One of the coolest things about spacewalks rarely nailed by science fiction is the enormous value of a drone tech assist: "It has an elbow, shoulders and even wrists, and it [is] the first robot able to 'walk' around the Russian part of the Space Station." Read.

Colour me unsurprised that quantum computing will not have as clear a path toward disrupting cryptocurrencies in the near future as has been widely assumed: "It's a long-range effect, and it's really damaging. It's destroying the quantum information stored in qubits." Read.

"One of the key things we showed in the paper is that lightning- and solar flare-driven signatures are completely different. The first tends to create electron density depletions, while the second enhancements (or ionization)." Read.

"Earth-Moon Libration point 2, where a special case of gravitational balance allows Queqiao to maintain an orbit such that it has almost constant direct line of sight with both the far side of the Moon and the Earth." Read.

"Researchers from UNSW have found an extraordinary material that does not expand or contract over an extremely wide temperature range and may be one of the most stable materials known." Read.

Imminent Storage Explosion: "Beyond its unbeatable thinness, graphene fulfills all the ideal properties of an HDD overcoat [at] an unprecedented data density, higher than 10 terabytes per square inch." Read.

Distant Storage Explosion: "The artificial spin-ice was created using state-of-the-art 3D nanofabrication techniques in which tiny nanowires were stacked into four layers in a lattice structure... Since the monopoles can be moved around the 3D lattice using a magnetic field it may be possible to create a true 3D storage device based upon magnetic charge." Read.

Looks like bringing the I.S.S.'s new BCH mining rig online will have to wait... "Spacesuit problems prevent astronauts from completing job..they had trouble trying to unfold the solar panel's booms before time finally ran out" Read.

Source: bitcoinmars.org/links