Mankind’s secrets kept in lunar ark
IF civilisation is wiped out on Earth, salvation may come from space. Plans are being drawn up for a “Doomsday ark” on the
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Future Studies
AFP – First Submersible Car Unveiled at Geneva Motor Show
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgnSljm-lgY&NR=1] Via Yahoo.
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Killer robots pose latest militant threat: expert
LONDON (Reuters) – Killer robots could become the weapon of choice for militants, a British expert said on Wednesday. Noel Sharkey, professor of
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How long did you want that space elevator cable?
Many of you have recently read that a research team at the University of Illinois led by Min-Feng Yu has developed a process
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Battlefield Earth: geoengineering as a weapon
For a variety of political and natural reasons, global warming affects some countries differently than others. Fragile economies and weak infrastructures tend to
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How China Loses the Coming Space War
A year ago to the day, China knocked a weather satellite out of orbit, and threw the international community into panic. Some figured
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The Future of Nanomaterials
Although the underlying concepts of nanotechnology were thought up in 1959, only during the 1990s were the first tentative steps taken toward identifying
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The future of futurology
Yes? No? Well, that’s how the 21st century looked to some futurologists 40 or 50 years ago, and they’re having a hard time
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3rd Annual Terasem Colloquium on the Law of Transbeman Persons
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1KQc2U8Uao] Read the speeches by Marvin Minsky, David R. Koepsell, William Sims Bainbridge, Linda MacDonald-Glenn, Max More, Sebastian Sethe, R. Michael Perry, Gene
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UK 2017: under surveillance
IT is a chilling, dystopian account of what Britain will look like 10 years from now: a world in which Fortress Britain uses
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