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Day: August 9, 2010

Duck!

09 August 2010

George Rebane Our sun is going through a gastric upset and belching some pretty big stuff in our direction. The belches are actually Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) of high densities of charged particles that are many times stronger than the normal solar wind which the sun constantly blows outward. Most of the solar wind is…
Competition or Corrupt Coddling

09 August 2010

George Rebane Even the left-of-center Economist, “the world’s oldest newspaper”, is beginning to see the light as governments take over huge hunks of their countries’ wealth generating capacity. In its 7-13aug10 issue (‘Leviathan Inc’ and figure) it features a thorough analysis of governments worldwide grabbing control of industry after industry in a hopeless hope to stem…
Singularity Signposts – 9aug2010

09 August 2010

George Rebane New advances in walking and evolving intelligence. Today we’re a lot closer to robots walking naturally, and maybe tomorrow we’ll add the concurrent ability to chew gum. A team of systems engineers heavy in six-degree-of-freedom kinematics and control theory has developed a totally new paradigm for robot locomotion that gets closer to how, say,…