creative technobabble

Like bumblebee. @nasa Ames created some helper robots for ISS. Awesome.

Glass tower. Steve Jobs Theater.

American Petroleum Institute projection of U.S. oil economy in near future. Written by R. Dean Foreman.

Commercial Space Flights here we go...

https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/03/the-spacex-dragon-capsule-has-flown-to-the-space-station-and-safely-docked/

Ammonia fuel - byproducts is Nitrogen and Oxygen. Clean output. Cool.

Under good idea for folding phones department, iPhone heating system in cold weather (hmm.. Minnesota?) OLED screens can be brittle in cold weather, oh-oh. iPhone XI?

So long “sky-whale”. There’s still 300 of them in service, so maybe I’ll have a chance to try it. Singapore Airlines have some of them.

Article from Arstechnica about a fairly fast (5Ghz) multi-core Intel CPU. Its on the current edge of Moore’s Law, and it requires over 200W of power to run it, but if you need several GFLOPs per second on a thread, there you go. Not recommended for bitcoin mining (unless you plan to lose money).

Quantum physicists in the 1920s helped found field of quantum biology. See article at arstechnica.  In 1944, quantum physicist Erwin Schroedinger wrote a short book called What is Life: The Physical Aspect of the Living Cell, exploring how the relatively new field of quantum mechanics might play a role in biological processes. It is considered by many to be one of the earliest forays into "quantum biology," a rarefied field that attempts to apply quantum principles to living systems. 

Land speeders in 10 years. Luke would be so happy.

Geeking out here. Markdown cheatsheet

German energy company wants to build flow batteries in old natural gas caverns - http://bit.ly/2uTblda

Guardian #Science article: http://bit.ly/2sIuQ2y Why Roman concrete still stands strong. The Roman recipe - volcanic ash, lime, seawater and lumps of volcanic rock - held together piers, breakwaters and harbours and get better over time  because they ‘evolve’.

Average commute time by state - interactive. At overflow.solutions: http://bit.ly/2sddcsp. MN’s average commute of 23 min only slightly less than CA’s 29 mins.

Gizmodo’s article http://bit.ly/2sH49zO on Amazon winning the brick & mortar shopping battle (see Borders), and then planning to prevent others to compete. Hmm..  WashPost article: http://wapo.st/2rtj8ca #imperfectcompetition http://bit.ly/2tBPy4V. 

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