NASA’s Second Astrobee
What is Astrobee?
Like bumblebee. @nasa Ames created some helper robots for ISS. Awesome.
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NASA’s Second Astrobee
Apple’s Steve Jobs Theater wins ‘Structural Artistry’ award for glass-supported pavilion
Glass tower. Steve Jobs Theater.
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U.S. Global Oil Leadership to Continue – Which is Great for Economy
American Petroleum Institute projection of U.S. oil economy in near future. Written by R. Dean Foreman.
Commercial Space Flights here we go…
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He’s Creating a New Fuel Out of Thin Air — for 85 Cents per Gallon
Ammonia fuel – byproducts is Nitrogen and Oxygen. Clean output. Cool.
Foldable iPhone heating system could prevent damage in cold weather
Under good idea for folding phones department, iPhone heating system in cold weather (hmm.. Minnesota?) OLED screens can be brittle in cold weather, oh-oh. iPhone XI?
Private cabins, flying bars, and hundreds of seats—farewell, Airbus A380
So long “sky-whale”. There’s still 300 of them in service, so maybe I’ll have a chance to try it. Singapore Airlines have some of them.
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Article from Arstechnica about a fairly fast (5Ghz) multi-core Intel CPU. Its on the current edge of Moore’s Law, and it requires over 200W of power to run it, but if you need several GFLOPs per second on a thread, there you go. Not recommended for bitcoin mining (unless you plan to lose money).
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Quantum physicists in the 1920s helped found field of quantum biology. See article at arstechnica. In 1944, quantum physicist Erwin Schroedinger wrote a short book called What is Life: The Physical Aspect of the Living Cell, exploring how the relatively new field of quantum mechanics might play a role in biological processes. It is considered by many to be one of the earliest forays into “quantum biology,” a rarefied field that attempts to apply quantum principles to living systems.