Going To Mars For The Holidays? Take These Books & One Game Along
Prep for travel to Mars and beyond (no, really!) with two handy reference books and a fun game about the tension between exploration and exploitation.
Prep for travel to Mars and beyond (no, really!) with two handy reference books and a fun game about the tension between exploration and exploitation.
In an interview with Axios, Elon Musk talked about the Tesla Model 3, AI, human brain to computer interlinks, and living on Mars. Here are the highlights of that discusssion.
Getting Mars right (or not): Nat Geo’s new TV series makes the case for a successful mission to Mars, if only we could all just get along.
It is well known that Elon Musk and Tesla don’t like to conform to established industry standards or feel limited by them. So trying to measure their performance by established industry standards is like measuring them on a scale of bananas, utterly pointless.
Until April 1st, 2016, the only thing I knew about Tesla Motors came from a news story reporting on an esoteric car company out of California that had appropriated the last name of famous inventor Nikola Tesla, and was marketing an awesome electric car with a price tag of $100,000. The car was clearly desirable, yet since my budget didn’t stretch to anywhere near the vehicle’s purchase price, I basically forgot about the car and the company.
The SpaceX Falcon Heavy flew for the first time today and made a perfect launch. Both auxiliary rockets returned successfully to earth to be reused at a later date. Inside the rocket, Elon Musk’s personal Tesla Roadster is on its way to Mars, complete with a mannequin driving named Starman.
Major food and drink companies have been making strong steps toward reducing their CO2 emissions according to a new report from the Food and Drink Federation, which showed that CO2 emissions from manufacturing was down 51% in 2016 compared to a 1990 baseline.
You could retool a Tesla Model X and drive it around on Mars. But it probably wouldn’t end up looking like a Model X. The rover that Mark Watney drove around in the movie based on Andy Weir’s great book “The Martian” is much more likely to be what the hacked vehicle would look like.
Bye Aerospace’s StratoAirNet prototype has successfully slapped solar cells on its unmanned aerial glider.
More than 300 companies worldwide have now committed to setting ambitious Science Based Targets to reduce emissions, with more than 90 new companies joining this year alone, and also now includes 50 US businesses.