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Space News Roundup – November 4, 2018
SpaceX to launch first people to Mars “within 6 years”: plus, first Falcon 9 to be reused three times about to launch; Space Force receives key endorsements; U.S. voices alarm over Russian satellite’s “very abnormal behavior”; Goldman Sachs bullish on space development; and much more.
Space News Roundup – October 22, 2018
How American Space Launch Left Europe in the Dust; PLUS, China to launch an “artificial moon” to light a city; Virgin Galactic flight “weeks away”; NSC takes up the Space Force; Satellite operators preparing for autonomous ocean freighters; and more.
Space News Roundup – October 6, 2018
A space elevator could become a real thing, a whole lot sooner than anyone thought; PLUS, inside Boeing’s Starliner; Lockheed reveals its huge reusable Moon lander; SLS upgrades; first SpaceX astronauts to fly in June 2019; NASA stands by Musk; bizarre particles discovered that may rewrite modern physics; Voyager 2 about to enter interstellar space; and more!
Once Aging Is Curable, How Long Will We Live?
by Patrick Cox October 1, 2018 In the past week, I talked to two unconnected researchers whose teams believe they have discovered the genetic mechanisms that control aging. More importantly, both believe that they know how to reverse those mechanisms to restore peak...
Space News Roundup – September 22, 2018
by Jennifer Hurst September 22, 2018 SpaceX Signs First Private Passenger for Lunar Mission on BFR Launch Vehicle The first human to fly around the moon since the storied astronauts of the Apollo era will get there on SpaceX's next-generation Big Falcon...
Why I’m Not Worried About Mass Unemployment Due to Automation
by Patrick Cox September 7, 2018 Many futurists believe that humanity is approaching a period of profound transformation as new technologies deliver new and inexpensive goods and services. Some call this dawning era “the Age of Abundance” because prices—even for goods...
Space News Roundup – September 6, 2018
New space race fuels massive economic comeback on Florida’s Space Coast; PLUS: U.S. Geological Survey believes Main Belt asteroids worth $700 QUINTILLION, plans survey effort; Japanese to conduct Space Elevator experiment; SpaceX announces Mars habitat plans; Space Force update; and more.
How AI Plays Matchmaker for Big Science and Longevity Investors
by Patrick Cox September 5, 2018 Over the last few decades, progress in the biological sciences has been nothing short of astonishing. Huge advances in IT and electronics have enabled scientists to observe and understand biological processes down to the scale of a...
Economic Growth from Octavian to Obama
Poor countries can adopt ideas and technologies that took rich countries millennia to develop and leapfrog into abundance. by Marian L. Tupy September 4, 2018 Earlier this year, the Groningen Growth and Development Centre released a new edition of its Maddison...
Revolutionary Future Ahead
by John Mauldin August 30, 2018 Back in 1936, in Esquire magazine of all places, F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote something profound. “The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to...
Space News Roundup – August 27, 2018
SpaceX’s new Crew Dragon spaceship revealed; PLUS: Stratolaunch rolls out world’s biggest airplane; Lockheed Martin’s new space habitat; NASA’s new planet hunter; water ice discovered on the lunar surface; Space Force update; and more.
The Myth of Wage Stagnation
by Marian L. Tupy August 21, 2018 The question of the cost of living in the United States is intimately connected to the issue of the so-called “wage stagnation,” which is typically blamed on economic liberalization that started under President Carter, gathered steam...
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