Read moreCream Spotted Clearwing Butterfly Chrysalis
*I, for one, welcome our chrome dipped biomechanical insect overlords.
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Read more“The real maps of the great cities of the world are invisible. They’re underfoot, or they’re wi-fi fields, or they’re satellite links. On a global basis, the financial markets’ biggest problem is the speed of light. I read a paper last year that said, quite bluntly, that what was holding back the efficiency of the global financial system was most often light-propagation delays. I know a guy in Bonn who thinks he can make a killing by floating an artificial island in the Arabian Sea and putting an uplinked trading center on it, bypassing six different choked systems and the delays inherent in their light cones.”
—from Gun Machine
Read moreMeet Vladimir Franz, an opera composer and painter – tattooed from head to toe, his face a warrior-like mix of blue, green and red. He’s also running in a surprising third place ahead of this week’s Czech presidential elections. (via Vladimir Franz: tattooed composer polling strongly in the Czech elections | World news | guardian.co.uk)
Read moreSpaceX Aims for March 1 Dragon Launch
Like the company’s two previous flights, the rocket will carry a Dragon cargo capsule loaded with food, supplies and science experiments for the International Space Station, a permanently staffed research laboratory that flies about 250 miles above Earth. Read more…
SpaceX is getting stuff DONE!
The Committee to Nuke Elysium 