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Does Mars’s Gravity Prohibit Human Colonization? By Ethan Siegel July 17, 2026 Introduction: (Big Think) • Ever since Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space, the dream of sending humans to other worlds, planets, and star systems has seemed like an achievable reality, even with current technol...

https://bsky.app/profile/futuretimeline.bsky.social/post/3mqw7vliv3k2a Regarding that article name: I heard a funny theory actually that Futurama might be a more realistic take on the future than we thought. Apparently it is a post-scarcity future where jobs only exist because people want things to...

Oh, and another thing, from the version of the forums we're more familiar with, from very early on: https://spectrum.ieee.org/data-storage-petabit-optical-disc A novel disc the size of a DVD can hold more than 1 million gigabits—roughly as much as is transmitted per second over the entire world’s In...

For those of you old enough to remember; was there ever a headline in the news touting a seemingly significant technological breakthrough or invention that then hit a dead end and went nowhere? Anything from 1990-2015 is a good range. The closer to 1990 the better On the first iteration of the Futu...

Oh god imagine telling someone in 2000 that they could play Perfect Dark in virtual reality in a quarter of a century

Actually that sounds about right lol

Fascinating edge of physics, actually. And I've always been fascinated by ultra-low memory computers (like the Friden Computyper with its 128-256 bytes of memory).
So this is just inherently interesting

Inside China’s 600 MPH Floating Train Faster Than a Boeing 737 In a world where speed defines progress, China is pushing the boundaries of transportation with a train that could make jetliners seem sluggish. Enter T-Flight, a magnetic levitation (maglev) train designed to travel at speeds up to 600...

Lol we were scammed

https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1uol33q/ibm_claims_worlds_first_sub1_nanometer_chip/ https://newsroom.ibm.com/2026-06-25-ibm-debuts-worlds-first-sub-1-nanometer-chip-technology IBM’s new sub-1 nm chip packs nearly 100 billion transistors onto a chip the size of a fingernail, nearly twi...

2006 me was halfway obsessed with future tech in the way most 11-12 year old kids are Watching the trio of basic DirecTV infotainment channels (History, National Geographic, Discovery) that sometimes ran docs on advanced/future technology, reading some books from the library (and this one general-ed...

The A/C debate is one that Europeans are going to lose. These temperatures that are killing so many Europeans are literally the norm in lower latitudes. Where I am, in Louisiana, we have regular month-long streaks of 90°F+ (so 32°C+) with intense humidity and mugginess during the summer. That's just...

India’s Left Stands Against the Right Wing Bulldozers By Abdul Rahman July 3, 2026 Introduction: (Popular Resistance.org) The newly elected BJP government in West Bengal, India, has launched massive demolition drives targeting street vendors and slum dwellers. Thousands are taking to the streets of...

How many humanoid robots by 2030? 2040? 2050 Based on what I am seeing I'll guess worldwide -2030 105 thousand -2040 1.5 million -2050 6.5 million -2060 15.5 million Do you think it'll be under or over these numbers? https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/24/morgan-stanley-china-humanoid-robot-market-forecas...

The better automation gets, the less likely populations will support immigration for the sake of economic growth and the greater foothold the far right will get

I'm heavily mixed on the riots honestly, because on one hand yeah they're racist thugs and they're not even accomplishing anything by doing this, and it's nakedly clear this is all far-right ultranationalist manipulation driven by certain forces we're all well aware of causing the same havoc everywh...

One theme that has emerged on social media is the notion that God created babies perfectly, and there must be a reason they are born without sufficient vitamin K. In one video on TikTok, a woman who identifies herself as a nurse asked, “Did God really get it wrong?” Responding to another, someone w...