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Reply to China says it will use the Tiangong Space Station to test the transmission of space-based solar power to Earth. by lughnasadh
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Submission Statement.
The European Space Agency formally committed to a feasibility study on space solar at their big annual meeting in Paris this week. ESA specifically referenced baseload electricity generation in their reasoning for supporting this idea.
Personally, I don't get it all. Research & deployment in many different types of grid storage batteries is racing ahead at the moment, and this will be space-based solar's main competitor. It seems hard to believe it will ultimately ever beat it on price.
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Reply to Human Trial to Regrow Mini-Livers in Patients with End-Stage Liver Damage by lunchboxultimate01
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LyGenesis will soon begin a clinical trial for patients with end-stage liver disease who are not able to receive a transplant. The intervention is a simple out-patient procedure that injects liver cells into one or more lymph nodes, which serve as bioreactors to grow one or more new, functional mini-organs. The procedure has worked in mice, dogs, and pigs. LyGenesis uses cells from discarded organs not used for transplant, and a single organ can provide cells for potentially dozens of patients. The whole clinical trial is likely to take about two years.
As with traditional organ transplants, patients will need to take immunosuppressants to not reject the donor cells. However, LyGenesis has partnered with iTolerance to find ways to transplant cells and tissue without lifelong need for immunosuppressants.
LyGenesis's pipeline also includes the thymus, pancreas, and kidneys.
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FuturologyBot t1_ixhc2uh wrote
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>France, Germany and Italy, the three biggest contributors to the European Space Agency, said Tuesday they have agreed to guarantee the future of the next-generation Ariane 6 and Vega-C rocket launcher systems.
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Reply to Your Robotaxi Is Almost Here by Rear-gunner
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One point that few talk about is that about 10% of our economy is in transportation, it is one of the few sectors where education is not required. Once the robots take over, where are these people going to go?
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>Today, in 2022, American men suffer Depression-era employment rates, even though they inhabit the wealthiest and most productive society ever known.
>After the pandemic, we have gone from men without work, to work without men,
this category of people that you’ve been studying, by which you mean that there are millions of open job positions after the pandemic, increasingly chasing fewer and fewer workers.
Who are these prime-age men who are just simply absent from working life, and what are they doing instead? What do their lives look like?
Nicholas Eberstadt:
>Well, it’s a trend that’s been underway for over half a century now. It began in the ’60s, and it had been underway for two generations when I wrote the first volume of “Men Without Work.”
>Now this second edition, six years later, we see that, unfortunately, the trend has only continued. We’ve got seven million prime-age men, 25 to 54 years old, who are out of the job market altogether, neither working nor looking for work.
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The following submission statement was provided by /u/izumi3682:
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From the article. There are a lot of good reasons but the below reason seems to be the most likely.
>Perhaps the most supportive evidence of the simulation hypothesis comes from quantum mechanics. This suggest nature isn’t “real”: particles in determined states, such as specific locations, don’t seem to exist unless you actually observe or measure them. Instead, they are in a mix of different states simultaneously. Similarly, virtual reality needs an observer or programmer for things to happen.
>Quantum “entanglement” also allows two particles to be spookily connected so that if you manipulate one, you automatically and immediately also manipulate the other, no matter how far apart they are – with the effect being seemingly faster than the speed of light, which should be impossible.
>This could, however, also be explained by the fact that within a virtual reality code, all “locations” (points) should be roughly equally far from a central processor. So while we may think two particles are millions of light years apart, they wouldn’t be if they were created in a simulation.
Here is my point in all of this. It doesn't matter if we are a simulation. We can't do anything about it. But what we can do is make simulations of our own. And we're gonna. I won't repeat myself. I finally got around to getting all of my simulated reality essays together in on place. I don't think I'll bore you.
I think I'll also throw in this sort of tangentially related essay/meditation concerning what consciousness actually is. Hint: It's not inside r heads. Anyway you can have a good laugh at my expense. Still I want to share it. Yes, some of my faith, Roman Catholicism, is in it too.
Oh! I found another one about consciousness too. I forgot all about that one lol.
Hiya miss sammy! I hope you find my essays kinda interesting! :)
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Reply to California Pizza Huts To Get Electric, 3-Wheeled, Single-Seater Delivery Vehicles by Brainlessdad
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The largest Pizza Hut franchisee in California, American West Restaurant Group, announced it will partner with ElectraMeccanica to buy a fleet of Solo Cargo delivery vehicles for its restaurants—and add a warm cargo box to keep your pizza toasty in transit.
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Reply to First Hydrogen Powered Transit Bus in LA County Hits Streets in December by redingerforcongress
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> Foothill Transit will be first to operate hydrogen fuel-cell buses in the county, starting with three buses, then growing to 33 next year.
> The first hydrogen-powered public bus in Los Angeles County will go into service early next month, a historic milestone that will unleash an army of similar, zero-emission buses that don’t connect to the power grid and run longer without refueling.
> These will replace some older battery electric plug-in buses that are also zero-emission. But some will replace buses that run on Compressed Natural Gas (CNG), a fuel much cleaner than diesel but one that still produces greenhouse gases (GHGs) that contribute to climate change.
> One hydrogen bus will eliminate the 3,655 grams of carbon dioxide emitted per mile by a CNG bus, said Roland Cordero, director of maintenance and diesel technology for Foothill Transit.
> Each bus costs about $1.2 million, Cordero said. That’s slightly more than a battery-electric bus at $950,000, he added.
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FuturologyBot t1_ixe3jpm wrote
The following submission statement was provided by /u/Gari_305:
From the Article
>A renewable source of fresh food is essential to future long-term space missions, to avoid astronauts experiencing “food fatigue”, malnutrition and weight loss.
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>Space plants are currently grown in closed boxes with low energy LED lights, porous clay “soil” with water, nutrients and oxygen supplied to roots; high-tech sensors and cameras monitor plant health. Plants did not evolve to grow in a box and use energy and resources in readiness for changes in light, temperature and disease, limiting full growth potential.
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>So there is great opportunity to adapt plant genetics to produce faster-growing “pick and eat” food crops such as tomato, carrot, spinach and strawberry designed to reach their maximum potential in closed, controlled environments.
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Reply to Over 1,000 songs with human-mimicking AI vocals have been released by Tencent Music in China. One of them has 100m streams. by lughnasadh
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One of the ironies of the debate around AI/robots replacing human labor is that people used to think it was unskilled labor that would go first. Instead, western countries are awash with unskilled minimum wage positions that are going unfilled, and it's the skilled high paid jobs that look more under threat.
This is just another indication that Generative AI is on the cusp of rapidly eating up creative work. Digital artists and illustrators must feel especially under threat by the likes of Midjourney and Stable Diffusion. There will of course be new jobs. AR/VR is around the corner and some people will make money off operating and selling services from Generative AI.
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Reply to Europe to commit billions to 'space race' by nastratin
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European research ministers are meeting in Paris to try to agree contributions to the €18.5bn (£16.1bn) of funding needed for future space activity
On their agenda are missions to the Moon and Mars, and, closer to home, satellites to monitor the weather and encrypt global communications.
The proposed budget for the European Space Agency is a near-25% increase.
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Reply to Domino’s Pizza will soon have 800 electric vehicles for delivery drivers by redingerforcongress
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> "We're excited that Domino's has chosen the Chevrolet Bolt EV to build their electric pizza delivery fleet in the U.S.," said Ed Peper, vice president of GM Fleet. "Both companies are committed to bettering our environment. GM plans to eliminate tailpipe emissions from new U.S. light duty vehicles by 2035. With an affordable price, fun driving characteristics, and a 259-mile range, the Chevy Bolt EV is the future of Domino's electrified deliveries."
> Michigan already has 12 of these electric vehicles, and expects 93 more to show up by the end of 2023, according to Domino’s interactive map.
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Reply to The leap second’s time is up: world votes to stop pausing clocks | The practice of adding ‘leap seconds’ to official clocks to keep them in sync with Earth’s rotation will be put on hold from 2035, the world’s foremost metrology body has decided by yourSAS
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The decision was made by representatives from governments worldwide at the General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) outside Paris on 18 November. It means that from 2035, or possibly earlier, astronomical time (known as UT1) will be allowed to diverge by more than one second from coordinated universal time (UTC), which is based on the steady tick of atomic clocks. Since 1972, whenever the two time systems have drifted apart by more than 0.9 seconds, a leap second has been added.
Leap seconds aren’t predictable, because they depend on to Earth’s natural rotation. They disrupt systems based on precise timekeeping,
Future metrologists might find more elegant ways than the leap second to realign UTC and UT1.
https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-03783-5
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Reply to The coming Moon economy by Gari_305
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>NASA's successful Moon rocket launch last week will be a boon for private companies, experts tell Axios.
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>Why it matters: As global economic growth slows, space and Moon exploration could become a source of ignition for new ventures and jobs.
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>The successful launch of Artemis I is "opening the door for expanding the lunar economy," says Takeshi Hakamada, CEO of ispace, which is planning to launch its first private mission to the Moon on Nov. 28.
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>Driving the news: NASA's un-crewed Artemis I mission showed companies looking to do business on and around the Moon that they would likely have a major customer there in the coming years.
Which leads to an important question, with the idea of having people living on the moon this decade being the goal for NASA, along with the fact of other countries vying to mine Helium 3 on the Moon are we going to see a scenario of a Moon Industrial Complex and renewal of great power play between the US and China?
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Reply to HVDC macrogrid would reduce climate pollutants and electricity costs while transmitting low-cost renewable power by manual_tranny
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Vibrant Clean Energy (VCE) has proposed a ~210 line underground high-voltage DC transmission line network, with underwater lines along coastlines, which would improve the efficiency of electricity distribution across the US.
In the lowest cost scenario, solar capacity is expected to exceed 830 GW and wind capacity is expected to exceed 1130 GW, by 2050.
The colossal transmission system would cost only $400B if financed over 30 years at 3%, which would result in a cost of $7.5 per MWh, enabling extremely low electricity costs of $25/MWh. (That's $0.025/KWh)
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Reply to The ESA aims to make 24/7 space-based solar energy harvesting a reality | Solaris program will study space-based solar power amid rising energy concerns by chrisdh79
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From the article: The European Space Agency (ESA) is set to approve a three-year study to determine whether sending huge solar farms into space could effectively meet the world's energy demands, a report from the BBC reveals.
A space-based solar power plant would be launched into a geostationary orbit, meaning it would orbit in a fixed location over the Earth that would be hit by the Sun 24/7.
So, if all goes to plan, the technology could one day harvest massive amounts of energy from space — enough to power millions of homes.
The ESA's space-based solar power initiative is called Solaris, and it is one of several similar projects worldwide, including ongoing research by China's Xidian University, which has built a 75-meter-tall (246-feet-tall) steel tower to test the technology for a ground receiving station, and Caltech's Space Solar Power Project.
Research ministers at the ESA's triennial council are expected to meet today, Tuesday, November 22, to discuss the ESA'S idea. They will also consider several other proposals before deciding the budget for the next phase of the space agency's space technology development plans.
In an interview with the BBC, ESA director general Josef Aschbacher said, "we do need to convert into carbon neutral economies and therefore change the way we produce energy and especially reduce the fossil fuel part of our energy production. If you can do it from space, and I'm saying if we could, because we are not there yet, this would be absolutely fantastic because it would solve a lot of problems."
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Reply to Is the future of carbon-capture technology electrochemistry? | Colorado Arts and Sciences Magazine | University of Colorado Boulder by ProFoxxxx
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Electrically activating chemicals could help remove carbon dioxide from the air, CU Boulder researchers find
Humans send millions of tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) into the air each year—by generating electricity, manufacturing products, driving, flying and doing other routine activities. And while plants can absorb some of that CO2, much of it remains suspended in the atmosphere, where it acts as an insulating blanket that traps heat on Earth.
Scientists believe removing some of that CO2—and either putting it in long-term storage or converting it into something useful—is a potential option for slowing the progression of human-caused climate change. But carbon sequestration, as the process is known, is easier said than done.
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Reply to This Startup Turned 1 Million Pounds of Ocean Plastic Into a Highly Profitable Business by RedditModsAreAPlague
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Seed Post Comment Thing: A startup called Solgaard makes suitcases, backpacks, and other cool things made from upcycled ocean plastic. They have a few different patented types of materials but cool porducts made from ocean plastic. The model is actually profitable as well so as they scale it seems to be doing well. Still a smaller startup but kind of cool to see a startup with a sustainable model that actually is profitable and also taking ocean plastic out of the ocean.
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Reply to ‘Without enough Latvians, we won’t be Latvia’: eastern Europe’s shrinking population | Latvia’s population is 30% smaller than it was in 1990 and by 2050 numbers will be in decline in over half of Europe’s 52 countries. by mossadnik
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>By 2050, according to the UN, populations will be in decline in more than half Europe’s 52 countries, including Italy, Spain, Poland and Germany. In five – Bulgaria, Latvia, Lithuania, Serbia and Ukraine – they are projected to fall by more than 20%.
>Over the next three decades, Latvia, having already shed nearly 30% of its population since 1990, is set to lose 23.5% more.
>One factor behind this dramatic decline is global. Across the industrialised world, fertility rates are plunging: two-thirds of the world’s population now live in countries with a birthrate below the 2.1 births per woman necessary for natural replacement.
>But crucially, like many of the former Soviet states, especially those that joined the EU with its right to work and live across the bloc, Latvia – present population just under 2m – has also suffered successive waves of emigration, as young people leave for more money abroad.
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Reply to GPT-4 is Almost Here, And it Looks Better than Anything Else - As GPT-3 remains a lot ambiguous, the new model could be a fraction of the futuristic bigger models that are yet to come. by izumi3682
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From the article.
>The possibility of GPT-4 being multimodal—such as accepting audio, text, image, and even video inputs—is anticipated. Moreover, there is an assumption that audio datasets from Open AI’s Whisper will be utilised to create the textual data needed to train GPT4.
And this.
>The major plot twist, however, is whether this entire article was written by GPT-4.
I have the perfect analogy for understanding the difference in performance between GPT-3 and GPT-4. I first read of it when understanding the difference between 4G and 5G.
The difference in performance capabilities between GPT-3 and GPT-4 is the difference between a very fast horse--and a slow jet. By the way, true 5G towers are starting to sprout up all over the US. They are big and disfiguring to neighborhoods.
And I'm pretty sure the next iteration/derivation of GPT style AI technology is more than a paper by this point. You might find the below interesting. Some background of the milieu and some thoughts I put down.
TL;DR: GPT-3 and 4, when it comes out, are but a small facet of what is coming into existence. The ARA, that is computing derived AI, robotics and automation are going to see things, in just the next 1-2 years alone, that are going to beyond belief today. To say nothing of what it will be like by the year 2025. Not only is this not hype, but I'm pretty sure I am greatly underestimating the impact on society of these advances. Further, China (PRC) doesn't openly discuss what they are up to.
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> When looking for donors, the Ridgeways specifically asked the donation center about a category called “special consideration,” meaning it had been hard to find recipients for these embryos, for whatever reason.
> To pick their embryos, they went through a donor database. It did not list the how long embryos have been frozen, but it listed the donors’ characteristics like ethnicity, age, height, weight, genetic and health history, education, occupation, favorite movies and music. With some files, there are photos of the parents and of their children if they have them.
> The Ridgeways assumed those listed with earlier donor numbers had been at the center the longest and tried to narrow their choice to those profiles.
> The embryos were created for an anonymous married couple using in-vitro fertilization. The husband was in his early 50s, and they used a 34-year-old egg donor.
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FuturologyBot t1_ix7y9sz wrote
The following submission statement was provided by /u/Gari_305:
From the Article
>SEPTA will soon begin using an artificial intelligence system that can detect people getting on trains and buses with guns.
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>Why it matters: There’s been a dramatic spike in violent crime aboard the public transit system.
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>Robberies and aggravated assault were up 80% from 2019 to 2021, and the agency’s longtime police chief retired suddenly early this year amid ongoing scrutiny over safety.
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>Driving the news: SEPTA is the U.S.’s first major transit system to test out the AI technology, known as ZeroEyes. It’s been deployed by the Pentagon as well as public schools, universities and Fortune 500 companies in more than 30 states, according to a SEPTA statement.
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FuturologyBot t1_ix7y90p wrote
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From the Article
>A class-action lawsuit filed in a federal court in California this month takes aim at GitHub Copilot, a powerful tool that automatically writes working code when a programmer starts typing. The coder behind the suit argue that GitHub is infringing copyright because it does not provide attribution when Copilot reproduces open-source code covered by a license requiring it.
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>The lawsuit is at an early stage, and its prospects are unclear because the underlying technology is novel and has not faced much legal scrutiny. But legal experts say it may have a bearing on the broader trend of generative AI tools. AI programs that generate paintings, photographs, and illustrations from a prompt, as well as text for marketing copy, are all built with algorithms trained on previous work produced by humans.
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Reply to Technology’s next big thing: This robot will be the greatest consumer product of all time by MarshallBrain
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The article discusses the advancements that will take place to bring out a general-purpose cleaning/cooking robot for the home, the capabilities this robot will have, and potential economic effects. A general-purpose robot like this will free up 10 to 20 hours per week in a person’s life and eliminate the chores of cleaning and cooking completely. If presented at any reasonable price point, it is easy to imagine the CleanTron 5000 soon being as universal as refrigerators because of the time and drudgery it saves.
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Reply to Europe names world's first disabled astronaut | European Space Agency on Wednesday named the first ever "parastronaut" in a major step towards allowing people with physical disabilities to work and live in space. by yourSAS
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The 22-nation agency said it had selected former British Paralympic sprinter John McFall as part of a new generation of 17 recruits picked for astronaut training.
He will take part in a feasibility study designed to allow ESA to assess the conditions needed for people with disabilities to take part in future missions.
>"Better representation of disabled people in influential roles will really help improve attitudes and break down the barriers that many disabled people face today,"
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