July 2022 – Lifeboat News: The Blog https://lifeboat.com/blog Safeguarding Humanity Mon, 01 Aug 2022 04:40:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.1 Dobot on Facebook Watch https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/07/dobot-on-facebook-watch Mon, 01 Aug 2022 04:40:34 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/07/dobot-on-facebook-watch

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Scientists Make Nuclear Fusion Breakthrough! https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/07/scientists-make-nuclear-fusion-breakthrough Mon, 01 Aug 2022 04:38:41 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/07/scientists-make-nuclear-fusion-breakthrough

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The Earth got hit by a mysterious solar tsunami 9200 years ago! https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/07/the-earth-got-hit-by-a-mysterious-solar-tsunami-9200-years-ago Mon, 01 Aug 2022 04:36:56 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/07/the-earth-got-hit-by-a-mysterious-solar-tsunami-9200-years-ago

The Earth got hit by a mysterious solar tsunami 9,200 years ago!

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Space junk, 1962–2022 🛰️ https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/07/space-junk-1962-2022-%f0%9f%9b%b0%ef%b8%8f Mon, 01 Aug 2022 04:35:11 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/07/space-junk-1962-2022-%f0%9f%9b%b0%ef%b8%8f

🗑 Space junk (space debris, space pollution, space waste, or space garbage) is defunct man-made objects in space (mainly in Earth orbit) that no longer serve a useful function.

👀 And here is how its number has changed over the past 60 years.

*As of January 2021, the US Space Surveillance Network reported 21,901 artificial objects in orbit above the Earth, including 4,450 operational satellites. However, these are just objects large enough to be tracked.

#spacejunk #satellites #earth

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NOVA l PBS https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/07/nova-l-pbs Mon, 01 Aug 2022 04:33:18 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/07/nova-l-pbs

Can we deflect an asteroid if it were to hit Earth? Scientists launched a mission to test it out:

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Review: Hands-free flight with EEGSmart’s mind-controlled UDrone https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/07/review-hands-free-flight-with-eegsmarts-mind-controlled-udrone Mon, 01 Aug 2022 04:17:31 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/07/review-hands-free-flight-with-eegsmarts-mind-controlled-udrone

Circa 2019 😀 What a fun mind controlled toy drone 😗


How much more fun could drones be if you got fiddly hand controllers out of the way and flew them with your mind? That’s the question EEGSmart poses with its UDrone mini-quad, which responds to brainwaves and head movements instead of thumbsticks. It’s not perfect, but it does give a glimpse of a mind-controlled future.

The Udrone itself is fairly unremarkable; it’s a lightweight mini-quadcopter with 2-inch props, nice plastic bumpers to save it from damage when it bumps into a wall, and an 8-megapixel, 1080p-capable camera. You can fly it using your mobile phone, in which case it works like most similar small quads, but also has some smarts under its belt with face tracking, subject tracking and gesture recognition.

It flies for six or seven minutes on a battery, which is about right for this size of thing. The camera isn’t anything to write home about, but it streams video back to your phone in real time as long as you’re within Wi-Fi range. So far, so ordinary.

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MailOnline takes a look at technologies to remove plastic in oceans https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/07/mailonline-takes-a-look-at-technologies-to-remove-plastic-in-oceans Mon, 01 Aug 2022 04:00:44 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/07/mailonline-takes-a-look-at-technologies-to-remove-plastic-in-oceans

These include aquatic drones that can be programmed to scoop up floating debris from the surface of rivers, and buggies that use artificial intelligence (AI) to search for and pick up litter for use on beaches.

Scientists are also hoping to scale up the use of magnetic nano-scale springs that hook on to microplastics and break them down.

MailOnline takes a closer a look at some of the technologies currently being used to reduce the man-made debris in our oceans, and those that are still in development.

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Arup unveils world’s first algae-powered building https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/07/arup-unveils-worlds-first-algae-powered-building Mon, 01 Aug 2022 03:54:13 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/07/arup-unveils-worlds-first-algae-powered-building

Circa 2013 😃


News: the world’s first building to be powered entirely by algae is being piloted in Hamburg, Germany, by engineering firm Arup.

The “bio-adaptive facade”, which Arup says is the first of its kind, uses live microalgae growing in glass louvres to generate renewable energy and provide shade at the same time.

Installed in the BIQ building as part of the International Building Exhibition, the algae are continuously supplied with liquid nutrients and carbon dioxide via a water circuit running through the facade.

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Unsuspecting diner discovers dinosaur footprints in Chinese restaurant https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/07/unsuspecting-diner-discovers-dinosaur-footprints-in-chinese-restaurant Mon, 01 Aug 2022 03:51:54 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/07/unsuspecting-diner-discovers-dinosaur-footprints-in-chinese-restaurant

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These flying bikes, cars, and taxis are the future thanks to Hoversurf https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/07/these-flying-bikes-cars-and-taxis-are-the-future-thanks-to-hoversurf Mon, 01 Aug 2022 03:47:26 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2022/07/these-flying-bikes-cars-and-taxis-are-the-future-thanks-to-hoversurf

Credit: Hoversurf

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