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AI gives a thumbs up to Brett Bellmore innovative modifications to Robert Zubrin’s Nuclear Salt Water Rocket (NSWR). Switching from water to polyethene and storing in sausage strings could enhance its performance and safety, particularly focusing on avoiding criticality during storage, minimizing parasitic mass, and addressing practical challenges like micrometeorite protection and fuel state. Robert ... Read more

Robert Zubrin’s Nuclear Salt Water Rocket (NSWR) design is a rocket that uses known physics and engineering . There are versions that could reach 7-8% of light speed. The use of low grade uranium enrichment for a more near term version is the one that is often described. However, if weapons grade uranium (90% enrichment) ... Read more

The large swings in egg prices has had a noticeable impact on the actual CPI. Normally a small 0.1% component would not have a noticeable impact but increasing by 250% or decreasing by 60% has an effect. Today, the trading economics egg price tracker using USDA information shows that egg prices have dropped to $4.15 ... Read more

The Startup Pulsar Fusion is proposing a 2 Megawatt nuclear fusion orbital components for 2027. Pulsar has now proceeded to phase 3, the manufacture of the initial test unit. Static tests are to begin in 2025 followed by an In Orbit Demonstration (IOD) of the core technology components in 2027. With Sunbird in Orbit: A ... Read more

Nuclear pulse propulsion is a technology that would work. It was being developed in the 1960s. It was stopped because of the nuclear test ban treaty and concerns over fallout inside the magnetosphere of the earth. There is uranium throughout the Earth’s crust and the solar system formed from the same material. Missions to the ... Read more

There is possibility that the world will double the amount of natural has energy is used over the next 15 years to power AI data centers. 704 GW of natural gas and an increase of 6170 TWh/year. In future decades there can be increase of 10X or 100X more energy for AI. If this energy ... Read more

The share of eggs in the CPI represents the proportion of total consumer spending attributed to eggs, expressed as a percentage. This weight is small because eggs are just one of many items in the basket, which includes thousands of goods and services. Based on typical BLS data and estimates derived from consumption patterns, the ... Read more

If we achieve advanced nuclear, antimatter propulsion or other advance propulsion it would be possible to achieve near constant acceleration. This would enable travel times to Mars in the 3-8 day range depending upon where Mars was in its orbit relative to Earth. This would be with constant 0.33G acceleration and deceleration. What exactly is ... Read more

Life Architect countdown to Artificial General Intelligence is at 92%. There are less hallucinations, AI can admit when it does not have the answer and the humanoid robots are getting very good. XAI Grok 3 is the First frontier model to consistently admit that it doesn’t know the answer to something. First AI-written paper passes ... Read more

Youtuber Dr. Mike does an excellent give into intelligence, superintelligence and AGI. He parses all of the different intelligence domains. He observes that machines are already superintelligence in many areas of intelligence. Computers have long been superintelligence in calculation and memory. The new LLM AI are dominating in writing, summarizing research and many other new ... Read more

Saturn has an official count of 274 moon after 128 new moons found in 2023 were recognized. A team of astronomers from Taiwan, Canada, the U.S., and France discovered the 128 new moons in 2023 using the Canada France Hawaii Telescope (CFHT). On March 11, 2025, the International Astronomical Union has officially approved them. These ... Read more

Egg prices returning to normal and lower energy prices will get inflation back below 2.0%. The last 2.8 CPI reading is with data that is 2-4 weeks old. Actual inflation is already far closer to 2.0. Dropping egg prices from 200% of normal to normal and lower energy prices already working through the economy should ... Read more

SpaceX Starlink direct to cell tests do work with 500 enabled satellites. However, there are times where service can degrade to 5-7 minute delay. Perhaps only 300 of the 500 satellites are in position and fully active. There will be a need to increase satellites by the end the year for reliable voice and internet ... Read more

What will be the largest increase in asset value and unlock of profit generation? Will it be 8+ million Tesla cars becoming robotaxi capable starting in June, 2025 and becoming fully deployed and authorized by the end of 2026. Will it be thousands of Starlink satellites having 4G/5G direct to cellphone communication capability? On March ... Read more

On March 7, 2025, the FCC allows Starlink’s direct-to-cell service to operate at higher power which will enable faster, more reliable service. The power level will enable 4G/5G speeds. It is unclear if the max speed requires any extra antenna on existing phones. Elon Musk has previously mentioned that direct to cellphone from satellite could ... Read more

Manus AI, developed by the Chinese startup Monica.im is making a lot of splash as the world’s first fully autonomous AI agent. Manus operates independently, executing complex, multi-step tasks without human oversight. It has GAIA benchmark edge but it has some errors and problems. Competitors are either more reliable now (Operator, Claude) or poised to ... Read more

Let us look at the AI Opportunites, Robotaxi, Robotrucks and recursively improving AI and AI data centers. Robotaxis: 10X Safer, Millions Deployed, Lower Costs Imagine a world where robotaxis—self-driving vehicles like Tesla’s Cybercabs—are 10X safer than human drivers. This isn’t a stretch; autonomous systems, free from human error (fatigue, distraction, recklessness), could drastically reduce the ... Read more

Tesla FSD 13.2.X seems to get pretty good reviews even with a lot of snow and ice on the road. There were some issues with getting to close to curbs which were covered with snow. This driver felt good with the drive. A Tesla FSD 13.2.5 had 1 intervention for speed over 22 miles in ... Read more

National Security AI is a plan of geopolitical control in world of powerful AI and superintelligence. It has superintelligence strategy. I propose a robust opensource and distributed AI to all citizens of the USA and even all citizens of the world. The website https://www.nationalsecurity.ai/ explores the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) and national security, focusing ... Read more

Yann LeCun is both a giant in the field of AI but also a major skeptic of the ultimate potential of large language models. He is a major skeptic about large language models getting to TRUE AI (aka real AGI or actual superintelligence). He feels the LLM AI will not be able to learn the ... Read more