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Elon Musk says SpaceX has to improve 1000% to 10000% over Falcon 9 to get to what Starship needs to be. $10 million is the cost of the Falcon 9 upper stage. Using helium and jet fuel makes Falcon 9 …
The Economist magazine recent Technology Quarterly had a set of articles that described the limitations and disappointment that big businesses are having with current AI. Managers are finding AI projects difficult to implement and the results are disappointing. * Getting …
There was another successful SpaceX Starlink launch. There are now 478 version 1.0 satellites and about 60 version 0.9 satellites. 420 satellites are needed for minor broadband coverage of Earth. 780 of the first ~1600 for moderate coverage. There are …
Here we examine how Tesla can impact the world. Tesla is already worth $170+ billion in market value. In 2019, Tesla delivered 367,000 electric vehicles. In 2020, Tesla should deliver over 500,000 electric vehicles. The 2020 deliveries are in spite …
Researchers at Johns Hopkins University has developed a way to speed up the CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing process by using light-sensitive nucleotides. They altered some of the guide RNA sequencing by adding light-sensitive nucleotides. Doing so prevented the guide from doing its …
SpaceX could use the electric skateboard of the Cybertruck to build all the of vehicles that they need for a lunar mining operation. About twenty-five to thirty cybertrucks could be delivered to the moon with every SpaceX Starship. A lunar …
SpaceX had published a picture of a moonbase with multiple Starships and a solar farm. On earth, a photovoltaic solar plant producing about one 1 GWh per year, will require around 2.8 acres of land. The moon has no atmosphere, …
A team led by Fan Xuejun at the Institute of Mechanics under the Chinese Academy of Sciences has developed a type of scramjet that ran continuously for 600 seconds in a ground test, Weihutang, a program on military affairs affiliated …
This article will show that AI projects are getting access to petaflops and exaflops of computing power, which would match the raw compute power of the human brain. However, we still do not have insect-level AI system despite having the …
SpaceX is still targeting 2022 for an unmanned Mars cargo mission and 2024 for a Mars manned mission. Is 2022 still the target for the first cargo mission to Mars with 2024 being the first crewed mission? — W (@Martian_Will) …