Archive for the 'Technology' Category
Building Nikola Tesla’s Bladeless Turbine
July 31st, 2023Via: Integza:
Eurostar Rolls Out ‘SmartCheck’ Facial Biometric Check-In System
July 31st, 2023Via: iProov:
Say Goodbye to Permissionless Travel
July 31st, 2023Via: Reason: Once upon a time, citizens of the United States could travel to almost every country in the European Union for 90 days without asking any government for permission beyond showing a passport at the initial point of entry. It was—and still is, for a few waning months—a marvelous if underacknowledged achievement for liberty. […]
Play Deprivation Is A Major Cause of the Teen Mental Health Crisis
July 28th, 2023Via: After Babel: The central idea of my forthcoming book, The Anxious Generation, is that we have overprotected children in the real world, where they need a lot of free play and autonomy,while underprotecting them online, where they are not developmentally ready for much of what happens to them.
Worldcoin Isn’t as Bad as it Sounds: It’s Worse
July 28th, 2023One person is willing to sell their soul every 8 seconds for a shitcoin and a cattle tag. Extreme clown world alert. https://t.co/RZeJYANCAV — Whitney Webb (@_whitneywebb) July 26, 2023 Via: Blockworks: Worldcoin — a new financial system connected to sensitive biometric information, mostly harvested from poor people — sure sounds like a terrible idea. […]
NASA Picks Lockheed Martin to Develop Nuclear Rocket
July 27th, 2023Via: PhysOrg: NASA and the US military said Wednesday they had selected defense contractor Lockheed Martin to develop a nuclear powered rocket, with a view to using the technology for missions to Mars. The Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislunar Operations (DRACO) program may launch as soon as 2027, officials said on a call. Nuclear thermal […]
David Grusch in Sworn Testimony Before Congress: The U.S. Has Recovered Alien Spacecraft and Bodies and Has Run a Coverup for Decades
July 27th, 2023As expected, the hearing was a rehash of information that was already in the public domain. My assessment of this remains the same as in the past, “The military establishment is never, ever going to reveal what it actually knows about the phenomenon.” What we’re seeing now is likely a continuation of the limited hangout […]
Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Implications on National Security, Public Safety, and Government Transparency
July 26th, 2023Via: House Committee On Oversight and Accountability:
South Korean Researchers Claim Room Temperature, Ambient Pressure Superconductor
July 26th, 2023Update: Skepticism Abounds for Claim that Lead-Based Material Perfectly Conducts Electricity at Room Temperature and Pressure — I don’t know why there’s no news coverage of this. Maybe someone out there in Cryptogon land would we willing to submit a sanity check for us laypeople. I remember reading about this in the 1980s. I asked […]
New U.S. Navy SEAL Delivery Vehicle: Dry Combat Submersible
July 25th, 2023Via: The Drive: The U.S. Navy’s newest special operations mini-submarine has now officially entered service. Unlike earlier SEAL Delivery Vehicles, the new Dry Combat Submersible allows the occupants to travel to and from their destination submerged, but without being immersed in often frigid water the whole time. This is a capability the Navy has been […]
