Gold rush in space

New race to win the priceless mineral resources shall be initiated in the universe. There is no doubt that the space mining threatening the earth.

Something more than a century and a half after the California gold rush swept, Silicon Valley in the same U.S. state became the epicenter of a new wave of feverish campaign to precious metals. Only, unlike the diggers of the 19th century, the aim earth gold, now it comes to engineers invading untapped mineral wealth - the moon.

Statement by American astronaut Neil Armstrong that when in 1969. Came to the moon, he made "one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind," gets a new meaning. Since the beginning of this year there were two large paper, in Canada and Australia, the space devoted to mining, especially on the moon, which is considered the first and most fertile places outside the country to win the valuable mineral resources.

Mineral maps American space agency NASA show that the geological composition of the moon is very rich and is the true source of deposits for the bravest space miners. Among these riches untouched a large number of rare minerals such as yttrium, lanthanum and samarikum for which there is great demand for his role in the high-tech industry.

President of the Canadian Space Society traffic Arnie Sokolov believes that the planet mining is becoming the driving force of cosmic research:

- I have no doubt that one day the space mining to overtake earth - he is convinced.

Sokolov added that for some brave souls, and profound space agencies started just this way. The main "nursery" in the U.S. Silicon Valley. Among the dozens of companies that deal in California this research develops competition, which received concrete expression in the competition for "Google's" "X-lunar" reward of 30 million dollars. It is intended for private companies that most successfully lowered a robot to the moon, they manage to run it longer and send your best shots, especially water, back to Earth.

Mars Society President Dr. Jonathan Clark of Geological Sciences in Australia, said that the Moon follows the limits of the mining industry. Predicts that the water target of the first conquest. Clark believes that the lunar water is of crucial importance for the future of space mining mission, not only for basic functions, for drinking and washing, but also as a fuel for robots and converted into oxygen for breathing:
- We know that there is water on the moon. Water is rocket fuel. It sustains life and agriculture. Thus, the lunar commercial exploitation is the first step to becoming a part of our Moon, humane world - confirms Bob Richards, Director of "Moon Express," one of dozens of companies in Silicon Valley, working in mining research space.
Richards from Canada moved to Silicon Valley, because he thinks it's "capital of capital with an appetite for risk." It is believed that the mining space that has become a reality within a decade. In the following years, the intensive will explore the moon and search for its ore "hot spots":
- We already know that the moon has a more noble metal than the overall reserves on Earth. The race is on! - He says.
The moon is expected crowd of robots and astronauts, but started racing very earthly, and the question that arises even ground. Can anyone lay claim to the moon?
This is exactly the most attractive part of the month is a gold rush. According to the agreement of the universe in 1967. The no nation can possess Month, which extends to most individuals and businesses. But:
- Pursuant to the agreement, the property is not allowed, but encouraged free access and exploitation. You can not have anything, but can go out there and exploit - says lawyer James Danstan space issues.
American Silicious Valley is the epicenter of research, but the race is global. China, however, plans to put a probe on the moon as early as this year, and to send astronauts to the 2020th year, so as things stand, the water in Beijing initiated a golden race conquering the moon.

LIFE IN MULTIPLE WORLDS

Richards is confident that people will find a way to settle on the Moon: - We become beings capable of living in several worlds. The first man to enter into Mars in our lifetime, for the next 10 to 20 years. And our people will be transformed. Pads with its technology. What we call humanity redefinisaće to be taught how to reprogram our bodies to live longer, with machines capable to work in symbiosis with our bodies to treat the disease - young scientist predicts.  

How to demolish a building by reducing

Passers-by in the busy district of Akasaka in Tokyo began to notice something unusual about the 40-storey high hotel: reduced and "turned" in the double lower object.

Slowly but surely, without a single shred of explosions and dust - which is always accompanied by the demolition of skyscrapers - all hotel disappears.
"In the scheme of demolition, the building is reduced or disappears, and it almost does not notice," said the AFP manager of construction company "Taisel" performing this project, Hideki Ićihara.
"Grand Prince Hotel Akasaka" was built in the eighties and with a height of 140 meters is the symbol of the extravagance of the decade, when the Japanese had "money to throw away," Japan and the economic "ruled".
Now, the hotel is falling: ten days lost every 6.4 meters or two floors, says Ićihara.
The project of "Taisel" new ecological destruction process, designed to minimize noise and dirt, and recycled energy compressed into a high building.
Engineers have increased the top floor with steel beams and it is part of the hotel, which will remain as a "criss-roof" demolition by the end of the reduction, working your way down. Such as roof cover protects the lower floor in the process of dissolution. Is set to 15 hydraulic connector where the roof-cover is now "sitting", while workers removed floor by floor hotel which was once a symbol of luxury.
"Retaining this 'cap' on top of the building, significantly suppress noise and dust," says Ićihara.
Material remaining demolition sort in the group and, where possible, recycled. Scrap down through central drain, "well".
Thirty Hotel - which locals affectionately call "Aka Puri" - was once a symbol of Tokyo's flashy lifestyle. Customers are paying hundreds of dollars for a "sea bed" in luxury rooms and suites.
The style, however, disappeared at the beginning of the nineties, and many luxury hotels in Tokyo are - in parallel with changes in economic conditions - led the fight to keep their guests.
A spokesman for the hotel owner said that the hotel management is pleased quieter and cleaner version of the crash.
"People are like Aka Puri. Many people just gotten married at that hotel," says South Jasutake from "Seibu property" - the company which now plans to build on the same site a new hotel and business center.
"It's nice to see that the building disappears in such a clean way," he concludes.
Completion of the demolition of the hotel is expected in June.

3D Pen: Draw the Eiffel Tower in three dimensions

Created the first 3D pen "3Doodler" that will be the end of the year on sale.

A young company dealing with toys "WoobleWorks" from Bastion, a few years working on a prototype and is ready to launch an innovative pen.

How claims the company, "3Doodler" pen or pencil 3D print, will use the so-called writing. "plastic thread" that would be immediately printed, hardened by a small fan (blowing cold air) on top of the 3D pen.

"Anyone who knows how to use a pen, will be able to use this pen and 3D print that we designed for the three dimensional printing. You can draw on any surface and even 3Doodler lift into the air to create your own 3D objects."

Developers and add that to use these 3D pens there is no need for any additional software or technology, it takes only an hour or two getting used to learning and working with her, and then just let my imagination. What is it like when you see 3D pencil drawing in the video. 

Rex, an indicator of how far science has arrived

Rex bionic man, specially made ​​for the Channel 4 documentary, the sum of the existing advanced artificial organs and prostheses. However, Rex has opened many moral questions.

It cost a million dollars and is made up of artificial limbs and organs taken from all over the world.

Bionic man Rex (short for robotic exoskeleton), about 180 centimeters high, the researchers made ​​a documentary for Britain's Channel 4, which should indicate where science and technology are reached.

However, this research has created a certain moral dilemma - the advancement of prosthetic and artificial organs could mean that scientists will soon be able not only to complement the physical defects, but also to improve them, writes Daily Mail.
Dr. Berthold Meyer, a social psychologist from Switzerland, who has his 35,000 euros worth of bionic limb because he was born without a left hand, believes that this is exciting and a little scary.
"We may have reached a point where science and technology are beginning to show the first signs of opportunities to go beyond the limits of evolution," says Meyer.
"The danger is that we will influence what is human in us. Creating a new species that can be turned against us' to bite us, "like the Frankenstein myth, when it will be released and becomes uncontrolled and destructive," adds George Anas, a professor of bioethics and human rights at Boston University.
Bionic man put together the UK's leading robotic Richard Walker and Matthew Godin.
Rex has, say, an artificial eye that consists of a microchip embedded in the retina, which receives the video from the camera placed in the patient's glasses. It then sends electrical signals that the brain translates into shapes and forms.
Professor Robert McLaren of the University of "Oxford", said: "We hope that the patients who are totally blind can see basic shapes and forms."

Scientists also believe that artificial organs - heart, kidneys, pancreas and spleen - can solve the lack of donors in the world.

For example, "SynCardia Systems' artificial heart has already saved lives - more than 1,000 were built. It runs on batteries and can temporarily replace diseased heart until a donor, the authors emphasize Wrexham.

There are also prosthetic foot and ankle, which was developed by Professor Hugh Her Institute of Technology "Massachusetts" - imitating the movements of muscles and Achilles tendon.

Her, who lost his legs due to freezing in mountain climbing accident, says he now climbs better than before. 

Technological innovation has changed the destiny of man

As the technological innovation in the last 100 years has changed the destiny of modern man. We live longer and more comfortable, but crucial questions remain unanswered.

Readers American online newspaper "The Huffington Post" recently in the online poll agreed that it was this same web of all the technological advances in the past century has brought the biggest changes in their lives. The second biggest innovation, which has enabled the first and, for them, is a transistor. In third place were commercial flights, TV on the fourth, and only after that - the genetic map of the human body. Birth control pills, pen and SAT are still found in front of so many used mobile phones by just over two percent of voters ranked the highest among the findings of the century.

Recollection of the technological advances of the last century, you might get a different order in some other parts of the world, but the majority of mankind would certainly agreed that it is difficult to imagine a time when not on the "Google" find the answers to your questions, hung over "Face" or mobile perpetuate important moments. Even those aging who remember the time without any of the ordinary household appliances today can hardly imagine life without vacuum cleaners, washing machines, refrigerators, even without the remote control, and microwave ovens are following us since the fifties ... The more technological innovation accelerated in recent decades it seems to be less and less willing to give up either of them.

Another question is how technological breakthroughs affect on humanity. Only if you look at the last decade, there has been that much innovation that improve people's lives, as did the more confused everyday life - communicating, relationships and thinking of modern man.

At the beginning of this millennium, when the U.S. Zhi-pi-es signals made ​​available to the public, the White House announced that everyone will be able to locate where you want it 10 times more accurately than before. This achievement paved the way for many other to be installed in mobile or smartphone. Tracking the movement of children, spouse, employees ... became available to everyone, but not always desirable.

Straight storm was the 2000th The proclamation of AT & T in the United States to appear text messages on mobile phones. June 2000. users have sent 12.2 million text messages per month, ten years later, that figure had jumped to 135.2 billion messages each month. Three years later he began the birth of social networks - "Frendster", "Facebook", "Twitter". Way of communicating, socializing and pursuing civil action was changed at the same time opening a new chapter in the history of alienation. 

The so-called Twitter revolution Arab world indicate the directions in which social movements could reach large global motion. Birth of the new (in) stability?
Scientists have discovered a planet outside our solar system, astronomers can identify out-solar planets by measuring gravitational effect on the stars, but the origin of the earth they are reduced to a range of theories.
Michael Brunet found the oldest human fossil in the African country of Chad. Fragments of six to seven million years old skull suggests the length of human evolution. The discovery that man has approximately 20,000 to 25,000 genes yielded a picture of genetic maps, throwing new light on diseases, new sources of energy, and many other scientific fields. Ian Vilmut added to his name the title "Sir" when he cloned the first human, sheep Dolly. The secret of life, however, is still not detected.
January 2001. it launched the first Internet encyclopedia "Wikipedia", and Larry Page and Sergey Brin are the invention of "Google" which is from 2004. became available to everyone, made a revolution in access to information. According to data from the research center, "Pew" in 2008. The half of all Internet users use this tool. The introduction of video games 2006th year not only brought a new dimension to many childhood education has helped. The company "Apple" has just been named the most valuable in history thanks to inventions such as the Ipod, Iphon or facilitating access to content from games, stock market, checking the data to find restrooms. But if the world has become enlightened, better? There is no evidence for it.
At this stage of development it is very likely that even in poverty, war and disease in sub-Saharan Africa's development indicators show positive impacts of the development of science on people's lives. The average life expectancy has increased, in the period between the 1960th and 1994, for a decade, from 39.9 to 49.9 years. Child mortality has decreased in the same period by 40 percent. Percentage of people with access to safe water has almost doubled over the past decade, GDP per capita rose. The development of computers has enabled spectacular progress in many aspects of society. The development of genetic engineering and biotechnology is the most revolutionary achievements of recent decades.
At the same time, science and ethics are connected more than ever before, opening questions the essence of life and existence, the impact of technological development in general satisfaction and well-being, or how "reduced" the world makes connections and humanity, and the world more peaceful and safer place to live. Most of the questions remain unanswered, some, such as the possibility of using nuclear weapons, create a feeling of unease.

Popularity for everyone

The emergence of "YouTube" in 2005. The many anonymous citizens turned it into a global star. This, as well as other social networks that have made ordinary people around the world, with a cheap camera, become influential.  

Cargo trols scurry autobahn

Germany novelty for a major crisis: the supply trucks, a solution for expensive fuel, pollution, noise. Siemens project "E-highway" will be offered simultaneously, and the United States.

They make probably the best car, but will soon drive them autobahns cargo trolleys! Schwab's is a Schwab, so it always looks so ušpara one euro cent. And when oil is expensive, solution is good old-wire ...

German giant "Siemens", a big name in the global rail technology, is now considering the idea that the above highways set contact network, which would-powered - trucks. Two "Mercedes" trucks are already equipped with a pantograph, as trains and trams. When the wires above the road, drive them to power, and when no wire, including the diesel-engine.


Federal Ministry for the Environment sees in this project no small environmental benefit, and paid the "Siemens" more than two million euros in aid. For that money is made on the test track outdated military airfield near Berlin.

"Siemens" announces a number of benefits from its "e-highway," as he called the new transport system: the elimination of pollution from the transportation of goods into local areas, significantly reducing noise level, then the savings due to the high cost of diesel, as well as cheaper maintenance , since the electric motors will last longer than those on the internal combustion engine.

Road vehicles are powered by electricity "overhead" have long proved useful in the form of trolleybuses. In Germany, however, this form of public transport there are only three small town. Strong networks are dismantled in another era, when for unknown reasons, people were convinced that oil will be forever, and at low prices.

Money is the trump card, and critics of the idea that the wires over-wire roads all over Germany. Government Council for the Environment made ​​the estimate: contact network of major national transportation arteries (highways A1 - A9) would cost about 15 billion euros. This is ten times more than the current largest infrastructure project in the country, rewriting the overpass above the highway.

Perhaps 15 billion and is the sum of that in rich countries so should freeze the hair of the July sun. California has just adopted a plan to fast track the construction of Los Angeles - San Francisco for $ 68 billion ... But the Germans like to save, and from every walk of life get the most profit, with minimal losses and friction. Germans do not have the "breadth" of imperial nations (including Serbs and often!), To throw resources and wealth, "because they can." And the frown, and when to invest a lot - that would convince them that, save.

Moreover, the journal "Der Spiegel", while an ordinary truck costs 90,000 euros, this hybrid, diesel-electric would be twice as expensive. That only half of the existing German trucks could move the power, you should invest eight billion euros ...

If not (re) calculate the Germans, Americans might want - the reason people in the "Siemens". They will therefore pilot project "e-highway" and run in two locations in California, in the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.

Instructions for the encounter with the aliens

UN made ​​instructions on how to behave when people encounter with aliens. Astronauts believe that there are sentient beings. Padalka: And the other planets are inhabited, will meet the "brethren according to knowledge."

ONE of the most experienced Russian cosmonaut Gennady Ivanovich Padalka (54) surprised the public by saying that the astronauts' get instructions on how to behave in case of encounters with aliens. "Apparently, the Chinese have made ​​with the UN rules on how they should behave in this case.

In America, the place Koroljov, the question of how Chinese journalists are Russian cosmonauts are ready to meet with aliens, Padalka said for that, "there are instructions." Padalka, who is eight times the open space, the hero of the Russian Federation, said it "believes that the other planets inhabited humans sooner or later encounter with the 'brothers according to knowledge.'"


Astronauts often speak of the strong flashes of light that they see them, although their eyes closed. The first of it, after the flight to the moon in 1969, told Edwin Aldrin and Neil Armstrong. In the NASA concluded that astronauts see rapid cosmic rays. However, it does not explain why astronauts feel uncomfortable.

Cosmonaut Alexander Serebrov says that doctors can not lie to the preparation of all astronauts. The American astronaut Edgar Mitchell claims that things happen in space "that we can not, at least for now, we understand."

Test pilot Marina Popovich, who has talked with many Russian astronauts, said that many came back with a lot of uncertainties and doubts. The leading scientific associate of the center for mental health of the Russian Academy of Sciences Vladimir Vorobjov points out that strange sensation that astronauts have no cause for fear for their pleasure.

Yuri Gagarin was after a concert band that played on electric instruments, said it was similar music "heard" during my stay in space. And Alexei Leonov, who first came out in open space, said there was at satellite also heard some strange music. Cosmonaut Vladislav Volkov says he is seeing on the ground and heard the dogs barking, and then the crying child.

Astronauts experience are different, but no one called hallucinations. Some call it "the effect of Solaris," some argue that it is "the materialization of human thought."

Russian biophysicist Alexander Pressemane proved that electromagnetic energy is greater than three thousand megahertz block the arms and legs, and since waves affect endocrine processes biopotential brain and may cause feelings of fear.
Alexander Serebrov flew in space four times. The first summer he accidentally dropped a magnet and began to behave strangely, even though it took to float like all objects in weightlessness. Inside the spacecraft, therefore, there is a strong magnetic field, depending on the position of aircraft. Serebrov story to a magnet attract objects in shadow, and rejected them when it was sunny.
- When he took off Serebrov fourth time in 1993, he managed to persuade those responsible to set the accessories that have shown that the magnetic field strength in some parts of the spacecraft changed 16 times during the day. The largest anomalies were in commander cabin. Cables were passed over the head commander of spacecraft Ciblijeva Basil, who had a very restless sleep, teeth creaked, he shouted and jerks. His dream was the peace of mind when he turned his head toward the floor. Ciblijev dreamed and argued that what dreams he had never seen in my life. Experts have argued that such a dream is possible because of the strong magnetic field.
Professor of the Moscow Aeronautical Institute Burdakov Valery says that a man in orbit, in a state of severe emotional stress, may lose control of the situation.
- They told me about how astronauts are at some point wanted to leave without helmeted in open space or space ship changes course, believing that it is in their vital interest. Only the strong will be saved by the mindless process - explains Burdakov.
Shock - Small Earth

Head of the Institute of psychophysiology medical-biological changes of the Russian Academy of Sciences Yuri Bubejev explains that "the psychoemotional status of astronauts is very complex." The highlight is when seen from space as a small country and it causes severe stress. This condition says Bubejev, can be called "spiritual awakening". The phenomenon has yet to be investigated. 

CONVINCED

Double-Soviet hero Georgi Mikhailovich Grechko (81) has repeatedly said he is convinced that aliens are long and many times came to Earth. Grechko as a young engineer working on the preparation of the first flight into space, and later took off and I 1975th He was also a candidate for the Russian crew that was scheduled to fly to the moon. - I'd like to meet with the aliens. I am interested in looking their spacecraft. Is it really as a flying saucer, as we imagine - Grechko said. 

Waste threatens us from space

The search for ways to "clean up" the universe of the lurking danger - dead satellites, rocket parts ... Around the Earth "fly" 22 000 pieces of waste are often larger than 10 inches.

Waste is a growing problem not only on Earth but in space, which has accumulated "forest" litter of dead satellites and rocket parts and debris caused by the collision of larger pieces. Approximately 22,000 pieces of debris, most of which are larger than 10 inches, moving at high speed, posing a danger for all with which they come into contact.

- The space station would be completely wiped out if they hit any of these pieces - said Donald Kessler, a former scientist, NASA, and one of the foremost international experts specifically for this question.

Kesler was first started thinking about space junk back as 1970. when dealing with parts asteorid and comets, and the risk that represented the spaceship "Apollo". While investigating the "crash" the asteroid, the scientist from North Carolina noted that, sooner or later, and satellites from Earth orbit to begin to collide and create a new waste, and NASA, realizing the danger, set up a special office to monitor motion of cosmic garbage.

Calculation Kessler 1978th , in one of the most important works on this subject, showed that only since 1966. to 1976. The amount of debris increased by 13 percent a year, to begin the new millennium has brought "waste zone" as a new threat to satellites. Accidents, however, that each space as a result of a collision is to create thousands of new pieces, which is a threat of future crash increases exponentially. As long as low Earth orbit becomes a "no-fly zone" for the spacecraft.

Today is Earth's orbit, notes British Bi-Bi-Si, turned into a sort of dump flying parts that move as "zombies" without an adequate way to be removed. Three years ago, the Pentagon has indeed formed a team that is considering various proposals for the removal of space junk. On the table were included spacecraft equipped with magnets to attract waste, "vacuum" in the form of umbrellas, as well as space "trucks" that could drag waste into Earth orbit, where it was burned.

The idea is missing, as is the case with money. Unresolved is the question of who is generally responsible for the removal of space garbage - a country that launches satellites, or applied for a cosmic "utility" services. Meanwhile, landfills are expanding and threatening.

Impacts:

When China's 2007th The test performed by the destruction of the old weather satellites, it has turned into wastes 150 000 particles the size of a centimeter. Two years later the Russian communications satellite "Kosmos" collided with another satellite, creating thousands of pieces of which one has caused shock in the general average Mređunarodnu space station.

Americans make projects for the control of the world

DARPA in the United States has for decades engaged in the wildest things as they are the future. Operate outside the law, with a large budget, and devise how to "surprise the enemy".

In one of the many American TV series devoted to science fiction, the U.S. government provides a small group of researchers to the task, using the craziest technology, invent "unimaginable" things of which their country has benefited.

DARPA, an acronym which hides behind the U.S. Agency for advanced research projects for the defense, it is this. Along with a real, not in the television world, which has an annual budget of $ 3.2 billion and more than a hundred "weird" researchers who work for her.

The whole project was launched 1958th the last century in response to the Soviet program "Sputnik" and as "prevention strategic surprises that might jeopardize national security." From then until today, DARPA has evolved, and the description of the reasons why there is added the definition of "creating technology that will surprise our enemies." For this to 240 employees, of which 140 technicians who "live" in the world of the future, imagining, working and experimenting with what is unthinkable for ordinary people.

Either way, this is where they discovered numerous revolutionary technologies. For example, without which it is impossible to imagine life today - the network of computers connected through the communication channels that allow data exchange - was designed precisely in this agency. Just like "hypertext", which allows you to set "Link", and the mouse click is enough to walk from one to another term. A project "Arpanet" in 1969. was the forerunner of today's Internet.

One reason for successful business lies in the fact that DARPA is "outside the law." This acts as a joke, but it is certainly true that the Agency is exempt from the strict adherence to administrative restrictions complained of many other government organizations. Thus, unlike the others, it may enter into transactions with companies specialized civilian and gets what they want from the best. I was responsible only and directly to the top of the Ministry of Defence.

Quickly, clearly ... Another peculiarity of the agency's effectiveness. Projects can not stretch on forever, the idea of ​​eventual realization passes between two and four years.

Since a few years ago DARPA is located in Arlington, Virginia. Only a few kilometers away from the Pentagon.

Currently, DARPA is working on several projects that look like science fiction, and many more before them was unthinkable at the beginning, and now ...

1. SYNTHETIC BLOOD - The idea was to help American soldiers who were wounded on battlefields far from home, but the need for liquid flowing vein is large and without war.

2. FLYING SUBMARINE - So far this was conceivable only in the comics, but the "weirdos" in Arlington believe that such a thing is impossible. And not only military but also for civilian purposes.

 3. INSECTS ON REMOTE - Remember that Bin Laden was hiding in caves to which even she could not fly. E, DARPA is working on the flying-insect robots that no one can escape. They are not just being from a famous film that Tom Cruise, but not far from it.

4. MATERIAL TO FORM - In the movie "Terminator 2" the bad guy is made of metal which is shaped according to his humanoid form. DARPA working on a project to create material that will mold to the shape of an item. For example, an antenna that would automatically search for the best most effective form of broadcasting, depending on the location of the.

5. CAR FOR THE BLIND - It seems impossible but ... if you connect the non-visual sensors (like laser) with indicators of contact (such as gloves that vibrate when a blind driver reminded of the need to draw), that those who can not see behind the wheel.

6. SENSORS FOR UNDERGROUND - Who's been hid, hid it, because if this project comes to life either land or rocks will not be able to hide anyone. Special sensors penetrate everywhere, no more secrets.

 7. SMART DEVICES - Artificial arms are the only chance for those who lose that part of the body, but now DARPA wants to link the artificial body parts directly to the brain, which would also have to control it just like a real one.

8. ROBOTS THAT WALK - The Agency has failed to produce robots that move and balance as well as animals. Although most are like dogs without heads, these robots are in terms continuing walking up the techniques so far managed to achieve.

Foray into deep space through 100 years

The U.S. military is definitely forward-thinking. These days, preparations began to colonize planets outside our Solar System that is scheduled to begin, at best, for a hundred years.

Leaders of the U.S. armed forces have no doubt that the preparation of plans should begin immediately because the need for their completion of at least a century, the British tabloid transmitting "San". To "Star Trek" have poured in reality, they lack even one small thing - the drive motor that will enable spacecraft distance to the planets suitable for colonization travels in a hundred years. Currently the fastest spacecraft that people have sent into space, "Voyager", with a speed of 61,000 kilometers per hour, the journey would take 70,000 years trivial. American generals optimistically expect that in the next hundred years, researchers found a solution to this problem.
For the problem of limited space-century colonists, who, if human life is extended dramatically, it would not be able to experience the end of the journey, there are different ideas. Concrete solutions for the U.S. Agency for advanced research of defense systems (DARPA) has half a million dollars in prize money. Some of the possible solutions are the "freezing" of astronauts during the trip or send an embryo to be born when they are close to a new home.

Talks on a project called "The centennial staršip study" will last for the next 12 weeks during which they should bring the main conclusions and plans, but also to determine the destination of this trip. The first peak is some of the planet in the Alpha Centauri system.

Stephen Hawking about colonization

FAMOUS astrophysicist Stephen Hawking is one of the biggest advocates of space colonization. He recently published a blog in which he pointed out that the Earth will not be able to save the planet and it is necessary to seek a new one.

- It will be difficult to avoid catastrophe in the next hundred years, let alone the next millennium - Hawking said. - The human race should not keep all your eggs in one basket, or on one planet.

And the aliens ...

NASA's scientist - Domagal Sean Goldman in his study of the close encounter, as one possible scenario stated their intervention on the ground.

He claims that an alien intelligence that is concerned with harmony in the universe may not have too much understanding for people and their ability to destruction of the only planet on which they live. In order to prevent our expansion into other solar systems would be aliens, according to a study, to solve the problem by invading Earth.