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Direct Drive Centrifugal Fusion has achieved 25 MW for parts of demonstrations in the lab. The ISP is 60 times too high for an optimal Mars mission and the thrust is 60 times too low. They have...

Limitless Space Institute gave out nine interstellar space-related grants for about $1 million to 2 million each. Phil Lubin’s direct laser propulsion group received a grant and they will use...

Chinese nuclear capacity reached 51GW at the end of 2020. The new target for 70GW of nuclear generation before 2025 and 180 GW by 2035. The 51 GW of nuclear was 2.5% of total capacity. The 180 GW...

James Cameron and Stephen Spielberg talked about 2001 on an AMC story of science fiction special hosted by Cameron. Cameron watched 2001 eighteen times in theaters in its first two years of release....

If this latest Todays SpaceX Starlink mission succeed and there are now 1378 Starlink satellites in orbit and the next mission will fill out the 1440 satellites for the first shell of satellites....

China has penalties for companies that do not sell at least 12% EVs in China. Tesla sold 140K cars in China last year and those are worth 700K in credits and each credit in china is worth about $450....

Kelvin Long explores the Advanced Space Propulsion Landscape and goes from all of the concepts from different energy drives (chemical to antimatter), beam concepts, space drives and time drives....

Limitless Space Institute is sponsoring student programs and giving away about $2 million every two years in grants for work towards enabling interstellar travel. They gave out nine grants. Limitless...

Mach Effect propulsion project work has continued with improved designs that isolate any vibration and temperature issues. They had countered Tajmar’s prior null results. SOURCES – Space...

Tajmars team at Dresden University of Technology had intensive tests and analysis of three EmDrive variants and measurements refute all EmDrive claims by at least 3 orders of magnitude. High-Accuracy...

DARPA will test jet packs and jet suit technology and see if they are military use case ready. The gear must fly a single operator at least 3.1 miles at low-to-medium altitudes. The setup should take...

Adam Savage had made 3D printed titanium iron man armor. He proved it is bullet proof up to 45 caliber bullets and bombproof against a stick of C4 from about 1-meter distance. It is also able to fly...

JGC Holdings (Japanese company) has invested $40 million for a roughly 3% stake in NuScale, developing small modular pressure water nuclear reactor. The Japanese group will work with NuScale’s...

BridgeComm, a leader in optical wireless communications, announced it has developed high-speed optical communications of speeds beyond 100GB per second and will offer point-to-point demos at the...

Dr. Rich Madonna gave a talk on Caltech’s SSPP (Space based solar power project) this past week. Attendees of his talk are the leaders in the Space Based Solar Power community. · Dr. Paul Jaffe...

The US military tested a pizza box sized solar power module – Photovoltaic Radiofrequency Antenna Module (PRAM) in space. It was first launched in May 2020, attached to the Pentagon’s...

If we look at the mortality tables, it can explain why reversing aging damage reversal has to work very well for people to live very long lives. Let us imagine that we are able to reverse aging...

A pig or chicken spends its life-consuming feed concentrates while most beef is raised on grass to a weight of 750 pounds prior to entering the feedyard. The average slaughter weight of a steer is...

Peter Chapman, CEO and president at IonQ, discusses IonQ going public via a special purpose acquisition company deal with dMY Technology Group. IonQ will have a market capitalization of $2 billion....

China will build 2 Million hectares (20 billion square meters) of controlled environment greenhouses by 2025 and this will produce half of their vegetables and crop needs. Temperature, humidity,...

There are various doomers who say because of climate change farming and food production will collapse by 2060 but they ignore that greenhouses are built in the desert. UN Food and Agriculture...

Ukraine’s army commander Gen Ruslan Khomchak says Russia has deployed 28 battalion tactical groups near Ukraine’s eastern border and in Crimea. This is 20,000-25,000 troops. Russian...

Tesla produced just over 180,000 vehicles and delivered nearly 185,000 vehicles in Q1 2021. Model Y in China is doing well and ramping to full production capacity. The new Model S and Model X have...

Aubrey de Grey has been the leading voice for antiaging, aging reversal and aging damage repair for over twenty years. He founded the SENS non-profit (Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence...

The Whitehouse has a statement on the American’s Jobs Plan (aka the multi-trillion dollar infrastructure bill.) * In total, the plan will invest about $2 trillion this decade. * $621 billion in...

Elon Musk says the SN15 rolls to launch pad in a few days. It has hundreds of design improvements across structures, avionics/software and engine. Next major technology rev is at SN20. Those ships...

SpaceX Starship SN11 had a test flight and had an engine problem. Looks like engine 2 had issues on ascent & didn’t reach operating chamber pressure during landing burn, but, in theory, it wasn’t...

Tesla Autopilot FSD Beta drives from San Francisco to Sausalito with 0 disengagements. FSD Beta 8.2 does well in suburban and rural areas but it still needs improvement for major urban areas. Tesla...

Prof David R. Liu, Professor at Harvard University, the Broad Institute, and HHMI was interviewed by the Sheeky Science Show. In the interview, they discussed how to make precise genome editing safe...

The CDC reports that US COVID hospitalizations have increased 4% from last week and daily confirmed cases are up 16%. If this is a new surge and wave of COVID then there will be a doubling or more of...

China is using tunnel farming technology to grow vegetables all year round. Video shows what type of tunnel farming methodology being used by China. The use of this technology at scale is also being...

Tesla is preparing the pilot Cybertruck production line and planning details for its production at the Fremont factory. Once all the equipment is installed at Giga Texas, a trained, ready-for-work...

The 2020s could see the true birth of true 21st Century Technology. Fully Reusable Rockets Instead of Planes Fully reusable SpaceX Starships will lower the cost to access space by ten to one hundred...

Liz Parrish runs Bioviva and they are working towards antiaging gene therapy. She also reviewed the current state of this work. There are over 300 studies of gene therapy targeting various aspects of...

Bill Faloon leads groups that are passionate about antiaging and doing everything possible today. They track the science and medical literature closely to find optimal lifestyles. The best practices...

SpaceX YouTubers are all focused on the possible SN11 test flight today. SpaceX has not started the initial operations for fueling so any flight was scrubbed for today.at least 3 hours about 2 hours....

World trade is being disrupted by a large container ship, Ever Giver, blocking the Suez Canal. There is GPS tracking of the path that the ship took just before it got stuck. The ships appears to have...

Fixing and building roads, bridges, rail lines, ports and the electric grid could account for nearly $1 trillion of Biden’s forthcoming Build Back Better infrastructure program. The overall US...

Tesla can compare two or more video frames to confirm the depth of objects and generate pseudo LIDAR. They can convert images to a birds-eye view representation of what is around a car. They are also...

Antiaging expert Aubrey de Grey says there is a 50% chance that we reach longevity escape velocity by 2035. I now think there is a 50% chance that we will reach longevity escape velocity by 2036....

Antiaging expert Aubrey de Grey says antiaging science is considerably closer to robust mouse rejuvenation than we were 10 years ago and the gap between the achievement of robust mouse rejuvenation...

Why is there a lot of focus on the Ark Invest report and analysis? Some people who do not follow ARK or Tesla closely think that it is the ebb and flow of hype. They are some random flavor of the...

Intel is trying to get back to being relevant in the Semiconductor game. Intel announced a $20 billion (USD) investment in two new manufacturing facilities (fabs) in Arizona. They will start...

The SN-11 SpaceX Starship prototype is prepping for a Friday launch. The SN10 was able complete its 10-kilometer flight and returned and landed. However, the SN10 landing was too hard and it resulted...

SpaceX launched another 60 Starlink satellites. SpaceX had about 1,320 Starlink satellites still in orbit. By April, 2021, SpaceX will have deployed the first shell of 1440 satellites. First: 1,440...

Ark Invest manages stock funds totaling over $50 billion in value and is currently has the hottest investment analysis. Ark accurately predicted four years ago that Tesla would reach a $4000 share...

Nextbigfuture has framed levels of world altering economic progress and identified progress we are making with key super technologies that has massive world changing potential. There are examples of...

In 2014, Arianespace had 60% of commercial launch but they were passed by SpaceX in launch market share in 2017. Paris and Rome have created a “working group on the future of European...

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell has just gave a zoom conference with two of his European counterparts that there is the possibility of Central Bank Digital Currencies. Jerome Powell talked...

People who reach a comfortable retirement have savings, assets and investments that enable them to pay for their spending without being required to work. Financial institutions and governments have...