Sunday, May 24, 2015

Google to test self-driving cars on public roads


                                                                                                                                                                 
תוצאת תמונה עבור ‪self driving car news‬‏
This summer Google will test a few of it's self-driving car prototypes on public roads in Mountain View California. After years of rigorous testing, Google is putting its cars to the ultimate test: the real-life test.
While Google envisions an autonomous taxi service, reality is still far behind. Even if the technology is ready [not yet: problems like mapping, bad weather, higher speeds and more... still exist] the worlds reaction could [and probably will] slow the project down a lot. But for anyone worrying about safety, 94% of car crashes are caused by driver error, something computers would experience a lot less frequently.
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Thursday, May 21, 2015

SpaceX Crew Dragon picture

I just found a great picture of the spacecraft I wrote about yesterday:

SpaceX Crew Dragon

Earlier this month on may 6 the privately-owned American space company, SpaceX successfully tested  it's Crew Dragon spacecraft designed to be on it's first manned missions in 2017.

SpaceX which was founded in 2002 made history multiple times including in 2012 when it's "Grasshopper" spacecraft took off and landed right side up. In the same year SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft delivered cargo to the International Space Station or ISS becoming the first privately-owned company to do so.

If danger strikes the human capsule will be able to detach from the rocket and parachute in to the ocean.

Well that's it for now, see you next time :].

Graphene

Graphene is the future. Period. It is stronger than steel, extremely light, more conductive than copper and battery applications are on the way.
תוצאת תמונה עבור ‪graphene‬‏
 For those of you who don't know graphene is a sheet carbon atoms arranged in a hexagon pattern. It's so conductive because impurities are extremely rare and so electrons can race across it's almost perfect surface.

As you can see the applications for graphene are practically endless, and I expect a transition soon.

I'll follow up on this soon, so come back.