Lifeboat Foundation

https://youtube.com/watch?v=JfQWe–kciM

This is the second novel in “Remembrance of Earth’s Past”, the near-future trilogy written by China’s multiple-award-winning science fiction author, Cixin Liu.

In The Dark Forest, Earth is reeling from the revelation of a coming alien invasion — four centuries in the future. The aliens’ human collaborators have been defeated but the presence of the sophons, the subatomic particles that allow Trisolaris instant access to all human information, means that Earth’s defense plans are exposed to the enemy. Only the human mind remains a secret.

Continue reading “The Dark Forest by Liu Cixin (Part 3) — Science Fiction Audiobook” »

https://youtube.com/watch?v=0zOL6-u5GJo

This is the second novel in “Remembrance of Earth’s Past”, the near-future trilogy written by China’s multiple-award-winning science fiction author, Cixin Liu.

In The Dark Forest, Earth is reeling from the revelation of a coming alien invasion — four centuries in the future. The aliens’ human collaborators have been defeated but the presence of the sophons, the subatomic particles that allow Trisolaris instant access to all human information, means that Earth’s defense plans are exposed to the enemy. Only the human mind remains a secret.

Continue reading “The Dark Forest by Liu Cixin (Part 2) — Science Fiction Audiobook” »

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Zc7ysvsa6U0

This is the second novel in “Remembrance of Earth’s Past”, the near-future trilogy written by China’s multiple-award-winning science fiction author, Cixin Liu.

In The Dark Forest, Earth is reeling from the revelation of a coming alien invasion — four centuries in the future. The aliens’ human collaborators have been defeated but the presence of the sophons, the subatomic particles that allow Trisolaris instant access to all human information, means that Earth’s defense plans are exposed to the enemy. Only the human mind remains a secret.

Continue reading “The Dark Forest by Liu Cixin (Part 1) — Science Fiction Audiobook” »

Scientists could finally send more powerful mirrors to space to hunt for exoplanets.

Scientists have found a way to bring bigger telescope mirrors into space, potentially allowing for more exoplanet discoveries.

That’s comforting.

NMN has recently been removed from Amazon. The popular longevity supplement that is used by thousands of people all across the world will no longer is sold on Amazon as of the 16th of February 2023. Why has amazon removed NMN from its store, and what is the future for NMN?

I felt as though I were communing directly with a plant for the first time.

When optical beams, consisting of photons, travel through fibers, they cause vibrations that generate acoustic waves, consisting of phonons. The phenomenon, called Brillouin scattering, has been harnessed by researchers to optomechanically “couple” acoustic waves with light waves. This coupling allows information carried by photons to be transduced, or converted, to the phonons, which travel nearly a million times more slowly than light waves.

Opto-acoustic coupling has enabled researchers to read and manipulate the transduced information more easily. To date, however, many of the Brillouin scattering techniques researchers have used rely on standard fiber geometries that cause acoustic waves to die out quickly, limiting the efficacy of the coupling.

Now, using an optical fiber with a micron-sized waist, University of Rochester researchers have demonstrated how to couple propagating optical waves and long-lived acoustic waves, with strong optical-acoustic interactions.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=hNlgfvtS5qw

Welcome to the first issue of Rushing Robotics with brief overviews of each section.