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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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The only raw material for "Graphene." ... The graphene wafer - Carries electricity 100 times faster than silicon, conducts heat better than ANY substance known to man, including its carbon cousin the diamond and is as transparent as glass . ... purity ...

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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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Have you guys seen this? Going out and mining asteroids is soon going to be a real thing. Where do I sign up? I think [...]

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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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