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Here is a summary of Dark Matter theory and its evidence versus quantized inertia theory and its evidence. Dark Matter Theory: Gravitational Effects: Observations of galaxy rotation curves: Evidence for Dark Matter in Spiral Galaxies Dark matter's role in explaining rotation curves: The Rotation Curves of Spiral Galaxies Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB): CMB fluctuations and ... Read more

Dark matter is claimed to make up over 80% of all matter in the universe, but scientists have never seen it. We only assume it exists because, without it, the behavior of stars, planets and galaxies simply wouldn't make sense. Quantized Inertia is another theory for explaining the shape and behavior of stars, planets and ... Read more

NORAD tracks all satellites and the Barry-1 satellite with the Quantum drive experiment is being tracked. It is NORAD id code 58338. It is traveling at 4.72 miles per second. If over the next few months it increases in speed instead of falling out of orbit then this would be evidence that the Quantum Drive ... Read more

Chairman of the Breakthrough Prize Foundation and Chairman of Breakthrough Initiatives, Dr. Pete Worden, discusses the Breakthrough Starshot work on the laser propelled solar sail to Proxima Centauri. Billionaire Yuri Milner committed $100 million for Breakthrough Starshot. They probably had about $10 million worth of contracts around the world to answer these three questions. 1. ... Read more

Background: According to standard physics we cannot travel to the stars in a human lifetime because we need impractical amounts of fuel to get close to light speed. However, a new theory of inertia has been proposed called Quantized Inertia (QI). It predicts standard inertia, as a vacuum effect, at normal accelerations. It also predicts ... Read more

Richard Mansell , Chief Executive Officer at IVO Limited gave the reasons he is optimistic about the Quantum Space Drive tests that will be done in orbital microgravity. IF the orbital test works then it will lead to interstellar travel and shrinking it down would give material that would have anti-gravity like effects. We would ... Read more

X-NASA administrator Mike Griffin now has his own management consulting company and testified to congress that NASA should spend hundreds of billions of dollars for cost-plus contracts from United Launch Alliance for the Moon and Mars program. He testified to the House and told them to fire everyone at NASA and cancel all of the ... Read more

If SpaceX is able to trade a large 477 acre piece of land beside a Texas widelife refuge for 44 acres beside the existing SpaceX Starbase, then SpaceX will nearly double the size of the SpaceX Starbase. The land would be swapped with Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission.

A new study shows the Megalodon, a gigantic shark that went extinct 3.6 million years ago, was more slender than earlier studies suggested. This finding changes scientists' understanding of Megalodon behavior, ancient ocean life, and why the sharks went extinct. The Megalodon is largely known only from its teeth and vertebrae in the fossil record. ... Read more

A research team from Hefei Institutes of Physical Science (HFIPS), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), discovered a new superconducting material called (InSe2)xNbSe2, which possesses a unique lattice structure. The superconducting transition temperature of this material reaches 11.6 K, making it the transition metal sulfide superconductor with the highest transition temperature under ambient pressure. TMD materials ... Read more

The first and second stages of Blue Origin New Glenn's test vehicle mate for the first time, enabling us to exercise our tooling and stage interfaces in preparation for our first launch later this year. Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket has been in development for nearly 12 years. In 2012, Blue Origin began testing the ... Read more

Chinese analysts want to understand why Russian weapons are doing so badly in the war in Ukraine. 70% of China's modern airplanes are licensed copies, unlicensed copies or variants of the SU-27. 20% are inferior planes that are not even as good as the Russian copies. The Ukraine War has been an actual real world ... Read more

Hermeus completed testing of their full system hypersonic ground Mk0 test plane. It is a complete system made in 6 months and tested in 37 days. The fully-integrated vehicle, Quarterhorse Mk 0 is a non-flying prototype acted as a dynamic iron bird' for the company by validating all major aircraft subsystems in a real-world environment. ... Read more

NASA tells Blue Origin and SpaceX to start detailed designing of cargo versions of their human lunar landers. NASA always had the option to get cargo versions of the lunar landers in the original contracts. NASA is now exercising those options to get cargo landers designs to an approved preliminary design review. The actual sizes ... Read more

DoD undersecretary William LaPlante gave the go-ahead to begin producing B-21 Stealth Bomber. Previously revealed budgets and information indicate that Northrop will get $5.3 to 6 billion in 2024 and there will be a slow escalation of the annual budget. This will be enough for 3 new B-21 each year and then increase to 4-5 ... Read more

Rocket Labs is launching its Electron rocket for payloads of about 200-300 kg. They will try to launch 22 missions in 2024. They will continue developing a new engine and new rocket to reach a reusable Neutron, Falcon 9 class rocket. It is looking the engine program is a bit behind schedule and the first ... Read more

The future is almost here, and nothing is creating more interest, more disruption, more profits, and more intrigue than the AI revolution and the potential for artificial intelligence warping into general AI. Open AI, effectively now a subsidiary of Microsoft, lays out that future, and Brian Wang looks at the impact of Sam Altman's words. ... Read more

NASA and Sierra Space intentionally burst an inflatable space station in ground testing. It surpassed the 63 PSI goal and is stronger than normal steel space stations. The test article reached over 77 PSI before failing. The inflatable station has nine layers of material for the walls. There is an inflatable module on the space ... Read more

Axiom Space is the leading provider of human spaceflight services and developer of human-rated space infrastructure. Axiom Space operates end-to-end missions to the International Space Station today while developing its successor, Axiom Station - the world's first commercial space station in low-Earth orbit, which will sustain human growth off the planet and bring untold benefits ... Read more

Sierra Space will soon launch the Dream Chaser, a reusable lifting-body spaceplane and inflatable space stations. The cargo Dream Chaser is designed to resupply the International Space Station with both pressurized and unpressurized cargo. It is intended to launch vertically on the Vulcan Centaur rocket and autonomously land horizontally on conventional runways. A proposed version ... Read more

India's lucrative crypto market is a prize that's coveted by many blockchain projects. Gaining a presence in the country is rarely straightforward, though, given its government's sometimes antagonistic stance on cryptocurrency. Orbs Network has succeeded where other projects have failed, however, in having its token listed on CoinDCX, one of India's leading exchanges. India's Complicated ... Read more

Relativity Space built and launched the world's first 3D printed rocket, Terran 1, and is building the Terran R, a reusable Falcon 9 class launch vehicle. As of April 2023, Relativity Space has raised $1.6 billion in funding from investors including BlackRock, Sand Hill Angels, and Mark Cuban. Relativity Space has a backlog. SpaceX Falcon ... Read more

New York, U.S.A., January 22nd, 2024, Cyberwire Memcyco will showcase its solutions at Deloitte's annual Cyber iCON event, demonstrating how organizations can build effective defenses to protect their customers against digital impersonation fraud Memcyco Inc, the real-time digital impersonation detection and prevention solution provider, and Deloitte, the leading consulting, advisory, and audit services firm, today ... Read more

Launch and early orbit phase of Barry-1 is going very slowly, but it is progressing. Rogue Space Systems Corporation's is working toward preparations for the Quantum Drive's first test. No exact date yet. Rogue Space Systems and IVO are working closely together to collect a solid baseline of orbital data before firing up the Drives ... Read more

Coherently tiled titanium:sapphire laser amplification provides a relatively easy and inexpensive way to surpass the current 10-petawatt limit. By adding a 2*2 coherently tiled titanium:sapphire high-energy laser amplifier in China's SULF or EU's ELI-NP, the current 10-petawatt can be further increased to 40-petawatt and the focused peak intensity can be increased by nearly 10 times ... Read more

Here we have the first of many Tesla FSD Beta V12.1.2 drives from a new customer. This is for a customer who is not a Tesla employee. The drive is flawless on city streets in San Francisco. This also has a nighttime drive in the rain.

Tesla has been testing Full Self-driving Beta V12.X with 50,000 employees for a few weeks but has now begun staged rollout for Tesla FSD buyers with HW4. Tesla's Full Self-Driving (FSD) v12 is a milestone in autonomous driving technology. It uses end-to-end neural networks, which are AI networks that can be used for everything from ... Read more

Sinead Griffin, a theoretical physicist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and other experimentalists at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab have reviewed the work from Chinese labs working on room temperature and near room temperature superconductors. The evidence is not yet conclusive but her intuition is that the room superconductivity claims will pan out. The Chinese ... Read more

The Landspace did a hop test and reached an altitude of 350 meters and flew for 60-seconds flight before landing area. The landing had an accuracy of about 2.4 meters. The test is part of the development of the stainless steel Zhuque-3 rocket first announced in November 2023. The company is aiming for the first ... Read more

META CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on Instagram that META is dumping more than $10 billion into the computing infrastructure to develop AGI. AGI is AI that can match or surpass humans across a range of cognitively demanding tasks. Meta's two AI research efforts are brought closer together to support the long-term goals of building general ... Read more

Humanoid bot company Figure announces blockbuster partnership with BMW following amazing demo of bot autonomy. Brett Adcock is CEO and founder of Figure, an AI Robotics company developing autonomous general purpose humanoid robots. Figure will be fully hardware ready (actuators, sensors, perception and compute on board) in the first half of 2024 to do useful ... Read more

Figure CEO, Brett Adcock, revealed their plans for real-world humanoid robots. There will be more details in a video coming tomorrow. Excited to share: Figure has entered into a commercial agreement with BMW They hope to ship in 2024. Figure's humanoid robots will automate difficult, unsafe, and tedious tasks throughout the manufacturing process. This ... Read more

Caresoft, a company similar in some ways to Munro Associates, tear down vehicles in order to reverse engineer and perform cost analysis. The CEO of Caresoft analyzed the legacy assembly line, the Tesla model Y assembly line and the Tesla next generation line. Tesla unboxed parallel modular manufacturing process will reduce costs by over 30% ... Read more

CATL has new rectangular LFP batteries which will be available in 6 months. The Iron LFP EV battery price will be less than $56 per kWh within six months. It is a bigger rectangular battery with each one being like six Tesla 4680 batteries. Tesla also buys Iron LFP batteries from CATL and those are ... Read more

Taiwan has one hundred times the area of Gaza. Over 13976 square miles versus 140 square miles. Taiwan has at least two hollowed-out mountains. They are to place hundreds of airplanes and thousands of missiles in those underground facilities. They have tunnels connecting military and government facilities throughout the island. Imagine Gaza 100 times bigger ... Read more

This is the year when the US Air Force will choose who will build the airfrome for the NGAD (Next generation air dominance, 6th gen fighter). There will also be a selection of the engine maker. There are two competitors for the airfrome, Lockheed vs Boeing. There are two competitors for the engine, Pratt and ... Read more

Nextbigfuture has a weekly video review of the big stories in science and technology. The later part of the video discusses laser pushed sails for fast missions around the solar system and then interstellar missions. We have the laser technology that is sufficient to be used for laser pushed sail missions. They need to be ... Read more

Meta CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, is saying that the LLAMA 3 large language model will be providing open source AGI. Zuckerberg feels that people will wear glasses to hold their connection to AGI. Glasses will provide the video and audio connection from people to AGI. Mark joins OpenAI Sam Altman as promising AGI will here very ... Read more

Using first-principle lattice simulations, researchers demonstrate that in the background of a strong magnetic field (around 10^20 Tesla - 100 million trillion Tesla aka 100 quintillion), the electroweak sector of the vacuum experiences two consecutive crossover transitions associated with dramatic changes in the zero-temperature dynamics of the vector bosons and the scalar Higgs particles, respectively. ... Read more

Mark Zuckerberg plans on acquiring 350,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs to help Meta build a next-generation AI that possesses human-like intelligence. Zuckerberg mentioned the figure today as he announced his company's long-term effort to develop an artificial general intelligence (AGI), or an AI that can learn and be used to perform a variety of tasks. By ... Read more

Japan managed to soft land a spacecraft on the surface of the moon, this makes them the 5th nation to accomplish this feat. They did not land on the spacecraft's feet and instead rolled, probably ending up inverted with the solar panels in the wrong orientation. Two rovers have deployed and we hope to see ... Read more

Tesla's CEO @elonmusk agreed with a X post that having 1 billion humanoid robots doing tasks for us by the 2040s is possible. Farzad made some observations which Elon Musk tweeted agreement. The form factor of a humanoid robot will likely remain unchanged for a really long time. A human has a torso, two arms, ... Read more

We don't know the final fate of the Japan SLIM lander. There seemed to be a touchdown but then communication was lost. Scott Manley believes that it may have landed and rolled. There may have been too much lateral velocity. The lander could be partially functional even if it was on its side. So my ... Read more

PayloadSpace estimates the costs of SpaceX Starship now and in a few years. Their estimate is a $90 million build cost now and a future build cost of $20 million. SpaceX would likely charge customers twice those amounts. Those are estimates of internal costs. In a cost per kilogram of payload basis, a single use ... Read more

There is oppression all over the Middle East. The countries in the region are generally dominated by an ethnic or religious minority. There were 483 million people in the middle east in 2023 and there will be about 500 million in 2024. The largest socioethnic groups in the region are Arabs, Turks, Persians, Kurds, and ... Read more

In 1989, the NASA Voyager team showed false color images of Neptune so that we could see the clouds in the atmosphere. NASA did also show the unaltered images at the same time in 1989. The research paper showed black and white photos and again showed one false color image. The deep blue false color ... Read more

There have been full scale nuclear thermal rocket engines built and tested on the ground since the 1960s. The US had the NERVA project. The attraction is that the ISP would be up to triple the ISP of chemical rockets. Nuclear thermal propulsion (NTP) systems work by heating up a gas, usually hydrogen or ammonia, ... Read more

U.S. Air Force's B-21 Raider stealth bombers are now conducting test flights from Edwards Air Force Base in California. The first B-21 flew for the first time November, 2023. Six pre-production B-21 have been built and one flew a sortie from Edwards today. Edwards has also received significant physical upgrades in recent years to support ... Read more

BMW has chosen to use Figure AI humanoid robots in BMW car factories over the next 12-24 months.

Pakistan has launched missile strikes into Iran, killing nine people, after Iran carried out strikes in Pakistan late on Tuesday. Pakistan said its strikes had hit terrorist hideouts in Iran's south-eastern Sistan-Baluchestan province. Iran condemned the attack, which it said killed three women, two men and four children who were not Iranian. Pakistan's foreign ministry ... Read more