Sure, our sun won't go nova for a million years, but what are we going to do if someone or something ignites a fusion reaction inside a gas giant like Saturn or Jupiter, turning it into a giant bomb?
Image: Senor Codo
Five for the Future 12-17-08
- One space power to rule them all
- Saturn's moon a good candidate for alien life
- Injectable artificial bone developed
- Scientists extract images directly from brain
- The clear future of electronics
Five for the Future 12-02-08
- Making an old brain young by regenerating neural plasticity
- Tandem warheads for defeating reactive armor
- Organic sugar molecules could point to alien life
- Material discovered that's almost as hard as diamond and slicker than teflon
- What a mere 10 years of abundant computing will bring us
Five for the Future 11-26-08
- Remote-control miscroscopic bio-bots
- Super-hydrophobic nano-coating never gets wet
- A shadow biosphere of alien life on Earth?
- Huge buried water glaciers on Mars
- 5 social media trends to watch out for
Five for the Future 11-19-08
- DNA fiberoptics
- Biosensing carbon nanotube threads
- NASA tests deep space internet
- First optical photos of an exoplanet (see also)
- Review of Singularity Summit 2008