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Picked quotes from around the world: Humanity continues to face two simultaneous existential dangers—nuclear war and climate change—that are compounded by a threat multiplier Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists We'd never seen a temperature this high in Antarctica Brazilian scientist Carlos Schaefer The main reason for this (global emergency) declaration (of COVID-19) is not because of what is happening in China, but because of what is happening in other countries. Our (WHO) greatest concern is the potential for the virus to spread to countries with weaker health systems Tedros Adhanom, Director-General of the World Health Organization 2020 Doomsday Clock Closer than ever: It is 100 seconds to midnight My solution Please stop with all inconsiderate movements. This article will make you think: Coronavirus or antibiotic resistance: Our appetite for animals (wild and domestic) poses big disease risks by Laura H. Kahn

A space elevator is a proposed type of planet-to-space transportation system. The main component would be a cable (also called a tether) anchored to the surface and extending into space. from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia A new study suggests that humans can actually build a “space elevator” using existing technologies. Rather than building a space elevator up from Earth, build a 'spaceline' down from the Moon, say astrophysicists Zephyr Penoyre from the University of Cambridge in the UK, and Emily Sandford from Columbia University in New York. Read the older article:  https://www.blogger.luka.jagor.info/2017/04/my-view-of-building-space-elevator_27.html

1. Solar System 2. Milky Way Galaxy 3. Observable Universe 4. Undefined 5. Multiverse I hope it will help for better understanding. All images above are courtesy of the Pixabay - 1 million+ Stunning Free Images to Use Anywhere. Given enough time and the right technology (and assuming there’s not some serious competition), we might even be able to colonize the entire Milky Way galaxy someday https://www.universetoday.com/142655/the-most-efficient-way-to-explore-the-entire-milky-way-star-by-star/ https://gtocx.jpl.nasa.gov/media/FLB/NUDT-XSCC-GTOCX-winning-solution.mp4  

Scientist James Lovelock had set up the "Gaia hypothesis" back in 1969. It's "the Earth viewed as a vast self-regulating organism". The hypothesis contributed significantly to our understanding of global warming. I would recommend everyone to read his books about Gaia. James Lovelock is still vital, though at an advanced age. Happy birthday dear James Lovelock! https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01969-y

An Australian couple, who fed their baby daughter a strict vegan diet resulting in severe malnourishment, has avoided jail time. The couple was sentenced to an 18-month jail term to be served as a community order. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/08/22/vegan-australian-parents-left-baby-girl-severely-malnourished/ There is a huge difference between vegetarian and vegan. Vegetarians don't eat animal products, but vegans don't eat animal products and by-products (e.g. eggs).In my opinion vegan diet isn't good, it is lacking proteins, vitamin B-12, zinc, iron, calcium... Another example I would like to point out is how vegans supplement milk: they use soy,  rice, or almond milk, but are there any almonds in your almond milk? https://janeshealthykitchen.com/almonds-in-your-almond-milk/ I'll remain "Lacto-Ovo vegetarian" - do not eat meat, poultry, or fish, but do eat eggs and dairy products, because improved health is one of the major benefits of a...

Protecting elephants is an important part of fighting climate change. Why? Because every day across Africa and Asia, elephants disperse billions of seeds, some of which will grow into the forests of tomorrow, sequestering and storing carbon, generating rainfall and stabilizing our climate. Save the elephants to save the forests to save the world! Ian Redmond OBE, Wildlife biologist and Ambassador for the UNEP Convention on Migratory Species Photo: Pixabay This important species is facing a crisis . TAKE ACTION - Donate to help raise awareness of the issues faced by elephants worldwide: https://worldelephantday.org/take-action

Wireless can have the same low latency and high reliability as a wireline connection Durga Malladi - Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. 5G technology will revolutionize the industry, but there is a long road to a smart city, or "Internet of Things" reality, in about five years. Also with a help of mixed or augmented reality, you will be able to learn or repair something easier. Read about another viewpoint, my criticism of mixed reality / electronic contact lens hardware: Please Stop 'Mutant Technologies'  

Illustration: Pixabay Read more: Can Gene Editing Tool 𝖢𝖱𝖨𝖲𝖯𝖱 Dispense With 𝖧𝖨𝖵? Curing 𝖧𝖨𝖵 just got more complicated. Can 𝖢𝖱𝖨𝖲𝖯𝖱 help? New 𝖧𝖨𝖵 breakthrough may lead to cure

William Tang is a principal research physicist at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (𝖣𝖮𝖤) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (𝖯𝖯𝖯𝖫), he leads a team of scientists that uses Artificial intelligence to develop clean, virtually limitless fusion energy. Fusion, which drives the sun and stars, is that generates energy. It is very important to forecast disruptions — the sudden loss of confinement of plasma particles and energy to make commercial fusion energy work. Disruptions are that can halt fusion reactions and damage the doughnut-shaped tokamaks that house the reactions. Researchers are using Deep Learning techniques for 𝙰𝙸 to predict disruptions accurately and even preventing disruptions from happening in the first place. With that level of accuracy and that amount of time, people running the machine would have time to either mitigate the disruption by cooling the plasma or even by finding a way to avoid it entirely professor Tang said Cutaway diagram of the Inter...

In April 𝖠𝖨 news diminished the value of Google's DeepMind - it nearly flunked high school math, but a turnover came recently when scientists build incredibly accurate universe simulations with a help of artificial intelligence. The sweet problem for the scientists is not knowing how such an accurate universe simulation is being rendered, they should check up, and "debug" every pixel it produces. Overall, it's not so sweet seeing 𝖠𝖨 behaving whimsically, and capriciously - but then again it was anticipated that it's so hard to teach artificial intelligence notions like common sense. https://www.zdnet.com/article/ai-aint-no-a-student-deepmind-flunks-high-school-math/ https://nypost.com/2019/06/28/scientists-build-incredibly-accurate-universe-simulation-but-dont-know-how-they-did-it/ The importance of knowing what goals 𝖠𝖨 should have is imperative, whether they are local (small) or global (cumulative set of local goals). For me, it's frustrating, a...

Zero Hunger is a part of the Sustainable Development Goals and projections of population growth predict that the human population will reach 9 billion in 2050. Vertical farming should not be considered as a joke and laughing stock anymore, but be careful which farm you’re buying. In order to make your calculation faultless, you should know all the facts. I like vertical farming because there is no use of pesticides, I urge you to enable plants circadian rhythm. Vertical Farming by Numbers

𝖭𝖠𝖲𝖠's InSight Mars Lander is equipped with a seismometer to measure all possible marsquakes, but I'm more interested in moonquakes. It's important to say about this particular subject that moonquakes (the lunar equivalents of earthquakes) were heavily studied in the 1970s. A moonquake can shake the ground for hours. Man often says "The first footprints put on the Moon will probably stay as long as the Moon itself lasts", implying the Space Age has started recently, for the first time. For all we know, considering mankind exists 100,000 years, and the Moon's surface entropy, it's possible we've been there before. Thinking that the Space Age began recently may be wrong thinking, that kind of prejudice can lead to dangerous indoctrination. I hope my generation will make some positive mark in mankind that will truly be memorable, something more than Moon/Mars landings.

Today is March 27, 2019 - Document Freedom Day (𝖣𝖥𝖣) - a day when people come together and inform themselves about the ever-growing importance of Open Standards. 𝖣𝖥𝖣 is all about compatibility, is more than documents.  During Document Freedom Day people discuss formats and protocols which everybody can use free of charge and restriction.

Microsoft Bill Gates - principal founder of Microsoft - Image by United States Department of Health and Human Services - https://www.flickr.com/photos/hhsgov/39912162735/ , Public Domain, Link Apple Tim Cook - Chief Executive Officer of Apple - Image by Tim_Cook_2009.jpg : Kindly granted by Valery Marchive (LeMagIT) derivative work: RanZag ( talk ) - Tim_Cook_2009.jpg , CC BY-SA 2.0 , Link Amazon.com Jeff Bezos - the founder, chairman, CEO, and president of Amazon - Image by Seattle City Council from Seattle - https://www.flickr.com/photos/seattlecitycouncil/39074799225/ , CC BY 2.0 , Link Alphabet  - Google Larry Page - principal founder of Google - Image by Stansfield PL - Wikimedia Commons , CC BY-SA 3.0 , Link Those 4 amazing hi-tech multinationals have an extraordinary market capitalization of around 4 trillion dollars (trillion dollars can be thought of like a million of million), each with a similar value (around a trillion each). They are the bigge...

Are you into virtual reality (a gamer)? What is the difference between WebGL, ‎OpenGL, WebVR? Are you into cryptocurrencies? What is the difference between Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Ripple? In my youth internet was becoming more and more popular, for web designers it was all about HTML, JavaScript and CSS. Web developers did programming with PHP, MYSQL, and the help of web designers. Tomislav Uzelac is the Croatian programmer who created AMP, considered the first successful (real-time) MP3 player. When MP3 got popular it was all about MP3/MP3-VB, AAC, Ogg for people into music processing. Now I would like to introduce you to Vladimir Vukićević and WebVR from the Mozilla community: Vladimir Vukićević is a Serbian-born American Software Engineer, known mostly for his work on open-source graphics libraries, including those used in the Mozilla projects. Mozilla came out recently with "Firefox Reality - A new browser for virtual reality". I hope for reconciliation between th...

18 months of absolutely insane, everybody was trying to do an ICO (Initial Coin Offering), 99% of all of them was some sort of scam ... ... it's a good thing that now crypto secunday market have, in some way, fizzled out Edith Yeung, 500 Startups Partner The price of bitcoin could nosedive to zero ... ... if bitcoin is pegged against the gold standard, which is about 7 triliun it would be responsible for 20% CO 2 production Jeff Schumacher, founder of BCG Digital Ventures Watch video and more on the CNBS website https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/23/bitcoin-price-going-to-zero-davos-future-of-blockchain-tech-.html Image by WikimediaImages from Pixabay Whatever technology prevails it should be eco-friendly! Bitcoin is first and foremost, I would like to believe in technology, hoping bitcoin can be tweaked to be more efficient. A peer-to-peer (P to P) network in which interconnected nodes ("peers") share resources amongst each other without the use of a c...

First of all, I would like to congratulate the Chinese on this great success. Moon lander probe will send back important information to all of mankind. The exquisite visit of "Yutu-2" to the moon is yet another highlight of making humans a multi-planetary species. I hope such an act will produce a benevolent effect regarding territorial pretensions on the ground. There is so much space in the Universe, we just have to figure out a way to use it. Opinion: The best of #SpaceChina & more The lunar rover for China's Chang'e-4 probe was given the name "Yutu-2" (jade rabbit) after making a soft-landing on the far side of the Moon on Thursday, said China's National Space Administration pic.twitter.com/TjG3ONQCvz — CGTN (@CGTNOfficial) January 3, 2019 Day 4 in space: Work goes as planned as Chinese astronauts settle down in #Tiangong2 spacelab #SpaceChina pic.twitter.com/iomFSmZRPk — CGTN (@CGTNOfficial) October 23, 2016 World larges...

I'm so happy, I quitted smoking, as I promised last year during Earth Hour 2017!! 😃   😃   😃   😃   😃   😃   😃   😃   😃   😃   😃   😃   😃   😃   😃   😃   😃   😃   😃   😃   😃   😃   😃   😃   😃   😃   😃   😃   😃

Maybe people supporting the 'Flat Earth Society' idea just want a tour of the 𝖭𝖠𝖲𝖠 / 𝖤𝖲𝖠 / SpaceX facilities and some personal insights like ' One Direction ' has had. One should do a reality check of this particular matter: It looks like a 'magic carpet' from some children's fairy tales, but it has nothing to do with reality. The viral nature of the idea reminds me of the vast spread of  Scientology in the 20th century. I don't share any of those ideas: no 'Flat Earth Society' please, no 'Scientology' please, and no 'Family medicine - Fake religion' please. I don't support pharmaceuticals in psychiatry neither, it is too invasive, but rather Sigmund Freud's psychoanalysis and talking. In this busy, alienated world I understand there is no time for people in need and I hope that will change. Many people are now greedy, some would even rob instead of helping a victim lying on the street. You can read more...

The asteroid was discovered on 3 March 1906, located in the outer regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 88 kilometers in diameter. Named after the independent country of Croatia, then part of Austria-Hungary, discovered by astronomer August Kopff at Heidelberg Observatory. It's so exciting celebrating this amazing anniversary from Zagreb, capital of Croatia, now an 𝖤𝖴 member. Have a great day!