The 20th century was a boom of innovation that may never be topped in terms of the sheer volume and magnitude of lifestyle-changing, revolutionary technologies. Communications technologies such as the telegraph, telephone and radio go their start in the late…
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It’s a popular science fiction trope, aliens appear in the sky and after a short while they begin to land. Perhaps like in independence day they blow up the cities first or perhaps they release a virus that exterminates most…
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Thomas Edison was born in Ohio in 1847, the youngest of seven children, and grew up in Michigan. Edison wasn’t much of a student in school because his mind always seemed to be wandering. He only attended school for a…
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When you hear somebody say “Hey, look there’s a UFO up there!” What is your first thought? No doubt you imagine a flying disk-shaped object floating among the clouds, but the meaning of UFO is not “Alien Disk Ship” as…
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To assume that we, as humans, are the only intelligent life (intelligent being defined as capable of developing cultures and technology, forming language and essentially building upon ourselves as a species) in our universe is perhaps as arrogant as it…
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The idea that robots could someday rise up and take over the world has been a major theme in science fiction since the first robots were dreamed up. To the minds of some people this occurrence is only a matter…
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It’s fascinating to consider the possibility of robots becoming as prominent as humans have on Earth; however, if intelligent machines are to become the inheritors of the biosphere, it will occur in a way that will take almost everyone by…
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From a viewpoint that because of the vast distances one would have to travel to get here, it’s hard to believe we are and have been visited by UFO’s. But that isn’t saying they are not real, and I say…
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Throughout the 1960’s and 1970’s, the flightdeck of smaller US Navy frigates and destroyers would almost certainly have been occupied by a Kaman Seasprite helicopter. Now in the autumn of its life with the US Navy, the Seasprite, however, is…
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The U.S. urgently needs to dicover an effective method for resolving the terrorism problem, and defeating the terrorists. To date our counterterror tactics have often failed, and major terrorist organizations (like al-Qaeda) continue to grow in strength, worldwide. Although the…
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