Although a spacetime cloaking device may still be far in the future, the scientists have already come up with a proof-in-principle design based on customised fibreoptics that lends itself to computing applications. (via ‘Space-time’ cloak would allow history to be ‘edited’ and people to ‘reappear’ | Mail Online)
Read moreRead more“You would send a little bit older folks, around 60 or something like that,” Schulze-Makuch said, bringing to mind the aging heroes who saved the day in the movie “Space Cowboys.”
That’s because the mission would undoubtedly reduce a person’s lifespan, from a lack of medical care and exposure to radiation. Radiation could also damage reproductive organs, so sending people of childbearing age is not a good idea, Schulze-Makuch said.
Mars is a six-month flight away, and it has surface gravity, a thin atmosphere, frozen water, carbon dioxide and essential minerals. The two scientists propose the missions begin with two two-person teams, in separate ships that would serve as living quarters on the planet. More colonists and regular supply ships would follow.
The technology already exists, or is within easy reach, they wrote. By not taking the extra fuel and provisions necessary for a return trip to Earth, the mission could cut costs by 80 percent.
Davies and Schulze-Makuch say it’s important to realize they’re not proposing a “suicide mission.”
“The astronauts would go to Mars with the intention of staying for the rest of their lives, as trailblazers of a permanent human Mars colony,” they wrote.
Read moreFollowing the take-down, infected computers were redirected to a Web page with instructions on removing the Bredolab Trojan. (((They actually COMMUNICATED with the victims of the botnet by using the seized botnet. That’s a first.)))
Read more“In five years’ time or so, I doubt websites will exist and I expect the vast majority of sites from the first twenty years of the web to be gone forever,” says Jim Boulton, curator of Digital Archaeology.
How does a platform powering 9 million new devices every month have almost no credibility with developers, analysts and press alike? This is the story of one of the most successful failures in tech history.
Read moreIt’s starting to bother me now when I see conventional, classic video, with narratives, and credits, and sets, and proper lighting and shooting. It’s like watching an oration in Latin.
The Committee to Nuke Elysium 