Archive for the 'Technology' Category
U.S. Military Electroshock Weapon Can Hit a Person 300 Feet Away
June 29th, 2020Via: The Sun: THE US Marine Corps is testing a powerful electroshock weapon that can zap enemies from 300 feet away. Dubbed “Specter”, the non-lethal projectile can be fired from a shotgun and downs targets using a taser-like electric shock.
Facebook: Aggressive Censorship Against Conservatives, Republicans
June 28th, 2020Via: Project Veritas: Project Veritas today released one of the most damning undercover investigation reports—this time insiders used hidden cameras to document rampant censorship occurring at social media giant: Facebook. More:
How Fast Are Apple’s New ARM Mac Chips? It’s Hard to Tell
June 24th, 2020Actually, it’s hard to imagine how severely AMD’s upcoming Zen3 CPUs are going slaughter these scaled up iPhones. Via: The Verge: For years, Apple has steadily revealed how the ARM-based chips in its mobile phones were catching up in performance to the beefier silicon you’d find inside a laptop or desktop — in 2018, the […]
Construction Begins on World’s Biggest Liquid Air Battery
June 24th, 2020If you’re like me, you’re thinking, “The efficiency has to be very low.” I found this on the Wikipedia entry for cryogenic energy storage: In isolation the process is only 25% efficient, but this is increased to around 50% when used with a low-grade cold store, such as a large gravel bed, to capture the […]
China’s Surprise, Years in the Planning: An EMP Attack
June 22nd, 2020Yeah, well, China’s not alone in this area. Via: The Hill: Hopefully, the U.S. Navy is better prepared to cope with an EMP attack than are DOE and DHS. A nuclear EMP attack against U.S. aircraft carriers is the key to victory in China’s military doctrine, as noted in a Feb. 12, 2000, article in […]
DARPA Wants Nuclear Thermal Propulsion
June 22nd, 2020Via: Ars Technica: There are many ways to get around space, but most of them are pretty slow. This is why, even when launching at an optimal time, a spacecraft leaving Earth requires about six months to reach orbit around Mars. For decades, many rocket scientists have looked to a propulsion system powered by a […]
SpaceX Boca Chica Drive-By
June 22nd, 2020This is quite a surreal scene. Tents, trailers, portapotties, solar panels, propellant tanks, pickup trucks, ground tracking equipment… Prototypes of parts of the largest rocket ever launched from Earth (Starship + Superheavy stack). Via: NASASpaceflight – bocachicagal: This drive past SpaceX’s Boca Chica facilities helps show how everything is laid out. Head down HWY 4 […]
Photos of SpaceX’s Starlink Prototype Ground Station Antennas
June 22nd, 2020Via: Reddit User darkpenguin22: Prototype Starlink terminals – Merrillan, WI More: SpaceX Starlink Antennas Spied at Starship Factory for First Time
Cern Poised to Back Plan for €20bn Successor to Large Hadron Collider
June 19th, 2020Via: Guardian: As the largest scientific instrument on the planet enters its twilight years, Cern scientists have been facing the question of what next after the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Following extensive debate, they appear to have landed on an answer: go bigger or go home. Cern’s council is expected to announce its backing on […]
SpaceX Hiring Staff to, “Design and Build an Operational Offshore Rocket Launch Facility” Sized for Starship and Super Heavy
June 19th, 2020Via: Teslarati: SpaceX CEO Elon Musk says that the company is going to build multiple massive “floating spaceports” to enable Starship launches to Mars and the Moon, as well as point-to-point travel around the Earth. First confirmed in job listings and later backed up by Musk himself, the goal of the nascent program is “to […]
