018 which covers the period October 1, 2017 through September 30, 2018. 1. $574.5 billion base budget for the...

The Congressional Budget Office estimates that the most recent detailed plans for US nuclear forces, which were incorporated in the Obama Administration’s 2017 budget request, would cost $1.2 trillion in 2017 dollars over the 2017–2046 period: more than $800 billion to operate and sustain (that is, incrementally upgrade) nuclear forces and about $400 billion to modernize them. What Are the 30-Year Costs of Planned Nuclear Forces? CBO projects that the 2017 plan for nuclear forces would cost a total of $1.2 trillion from 2017 to 2046. Of that amount: ■ $772 billion would be allocated for the operation, sustainment, and modernization of strategic nuclear delivery systems and weapons—the long-range

Alibaba Group Holding Limited (NYSE:BABA) announced that US$25.3 billion (RMB168.2 billion) of gross merchandise volume (GMV) was settled through Alipay on November 11, 2017, (Single’s Day) an...

Quantum Supremacy is when quantum computers become faster than classical computers. Once Quantum Computers surpass classical computers they will continue to improve at a FAR more rapid pace. Doubling the transistors on a regular chip might achieve double the performance doubling the qubits on a quantum computer can provide an exponential speedup depending upon the kind of problem it is trying to solve. Dwave has shown speed ups of 10,000 time or more by doubling the qubits in their quantum annealing systems. This week IBM Q scientists announced that they built and measured a 50 qubit processor prototype. IBM aims

1. Universe Today – Covert NRO Satellite Fades into Capes Cloudy Night Skies Shrouded in Liftoff Secrecy: Gallery – As ULA Atlas Wins Landsat Launch 2. Universe Today – Good News...

The Carnival of Space 534 is up at Urban Astronomer. Universe Today – Check Out NASA’s New Instrument that will Look for Life on Enceladus NASA hopes to send another mission to Jupiter to...

Boeing and Lockheed are the backers of ULA. They have not built a complete new rocket for over a decade. They have used the Russian engine for the Atlas V. They have not launched the Space Launch...

Xcor was making a suborbital reusable launch vehicle (a suborbital spaceplane). XCOR filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy Wednesday in the Eastern District of California. Money dried up for XCOR after its...

Neufund is an ecosystem of smart contracts operating on the Ethereum blockchain. Neufund is a community-owned fundraising platform. It acts as a bridge between the investment world and the blockchain space. By first quarter of 2018, companies will be able to raise equity on the Neufund platform. Startups and established companies alike can legally issue a new type of asset Neufund calls tokenized equity. Such crypto tokens reflect the value of the business operating in the real, off-chain, world and at the same time are as liquid as a currency. They achieve this by formally linking traditional contracts with Ethereum

Even though their are many China bears who predict that China will have many problems with economic growth, China is currently able to wrap up many economic deals with Russia, OPEC and the world with...