Steps into Space - Commercialisation, Occupation, Colonization: June 2013

Sunday, 30 June 2013

Quantum mechanics enables 'impossible' space chemistry - physics ...

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Quantum chemistry explains the presence of a molecule that shouldn't exist in space – and suggests that a slew of complex organics could be made.

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John Kelly: Private launchers fear new US rules

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The rule is getting a cold reception from private space startups such as XCOR, a space tourism company that just this week said it plans to start suborbital test flights from Kennedy Space Center by 2015. Why? Because XCOR, and every other space ...

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Quantum mechanics enables 'impossible' space chemistry

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Quantum weirdness can generate a molecule in space that shouldn't exist by the classic rules of chemistry. If interstellar space is really a kind of quantum chemistry lab, that might also account for a host of other organic molecules glimpsed in space.

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Space shuttle Atlantis exhibit opens to the public

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Black walls and a 40-foot long digital screen in the background helps tourists to see the vehicle as it appeared in space. "There's no where else in the world that you will be able to see an orbiter that looks the way it looks when it's in flight in ...

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Editorial: ATMs in space?

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The front-runner is eBay's PayPal, which is working with the Space Tourism Society and the nonprofit SETI Institute, which began life as the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. The institute never found any, but true believers continue to look ...

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Actor Rainn Wilson talks asteroid mining - MSNBC: Science | e ...

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Actor Rainn Wilson is a little bit worried about what the private asteroid-mining company Planetary Resources might do once it reaches space.

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D-Wave quantum computer looks to be legitimate

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While the naysaying surrounding D-Wave's alleged quantum computer is all but certain to persist, the University of Southern California has released its latest findings that point to the likelihood of the machine truly being the real thing.

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Saturday, 29 June 2013

From e-commerce to space commerce?

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“As space tourism programs are opening space travel, this drives questions about the commercialization of space,” says David Marcus, PayPal president. “We are launching PayPal Galactic, in conjunction with leaders in the scientific community, to ...

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PayPal, SETI Institute, Buzz Aldrin and Space Leaders Launch PayPal Galactic

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PayPal, SETI Institute, Buzz Aldrin and Space Leaders Launch PayPal Galactic. document Crowdfunding. PayPal, SETI Institute, Buzz Aldrin and Space Leaders Launch PayPal Gal... http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20130627005913/en/PayPal-S..

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USC helps validate the authenticity of D-Wave's quantum computer

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... published findings that help validate the authenticity of D-Wave's quantum computer. Their evidence isn't definitive proof that D-Wave has created a true quantum computer but they were able to determine that it can do work in line with quantum ...

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PayPal To Take Its Payment Platform To Space

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With space tourism on the launchpad and private projects like Space X taking over the roles previously reserved for government organisations, PayPal seems to think that space money is the next big thing. “PayPal is the favourite way to pay on Earth ...

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Atlantis opens its doors to visitors

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CAPE CANAVERAL — It's a double-barreled bid for both terrestrial and space tourism. At the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, the $100 million Space Shuttle Atlantis attraction will open today, creating a dramatic new lure for tourists. NASA's ...

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PayPal Galactic Looks To Solve Payments in Space

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An initiative called PayPal Galactic is being launched with the online payments company, the SETI Institute, and the Space Tourism Society. Its goal, PayPal says, is to work out how commerce will work in space. PayPal is very serious about the idea ...

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How asteroid mining could add trillions to the world economy

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I suspect asteroid mining would produce metals mostly for use in space but I'm sure there would be plenty of products manufactured in space for use here.

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An “Elemental” Explanation of Dark Matter

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Atoms, string theory, dark matter, dark energy… there's an awful lot about the Universe that might make sense on paper (to physicists, anyway) but is extremely difficult to detect and measure, at least with the technology available today. But at the ...

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You're Interacting With Dark Matter Right Now

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"Our best guess," according to Dan Hooper, an astronomy professor at the University of Chicago and a theoretical astrophysicist at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, "is that a million particles of dark matter passed through your hand just now ...

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Asteroid Miners to Use 3D Printing for Space Telescopes | Malaysia Sun

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Space.com Friday 28th June, 2013. '); An artist's illustration of the Arkyd telescope being developed by asteroid mining firm Planetary Resources, which hopes to launch one Arkyd as a crowdfunded instrument meant to serve the public. Read more. Share ...

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XCOR Aerospace plans suborbital flights from KSC by 2015

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A fledgling space tourism company intends to begin flying suborbital test flights out of Kennedy Space Center by 2015, officials announced today. Andrew Nelson, chief operating officer of XCOR Aerospace, said they'll start with a work force of about 20 ...

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PayPal launches quest for intergalactic currency

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SAN FRANCISCO: Earthbound financial transactions service PayPal late Wednesday launched a quest for an intergalactic currency, saying it is time to figure out what space travelers will use as cash. "The time has now come for us to start planning for ...

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Kickstarter Campaign Adds New Goal of Allowing Individuals to Hunt for Asteroids

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Regardless or not of whether the campaign reaches the $1.7 million benchmark, however, the company now has the necessary funding to proceed with its initial plans of developing and launching a space telescope that will help find asteroids ripe for ...

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Kickstart This: Program Lets Citizens Save Earth from Real Asteroid Disaster

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Soon you'll be able to help save the world from stray asteroids without ever leaving the couch. That is, if a Kickstarter campaign by asteroid mining company Planetary Resources is funded in time. The company wants to team up with citizen science ...

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Google Hangout Event Today Featuring Richard Garriott, Jon Mavor, and ARKYD

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Both Garriott and Mavor are supporters of Planetary Resources, the asteroid mining company, and its quest to crowd fund ARKYD – the world's first space telescope controlled by the public. ARKYD will supposedly enable gamers to use their skills in a ...

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Asteroid Miners to Use 3D Printing for Space Telescopes | Malaysia Sun

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Space.com Friday 28th June, 2013. '); An artist's illustration of the Arkyd telescope being developed by asteroid mining firm Planetary Resources, which hopes to launch one Arkyd as a crowdfunded instrument meant to serve the public. Read more. Share ...

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Friday, 28 June 2013

CREDIT: Planetary Resources

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Billionaire-backed asteroid-mining company Planetary Resources is teaming up with 3D Systems, whose 3D printing technology will help craft components for the Arkyd line of prospecting spacecraft, officials announced Wednesday (June 26).

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Mobile Payments In Space? Get It Right On Earth, First

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This week PayPal announced it is exploring mobile payment opportunities for space travelers. The technology company is joining with the likes of the Space Tourism Society (yes, such an entity exists), the group Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence ...

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PayPal eyeing space travel commerce

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PayPal, which is eBay Inc.'s payments business, said Thursday it is launching an initiative called PayPal Galactic with the help of the nonprofit SETI Institute and the Space Tourism Society, an industry group focused on space travel. Its goal, PayPal ...

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PayPal in Space: E-Commerce Giant to Launch PayPal Galactic Initiative to ...

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With the arrival of space tourism nigh, Paypal has announced it is launching an initiative called PayPal Galactic to figure out how payments and commerce will work in space, the Associated Press reported. The initiative will launch with help from the ...

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PayPal Stakes Its Claim in Space Tourism

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The initiative, titled PayPal Galactic, is partnering with the Space Tourism Society and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute, so it's easy to think of two potential reasons you might want to transfer money in space: ordering ...

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Focus: A Quantum Dot Shows Its True Colors

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A solution containing millions of manganese-doped quantum dots in a plastic container glows orange (top), but each dot actually glows in a different color, as revealed by new microscope images of individual dots spread out on a surface (bottom).

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USC finds that DWave's quantum computer is real maybe - Engadget

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D-Wave has had little trouble lining up customers for its quantum computer, but questions have persisted as to whether or not the machine is performing.

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'Asteroid Zoo' Will Let You Search For Dangerous Space Objects From Home

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The public will now be able to help scientists in their quest to find dangerous near-Earth asteroids, and they'll be able to do it right from their living rooms. An asteroid mining company called Planetary Resources has paired up with Zooniverse to ...

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Planetary Resources Offers “Asteroid Zoo” to Public

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Planetary Resources has three days to go in its already successful Kickstarter campaign to raise $1 million to build an asteroid hunting telescope accessible to the public. Planetary Resources is an asteroid mining company. The project is backed by ...

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Asteroid Miners to Use 3D Printing for Space Telescopes 3D printing could help ...

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Billionaire-backed asteroid-mining company Planetary Resources is teaming up with 3D Systems, whose 3D printing technology will help craft components for the Arkyd line of prospecting spacecraft, officials announced Wednesday (June 26). The ...

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NASA and Space Florida Begin Partnership Discussions

NASA has selected Space Florida, the aerospace economic development agency for the state of Florida, for negotiations toward a partnership agreement to maintain and operate the historic Shuttle Landing Facility (SLF).

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Indeed, space tourism is already moving from being only for the ultra-rich to the merely rich. Richard Branson's space travel company, Virgin Galactic, plans to charge $US200,000 per person for taking tourists into space. The company said last month ...

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Foy-Johnston Announces Plans to Possibly Expand into Western Canada

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Modular firm helping construction of Graphene Institute

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... firm helping construction of Graphene Institute. The AV Group has been specified again by BAM Construction, this time to provide on-site modular buildings for The University of Manchester's £61m National Graphene Institute (NGI) which is being ...

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PayPal Goes Galactic, Moves to Cash In on Space Payments

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Though the idea may sound out of this world, the nascent space tourism industry is set to take off in the next decade, and humans will need a way to pay for things in space as well as send payments to Earth, said PayPal President David Marcus. "As ...

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Google's Quantum Computer Proven To Be Real ThingAlmost | Wired ...

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But many of the world's quantum computer experts see it quite differently, ... of everyday life rather than the more elusive properties of quantum physics ...

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Google's Quantum Computer Proven To Be Real Thing (Almost)

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First proposed in 1985 by British physicist David Deutsch, a quantum computer is a machine that operates according to the mind-bending principles of quantum mechanics, the physics of very small things like electrons and photons. With a classical ...

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July Issue of the International Resource Journal Now Online

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Reflecting upon recent excitement over the futuristic concept of asteroid mining, we compare its value with that of recycling the resources here on earth. All of that is in addition to our usual selection of features on enterprising resources explorers ...

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A rendering by Planetary Resources showing what asteroid mining might look ...

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The UpTake: The private future of space exploration just got even more interesting, with an announcement today that could lead to the creation of an Asteroid Zoo, or a private viewing station for civilians to hunt for potentially destructive asteroids ...

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PayPal, SETI Institute, Buzz Aldrin and Space Leaders Launch PayPal Galactic

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“As space tourism programs are opening space travel to 'the rest of us', this drives questions about the commercialization of space. We are launching PayPal Galactic, in conjunction with leaders in the scientific community, to increase public awareness ...

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PayPal eyes opportunities in outer space

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As space tourism is expected to take off, PayPal is exploring what payment systems will be like in outer space. The payments processor is launching Thursday with the SETI Institute and others an initiative called PayPal Galactic, which will bring ...

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PayPal says outer space is its next frontier

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Billionaires like Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, and Telsa CEO Elon Musk are pouring their resources into space tourism (most of these guys are also sponsoring the Space Tourism Society to help promote space travel).

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Understanding the Quantum Mind

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Talking about quantum physics and the human mind can be a tricky prospect. Most times these two concepts are brought together, the result is a pseudo-scientific mish-mash of weird concepts that doesn't result in anything particularly coherent. Despite ...

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Asteroid Mining - El Dave Photo

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How plants use quantum physics to boost photosynthesis NBC Newscom

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How plants use quantum physics to boost photosynthesis ... idea that plants use quantum mechanics to achieve this nearperfect efficiency A trick of quantum ...

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NASA Launches Satellite to Study How Sun's Atmosphere is Energized

NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) spacecraft launched Wednesday at 7:27 p.m. PDT (10:27 p.m. EDT) from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. The mission to study the solar atmosphere was placed in orbit by an Orbital Sciences Corporation Pegasus XL rocket.

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Planetary Resources creates partnership with 3D Systems

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The Arkyds will include a number of space telescopes and robotic probes to search out and examine asteroids as candidates for mining operations. The company hopes to extract water ice to be refined into rocket fuel and platinum for import to Earth ...

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Kate Becker: Good science can come in small packages

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Kate Becker. Astronomy is a science of superlatives: It takes on the biggest, the farthest, the most powerful objects in the universe. ... Over time, the Milky Way's gravity could have swiped most of its stars and dark matter, leaving behind just a ...

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PayPal Galactic Launches Ahead of Growing Space Tourism Industry

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According to Fox News, the e-commerce company announced PayPal Galactic on Thursday and intends to make space commerce a reality. The main reason behind it is for astronauts to make payments on Earth while taking extended trips into space.

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Thursday, 27 June 2013

PayPal launches interplanetary payment system

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If there are plans to mine asteroids, the Moon and eventually other planets, there should be a way to easily pay those workers, right? Well, online money transfer giant Pay Pal announced Thursday it will launch an inter-planetary payment system, known ...

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Asteroid mining company wants you to help find asteroids (protect Earth)

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Planetary Resources, the company with big plans to mine asteroids, started a Kickstarter campaign on May 29 for a million bucks to fund the creation and launch of a space-based telescope “for everyone.” “The ARKYD is a technologically advanced ...

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How are you going to pay for donuts and coffee when you're on the moon? (John ...

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"We quietly asked ourselves and other leaders in the space community, 'Are we smoking crack?'" he told ABC News. Both the SETI Institute (Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence) and the Space Tourism Society were thankful that PayPal was asking ...

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One Small Payment For Man: PayPal Launches Space Banking Initiative

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David Marcus, PayPal president, told CNN Money: "We don't have all the answers right now, but it's clear we won't be using cash when we're in space. We feel it's time now - not next year, not when [space tourism] starts to happen - to start figuring ...

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Could Quantum Brain Effects Explain Consciousness?

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Physicist Roger Penrose, of the University of Oxford, and anesthesiologist Stuart Hameroff, of the University of Arizona, propose that the brain acts as a quantum computer — a computational machine that makes use of quantum mechanical phenomena (like ...

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