Conflict Danger Will Grow As A Result Of Climate Change, Warn Leading US Intelligence Officials
A Wired.com blog, called Danger Room, has an article about a report done by the National Intelligence Council, called "The National Security Implications of Global Climate Change Through 2030". It warns about the dangers of climate change in the next few decades and how it will impact countries.
The U.S. intelligence community has finished up its classified assessment of how our changing weather patterns could contribute to "political instability around the world, the collapse of governments and the creation of terrorist safe havens".
Read the rest of the article here.
CNN Interview With Iain M. Banks
Just found an interesting interview at CNN, with Iain M. Bank, science fiction author. Read it here or look below for a small excerpt from the interview. You can also watch the videos if you prefer.
CNN: Do you think humanity really has a future among the stars?
Iain M. Banks: Well, it’s there or nowhere. I think it’s insane to have the capacity to get off the planet and not use it. It’s still the case that we’ve got no real defense against meteors or comets or anything else hitting the planet. You’ve got all your eggs in one basket, all six, seven billion of us in the one place, and all potentially vulnerable to strike by something really big that’d wipe us all out. It just seems really daft, so yeah, why not?
It might take us longer than we hope: I come from that generation that feels quite put out that we don’t have square meals the size of Oxo cubes and we don’t have jet packs and free electricity and all the things we were promised — where’s our hovering cities and starships and moon bases and Mars bases, and so on — but I’m still optimistic, I still think we’ll get there.
But we’re making life difficult for ourselves at the moment, what with global warming and all the shenanigans associated with that. We’ll see; I do think we should keep on doing it. It would be great if we could spend less money on the military and a lot more on space exploration: divert funds to something worthwhile instead of developing new ways of killing one’s fellow human beings.
3D Body Scans, A Possible Future For Airport Security
What you see in the video below is a method of identifying people by scanning their physical characteristics. This biometric scanning technology could be used in many areas, such as airport security, scanning artifacts in museums for their 3D version or in many other areas. In airport security I would imagine that 3D scans would greatly speed up security checks at airports.
Combine this for example with holographic technology and you can get someone’s hologram in a matter of minutes.
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