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  • Thinking Ahead

    This is a general thread to post stuff by think tanks or other (credible) research institutes that go way outside current scopes of science.

    One example to hit it off would be this:

    KUBEČ, a - short, 9-page - analysis by the German Aerospace Agency Advanced Study Group

    Essentially evaluating how the Kuiper Belt could be exploited. With a timeframe of 2065 to 2200, beginning with sending a self-replicating mining factory to a KBO, taking 100 years until the first mass mined ressource shipments to the inner solar system begin and culminating in creating a Solar-System Positioning System using beacons spread throughout the Kuiper belt.

    Available (in english) at: http://elib.dlr.de/84843/1/IAC_Kube_v3.pdf

    Let's keep it to credible institutions though. Someone dig up what scientists at NASA ponder for that timeframe for example.

  • #2
    This is interesting if agencies get an efficient algorithm:
    [http://www.theverge.com/2014/8/4/596...ech-and-music]

    Spying made easy? What are the counter measures?

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    • #3
      [Scientists reconstruct speech through soundproof glass by watching a bag of potato chips | The Verge

      Last bracket is troubling above.

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      • #4
        What does this have to do with mining the Kuiper belt?
        "Only Nixon can go to China." -- Old Vulcan proverb.

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        • #5
          Originally posted by gunnut View Post
          What does this have to do with mining the Kuiper belt?
          Oh, actually I am not allowed to start a new thread, so thought this thread's subject was closest, hence the post...

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          • #6
            I wonder how beneficial this could be to the human race. It is pretty interesting though. We just don't have sufficient technology right now to implement such system.

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