A “scientific ghost town“, equipped to research everything from traffic patterns to renewable energy, is to be built in the desert near Hobbs, N.M.
Pegasus Global Holdings, the firm behind the planned installation, says it will also be used to develop “homeland security” testing areas and to text next-gen cellular networks.
The guys from Epipheo sit down with How to Survive a Robot Uprising and Robocopalypse author Daniel H. Wilson, to give us some pointers on how to deal with the aforementioned problem.
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Startling evidence suggests the ancient Egyptians understood the inner mechanics of a binary star system, spinning through our skies 93 light years away, more than 3,200 years ago.
This artist’s illustration gives an impression of how common planets are around the stars in the Milky Way. The planets, their orbits and their host stars are all vastly magnified compared to their real separations. A six-year search that surveyed millions of stars using the microlensing technique concluded that planets around stars are the rule rather than the exception. The average number of planets per star is greater than one. This means that there is likely to be a minimum of 1,500 planets within just 50 light-years of Earth.
When your head hits the pillow, for many it’s lights out for the conscious part of you. But the cells firing in your brain are very much awake, sparking enough energy to produce the sometimes vivid and sometimes downright haunted dreams that take place during the rapid-eye-movement stage of your sleep.
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