🔬 The latest #MIT Technology Review just dropped "The Impossible Issue"—exploring humanity's most audacious tech dreams and physical limits.
From powdered blood to nuclear spaceships—here are 10 wild takeaways: 🧵👇
From powdered blood to nuclear spaceships—here are 10 wild takeaways: 🧵👇
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Humanity is building cities on the Moon. 🌕 The US & China are racing to set up permanent bases at the lunar south pole by 2030–2035. The biggest hurdles? Freezing -410°F crater temperatures, cosmic rays, and razor-sharp, electrostatically charged moon dust
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NASA is spending $2B on a nuclear spaceship. ⚛️ Space Reactor-1 (SR-1) uses a uranium-powered reactor to generate electric propulsion. The goal: make deep-space travel to Mars faster and safer by reducing radiation exposure time
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Powdered "synthetic blood" is here. 🩸 DARPA is funding shelf-stable blood substitutes—including freeze-dried plasma and synthetic platelets with microscopic "hooks"—that can sit in a backpack for 2 years and rehydrate with water in seconds
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