The Stars as Viewed from the International Space Station. from AJRCLIPS on Vimeo. Timelapse videos depicting the stars from low earth orbit, as viewed from the International Space Station. Images edited using Adobe Lightroom with some cropping to make the stars the focal point of each shot, and with manipulation of the contrast to bring out the stars a bit more. The video plays best if you let it load a bit first. First sequence star-trails processed using StarStaX: markus-enzweiler.de/software/software.html Music: “Truck out There” by London PM. Editing by Alex Rivest Timelapses and images courtesy: The Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth. The Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, NASA Johnson Space Center. One of NASA’s best outreach programs, in my opinion. http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/Videos/CrewEarthObservationsVideos/ A very big thanks to NASA astronaut Don Pettit (@astro_Pettit) for taking most of these images. Dedicated to those who dream of exploring the solar system, and those who are sharing their experiences while doing it.
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Stargazing from Space, courtesy @Astro_Pettit and @Nasa
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EthernetTV/~3/WUprYO_rGTg/731
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Mystical Brain (2006)
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EthernetTV/~3/QL_c3Mqvx7c/721
Objective measures of subjective experience will fundamentally transform our understanding of what it means to be temporarily human over the coming decade.
“This short documentary reveals the exploratory work of a team from the University of Montreal who seek to understand the states of grace experienced by mystics and those who meditate. Filmmaker Isabelle Raynauld offers up scientific research that suggests that mystical ecstasy is a transformative experience and could contribute to people’s psychic and physical health, treat depression and speed up the healing process when combined with conventional medicine. In French with English subtitles.”
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SpaceShip Two Test Flights & Trials @VirginGalactic
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EthernetTV/~3/4nNydtTZK3E/718
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Unfit for Purpose: Internets and Policies. More and more complex; more and more broken.
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EthernetTV/~3/eorSenUinME/692
After listening to this cued up exchange, go back to the beginning and watch the whole presentation. #MustWatchETV
Um, wait. Ultimate irony, hypocrisy, or just some technical dumb-assery on my part? Very strange that the embed doesn’t appear to be working; even though the YouTube tools to create embed work as normal. WTF? Cannot Display Embed Above?
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Apple’s Steve Jobs Deal with the Devil: Stanford Video Proof
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EthernetTV/~3/12O2z84CvHY/665
Steve: “I want to be someone powerful. A towering historic figure.” Lucifer: “Here’s the deal, Steve, you get to create the world’s most valuable company, but upon attainment your soul is mine.” Steve: “Tell you what, I’ll make our logo the bite of the forbidden fruit, just to seal the deal.”
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2012: Toward A Positive Human Future
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EthernetTV/~3/ZtS8GQTEcn0/661
“Decrease suffering. Reduce misery. Increase well-being. Build flourishing.” – Martin Seligman
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Real Terminator Robot a Sexy Fashion Model?
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EthernetTV/~3/Lh8pn5FF6_M/656
“For testing special clothing.” Right. Got it.
“PETMAN is an anthropomorphic robot developed by Boston Dynamics for testing special clothing used by US military personnel. PETMAN balances itself as it walks, squats and does calisthenics. PETMAN simulates human physiology by controlling temperature, humidity and sweating inside the clothing to provide realistic test conditions. PETMAN development is lead by Boston Dynamics, working in partnership with Measurement Technologies Northwest, Oak Ridge National Lab and MRIGlobal. The work is being done for the DoD CBDP. For more information about PETMAN visit http://www.BostonDynamics.com.”
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2011: The Year Mobile Took Over The World
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EthernetTV/~3/2WRfE_PmzE0/641
From the video, in 2011: Whopping increase in app creation and downloads: – ONE BILLION apps downloaded worldwide each month – $3 BILLION paid by Apple alone to independent apps developers Surge in use of social media mobile platforms: – 166 PERCENT increase in Facebook Mobile users in the first half of 2011 alone – 103 MILLION wireless tweets were posted each day – ONE BILLION Foursquare check-ins – 26 PHOTOS were made “hipstery” on Instagram every second Ongoing explosion in data traffic: – EIGHT TRILLION texts were sent – up 1.1 trillion from last year – 1800 PERCENT increase in traffic on U.S. networks predicted in just four years Unprecedented competition and choice: – MORE SMARTPHONES purchased than PCs in the United States – MORE WIRELESS SUBSCRIPTIONS than people – TWO BILLION networked mobile devices by 2015 – 4G SERVICES being rolled out by at least six carriers in 2011 alone Massive potential for job creation and economic growth: – 2.4 MILLION American jobs supported by wireless – $27.5 BILLION investment in U.S. mobile networks by wireless carriers – 500,000 JOBS & $400 BILLION to U.S. GDP with additional 500 MHz of additional spectrum
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“The World Shrunk to a Point” Arthur C. Clarke 1964
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EthernetTV/~3/NDVZi3wMGu0/614
“These things will make possible a world in which we can be in instant contact with each other, wherever we may be. Where we can contact our friends, anywhere on earth, even if we don’t know their actual physical location. It will be possible in that age, perhaps only 50 years from now, for a man to conduct his business from Tahiti or Bali, just as well as he could from London. In fact, if it prove worthwhile, almost any executive skill, any administrative skill, even any physical skill could be made independent of distance. I am perfectly serious when I suggest that one day, we may have brain surgeons in Edinborough operation on patients in New Zealand. When that time comes, the whole world will have shrunk to a point, and the traditional role of the city as a meeting place for man would have ceased to make any sense. In fact, men will no longer commute, they will communicate.”
Via @askpang by way of @wa8dzp.
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Daily Cyborg Update: Meet Jetman
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EthernetTV/~3/igpdDtFDa0E/606
Prosthetic eyes, limbs, hearts, organs, and wings.
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Future Augmented Space
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EthernetTV/~3/QeI-j5QRrbs/600
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Reinventing Fire: Transportation
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EthernetTV/~3/9wNKCoNmAMY/599
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The City as a Scalable Network
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EthernetTV/~3/0hb1hlvUFRE/597
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Huntsville, The “Mighty Eagle” has Landed. NASA Robotic Lander Development Project.
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EthernetTV/~3/t9i66SHc9WQ/594
NASA successfully completed the final flight in a series of tests of a new robotic lander prototype at the Redstone Test Center’s propulsion test facility on the U.S. Army Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Ala. The team steadily increased the lander’s flight profile, starting by hovering the lander — dubbed Mighty Eagle — at 3 feet, then 30 feet and finally a record 100-foot flight test.
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Invasion of the Swarm Cams
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EthernetTV/~3/l2XDqpKMcKQ/549
Photographic SwarmBots. Swarming Cambots. Tomato, Tomahto. Potato, Potahto. Break out the #tinfoil hat or welcome the Transparent Society? Exhibit A US accused of making insect spy robots Tom Leonard in New York Oct 10, 2007.
Exhibit B Robotic Aerial Vehicle Captures Dramatic Footage of Fukushima Reactors April 20, 2011. Erico Guizzo.
“Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), the plant’s operator, is using a T-Hawk, a remote operated flying machine created by U.S. firm Honeywell, to get a closer view of the severely damaged reactors. The T-Hawk, known as a micro air vehicle, or MAV, uses a ducted-fan propulsion system that allows it to hover in place like a helicopter and fly into tight spaces where other aircraft can’t go.” Exhibit C X Prize Team to Send Swarm of Spiders to the Moon May 13, 2009.
Exhibit D Tiny flying machines inspired by nature will revolutionize surveillance work July 28, 2011.
“Incorporating micro-cameras, these revolutionary insect-size vehicles will be suitable for many different purposes ranging from helping in emergency situations considered too dangerous for people to enter, to covert military surveillance missions.” Exhibit E Spherical Flying Machine Developed by Japan Ministry Of Defense #DigInfo Oct 23, 2011. DigInfo TV
Of course, endless beneficial commercial applications could include services like Alta Shot‘s High Altitude Real Estate Photography, Land Surveys, disaster response and rescue, etc.
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Best TEDx Talk of 2011? The future of transportation & happiness.
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EthernetTV/~3/NUG8kITW1_M/547
TEDxUCLA – Jimmy Lizama – My Message is Bicycle
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IBM “Think Friday”– How to Migrate the #99percent to 4 Day Work Week
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EthernetTV/~3/DMC6A7fAknQ/541
Wow? Could it really be possible? Finally, organizations are understanding that THINKING is actually one of most valuable activities in existence? Yes, yes, yes, execution is everything; but as we’ve written for years, without the best IDEAS to execute upon, what have you got? Nothing! It takes both. Of course, anyone who has tried to implement technological or organizational change knows that human behavior and culture are the biggest blockades, by far. People will gnaw your fingers down to knuckles if you dare to ruffle their comfortable, however dysfunctional or redundant, routines. Maybe for the skeptic, “Think Friday” is also partly a genius way to tell middle muddle managers, bean counters, and HR #DefaultReality #StatusQuo control freaks that “we’re not really giving them time off …” — which isn’t a bad thing either, seeing as a 4 Day Work Week and guaranteed Basic Income are two immediate policy measures that could soak up the surplus Human Attention in our society and provide it the stable base required to take pure innovation to incredible new levels.
For those searching for how to adopt basic income, or how to pragmatically implement an immediate basic income guarantee, in 2008, two states, Oklahoma and West Virginia, looked into the feasibility of requiring a four-day work week in two legislative sessions. As the stock market executed it’s current head fake higher, enthusiasm may have waned. The reality of today’s labor situation should reanimate this interest, to say the least.
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Approaching the Human Longevity Escape Velocity
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EthernetTV/~3/aTBDxDgGegc/536
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LG’s Minority Report like display at #IFA2011
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EthernetTV/~3/67lq8ZvrbiY/526
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Hello Eyeborg
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EthernetTV/~3/m6py1WIjOKw/524
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Aerocycle v Monocycle v Hovercycle v Hydrofoil
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EthernetTV/~3/n0uybzD8f1U/514
Why drool over this?
When you can have this …
or this …
or this …
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Mozilla Seabird: A MozPhone Mantra Worth Humming
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EthernetTV/~3/T9y1nMjZDDw/508
Innovations like the Mozilla Seabird MozPhone don’t happen over night. Keep Billy May’s mantra vibrating.
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“The future of the future is the present”
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EthernetTV/~3/q1VcU0T4dTo/498
“and this is something which people are terrified of.” – McLuhan
Source: MarshallMcLuhanSpeaks
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Touchless Touch Screen | Multi-touch Force Field
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EthernetTV/~3/SfuonzHyNj0/496
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IBM Watson destroys Humans in Jeopardy. Why Jeopardy?
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EthernetTV/~3/puM7_yUT4wY/
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silverton posted a note on Google Buzz
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silverton: RT @WestPeter Agency & Structure: social simulation knowldge-intensve industries http://is.gd/gOwwE how #futuretechture happens, who decides
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Salmon is as Salmon Does
- Keep swimming upstream
- Engineer the openness of RSS everywhere
- Make Dave Winer proud
- Listen to Vint Cerf
- Pay Attention to Kevin Kelley
- Always touch base with Jaron Lanier
- Heed the wisdom of John Perry Barlow
++ Everything Else
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Nevermind: The Future is Not Accelerating (So Much)
Mitchell Porter writes, at the self-debunking Accelerating Future, "And if the technical culture sometimes seems a little exhausted, a little deracinated, a little flighty and unfocused compared to previous generations of invention and accomplishment, it’s because we’ve never had toys like this before. They are turning the human mind inside out, cognition itself becoming situated in a network of autonomous artifacts rather than just in a human brain and body. It’s the biggest leap any natural intelligence can hope to perform and it doesn’t happen overnight. So while we endure all the epiphenomena of this enormous transformation, don’t mistake the absence of milestones in the image of yesterday’s breakthroughs for a general lassitude and lack of anything happening."
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Quantum Computing with an Electron Spin Ensemble Proposed to Make Hundreds of Qubits (via feedly)
Shared by @silverton: Think of this as a qubit amplifier; 'cuz single qubits ow vewy, vewy qwuiet. ;-) In no particular order (other than the fact that Brian's post here triggered the thought) blips (see Google Wave lexicon for full understanding of a 'blip') like this one remind me just how much I want to become a Brian Wang (bw of Next Big Future; this post), Martine Rothblatt, James Hughes, Deborah Gordon, Eliezer Yudkowski, Tara Hunt, Nick Bostrom, Jill Bolte Taylor, Dewayne Hendricks, Amber Case, Todd Gailun, Jane McGonigal, Brad Fidler, Anne Corwin -- plus hundreds of others -- Collective Cyber Consciousness when I grow up. ;-)
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The physical setup of the quantum computer consists of a superconducting transmission line cavity coupled to an ensemble of electron spins and a transmon Cooper pair box. The cavity dimensions allow 100 billion electron spins to be coupled to the cavity mode, which could be used to make hundreds of physical qubits. Image copyright: J.H. Wesenberg, et al.Physics Review Letter A: UK and Denmark researchers propose to encode a register of quantum bits in different collective electron spin wave excitations in a solid medium. Coupling to spins is enabled by locating them in the vicinity of a superconducting transmission line cavity, and making use of their strong collective coupling to the quantized radiation field. The transformation between different spin waves is achieved by applying gradient magnetic fields across the sample, while a Cooper pair box, resonant with the cavity field, may be used to carry out one- and two-qubit gate operations.Phys org has coverageScientists have recently proposed a quantum computing scheme that uses an ensemble of about 100 billion electron spins. They show that hundreds of physical qubits can be made from these collective electron spin excitations.The system can also perform qubit encoding and provide one- and two-bit gates for quantum computing. In the setup, the electron spins are coupled to a superconducting transmission line cavity. In turn, this cavity is coupled to a transmon Cooper pair box that carries out the gate operations.“A single electron spin only interacts very weakly with its environment: this makes it a good quantum memory, except that it is very hard to initialize or read out,” Wesenberg explained to PhysOrg.com. “In the ensemble register we make use of the fact that the collective interaction between an ensemble of billions of spins and a microwave cavity is greatly enhanced by the so-called superradiant effect. This makes it possible to transfer a microwave photon (carrying a qubit), from the cavity to the spin ensemble in a few tens of nanoseconds compared to a significant fraction of a second for a single spin. Once the photon has been transferred to the ensemble, it lives as an delocalized excitation. “The state of the system is a quantum superposition of each spin being excited, that is, flipped relative to the very strong magnetic field that has been applied to the system. There is an infinite number of ways in which a single excitation can be superpositioned in this way, and these can be described in terms of spin waves. By applying a magnetic gradient pulse, we can transfer an excitation that lives as one kind of spin wave to another kind of spin wave.” Depending on the materials used, the system could achieve spin coherence times of up to tens of milliseconds, which could be used to build a solid-state device.“The immediate plan is to demonstrate experimentally that this works,” Wesenberg said. “First in the semi-classical setting (which is essentially electron spin resonance spectroscopy), and later in the quantum regime. Experiments to this end are underway at Yale and Oxford.”[extracted from Quantum Computing with an Electron Spin Ensemble Proposed to Make Hundreds of Qubits via feedly]
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We’re all still standard human beings. For now.
@cascio Brilliant! Congratulations on the July / August The Atlantic: Get Smarter article http://tr.im/g3tsmart3r and Thank You! Fun bit of timeline interleaving discovering this http://u.nu/747m not long after the previous post.
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