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NASA’s coolest mission since they put a man on the moon

Remember when Neil Armstrong was sent by NASA to the moon, the day the first man set foot on the moon, well even if you aren’t old enough to have been there the moment Armstrong set foot on the moon, you probably have heard of it. Ever wish NASA would do another cool mission like that?

Well you just got your wish because NASA has a very special and exciting mission planned.
NASA is planning to launch a missile right into the Moon at 5 times the speed of sound and to try to find residual hydrogen, if hydrogen is found, missions to the Moon will be revived and NASA’s will put another human on the Moon again. The rocket will be launched at around October to December 2009.

Killer Robots Come True?

If you watch T.V or watch movies, you probably have seen a killer robot movie or episode where robots try to take over the world or something that is related to that, have you ever though to yourself, that would never happen in real life, well you might be wrong.

A designer named James Auger worked with designer Jimmy Loizeau to build 5 robots that eat vermin, like mice and flies, and even eats flesh. These pests are lured in and digested by an internal microbial fuel cell. This uses the way microbes generate free electrons and hydrogen ions when oxidising chemicals for energy. Electronics can be powered by directing the electrons around an external circuit before bring them together with the ions. Although, for now, the robots rely on mains power, James Auger believes they could become self-sufficient.

Entropia Universe Review

Entropia universe is a unique mmo that has a real cash economy, this means players can change US dollars in PED's which are entropian currency and back to US dollars again if they wish. This game has various unique features such as hunting, shopping, mining, and in game events where players can compete for PED's or rare equipment. The exchange of entropia universe rate is 10 PED=1 USD.

New players of entropia universe will have a hard time making PED's in the beginning if they do not deposit money into the game, but eventually making PED's will become easier, new players that do not deposit can walk up to a monster and collect sweat, this is how most non-deposit players make PED's, in the beginning it will take a while to make your first PED, maybe even 2 days, but as your sweat collecting rank increase you start to collect sweat faster. For players that do deposit, you can spend your PED's on hunting gear such as guns and armor and hunt animals, or you can mine for minerals after buying mining equipment and explosives.

Some of the best players in Entropia also host hunting events where the best hunter is rewarded with prizes and PED. Players can also own land and collect taxes from loot other players gain from hunting or mining in their land. A famous gamer who has mad a living from playing entropia universe is Jon "Neverdie" Jacobs who purchased a virtual asteroid for $100,000 and has already earned back the investment and is earning a 6 figure or even 7 figure salary a year. I would rate this mmo a 8.5 out of 10 because it is very unique and starts to become very interesting

Exponential Growth of Information Technology

Hello everyone! Today I will be blogging a particularly exciting topic, it is about the exponential growth of information technology, I know it sounds boring but keep reading it will get interesting. Famous futurist Ray Kurzweil who has predicted the rise of the Internet, invented the first music synthesizer capable of recreating the grand piano and other orchestral instruments, first text-to-speech synthesizer, and other inventions, predicts by 2045 a world-altering event will occur that will change the course of human history called the Singularity.

The Singularity occurs as artificial intelligences surpass human intelligence and technological development is taken over by machines and enters a "runaway reaction" of self-improvement, with each new generation of A.I.s appearing faster and faster until technological advancement is explosive and we no longer comprehend the rate of advancement.

Of course the Singularity won't happen suddenly out of nowhere, from present day to sometime around 2045 advancements in technology will take place. Some things Ray Kurzweil predicts is that by 2020 personal computers will have the same processing power as human brains, by 2020 nanomachines will be used for medical purposes drastically extending human lifespan,virtual reality will be so high-quality that it will indistinguishable from reality, nanorobots capable of entering the bloodstream will feed cells and extract waste making food consumption obsolete, Kurzweil even predicts humans will become immortals by 2040 at the latest!

Of course how will all these advancements happen so fast if we don't even have nanorobots or computers that are even half as powerful as the human brain? Well exponential growth will cause technological advancement to become faster and faster as the example shown shown below.

These graphs predict the exponential growth of the past and future, the 1st graph shows the exponential growth of number of calculations of CPU's in the past and the 2nd graph shows the exponential growth of computing in the past to the future. Below is also a video interview of a speech by Ray Kurzweil.

Will There Be Virtual Reality In The Near Future?

Chances are that if you are a gamer you have wished you could just put on a suit and enter a virtual environment where you can be fully immersed, instead of having to control your character with a mouse or game controller. Well your in luck, because with the current speed of advancing technology fully immersing virtual reality will likely be possible, technology such as motion tracking, head-mounted displays, mind reading technology, and nanotechnology.

Yes, I said nanotechnology, futurists like Ray Kurzweil predict that by the end of the next decade at the latest we will already have full-immersion visual-auditory environments, where images are written on our retinas, by our eye glasses, or contact lenses, and enter realistic environments either by ourselves or with other real people. By 2030 nanorobots will be the size of human blood cells and will take close proximity to your interneuronal connections and will direct them making you think you really are not in a game but in the "real world" creating a truly immersing virtual environment.

By: Aegiz

Wolfram Alpha answer machine

Today I won't be reviewing a game, but introducing a new answer machine named Wolfram Alpha.



What is Wolfram Alpha?



Wolfram Alpha is a computational knowledge engine that draws on multiple sources to answer user questions directly instead of providing a list of documents or web pages that might contain the answer like a search engine might. Wolfram Alpha launched May 15, 2009 and is accessible by the public. WolframAlpha is written in 5 million lines of Mathematica code and runs on 10,000 CPUs, (numbers increased after launch though).



Example of what Wolfram Alpha does



For example, if a user typed in "Canada", Wolfram Alpha would output flag, location, Internet code, geographic properties, bordering countries, demographics, cultural properties, capital city, largest city, currency, and economic properties. Wolfram Alpha can also solve equations, and calculate answers to math questions.



Conclusion



I recommend this search engine to students, and adults that need help with geography work or even math work, I would rate this search engine a 9.5/10 for usefulness. Anyone can use Wolfram Alpha at http://www09.wolframalpha.com/ or search it up on google.

By: Aegiz