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Rheinmetall baut bald auch Weltraumsatelliten
Der Rüstungskonzern Rheinmetall erweitert sein Portfolio um Weltraum-Satelliten. Dafür wurde ein Gemeinschaftsunternehmen mit der Firma Iceye gegründet.
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Excelsior Sciences, which aims to use AI and robots for small-molecule drug discovery and development, raised a $70M Series A from Khosla Ventures and others (Aayushi Pratap/Chemical & Engineering News)
https://cen.acs.org/physical-chemistry

New York AI chemistry start-up raises $95 million 
Excelsior Sciences cofounders say the company will make new molecules using robots and artificial intelligence

Nearly 300 years after Immanuel Kant proposed that our solar system’s family of planets condensed from a flattened disk of gas and dust,
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope revealed that such planetary nurseries are common across our galaxy.
Now, Hubble has identified the largest known protoplanetary disk
—spanning an astonishing 400 billion miles,
roughly 40 times the diameter of our solar system

NASA's Hubble Reveals Largest Found Chaotic Birthplace of Planets

Okay, getting an early start on preparing for the JoCo cruise in the beginning of 2027 (assuming the world is still here). The overall setup will be the RetroTINK 4K (already owned), a nice 4K OLED portable monitor, and a sturdy MiSTer. I'm excited to see if the RetroTINK 4K works its magic on the portable monitor...even more excited to see if I can get back into running _Castlevania: Symphony of the Night_. We'll see.

from my link log —
ROCkN: Providing GPS-quality timing accuracy with portable optical atomic clocks.
https://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2022-01-20
saved 2023-10-05

Big Oil isn’t part of the clean energy push, despite its claims, study shows https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/10/big-oil-isnt-part-of-the-clean-energy-push-despite-its-claims-study-shows/

Big Oil isn’t part of the clean energy push, despite its claims, study shows
A new study that mapped the portfolios of the world’s 250 biggest oil and gas companies found their deployment of renewable energy is paltry: they’re responsible for just 1.42% of the global renewable energy capacity in operation. Despite announcing ambitious plans to embrace renewables, a mere 0.1% of the primary energy they produce comes from […]

I blogged about my cute little open source computer, the #mntpocketreform, and how it is connected to the idea of #permacomputing.
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"Big Oil isn’t part of the clean energy push, despite its claims, study shows"
#FossilFuels #Climate #ClimateChange

Big Oil isn’t part of the clean energy push, despite its claims, study shows
A new study that mapped the portfolios of the world’s 250 biggest oil and gas companies found their deployment of renewable energy is paltry: they’re responsible for just 1.42% of the global renewable energy capacity in operation. Despite announcing ambitious plans to embrace renewables, a mere 0.1% of the primary energy they produce comes from […]

A proud achievement of my half-century IT career happened in 1996 consulting to the #UNDP toward the first published edition of the Humanity Development Library.
It seemed easy enough: "It can be fairly estimated that 1/3, or about 20 million pages of UN, and as much University and NGO material are very useful. Those 20 million pages useful UN publications probably contain about 50% of solutions for major World problems. This information must be released in digital format for non-profit redistribution in all countries."
also portable and accessible to all platforms, everywhere.
Happily, not only did the project live on, but thanks to @… our once-intractable problem of global delivery is now globally solved!
So, whether or not this is timely, I don't know, but should you need to suddenly rebuild some semblance of civilization from scratch…
Humanity Development Library 2.0 CD-ROM 1998 : #HumanityLibrariesProject : #InternetArchive
https://archive.org/details/humanity-development-library-2.0