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There is some suggestive evidence that lowering the cost and barriers to trade and increasing the volume of trade will boost GDP. It is difficult to isolate cause and effects. Past major examples of...

Peter Thiel makes the case that the world has had relatively stagnated technology over the past 50 years. We have 15 times more oil and steel production than existed in 1940. We make more steel and...

Which of the major new rockets (SpaceX Starship, Blue Origin New Glenn or United Launch Alliance SLS) will reach orbit first? Below are the current target dates. Obviously I believe SpaceX Starship...

Starship SN11 is performing a cryogenic fuel proof test. This verifies that there are no flaws in the construction that would say cause it to blow up when loaded with fuel.The post SpaceX Starship...

A commenter complained that he would not want to sleep on a one-gravity loop system on Mars, the Moon or elsewhere in space with low gravity or no gravity. The other complaint was that it would be...

Many in the space community are very concerned about low-gravity, no-gravity and radiation for people living for long durations in space colonies on planets, moons, asteroids or orbital bases. These...

The technology that we long believed would characterize the future has not just gotten billions in investment but there are many companies with multi-billion valuations to transform the world to...

eHang, Volocopter and Archer Aviation are each billion-dollar or multi-billion valuation companies that are racing to establish the commercial VTOL air taxi industry in the 2021-2024 timeframes....

SpaceX will have 1200 Starlink satellites in orbit after 21 successful launches. They launched 1265 satellites. After another five launches, SpaceX should have the first 1,440 of the 260 kg (570 lb)...

Cairn Energy Research Advisors reports that Tesla has the lowest cost batteries by at least 10% and over 24% versus other car companies. This is before the cost reductions that Tesla is implementing...

Researchers can move microscopic particles and droplets into precise patterns by harnessing the power of sound in air. The implications for printing, especially in the fields of medicine and...

Plus, a self-driving truck technology, announced today that it will equip the next generation of its autonomous truck driving system with the NVIDIA DRIVE Orin™ system-on-a-chip (SoC). The company...

An AI optical circuit has been made with a neural density equal to 1/400 of human brain. The circuit is trained to process information through unpowered all-optical inference at the speed of light...

In February, 2021, 97,000 electric cars were sold in China according to China Passenger Car Association ( CPCA). This was up 7X from COVID February 2020 but a 38% decline from January. Tesla sold...

Could space tourism enable lunar and orbital colonization to reach critical mass? I view colonization critical mass to be over 300k people. Around 1745, the American colonies passed a population of 1...

IonQ trapped ion quantum computer is completing a $2 billion SPAC merger which will give it about $600 million in cash to fund its quantum computer developments. IonQ indicates that its 32 qubit...

60 graphical processing units (GPUs) have been used to solve the Google quantum supremacy computer problem. Researchers generated one million correlated bitstrings with some entries fixed, from the...

IonQ will merge dMY Technology Group III, a Special Purpose Acquisition Company. The deal will close in a few months after a review by the SEC and a shareholder vote. IonQ will be worth an estimated...

Honeywell has upgraded the commercial trapped ion quantum computer System Model H1 and achieved a quantum volume of 512. This is four times higher than when it was released in September 2020 with a...

True commercial success is clearly emerging for the space industry. Space enthusiasts are fortunate that Elon Musk and other true believers in the future of space are leading the way. From the late...

Saudi Arabia was able to protect its oil tank farm from a five drone and additional missile attack from Yemen. A 2019 attack on Saudi Oil facilities halved their oil production for a few weeks. This...

Robert Zubrin has proposed using rotating membranes to create Enormous Space Telescopes (ESTs) that can scale to over 1000 meter diameter or match current space telescopes for thousands of time lower...

SpaceX has applied to operate Starlink in moving vehicles like cars, boats and planes. This means we will have gigabit internet in our self-driving cars, cruise ships and passenger planes....

Outbreak.info reports that as of March 1, 2021, 28% of the COVID in the world is the B.1.1.7 (UK) variant of the disease. I was first identified in the UK in September 2020 and has since been...

SpaceX has had monthly test launches every month for the past three months. The Space Launch System (SLS) program started in 2011. They have never launched. The first launch has been delayed over...

COVID has caused an official global count of nearly 2.6 million deaths but there are also indirect excess deaths. Excess mortality is a more comprehensive measure of the total impact of the pandemic...

Only eight African countries record and their dead which means there are no good tracking of COVID or any other cause of death. Only Egypt, South Africa, Tunisia, Algeria, Cape Verde, São Tomé and...

China is one of the only countries increasing its construction of nuclear power. China will have more nuclear energy than the USA by 2030. In 2020, nuclear is still the second-largest source of...

There is an update of a mathematical and physical model for a warp drive. The Alcubierre warp drive is an exotic solution in general relativity. It allows for superluminal travel at the cost of...

The SpaceX SN10 Starship explooded minutes after a successful landing. Starship SN10 landed in one piece! https://t.co/lO4AF47MaN — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 4, 2021 UH NEVER MIND...

There is a report that an electric car company has acquired land beside Gigafactory Shanghai. The amount of land is about 50% of the current size of Gigafactory Shanghai land. land rights’ transfer...

SpaceX has launched the SpaceX Starship SN10. There is venting and increasing activity. It appears refueling is happening. A launch attempt in 1 minutes seems possible. SpaceX SN10 has reached the...

Turntide’s Smart Motor System, a hyper-efficient motor controlled precisely by sensors and software that optimizes every watt, has the potential to reduce global electricity consumption by 25%....

In the first half of 2020, life expectancy at birth for the total U.S. population was 77.8 years, declining by 1.0 year from 78.8 in 2019 according to the CDC. There has not been a full-year drop in...

Content management is becoming increasingly important as organizations invest more heavily in both internal and external content. Broadly defined, content management refers to all the processes,...

The SpaceX SN10 Starship prototype could launch today. It is going through a countdown but has some delays. UPDATE: 12:15PM aborted, might try again in a few hours. May scrub today. Not Known. Final...

The Malta energy storage system takes electricity, converts and stores that electricity as heat, and then converts it back to electricity to be redistributed on the electric grid. In charge mode, the...

Rocketlabs is in second place for making reusable rockets after SpaceX. Blue Origin is not in second place. Rocketlabs has recovered the first stage already. Neutron wll feature a reusable first...

John Hopkins reported 471,567 total US COVID deaths as of February 10, 2021 and reports 514,700 as of March 1, 2021. This was an additional 43,000 deaths over 19 days. The seven-day moving average of...

IBM has created low-loss (0.3% loss over 10 microns) silicon waveguide could enable new photonic chip designs for applications that rely on visible light, and could lead to more efficient lasers and...

Purdue University innovators have created technology aimed at replacing Morse code with colored “digital characters” to modernize optical storage. This will allow more data to be stored and for that...

We could soon store 700 Terabytes on a 12-centimeter optical disk which would be equal to storing 28,000 Blu-ray disks. A separate advance with in data encoding could triple storage to 2.1 Petabytes...

The Bank of America global analyst predicts that China will sustain an average 4.7% annual GDP growth from now to 2035 which will result in a doubling of China’s GDP. Qiao predicts that...

Many will say that a claim that Elon Musk and China are competing for the future of space and energy is excessive hype. I will review the current data as people may not be aware of where China and...

There is a report that Tesla Berlin will start initial trial production in May, 2021. This is from a supplier in Germany who will provide containers. The mass production would be in July-August 2021....

By Feb 7, 2021, Israel had administered over 5 million doses of the Pfizer vaccine which covered 60% of its population. Israel has a population 9.3 million people. The US might get to the current...

The major forecasting models for US COVID deaths for the next three weeks have a low prediction of 18,000 new COVID deaths to 39,000. This predicting from now to March 20, 2021. The path of the...

Researchers led by Prof. David DiVincenzo from Forschungszentrum Jülich and RWTH Aachen University, and partners from the University of Basel and QuTech Delft, have now proposed a design for a...

The expensive and problem-filled F-35 stealth fighter program appears on track to finally getting cut short. The US Air Force is starting a months-long study of tactical aviation requirements that...

AI can greatly improve the accuracy of cancer detection from MRI, X-ray and other medical imaging. Approximately 25% of cases of lung cancer diagnosis are missed when doctors check chest x-rays. New...