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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A Step Closer To Silicon-Based Quantum Computer

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In a quantum computer, information is stored in the spin, or magnetic orientation, of an electron. This spin can not only be in the two “classical” states – up and down – but also in a combination of both states at the same time, allowing exponentially ...

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Planetary Resources Calls on Citizens of Earth to Aid in Planetary Defense

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BELLEVUE, Wash., June 27, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Planetary Resources, the asteroid mining company, has announced a collaboration with Zooniverse that will empower citizen scientists to aid in the search for dangerous near Earth asteroids (NEAs) and ...

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NASA's Voyager 1 Explores Final Frontier of Our 'Solar Bubble'

Data from Voyager 1, now more than 11 billion miles from the sun, suggest the spacecraft is closer to becoming the first human-made object to reach interstellar space.

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Nitride semiconductor on graphene promises 1THz performance

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The bonds are semi-ionic and have been found to preserve the structural and electrical integrity of the graphene and at the same time provide nucleation sites for high-quality material deposition. The nitride semiconductor deposition process must ...

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Euclid spacecraft to be built by Thales Alenia Space

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"Euclid will be so impressive; it will be a cosmologist's dream, and we are making it happen step by step," Prof Alvaro Gimenez, Esa's director of science, told BBC News. ... Dark energy and dark matter are two of the most pressing problems in science.

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Graphene-chlorophyll Phototransistor: Plant Material to Gather Light?

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Scientists develop a new material made of graphene and chlorophyll, with potential for use as a transistor, which shows high efficiency and great potential.

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PayPal to launch inter-planetary payment system

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It sounds like a PR stunt, but PayPal is dead serious about getting into the burgeoning field of space tourism. With companies like Virgin Galactic and Space X bringing the go-to-Mars dream much closer to reality, PayPal said its goal is simply to ...

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PayPal looks to conquer payments in space

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PayPal wants to explore space - or at least begin to figure out how payments and commerce will work beyond Earth's realm once space travel and tourism take off. PayPal, which is eBay's payments business, said it was launching an initiative called ...

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PayPal eyes opportunities in outer space

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PayPal, which claims more than 128 million active accounts in 193 markets and 25 currencies around the globe, is now looking at outer space. As space tourism is expected to take off, PayPal is exploring what payment systems will be like in outer space.

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Plants Use Quantum Physics to Survive Yahoo News

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Plants Use Quantum Physics to Survive ... to the idea that plants use quantum mechanics to achieve this nearperfect efficiency A trick of quantum physics ...

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What could the NSA do with a quantum computer?

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The quantum computer uses a single atom or electron, rather than a bulky electrical charge, as the 0 or 1. In fact, the ... The first working, commercial quantum computer was created by DWave Systems, a firm based in Vancouver, Canada. Its first sale ...

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Everything you want to know about asteroid mining — Tech News ...

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In a Reddit AmA, asteroid mining company Planetary Resources showed off the benefits and complications of their exciting techniques. ... “There are many precedents from the long history of mining and resource development on Earth.

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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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Actor Rainn Wilson talks asteroid mining with Planetary Resources

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This week Rainn Wilson quizzed Plantary Resources's founder on space mining and the new Arkyd 100. Set to launch in 2015, Arkyd is a telescope for sensing asteroids and also a portal for users to beam photos into orbit.

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NASA Administrator Media Availability at Kennedy June 28

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden will hold a media availability at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida at 1 p.m. EDT Friday, June 28.

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In space, no one can hear you pay, but PayPal eyes final frontier

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PayPal, the SETI Institute and the Space Tourism Society are announcing PayPal Galactic, which is a drive to pull together the best minds of science and commerce to start discussing how future space travelers will pay for goods and services in the ...

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PayPal Galactic will help people buy stuff in space

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In the coming months — yes months, Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo is supposed to fly on December 25th — space tourism goes from a dream to a reality. At that point individual citizens will be taking private flights into space, where they will likely ...

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Space bucks: PayPal begins work on an off-world monetary system

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To think more deeply about space bucks, the online-payment company has enlisted the Space Tourism Society, the SETI Institute and even Apollo 11 moonwalker Buzz Aldrin for what it calls the PayPal Galactic initiative. "Trips to Mars, the moon, even ...

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PayPal says outer space is its next frontier

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PayPal says outer space is its next frontier. Space tourism is expected explode in popularity over the coming years. How will space travelers pick up a drink at the space hotel bar or pay for a dune buggy ride on the moon? PayPal says it will have an ...

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PayPal trailblazing payments in space

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The company joins a rapidly growing coalition of Silicon Valley businesses and entrepreneurs who are investing in space tourism, a wide-open frontier for new forms of travel, sightseeing and gravity-free adventures. PayPal is to announce the initiative ...

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PayPal Galactic launched, an initiative to help space tourists pay for goods ...

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Created in conjunction with the SETI Institute and Space Tourism Society, PayPal Galactic's aim is to prepare for and support the future of space commerce. It will be gathering leaders in the space industry to attempt to answer numerous questions: What ...

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Plants Use Quantum Physics to Survive | LiveScience

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Plants and purple bacteria may use the principles of quantum physics to harvest ... The bizarre rules of quantum mechanics may in fact enable many of life's ...

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Europe bids Gaia a safe journey

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ESA’s billion-star surveyor, Gaia, has completed final preparations in Europe and is ready to depart for its launch site in French Guiana, set to embark on a five-year mission to map the stars with unprecedented precision.

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Planetary Resources Inks 3D Systems Deal, Plans Test Launch From ISS

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Planetary Resources is adding a new investor and collaborator to help manufacture its planned asteroid-mining spacecraft, a test version of which could be launched into low-Earth orbit from the International Space Station in less than a year. The ...

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Everything you want to know about asteroid mining

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Planetary Resources is an asteroid mining company founded by engineers from NASA, JPL, SpaceX, and Intel, and is on the brink of closing a million-dollar Kickstarter to fund Arkyd 100, a public space telescope. The company has an extensive timetable to ...

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CERN’s Flückiger joins Internet Hall of fame

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CERN computer scientist François Flückiger has been inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame, which celebrates individuals selected by the Internet Society for their significant contribution to the development and the advancement of the internet.

“CERN is famous for being the place where the web was born, but its contribution to the development of the internet is less well known ,” says Flückiger, “In the early nineties CERN was the largest internet hub in Europe, with 80% of the Internet capacity terminated in today’s CERN Computer Centre”.

The thirty-two 2013 inductees were announced yesterday. The award ceremony, supposed to take place in Istanbul, has being postponed to a later date.

François joins other CERN members of the Internet Hall of fame in the Innovators category, web pioneers Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau.

Read François’ opinion piece on his induction, and learn more about how the internet came to CERN.

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PayPal launches quest for intergalactic currency

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Operations such as Virgin Galactic and Space X have put the prospect of space tourism on the near horizon, and when tourists leave Earth they will need traveling money, according to PayPal. A Space Hotel is proposed to be circling the planet in about ...

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PayPal and SETI aim to go galactic with off-planet currency system

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Joining the company in the PayPal Galactic initiative are the SETI Institute, the Space Tourism Society, and the pugilistic* former astronaut Buzz Aldrin. Together the group is looking at ways of providing a valid currency and banking system that can ...

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PayPal goes galactic to answer big questions about money in space

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PayPal, the payments division of eBay, aims to change that today with the announcement of PayPal Galactic. Together with the SETI Institute and the Space Tourism Society, PayPal is forming a working group dedicated to sketching out the future of money ...

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PayPal: Intergalactic Currency Coming Soon

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PayPal will unveil PayPal Galactic on June 27 at 9 a.m. and bring together leaders in the scientific community, including the SETI Institute and Space Tourism Society, to help create a currency for space and off-Earth colonies. “If you want space ...

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2013: Space odyssey? PayPal looks to explore how payments will work in space

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PayPal, which is eBay Inc.'s payments business, says it is launching an initiative called PayPal Galactic with the help of the nonprofit SETI Institute in Mountain View, Calif., and the Space Tourism Society, an industry group focused on space travel ...

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Cosmic Currency: PayPal and SETI Developing Space Cash System

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Scientists searching for extraterrestrials are teaming up with one of the world's best-known online-transaction companies to create the first system for space-based payments for astronauts and tourists venturing beyond Earth, project officials ...

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A Step Closer To Silicon-Based Quantum Computer

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27, 2013) – Australian researchers are a step closer to the construction of a large-scale quantum computer after they found a new way to distinguish between quantum bits that are placed only a few nanometres apart in a silicon chip. Quantum bits, or ...

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Actor Rainn Wilson talks asteroid mining - NBC News.com

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joked Wilson, who described himself as an "Intergalactic Skylord," at the beginning of the webcast. [Planetary Resource's Asteroid Mining Plan (Photos)].

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Supernova Remnant G1.9+0.3

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Chandra data sheds light on the remains of the most recent supernova known to have occurred in the Milky Way.

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Would tourists pay to stay in NYC's vacant office space ?

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Danish design firm Pink Cloud has floated a plan that could help tourists and New York City's midtown office building owners. The average office space vacancy rate in midtown Manhattan has grown to 21.6 percent since the recession. At the same time ...

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Quantum memory breakthrough

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"This work brings us closer to creating a quantum computer powerful enough that it could one day be used in developing new materials for clean-energy distribution or in rapidly searching through massive amounts of unsorted data to identify security ...

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Actor Rainn Wilson talks asteroid mining

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[Planetary Resource's Asteroid Mining Plan (Photos)]. "There's a lot of wealth and resources for humanity out there and the fact that we're a crumb in a supermarket filled with resources just (means that) we've got to stop digging for stuff on the ...

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High - performance graphene transistor with high room - temperature mobility

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Since the operating voltage directly contributes to static (i.e. idle state) power consumption of transistors, this low-voltage operation will help reduce power consumption and makes graphene a very useful material for portable devices such as ...

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