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recently completed its sea trials. It is set to be inducted into the Indian
Navy in August next year. What are the capabilities of INS Vikrant? Here's a
sneak peek.
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Carl Sagan believed humanity needed to become a multi-planet species as
an insurance policy against the next huge catastrophe on Earth. Now, Elon Musk
is working to see that mission through, starting with a colony of a million
humans on Mars. Where will our species go next?
Theoretical physicist Michio Kaku looks decades into the future and
makes three bold predictions about human space travel, the potential of 'brain
net', and our coming victory over cancer.
"[I]n the future, the word 'tumor' will disappear from the English
language," says Kaku. "We will have years of warning that there is a
colony of cancer cells growing in our body. And our descendants will wonder:
How could we fear cancer so much?"
Dr. Michio Kaku is the co-founder of string field theory, and is one of
the most widely recognized scientists in the world today. He has written 4 New
York Times Best Sellers, is the science correspondent for CBS This Morning and
has hosted numerous science specials for BBC-TV, the Discovery/Science Channel.
His radio show broadcasts to 100 radio stations every week. Dr. Kaku holds the
Henry Semat Chair and Professorship in theoretical physics at the City College
of New York (CUNY), where he has taught for over 25 years. He has also been a
visiting professor at the Institute for Advanced Study as well as New York
University (NYU).
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MICHIO KAKU: We are entering what I call the next golden era of space
exploration. We have not just new energy and new financing and money coming
from Silicon Valley, we also have a new vision emerging. For Elon Musk of
SpaceX it's to create a multi-planet species. However, for Jeff Bezos of
Amazon, he wants to make Earth into a park so that all the heavy industries,
all the pollution, goes into outer space. And Jeff Bezos wants to set an
Amazon-type delivery system connecting the earth to the moon. And so he wants
to lift all the heavy industries off the planet Earth to make Earth a paradise
and to put all the heavy industries in outer space.
Now, I once talked to Carl Sagan and he said that because the earth is
in the middle of a shooting gallery of asteroids and comets and meteors, it's
inevitable that we will be hit with a planet buster. Something like what hit
the dinosaurs, 65 million years ago, we need an insurance policy. Now, he was
clear to say that we're not talking about moving the population of the earth
into outer space—that costs too much money. And we have problems of our own on
the earth like global warming. We have to deal with those problems on the earth
not flee to outer space. But as an insurance policy, we have to make sure that
humans become a two-planet species. These are the words of Carl Sagan.
And now, of course, Elon Musk has revived this vision by talking about a
multi-planet species. He wants to put up to a million colonists on the planet
Mars, sent to Mars by his rockets financed by a combination of public and
private funding, including fusion rockets, ramjet fusion rockets, including
anti-matter rockets. Some of these rockets, of course, their technologies won't
be available till the next 100 years. However, the laws of physics make it
possible to send postage-stamp-size chips to the nearby stars. So think of a
chip, perhaps this big, on a parachute and have thousands of them sent into
outer space energized by perhaps 800 megawatts of laser power. By shooting this
gigantic bank of laser energy into outer space, by energizing all these
mini-parachutes you could then begin to accelerate them to about 20% the speed
of light. This is with doable technology today. It's just a question of
engineering. It's a question of political will and economics but there's no
physics, there's no law of physics preventing you from shooting these chips to
20% the speed of light. That means Proxima Centauri, part of the Alpha Centauri
triple star system, could be within the range of such a device. Now think about
that. That means that within 20 years, after 20 years of launch, we might be
able to have the first starship go to a nearby planet. And it turns out that
Proxima Centauri B is an Earth-like planet that circles around the closest star
to the planet Earth—what a coincidence. So it means that we've already staked
out our first destination for visitation by an interstellar starship. And
that...
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Climate change was the day's top headline, but for years it was buried
in page 10. So what changed today? The IPCC published what's being called a
'red code for humanity'. Palki Sharma tells you all about it.
#Gravitas #IPCC #ClimateChange
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The analogy of the tree of life - the roots, the trunk and the crown -
makes interesting listening for everyone who wants to understand how to live
life, delivered by His Holiness Gaur Gopal Prabhu at the Radiant Wellness
Conclave 2016.
More details at www.radiantwellnessconclave.com
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Foundation
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Discover the phenomenon known as asymmetrical sleep, where parts of an
animal's brain are asleep while other areas remain active.
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Many animals need sleep. But all of the threats and demands animals face
don’t just go away when it’s time to doze. That’s why a range of birds,
mammals, and even humans experience some degree of asymmetrical sleep, where
parts of the brain are asleep and other areas are more active. So, how does it
work? Masako Tamaki explores how animals' brains remain vigilant even at their
most vulnerable.
Lesson by Masako Tamaki, directed by Biljana Labović.
Animated by Iva Ćirić, designed by Manja Ćirić.
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What would you do if you went on a vacation to another city and suddenly
found yourself in another country altogether? Most of us would be confused.
Even the most reckless of adventurers would at least raise an eyebrow if told
they’d flown for close to half a century.
On July 2, 1955, Pan American Flight 914 made its way from New York to
Miami, Florida. It was a fine sunny day, and 57 passengers on board the plane
were looking forward to seeing the warm beaches and palm trees of Florida. The
plane took off without trouble, but 3 hours later, when it should’ve already
landed at the destination airport, it was nowhere to be seen. When air traffic
control contacted the New York tower, they got a perplexing reply: Flight 914
just disappeared from the radars in mid-air.
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Was it crash? 0:44
37 years later... 2:35
What's that old plane?! 3:02
“Where are we?” 4:02
The plane vanishes again 5:21
Is it just an urban legend? 7:05
The only artifact of that weird encounter 8:31
#mystery #planes #brightside
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SUMMARY:
- On July 2, 1955, Pan American Flight 914 made its way from New York to
Miami, Florida. It was a fine sunny day, and 57 passengers on board the plane
were looking forward to seeing the warm beaches and palm trees of Florida.
- Everything indicated that the plane was lost: apart from having
vanished from the radars, air traffic control couldn’t get through to the
pilots with the radio.
- Eventually, although the case was never really solved, there was an
official statement that the plane crashed, taking the lives of everyone on
board.
- Change of scenery. It’s now September 9, 1992, and we’re in Caracas,
Venezuela. It’s a perfectly normal day for Juan de la Corte, air traffic
controller at the Caracas airport.
- Seemingly out of nowhere, a new dot appeared on the radar. It was as
if an aircraft had just popped up from nothingness, or as if it had been hiding
from the radar and now decided to show up.
- In less than 10 minutes, the culprit showed up in the field of vision.
At first it looked to the air traffic control like an ordinary airplane, but as
it got closer, they could see that it was, in fact, very oldю
- The real confusion began when the pilot of the mysterious aircraft
contacted the tower and asked in English, “Where are we?”
- The pilot said his flight was scheduled to land at the Miami airport
at 9.55 am on July 2, 1955. Now it was time for the tower to fall into silence.
- Ground units were immediately called to assist the plane and the
passengers, and it landed without trouble. Having relaxed a little bit, Juan
finally decided to ask something that bothered him. “Do you know today is May
21, 1992?”
- Juan heard the flight captain’s panicky voice saying, “No! Stay away!
We’re leaving now!” And indeed, he started the engines again and, without
waiting for take-off clearance, taxied the plane to the runway.
- There’s much dispute about the credibility of this event. Back in
1985, a tabloid called Weekly World News was the first to cover this story.
- However, the legend still lives, and many sources retell it in their
own way. Some even go as far as to say that the passengers of the plane
eventually returned to their homes.
- One thing that keeps popping up on the Internet and piquing the
interest of paranormal enthusiasts is a small pocket calendar that somehow was
left on the Caracas airport runway when the notorious plane took off.
