This platform could be used to collect information from astronomers? Or, can we come up with a cool space app for it?

I wonder how free is the starting morphology.....

it is done.... now maybe ESA will consider doing it too?

Easy money.....

A cool way of organizing a research group seminars (should we do it for the science coffee?)

Idea page on PaGMO ... if not in GSoC we should do the Alife on Asteroid at least!!!

Good critic to a non neuromorphic approach?

NASA worked on this 4 years ago.... good inspiration for a possible alternative application to navigation

If CRISTINA was a joke, have a look into this one, it is called NELL...

Long report on new careers and jobs that will be available in 20 years. Space guides is one of them .... (overoptimistic?)

Is this how your day looks like? Think out of the box and you will win this poetic and very artistic game

Thi HCI looks like having better peformance than BMIs!!!! It is a BRAND NEW PATENT form Microsoft

Here is a first entry for our canweuseitforspace database. Jose, apparently this invisibility cloack is not that difficult after all!!!! Watch the youtube video.....

A link to help the discussion a few posts below....

And, for par condicio (see post below), an old link with a list of overoptimistic predictions

"Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons." Underoptimistic ... Excellent source of inspiration and quotation for all our reports

Francesco pointed out this research one year ago, we dropped it as noone was really considering it ... but in space a low CPU power consumption is crucial!! Maybe we should look back into this?

Satellites use old CPUs also because with the trend of going for higher power modern CPUs are not very convenient from a system design point of view (TBC)... as a consequence the constraints put on on-board algorithms can be demanding. I agree with you that double precision might just not be necessary for a number of applications (navigation also), but I guess we are not talking about 10km as an absolute value, rather to a relative error that can be tolerated at level of (say) 10^-6. All in all you are right a first study should assess what application this would be useful at all.. and at what precision / power levels

What about speed then? Seven time faster could allow some real time navigation at higher speed (e.g. velocity of a terminal guidance for an asteroid impactor is limited to 10 km/s ... would a higher velocity be possible with faster processors?) Another issue is the radiation tolerance of the technology ... if the PCMOS are more tolerant to radiation they could get more easily space qualified.....

Reminds me of something .... :)

They knew before crashing....