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Inspired by Sci-Fi, an Airplane With No Moving Parts and a Blue Ionic Glow

https://suhub.co/2Sm57Kl

Via Winchell Chung.

Originally shared by Troy

Cutting wound healing time from two weeks to 3 days sounds like the stuff of cyberpunk. But since it’s small electrical impulses, it could also be how healing magic works in fantasy settings, coming from the Lightning schools instead of divine magic. Perhaps some kind of quartz-like material placed over a dressing.

https://phys.org/news/2018-11-bandage-powerful.html

There’s a big gap between knowing that an asteroid contains a lot of valuable metal and extracting that metal, let alone bringing it back to Earth. Of course, you could use it to build things in space which you wouldn’t have to lift out of a gravity well, and that is probably the most compelling use case for asteroid mining, in reality.

Originally shared by Alan Brown

This would be a real achievement for NASA, diamonds, platinum and gold from space mining.

See the facebook blog: https://www.facebook.com/nightskyuniverse/notifications/

https://futurism.com/nasa-fast-tracking-plans-explore-metal-asteroid-worth-10000-quadrillion

A nice little bit of knowledge that could easily become a plot point: on the moon, things are further away than they look to Earth-adapted eyes.

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How One Researcher Is Using VR to Help Our Eyes Adapt to Seeing in Space

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Brain prosthetics. Sounds like they work smoothly and seamlessly, giving people who are unable to move their limbs access to any app they want to use.

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Paralyzed Patients Can Now Control Android Tablets With Their Minds

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The answer to the headline’s question is, of course, “Yes”.

https://singularityhub.com/2018/11/27/would-a-universal-genetic-database-be-a-crime-solving-wonder-or-an-orwellian-nightmare/?utm_content=buffer04761&utm_medium=organicsocial&utm_source=googleplus-hub&utm_campaign=buffer

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Incepting Sight? This Brain Implant Lets Blind Patients “See” Letters

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Originally shared by Eduardo Suastegui

EXCLUSIVE: Chinese scientists are creating CRISPR babies – MIT Technology Review

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612458/exclusive-chinese-scientists-are-creating-crispr-babies/

If you’re writing space opera, you can probably just ignore all this (along with the need for reaction mass, how hard it is to reach orbit, and how long it takes to get around a solar system). But if you’re writing hard SF set in space, you need to know it.

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What Happens to the Brain in Zero Gravity?

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Lots of people are working on this kind of stuff, and making decent progress.

Originally shared by Judah Richardson

Does your mouth water at the prospect of a nice juicy steak? How about a nice juicy 3D-printed steak, made using a paste composed of vegetable-based materials like rice, peas, and seaweed? That’s what a new Spanish startup, Novameat, is working hard to bring to market.

https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/3d-printed-steak-rice-peas-seaweed/