Imagine you’re sending a rover to Mars. The rover’s tires need to be light, durable, and also flexible enough to tackle a variety of terrain. NASA has spent decades trying to craft the perfect rover wheels, but something always comes up short in the pick-2 situation…typically durability. Now researchers at the NASA Glenn Research Center have come up with a promising new rover wheel for the next generation of rovers.
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ADAM
done with unity, this is westworld level storytelling at 1% of the cost.
Altered Carbon
It’s possible this won’t suck.
2020-02-28: I thought season 1 was pretty strong, so looking forward to season 2.
Monkey buys juice
japanese vending machines are so easy even monkeys can use them.
Can energy pay for UBI?
Total cost of energy in the us is $1.1 trillion, or 6.2% of GDP. If you cut that by 90%, which is on the way, you pay for ~1/3 of US UBI. That does not factor in new uses of energy that will have dramatic value like vertical farming. Given cheap enough energy, UBI should become quite affordable for the economy.
Antimatter cubesat
Antimatter is the most energy dense material in the universe. Positron dynamics core innovations is the ability to generate intense beams of cold positrons using an array of moderators. They use a radioisotope as a source of positrons. They react the gamma particles to get a charged ion which they direct with magnetic fields for propulsion. Rocket engines based on this would have exhaust at 10% of the speed of light.
Take the poo to the loo
Apparently, the amount of human excrement that people come into direct contact is causing a public health crisis, and in an effort to educate the Indian public on the necessity of using toilet facilities, UNICEF has come up with the most unbelievably insane PSA of all time.
San Francisco needs this.
Annihilation
Area X has been cut off from the rest of the continent for decades. Nature has reclaimed the last vestiges of human civilization. The first expedition returned with reports of a pristine, Edenic landscape; the 2nd expedition ended in mass suicide; the 3rd expedition in a hail of gunfire as its members turned on one another. The members of the 11th expedition returned as shadows of their former selves, and within weeks, all had died of cancer.
Fictional Bad Games
Robert Penney created a pixel-perfect animation of Stranger Things as a turn-of-the-1990s adventure game a la Secret of Monkey Island. Turns out that he’s got a knack for these displaced artifacts, each pulled from a parallel universe where 20th century game systems still received rushed, sloppy games based on inappropriate movies and shows.
Octopus City
A group of scientists discovered an underwater “octopus city” off the coast of Australia in Jervis Bay, and they’ve named it “Octlantis.” This discovery of octopuses interacting in a high-density den challenges scientists’ previously held belief that octopuses are solitary and antisocial creatures.
Gregor J. Rothfuss 