NASA is in a tricky position. Continue reading “The shuttle gamble”
Armchair Travel
Barring the invention of a stupidly cheap and non-polluting superfuel (or better still but more unlikely, some kind of antigravity propulsion system), the age of cheap and ubiquitous air travel is going to have to end, by choice or otherwise. Continue reading “Armchair Travel”
Subvocal thought control
Yet another example of how the world is becoming more and more like a science fiction story every day. Researchers at NASA’s Ames Research Laboratory have developed a sensor system that can read your thoughts.
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Tags: Computers • computing • control • Futurism • NASA • recognition • speech • subvocal • Technology • thought
We’ve made the maps. Now it’s time to colonise.
The time is ripe to move off-planet. Continue reading “We’ve made the maps. Now it’s time to colonise.”
First steps for space elevator company
There’s more than one way out of the gravity well. Continue reading “First steps for space elevator company”
Crayfish Space-Robots Are Go!
Professor David Macmillan of the University of Melbourne has done a lot of research on crayfish (or ‘yabbies’, as they are known Down Under) and NASA has been applying some of his results to the design of autonomous space exploration robots. Continue reading “Crayfish Space-Robots Are Go!”
