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Predictions from sci-fi movies that became reality
(MENAFN- BreezyScroll) How weird is it to believe that fiction can turn into reality? Well, as absurd it sounds there are certain predictions made by sci-fi movies that did become reality. Here are 5 predictions from sci-fi movies that are now a reality. 5 predictions from sci-fi movies that are now a reality 1. Space travel — ‘Le Voyage Dans La Lune,’ 1902 Space travel — ‘Le Voyage Dans La Lune,’ 1902 – Well, we can’t put our finger on who inspired or initiated space tra...
Engineered Bacteria Produce a Rainbow of Colors
Researchers have modified a common bacterium to spit out an entire rainbow of dyes for food, clothing, cosmetics, and more. The proof-of-concept research also detailed the natural production of two colors—green and navy blue—for the first time.Some dyes can be produced naturally from plants. Indigo, for example, is extracted from leaves of species in the genus Indigofera. But the task is labor-intensive, with variable results. Synthetic alternatives can involve toxic precursors and by-product...
Philosophy and the Mirror of Technology: Interview with Christopher Tollefsen
One of the goals of this series is to explore the impact of technology on ordinary lives, especially the underappreciated negative aspects of the inexorable march of scientific advancement. A very practical example is the accelerating use of medical advice and technology to terminate life. A related question is the extent to which, by artificial means, we extend life. To explore the bioethical implications of technology, I reached out to Professor Christopher Tollefsen of the University of...
Book wars. “What happens when the oldest of our media industries collides with the great technological revolution of our time?”
IN 1995, I WENT to work as a writer and editor for Book World , the then-standalone book-review section of The Washington Post . I left a decade later, two years before Amazon released the Kindle ebook reader. By then, mainstream news outlets like the Post were on the ropes, battered by what sociologist John B. Thompson, in Book Wars , calls "the digital revolution" and its erosion of print subscriptions and advertising revenue. The idea that...
Electric Light: An Architectural History
By Sandy Isenstadt (Cambridge, MA, USA: M.I.T. Press, 2018, 292 pp.)One should probably not spend a lot of time trying to parse the title of this appealing book: it is neither a work focused on the built environment nor a history of the electric light. Instead, one might consider the author’s words that his intention is to study cases that "suggest an architectural history of spaces that have been generated or extensively reconstituted by electric light." His thesis is "the electric light cha...
He’s All That - Review
Watch He’s All That with the theme in mind of the mirror or twin storyworld is intermedial or self-referential maybe; and whatever the implications are for gender transpositions, consider those too Page C8
Does Technology Have a Soul?
learza (Alex North) from Australia, Aibos at RoboCop, 2005, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. When my husband arrived home, he stared at the dog for a long time, then pronounced it "creepy." At first I took this to mean uncanny, something so close to reality it disturbs our most basic ontological assumptions. But it soon became clear he saw the dog as an interloper. I demonstrated all the tricks I had taught Aibo, determined to impress him. By that point the dog could roll over, shak...
Fine Lines: Created to address a fuel crisis, the Mini became a dream car for the masses - Toronto Star
When the Mini was launched in the late 1950s, it was supposed to be an answer to fears that the global supply of oil would be reduced to a trickle. It was 1956 during the Suez Crisis. Britain, along with a number of other countries, had succumb to gas shortages and invoked rationing. What was needed was a small car that was cheap to own and good on fuel. That’s it, that’s all. Little did anyone know the Mini would become the coolest car in the world — a fashion statement, the ultima...
CubeSat becomes first craft to fly with ESA's standardized "space brain"
ESA has flown a CubeSat with the agency's standardized "brain" that will be used on all future European space missions. On June 26, the OPS-SAT space lab went into Earth orbit with a computer running the European Ground System – Common Core (EGS-CC) software that will be common to all European space missions from 2025. In the early days of the 1960s, each spacecraft, unless it was part of a series with a high failure rate, was essentially a one-off. This meant that space engine...
Escape From Electrosmog - Escape from 5G
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NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center: A hub for historic and modern-day rocket power
NASA's George C. Marshall Space Flight Center has more than six decades of history designing, building and testing a storied series of rockets, rocket engines and instruments to fly in space. The center’s accomplishments include the Redstone rocket used to launch Project Mercury, the Saturn rockets for the Apollo program, the Skylab space station, and the Hubble Space Telescope. Marshall is located on the grounds of the U.S. Army Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, a city in northern A...
Artificial Intelligence Develops an Ear for Birdsong - Scientific American
Skip to main content Scientific American Save 30% on all subscriptions ComputingArtificial Intelligence Develops an Ear for BirdsongMachine-learning algorithms can quickly process thousands of hours of natural soundscapesBy Harini Barath on April 26, 2021Male yellow warbler in Yosemite National Park. Credit: Alice Cahill Getty Images Advertisement We can learn a lot from nature if we listen to it more—and scientists around the world are trying to do just that. From mountain peaks to oc...
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How Two Filmmakers Used Unreal Engine to Create a Gritty Sci-Fi Thriller
___ Skip to main content No Film School Cinematography & Cameras How Two Filmmakers Used Unreal Engine to Create a Gritty Sci-Fi Thriller C...
Repeater Builder
Welcome to: "Repeater Builder" So, you want to build a repeater? Repeater Builder is an informational help site by Kevin Custer W3KKC. This is the largest repeater information site in the world! Below is a Google ad (to help pay the bandwidth and hosting bill). No endorsement of the products is implied. Donations are appreciated for the continued availability and upkeep of this site. We have over 11,000 publicly-accessible files occupying over 12 GB of server spac...
Chinese 'Seed Satellite': Science Fiction in the News
Home | Glossary | Timeline | New Chinese 'Seed Satellite' The Commission of Science Technology and Industry for National Defense has announced that China will launch the first satellite designed specifically for seed-breeding in space. The project includes satellite research and development, mechanism research and simulation tests, as wel...
Chronology of communication before electricity (idea) by legbagede - Everything2.com
Clip source: Chronology of communication before electricity (idea) by legbagede - Everything2.com Chronology of communication before electricity (idea)See all of Chronology of communication before electricity, no other writeups in this node. See also :Chronology of Communication after electronics to 1998, A Chronology of Communication from electricity to electronics, A Convoluted History of Early Telecommunications. c. 20,000 B.C.- Cave painting is widespread in Eurasia. Etchings are fig...
Sulabh International Museum of Toilets – History of Toilets
History of Toilets exploring history of sanitation & hygiene The paper presented by Dr. Bindeswar Pathak, Ph.D., D.Litt., Founder, Sulabh Movement at International Symposium on Public Toilets held in Hong Kong on May 25-27, 1995 Wet toilet of Harappan Settlements, India, 2500 BC Mohenjo-Daro in Sind Province of Modern Pakistan UNLIKE body functions like dance, drama and songs, defecation is considered very lowl...
NASA's Space Shuttle By the Numbers: 30 Years of a Spaceflight Icon | Space
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Counter-histories of the Internet
What could the internet have been? We’ve grown so used to our digital networks that they can seem like a force of nature, with laws as immutable as the laws of physics. Yet not long ago, these networks were the object of experiments, conflicts, and at times arbitrary choices. And the fates of many industries hung in the balance. For instance, should users pay for online access in units of time, or of bandwidth, or according to the number of websites they enter? This was once a live question; ...