A proposal on the possibility and the potential approach to building large habitats on space bodies that lack an atmosphere from an alternative material, water ice, a material that is a prerequisite for any settlement. Published in The Journal of British Interplanetary Society VOL. 69 No. 8 under the title Ice Dome Construction for Large Scale Habitats on Atmosphereless Bodies
This is a discussion on the mechanisms of power in the context of Big Data on personal information and the raise of the “Information Oligarchs” (companies that have too much control over the flow of information). It presents a pathway to serfdom through economic means rather than political ones depicted in Road to Serfdom, by F. Hayek (the work was presented in September 2015 at the Cybersecurity in Romania Congress, and November 2015 Wine Hat Cybersecurity Conference in Torino, Italy)
The Semantic Perspective Project is an entirely new approach to information and knowledge representation, where information composition is done via “meaningful perspectives“: what the meaning of a concept is, when viewed from the perspective of a different concept, hence the project’s name.
Chosen as finalist at the Link Data Contest at the Semantics Conference 2015, Vienna.
The fear of an invasion from an advanced alien civilization is increasingly prevalent in human society. The current paper is a discussion on the motivations for this irrational fear considered to stem from the deficient vantage point from which the subject is analyzed by the human mind. It will be shown that contrary to popular culture, species in the universe must follow an inevitable course towards an absolute peaceful society and that such attitude must be true across the universe without exception, which leads into the argumentation of an as of yet poorly explored explanation for the Fermi paradox called the Cosmic Quarantine Hypothesis. Furthermore, the discussion explores the convergence of the definition of “kin” towards compatibility between behavior and attitude rather than physiological compatibility which is argued to be transitory. The universal convergence of behavior towards peacefulness and that of kin towards behavior, give rise to a universal super-species and as such concepts like racial interest, invasion or xenophobia completely loose their significance.
Domain Name Madness Suppose you have a business and you come up with the name “cool business #1″. After careful consideration you made sure it has a nice ring, it communicates what your business is about, it is perfect. An then, you check the domain name coolbusiness#1.com Bummer, it is already occupied. So are “.net”
Cold season has installed into the norther hemisphere. I know because, well, it’s kind of hard to miss: all that rain and cold and mist in the morning gives me the chills and drains all the energy out. I had to up my daily coffee ration from two to three just to keep me going. But I already new the cold season was coming quite a while before the actual cold had installed, because even if I missed the obvious ending of August, TV was there to remind me that very soon I am going to be sick and I will need various kinds of cold medicine.
In September 2008 the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. marked the popular beginning of the late recession (2008 – Today). This is probably no news to anybody in the developed world: to many this meant the loss of their homes, loss of their jobs, their businesses and for the lucky ones it meant at least a dent in their life stile. But why?
Me, is the common pronoun that we use when we refer to ourselves yet a somewhat more appropriate one would be “us”, because me is not only “me”, it’s also more than a hundred trillion unlikely friends who inhabit the same body as my consciousness does. The entire surface of the skin, the digestive tract and every orifice we have serves as a support for these tiny organisms to cling on and make a living.
If I could pronounce on average a number every 5 seconds I would have to count 1109.8 years to reach the number of people that are alive today. Ironically, by 3121AD that number will have increased so much that I would probably have to keep on counting thousands more years.
