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LeopoldS

Paul Allen to build behemoth plane for space launches - latimes.com - 1 views

www.latimes.com/...eship-20111214,0,1197007.story

space tourism

shared by LeopoldS on 14 Dec 11 - No Cached
  • LeopoldS on 14 Dec 11
     
    spaceship1 on steroids ...
  • Ma Ru on 15 Dec 11
     
    Looks slightly fragile in the middle...
Dario Izzo

Check your country impact on science!!! - 8 views

www.sciencegateway.org/...index.html

journal academic impact Science Ranking research

shared by Dario Izzo on 25 Jan 12 - Cached
  • Dario Izzo on 25 Jan 12
     
    Did you know that papers in space science are among the most quoted? Check how your country is doing .... you will be surprised :)
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  • dejanpetkow on 26 Jan 12
     
    In terms of country based quotations ("Most scited countries") I cannot access space science, only Geosciences, Immunology, Material Science, and Psychiatry & Psychology. But when I first saw the list of countries at the left under "Impact in Science" I saw Argentinia was on top, and USA was on last position. Yes, I was surprised, until I realised that is was just an alphabetical order. Did you see the same list?
  • Nicholas Lan on 26 Jan 12
     
    scotland's a separate country. must be preparing for independence already. and it's highest percentage is for space science. crazy
  • Dario Izzo on 26 Jan 12
     
    Dajan, you need to click on the country you are interested in ....
  • dejanpetkow on 26 Jan 12
     
    Nooo, can't be THAT simple.
  • LeopoldS on 26 Jan 12
     
    data a bit old .... newer data (but less well presented) at http://sciencewatch.com/ there you can also read: "The 20th century was largely dominated by the US as a major powerhouse of scientific research and innovation, with 40% of the papers indexed in the Web of Science fielded by US scientists in the 1990s. By 2009, that figure was down to 29%. The US now struggles to keep pace with increased output from Europe and Asia."
  • LeopoldS on 26 Jan 12
     
    hottest space science paper in January 2012: Field: Space Science Article Title: Herschel Space Observatory An ESA facility for far-infrared and submillimetre astronomy Authors: Pilbratt, GL;Riedinger, JR;Passvogel, T;Crone, G;Doyle, D;Gageur, U;Heras, AM;Jewell, C;Metcalfe, L;Ott, S;Schmidt, M Journal: ASTRON ASTROPHYS, 518: art. no.-L1 JUL-AUG 2010 * ESTEC SRE SA, ESA Res & Sci Support Dept, Keplerlaan 1, NL-2201 AZ Noordwijk, Netherlands. * ESTEC SRE SA, ESA Res & Sci Support Dept, NL-2201 AZ Noordwijk, Netherlands. * ESTEC SRE OA, ESA Sci Operat Dept, NL-2201 AZ Noordwijk, Netherlands. * ESTEC SRE P, ESA Sci Operat Dept, NL-2201 AZ Noordwijk, Netherlands. * ESOC OPS OAH, ESA Mission Operat Dept, D-64293 Darmstadt, Germany. * ESAC SRE OA, ESA Sci Operat Dept, Madrid 28691, Spain.
  • Ma Ru on 30 Jan 12
     
    Interestingly, Space Science is the only field in which my country has positive "Impact vs. world" value (even more interestingly as we don't even have a proper national space agency)...
  • LeopoldS on 30 Jan 12
     
    this might also be an indication / point to an issue with their data concerning space science publications ... quite surprising indeed that all Europeans are doing so well in this field
  • jmlloren on 01 Feb 12
     
    Something should be wrong, for Spain I can read: Economics & Business 4.54 -28 Only minus 28!
Luís F. Simões

At Google X, a Top-Secret Lab Dreaming Up the Future - NYTimes.com - 3 views

www.nytimes.com/...ab-dreaming-up-the-future.html

AI robotics elevator spaceelevator car Web of Things

shared by Luís F. Simões on 15 Nov 11 - No Cached
  • These are just a few of the dreams being chased at Google X, the clandestine lab where Google is tackling a list of 100 shoot-for-the-stars ideas. In interviews, a dozen people discussed the list; some work at the lab or elsewhere at Google, and some have been briefed on the project. But none would speak for attribution because Google is so secretive about the effort that many employees do not even know the lab exists.
  • tvinko on 15 Nov 11
     
    hmmm, I was wondering how many ESA employees do know that ACT does exist....
  • Isabelle DB on 16 Nov 11
     
    And my son studying at Stanford (he just sent me the same link !) follows the courses this semester of two of the teachers mentioned in the article, Thrun - very good and Ng - excellent
Lionel Jacques

Facebook users: Five degrees of separation - 1 views

www.washingtonpost.com/...gIQAyBfwkN_story.html

FUN science

shared by Lionel Jacques on 22 Nov 11 - No Cached
  • Lionel Jacques on 22 Nov 11
     
    According to the company's data team, in 2008 the average amount of separation between any two given people on the network was 5.28 steps. Just three years later, it's 4.74.
H H

How To Use Math To Crush Your Friends At Monopoly Like You've Never Done Before - 1 views

www.businessinsider.com/ath-monopoly-statistics-2013-6

shared by H H on 02 Sep 13 - No Cached
  • H H on 02 Sep 13
     
    Monopoly is one of the classic American games. It's played amongst close friends, loved ones, and trusted business partners. It's also one of the few times in life where it's perfectly acceptable to want to systematically annihilate and crush the aforementioned friends, loved ones and partners. We broke down the must-know math behind Monopoly as well as several lessons you can take away from what truly is The Most Dangerous Game.
Daniel Hennes

The World's Largest Solar Plant Started Creating Electricity Today - 3 views

gizmodo.com/ted-creating-electr-1521998493

technology energy

shared by Daniel Hennes on 14 Feb 14 - No Cached
  • Daniel Hennes on 14 Feb 14
     
    The enormous solar plant-jointly owned by NRG Energy, BrightSource Energy and Google-opened for business today ... well yesterday, but still impressive!
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  • Athanasia Nikolaou on 14 Feb 14
     
    impressive! and google is among the owners.
  • LeopoldS on 15 Feb 14
     
    impressive pictures - looking at the 2nd to last and 4th to last one, I am wondering how this distributed individually control of the mirrors works - and idea?
  • Paul N on 21 Feb 14
     
    Machine learning obviously. Most likely neural networks :P On the other hand: http://sploid.gizmodo.com/the-worlds-largest-solar-plant-is-killing-birds-meltin-1525107821
johannessimon81

Facebook is buying WhatsApp for ~ $ 19e9 - 1 views

www.bloomberg.com/...p-whatsapp-for-16-billion.html

technology

shared by johannessimon81 on 20 Feb 14 - No Cached
  • johannessimon81 on 20 Feb 14
     
    That is about € 14e9 - enough to pay more than a million YGTs for half a year. Could we use maybe just half a million YGTs for half a year to build a similar platform and keep the remaining € 7e9 for ourselves? Keep in mind that WhatsApp only has 45 employees (according to AllThingsD: http://goo.gl/NtJcSj ). So we would have an advantage > 10000:1. On the other hand does this mean that every employee at WhatsApp gets enough money now to survive comfortably for ~5000 years or will the inevitable social inequality strike and most people get next to nothing while a few get money to live comfortably for ~1000000 years? Also: Does Facebook think about these numbers before they pay them? Or is it just a case of "That looks tasty - lets have it"? Also (2): As far as I can see all these internet companies (Google, Facebook, Yahoo, WhatsApp, Twitter...) seem to make most of their income from advertising. For all these companies together that must be a lot of advertising money (turns out that in 2013 the world spent about $ 500 billion on advertising: http://goo.gl/vYog15 ). For that money you could of course have 20 million YGTs roaming the Earth and advertising stuff door-to-door... ... ...
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  • Thijs Versloot on 20 Feb 14
     
    Jo, thats just brilliant... 500billion USD total on advertising, that sounds absolutely ridiculous.. I always wondered whether this giant advertisement scheme is just one big 'ponzi'-like scheme waiting to crash down on us one day when they realize, cat-picture twittering fb-ing whatsapping consumers just aint worth it..
  • Juxi Leitner on 20 Feb 14
     
    The whole valuation of those internet companies is a bit scary. Things like the Facebook and Twitter ipo numbers seem just ridiculous.
  • Paul N on 21 Feb 14
     
    Facebook is not really so much buying into a potential good business deal as much as it's buying out risky competition. Popular trends need to be killed fast before they take off the ground too much. Also the amount of personal data that WhatsApp is amassing is staggering. I have never seen an app requesting so many phone rights in my life.
Marcus Maertens

They Finally Tested The 'Prisoner's Dilemma' On Actual Prisoners - And The Results Were Not What You Would Expect | Business Insider Australia - 2 views

au.businessinsider.com/rs-dilemma-in-real-life-2013-7

science fun

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  • Marcus Maertens on 26 Jul 13
     
    ... and on students as well, who should actually know better!
  • Ma Ru on 26 Jul 13
     
    For me it is not a surprising result at all that criminals cooperate more than students. The former are partners in crime, united by being "against the system". The latter are nothing more than competitors of each other at the job market. On a side note, the majority of the students doesn't *know*, they *memorise*. There is a difference. I recommend "Celda 211". Good movie on the topic.
  • johannessimon81 on 06 Aug 13
     
    Did the theoretical payoff matrix take into account what happens when you next encounter the person you cheated out of their coffee/cigarettes?
Beniamino Abis

Snake Robots for Exploration - 1 views

www.sintef.no/...Snake-robot-on-Mars

technology space

shared by Beniamino Abis on 18 Sep 13 - No Cached
  • Beniamino Abis on 18 Sep 13
     
    The researchers are busy working on a feasibility study assigned to them by the ESA. The idea is that by combining a rover that can navigate over large distances with a snake robot that can crawl along the ground and can get into inaccessible places, so many more possibilities could be opened up, e.g. collecting samples from tight spots that the rovers cannot reach.
Luís F. Simões

Noordwijk | Space Apps Challenge - 1 views

2014.spaceappschallenge.org/...noordwijk

INF NASA apps

shared by Luís F. Simões on 08 Apr 14 - No Cached
  • On the weekend of the 12 and 13 April 2014 ESA Business Incubation Centre Noordwijk and Verhaert Connect are proud to host the NASA International Space Apps Challenge in the European Space Innovation Centre Noordwijk.
  • Developers, designers, innovators all kinds of creative thinkers from all seven continents will come together for two days of creativity and computer coding to address challenges of global importance. This year we expect to have about 40 challenges that support NASA's mission directorates in five themes: Earth Watch, Technology in Space, Human Spaceflight, Robotics and Asteroids.
  • Ma Ru on 09 Apr 14
     
    "Developers, designers, innovators all kinds of creative thinkers" aka "nerd objective-C programmers with no life"?
  • johannessimon81 on 09 Apr 14
     
    Well, the ACT actually proposed a few of the topics (BEWARE, THERE BE CUCUMBERS!). Some are not necessarily software based, like creating a LEGO model of the ExoMars rover (although they stripped LEGO from the challenge description and now it just says "create an ExoMars rover from hardware" ... ). Also we had no clue that they would host part of the challenge here at ESTEC - so our 5 or 6 challenges will all be hosted in Rome... ...
LeopoldS

Tox: A New Kind of Instant Messaging - 5 views

tox.im

shared by LeopoldS on 02 Sep 14 - No Cached
  • LeopoldS on 02 Sep 14
     
    skype alternative - open source, no central server, encryption built in ....
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  • dejanpetkow on 04 Sep 14
     
    It's free and w/o ads. What's the business model? Their page doesn't say anything about it.
  • Thijs Versloot on 04 Sep 14
     
    To help society...
  • Ma Ru on 05 Sep 14
     
    They plan to secretly capture all communications and then sell them to NSA...
  • Paul N on 08 Sep 14
     
    probably developed by the NSA directly
  • LeopoldS on 16 Sep 14
     
    its open source - go check it :-)
  • LeopoldS on 16 Sep 14
     
    my ID: 7C53B574D888EE0E2A97FCD62B144DD14730E45C1B7158D4ED3EBCCB920CB93A68C62E6C9385
Paul N

Genetic code extended to 3 base pairs - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...g-artificial-genetic-code.html

BIO

shared by Paul N on 07 May 14 - No Cached
  • Paul N on 07 May 14
     
    While the new bacteria is pretty much useless, it would be interesting to see how base 3 genetic programming would turn out.
Ma Ru

The Highlight of the Scientific Calendar, 2014 - 7 views

www.improbable.com/...winners

science BIO PHY FUN

shared by Ma Ru on 20 Sep 14 - No Cached
  • Ma Ru on 20 Sep 14
     
    It's out there for TWO days and no one has posted it here yet? What's happening to the ACT... In any case, yet-another-year-ACT-didn't-make-it... Better luck next time.
  • LeopoldS on 21 Sep 14
     
    read them when they came out - as probably 90% of ACTers but did not see any of them worth posting ...
  • Ma Ru on 22 Sep 14
     
    I think e.g. de Tommaso et al. results have application in almost any business, ESA notwithstanding, in terms of implications for optimal office decor...
Thijs Versloot

Dutch company without any managers is inspiring industry (in dutch) - 0 views

www.nrcq.nl/...jf-is-een-voorbeeld-op-harvard

other stuff

shared by Thijs Versloot on 07 May 15 - No Cached
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  • Thijs Versloot on 07 May 15
     
    This dutch company, Schuberg, has no managers but instead all the employees (operating in the IT service industry) manage everything themselves. They offer IT support to KLM, Rabobank and Eneco, who are quite very reliant on the uptime of their systems. These companies rate Schuberg consistently with the highest approval. Harvard business school is now teaching this type of organizational structure. Possible new working method?
  • LeopoldS on 07 May 15
     
    just like the ACT :-)
Alexander Wittig

SpaceX founder files with government to provide Internet service from space - 0 views

www.washingtonpost.com/...5-a0dc-2b6f404ff5cf_story.html

technology space

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  • Alexander Wittig on 11 Jun 15
     
    Elon Musk is moving forward with space based internet service...
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  • Alexander Wittig on 11 Jun 15
  • LeopoldS on 11 Jun 15
     
    reading the qz article, it is not clear to me that google dropped out as one of the main investors in SpaceX? did I miss something?
  • jcunha on 12 Jun 15
     
    I attended a presentation by H. Hemmati, formerly at NASA's JPL, now at Facebook working to "connect the unconnected" during a panel session of the Workshop "Shining light on future space optical communications". I gather that they are targeting a combined strategy of HAP (with solar powered planes at 20-25 km), balloons and satellites. The rationale behind is that each solution is best suited for different population density zones, i.e. satellites while expensive (total cost of 100MUSD after Hemmati) are the only way to provide internet in remote zones, while balloons seem to be one inexpensive solution for densely populated areas. Funfact: he mentioned that the main drawback will be some crashes of HAP elements...
  • jcunha on 31 Jul 15
     
    Facebook announced they are ready to test of of their High Altitude Platform element, a drone of the size of a Boeing 737. See the new here http://phys.org/news/2015-07-facebook-ready-giant-drone-internet.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=ctgr-item&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter. It seemed interesting for me that they are developing also a reliable optical communication between this element and scattered ground stations.
  • Thijs Versloot on 31 Jul 15
     
    Nice link, that thing is huge and I would love to see a drone that size fly. Also, Facebook's Aerospace Team? :)
Joris _

Elon Musk: SpaceX signs "biggest" commercial launch deal ever - The Write Stuff - Orlando Sentinel - 0 views

blogs.orlandosentinel.com/...mmercial-launch-deal-ever.html

launcher spacex

shared by Joris _ on 17 Jun 10 - Cached
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  • ore than half of his company’s manifest of about 30 launches are purely commercial
  • His statement challenges critics of private space companies whom have maintained that there is not enough commercial business to support them
  • lower launch costs for the government
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