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AS: The computer consisted of three racks of equipment. Each rack was 2 feet wide and 7 feet tall. There was air conditioning at the bottom of each rack to cool it off because the circuits ran pretty warm. The memory could range from 8,000 to 16,000 20-bit words. It had an auxiliary memory that could go to 32,000 20-bit words. The computer interfaced with magnetic tapes, with punch cards and punch tapes, among other things.

This week we learned that astronomers looking at a star in our cosmic backyard found three “potentially habitable” planets spinning around it, scientists from the U.K. discovered a source of true green energy when they turned grass intro copious amounts of hydrogen, and biologists in Africa observed humans and birds communicate with one another and exchange honey-hunting tips. Read on and marvel.

Nearby Star Holds Three “Potentially Habitable” Planets

Space debris, whether it's empty rocket casings or a dead satellites the size of a car, can pose risks to spacecraft. Researchers with the Surrey Space Centre at the University of Surrey present two scenarios for a litter-picking mission.

This week we learned that keeping quiet makes even computers look smarter, we wondered how viruses and diseases can determine what we do and even who we are, and we pondered the mysteries of the universe that could be discovered by a new, robot-assembled space telescope. Read on, quietly.

Code Of Silence? Computers Prove That Staying Silent Makes You Look Smarter

This week we learned about freshwater snails that could help AI engineers design brains for robots, scientists who are seeking to sequence synthetic human DNA and software that turns computer cameras into eye-tracking devices that can gather information about what content grabs our attention online. Take a look.

Will Snails Get Us Faster To AI?

Can I Trust My Robot And Should My Robot Trust Me?

Riccardo Bevilacqua Associate Professor Of Mechanical And Aerospace Engineering University Of Florida

May 30, 2016

It's not just people who need to get better at talking to one another. Space roboticist Riccardo Bevilacqua says we need to teach our machines how to communicate more effectively for robots to reach their full potential.

If we are serious about long-term human presence in space, such as manned bases on the moon or Mars, we must figure out how to streamline human-robot interactions.

Comic books were as popular with kids and teens in the 1950s as Instagram, Snapchat and social media are today. Although many parents couldn’t stand them, the team inside GE’s communications department was intrigued. They saw a powerful tool for engaging teenagers and getting them hooked on science.

There’s a lot of science happening in the bowels of the International Space Station 249 miles overhead. Astronauts are chowing down on experimental salads grown from LEDs and hydroponics.

Feature by feature, they revealed themselves: the plains of Sputnik, the Norgay Montes and the vast and forbidding Cthulu Regio.
When the New Horizons spacecraft finally buzzed Pluto at roughly 30,000 mph last summer, it sent back snaps of an untamed land of craterless plains and jagged ice mountains beyond our imagining. And those pictures of the dwarf planet traveled the expanse of space thanks to a 125-pound power plant that doesn’t know the meaning of quit.

It’s called the RTG, or Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator.

3D Printing the Soul and Other Ideas From the Final Frontier — Q&A with Adam Steltzner of NASA

Adam Steltzner Fellow At The Nasa Jet Propulsion Laboratory

October 02, 2015

The Industrial Internet faces perhaps it’s biggest challenge in space — though also some of the greatest opportunities for breakthroughs in machine-to-machine communication and Big Data analytics.

The explosion of data being emitted from everything from hospital monitors to deep-sea oil wells to jet engines is demanding increasingly robust Big Data analytical tools. But perhaps the greatest test for collecting and analyzing data is at the “final frontier,” with the challenges of beaming back information and images from space expeditions.

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