Astrothoughts

  

Astrothoughts

by Craig Mayhew



Future of The Super Capacitor


Super Capacitors have been closing the gap with batteries over the last decade. Maxwell Institute currently dominates the Wikipedia article for super capacitors and has devices that store enough power to be a phone…




Active SETI? - no thanks


TV and Radio signals from Earth have now traveled about 60 Light years. Luckily, even if the TV/Radio signals were intercepted by aliens, the signals would be very weak and jumbled together. It does give away our…




Job automation - drivers beware


I love thinking up hypothetical sceneios loosely or seriously based on reality, this particular one is about the steady automation of the jobs market and how this will effect those that drive for a…




Harnessing Time Dilation with NASA's Solar Probe Plus


Yeaa! NASA has put together a mission to fly a space probe into the atmosphere of the sun in 2022. Well, it will actually be orbiting the sun and so won't just go hurtling into it. It will orbit at over 200km/s at a…




The Intelligence Singularity


Recently the meme of the coming intelligence singularity is becoming more and more prevalent. Futurists are making accurate predictions based on patterns/rules in increased computing power and increased computing…




Harnessing Time Dilation part 2


This follows on from my first article about harnessing time dilation. If you haven't read my first article then I highly recommend you do before reading this one. I've included a spreadsheet so you can do these…



Aliens   SETI   Berserker Probe   Singularity   Borris Johnson   Automation   nasa   Time Dilation   Time Travel   Space Probe   Singularity   Time Dilation   Time Travel  


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