The US military wants to send a fusion reactor to orbiton in 5 years.

The space would be a good place for a fusion reactor. That reactor can deliver energy to the entire Earth. And the new aerial systems like plasma-jet engines need more and more energy. 

The idea to use an orbital fusion reactor is interesting and it's like in some SciFi vision. The fusion reactor can make one model of energy supply possible. That model is that the systems that are operating in the field don't have an internal power source. 

All energy that those systems use is delivered to them in the form of radio or maser rays. That allows connecting power supply and communication. And the orbital fusion reactor will also work as an orbital laser weapon because those high-power lasers can also use as weapons against hostile targets. 

The orbital fusion reactor can use vaporized lithium-deuteride as fuel. The lasers or microwaves will melt the lithium deuteride. In orbital trajectory is no oxygen that can detonate the lithium hydride that is used as the fuel. 

And then, the system drives vaporized fuel to the accelerator. In that accelerator, magnetic fields and laser rays will start the fusion. The problem with lithium-deuteride and its use in fusion reactors is that this material is high inflammable. If there is any oxygen in the melting process that causes detonation. But there is no air at orbital. So there melting of the lithium can happen without the risk of oxygen contact. 

There are two ways to make the orbital fusion. The first one is to use internal fusion in the chamber. In that system, fusion will happen around the laser element. And that laser will send energy to the wanted point. 

And the second one is to use two crossing ion beams. Al laser ray will aim to the point where those beams with different polar ions will cross and that allows making the artificial sun in the orbiter. 

The orbital fusion reactor is not the only way to make powerful energy rays. There is the possibility that positrons or anti-electrons can be produced from the electrons of the solar wind. Then those positrons will put to react with electrons around the laser element. And that thing can use to make powerful energy sources. 

https://www.newsweek.com/american-military-fusion-reactor-space-avalanche-energy-orbitron-1721359

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium_hydride

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermonuclear_weapon

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The Airbus Zephyr-drone challenges satellites.

The Zephyr drone is created for the HARPS (High-Altitude Pseudo-Satellite) or atmospheric satellite program. The solar-power drone flies even for months or years in high altitudes. The Zephyr drone can rise to an altitude of 23 kilometers, and it can operate on scientific and military missions. 

HARPS means that high-altitude drones will replace some satellites. Those drones can carry things like radars, communication tools and infrared, and regular CCD cameras. And those drones can also carry small-size orbital vehicles to the high atmosphere before they will be launched. 

The thing that makes the high-flying large-size solar-power drones interesting is that they can rise things like Pegasus-rocket to high altitudes before those rockets will launch. Of course, Pegasus can rise to high altitude by using a balloon. 

Things like peace-time border and sea surveillance can be done using this kind of platform. The high-flying drone can use radars infrared and other kinds of systems that allows the drone to map areas. 

But the fact is that the solar-power-high flying drone can also use to offer mission-critical communication. But the fact is that the high-flying drone that uses solar power and stealth materials can be quite a hard target for air defense. That system can point targets for other weapon systems. 

And in some visions, those drones can arm by using some kind of directed energy weapons that protects them against incoming missiles. 

The thing is that the northern areas are causing problems with solar-power drones. But energy can deliver to those drones from power stations or ships by using the maser-rays or high-power radio waves. The fact is that things like photonic crystals are making solar panels more effective.

And photonic crystals can use to deliver electricity to solar panels. Also, there is an introduced idea that laser rays can deliver electricity to the solar panels of high-flying drones. 

https://www.airbus.com/en/products-services/defence/uas/uas-solutions/zephyr

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus_Zephyr

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmospheric_satellite

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence,_surveillance,_target_acquisition,_and_reconnaissance

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_Grumman_Pegasus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photonic_crystal

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Mojo Vision introduced the first working intelligent contact lenses.

Image of the intelligent contact lens. (https://www.mojo.vision/mojo-lens/)

Intelligent contact lenses are working a similar way to intelligent glasses. They can offer an enhanced reality experience for the user. So the runner can see the map of the place and that person's location if the intelligent contact lenses are connected to a mobile telephone or the GPS. The intelligent contact lenses are the contact-lens-looking HUD screens that can offer many possibilities. Mojo's system uses tiny micro-LED screens for delivering the image to the retina. 

If the intelligent contact lens is equipped with a pointer that system can point objects from the computer screen, and then the lens's own HUD screen can zoom those objects. The intelligent contact lenses can also equip with a CCD camera with infrared mode. And that system can offer the user to see in darkness. 

There could be IR-LEDs around that camera. And because the image is transmitted to the retina through the CCD camera. intelligent contact lenses can protect the eyes from bright light. And they allow transferring of everything a person sees or says to the supporter. Those contact lenses can be equipped with small microphones that are using nanotechnology. Intelligent contact lenses can also make data security better. 

When somebody who uses those systems will look at the screen. There is the possibility that there are only QR codes on the screen. And the real images are transmitted to the intelligent contact lenses. That denies other people to see what's happening on the screen. Also, things like images from surveillance cameras and drones can transmit to those intelligent screens. 

The problem with intelligent contact lenses is that their use must follow hygiene orders more carefully than the user of old-fashion intelligent glasses. But cleaning those small screens is a similar process to using regular contact lenses. And every people in the world cannot use contact lenses.

Images and other sources 

https://www.mojo.vision/mojo-lens/

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Electronic tattoos are the new tools for measuring blood pressure, but they can do much more.

"A new electronic tattoo that can be worn comfortably on the wrist for hours delivers continuous blood pressure measurements at an accuracy level exceeding nearly all available options on the market today. Credit: the University of Texas at Austin" (ScitechDaily.com/Electronic Tattoo Offers Highly Accurate, Continuous Blood Pressure Monitoring)

The electronic tattoo or graphene-based electrodes, implanted under the skin offers an ultimate tool for measuring blood pressure. This kind of electrode can send the data to an intelligent wristband that can communicate with the mobile telephone. One of the versions of that kind of system is the intelligent ring. That ring communicates with mobile devices. 

The term electronic tattoo means small-size microchips or electrodes that are implanted in the body. So maybe in the future those intelligent tattoos can communicate straight with mobile devices and send the data through the internet. But as I wrote electronic tattoos can make many other things. 

If an electronic tattoo is made on to head. That allows following the EEG curves all the time. The electronic tattoo can use to move the prosthesis. And it can transmit data between the computer that controls the prosthesis and the nervous system. Electronic tattoos can use to connect human brains straight with the internet. The system that bases the microchips can take electricity from the nervous system. Or it can use a wireless loader. 

The microchips can communicate with intelligent devices that can the mobile telephone. The sensors are put under the skin of the head. And then, the wires will be put under the skin of the hippie where the mobile telephone usually is. The electronic tattoos at the fingertips can connect with intelligent glasses. 

The intelligent glasses are HUD screens that look like regular glasses or sunglasses. Things like virtual keyboards can project to those screens. And the intelligent tattoo can send the data which key is pushed. Those systems are not needed those tattoos. They must just need to know where is the letter "A". 

So the virtual keyboard's user can use the picture of the keyboard. That is projected to the layer for self-calibration. 

And put finger on some letters. The computer sees where the finger is. The system might ask for the pushed letter to make sure that the system calibration is successful. And if there are problems the person must just say "re-calibrate the system". A virtual keyboard is a good tool in a noisy place where back noise can cover the speech. And also it offers better data security than speech.

But the intelligent tattoo offers the possibility that the person can communicate with the computer by putting the fingers on the table where is the necessary electronics. That means the users of this kind of system will just put their fingers on the layer, and then that system opens the meta interface between the computer and neural systems. 

The intelligent tattoo can also involve data does the person got authorization to use some system. When a person pushes buttons on the keyboard the RFID system in those electrodes tells what kind of privileges the person has to the system. 

https://scitechdaily.com/electronic-tattoo-offers-highly-accurate-continuous-blood-pressure-monitoring/

Image: https://scitechdaily.com/electronic-tattoo-offers-highly-accurate-continuous-blood-pressure-monitoring/

An algorithm predicts future crimes in a week with 90% of accuracy.

SciFi writer Isaac Asimov introduced the AI that can predict the future in his "The Foundation" novels. The idea of that kind of AI is that it compares the circumstances in history, with things that happen just now. The idea is that similar cases cause similar reactions without depending on when those things happen. 

The "psychohistory" was the term that Asimov used about this thing. And that thing has based the idea. The reactions of a large mass of people can calculate easier than a single individual. The idea is similar to STP (Standard Temperature and Pressure) calculations. The movements of the large gas masses are easy to calculate. 

But calculations of the place of the individual molecules are difficult because there are so many variables. Same way prediction of the behavior of a single person is difficult because there are so many uncertain variables. 

The accuracy of those calculations and predictions depends on how many parameters the system can use. Things like DNA samples and knowledge of medicines can help to make calculations that can make predictions of the behavior of a large group of people more accurate than a single person. 

If we think that some hall is full of people we can manipulate their behavior. When somebody pushes the fire alarm we might be sure that people will go to the exit door. But we cannot be sure where each person will go. We can say that most people will take let's say exit number one if they are close to that exit. 

But what selection makes the person who stands middle of the room? And there is the same distance to all that exists. Some variables can make this type of prediction "easy". They are basing statistics on which side the right-handed person will turn in a similar situation. 

Those statistics can give a hint of where the right or left-handed person will turn. But then we must say that the statistics are not given the right answer. They are just giving a model of the probability of how a certain person will act. 

And now the developers of AI have created an algorithm that can predict crimes with 90% accuracy. There is the possibility that things like news about crimes affect the real crimes that are happening in a certain area. Sometimes criminals want to hide their crimes from statistics of crimes that other people are making. And that's why they are searching areas where some crimes are usual. So putting a highlight on some crime type people can affect crimes that are happening in a certain area. 

This is one of the most fantastic things that have ever been created for AI. The ability to predict crimes is one step toward "psychohistory". The term means that the AI tries to predict the behavior of a large mass of people. 

https://scitechdaily.com/ai-algorithm-predicts-future-crimes-one-week-in-advance-with-90-accuracy/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Asimov

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Boltzmann

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychohistory

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychohistory_(fictional)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_temperature_and_pressure

Image: https://scitechdaily.com/ai-algorithm-predicts-future-crimes-one-week-in-advance-with-90-accuracy/

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Researchers found A new way to make superconductors.

"At cooler temperatures, the spins in the material form random patterns. Where each pattern whirls like a helix with a particular twist. When heating the material, the spins choose one of the particular helix patterns, a phenomenon that normally occurs when the temperature decreases in magnetic materials. Credit: Radboud University" (ScitechDaily/ Physicists Stunned by Nature in the Wrong Direction: Magnetic Spins That “Freeze” When Heated)

The new stunning phenomenon was found. The magnetic spins freeze when heated. The temperature of that magnetic material, neodymium rises from -286 degrees celsius rise -285 degrees celsius. That thing caused the spin of the material to end. And the structure of that material reorders in a way that can interest the people who are working with superconductors. 

The ability to re-order material when operators want is the key element in quantum computing. Especially if a quantum computer uses a solid processor. This ability can make it possible to create a new type of superconductors. 

And those superconductors can use in the new type of quantum processor. The quantum processors require superconductors if there is used solid qubits. In the solid quantum processor, one line of atoms is one state of the qubit. The solid systems are making it possible to create compact-size quantum computers. And the reason why those systems are interesting is their power. 

The problem with that new effect used in quantum computers is that those magnetic structures should be a straight line. If those magnetic structures can be put, in a straight line. The ability to freeze the spin and put them to certain order when the user wants could revolutionize quantum computers. 

There is made a test where the calculation that takes 9000 years by using a binary computer is given to the quantum computer. The quantum computer made the same calculation in 36 microseconds. That is the difference in power between binary and quantum computers. 

And quantum computers are an excellent tool for driving complicated artificial intelligence programs. Quantum computers are the most powerful tools in the world of calculations. The artificial intelligence that is driven by a quantum computer can be more effective than people even believe. A complicated environment requires complicated software. Complicated programs require complicated and powerful tools. 

The fact is that maybe we will get the new table-top quantum computers quite soon to markets. And maybe someday, quantum computers are sold in ordinary supermarkets. 

Quantum computers can also drive metaverse programs. Those 3D interactive virtual worlds are impressive tools. Those graphic interfaces are making a new experience for internet users. But they require extremely powerful servers. And quantum-computer-based servers can be the next-generation tools for many things that are too complex for binary computers. 

https://www.sciencealert.com/a-huge-step-forward-in-quantum-computing-was-just-announced-the-first-ever-quantum-circuit

https://scitechdaily.com/physicists-stunned-by-nature-in-the-wrong-direction-magnetic-spins-that-freeze-when-heated/

https://twistedsifter.com/2022/07/quantum-processor-completes-9000-years-of-work-in-36-microseconds/

https://miraclesofthequantumworld.blogspot.com/

We are all imperialists, said the head of the Hermitage Museum of St.Petersburg.

Above the Map of the British Empire. 

And sadly I must say that he is not wrong. Almost all European nations have a history as imperialistic nations. Racism is the product of colonialism. The reason, why people who worked in the Congo River in Belgian Congo were extremely racist was that the conditions of African people in the "Leopold garden" were extremely bad. 

Belgians and their mercenary henchmen treated Africans by using very inhumane methods. And of course, people must know that their actions were not acceptable. So racism was the way to numb conscience. This is one reason why colonists were extremely racist. They must confess to themselves that things that they did were right. 

Racism made violence and robbing easier for those people who made the dirty work. The thing in colonialism is that the governments and businessmen, who invested in slave work could keep their hands clean. But they are not innocents. They should observe those plantations where slaves produced cotton. One way to excuse colonialism was the civilization of the African people. 

When we are thinking about the history of separatism, we are seeing things like Luhansk and Krim and especially Sevastopol Naval base where separatists separated those areas from Ukraine. And then there was a referendum where those people decided to join Russia. Sometimes there are suspicions about the honesty of those referendums. 

But Sevastopol and Luhansk are only the last cases of the sad history of colonialism ad separatism. We can remember when South Ossetia and Chechnya wanted to separate from Russia. And the Russian military and police crushed those attempts. Same time Russian military supports Separatists from all other countries. 

But there was a long list about separatism also in Western Europe. The most important cases were Northern Ireland. And Basque Country in Spain. In those areas, reactions were not different from Russian reactions to its separatists. The police force has been a very popular way to handle separatists also in Western Europe. The Ireland area was the first colony of the British empire. And sometimes, Englishmen treated the Irish badly, and that caused rebellions on that island. 

Somehow the reason for separatism is always clear. Bad economic situation, discrimination, and indifference from the central government cause pressure for separation from the homeland. The fact is that the separatist areas are usually been autonomic areas. There was its government, but for some reason, the central government caused hate against itself or the situation turned radical. 

When somebody uses guns against police. That thing justifies the use of force against separatists. The use of weapons against authorities justifies the "counter-terror" operation. 

When we are looking back on history. We must realize that almost every government in the world are been somehow imperialistic. The powerful military and powerful governments justified colonialism. People who lived in Africa had no weapons how to resist the invaders. And things like gold and diamonds offered the possibility to fund mercenary troops. Those mercenaries made the "dirty work". Those mercenaries are usually recruited from ethnic minorities. 

Those people's mission was to collect gold and other riches from colonies. And of course, those people worked as "work leaders" for slaves. That allowed the wealthy businessmen who funded those actions could keep their hands clear of those actions. Racism was the tool, how to keep people separated so that "non-wanted" information was not spread. Also, things like hard work, murders, and other kinds of things could easily put over people who worked as slave whippers.

Things like powerful military forces play a key element in colonialism. Some nations are not using power in their foreign politics. But the reason for that could be that those countries have too small armies. And they are surrounded by more powerful neighbors. 

When we are thinking about the Russian situation in Ukraine that nation is strong. The reason for that is its nuclear weapon arsenal. Those weapons are feared and powerful shields. So Ukraine's problem is how to deny Russia from making new military equipment? If Ukraine could hot to military factories that cause that Russia would not make new equipment immediately. So the Ukrainian war is "only" one case in the long and sad list of colonialism.