—Neciense renders is the Executive Director of Media Justice
Technological fashion words are sounding through the halls of Washington, DC. The Trump administration has promised “to take advantage of blockchain technology” to reorganize the US agency for international development, and Elon Musk’s murmur has already unleashed an internal chatbot to automate agency tasks, with larger plans in the horizon to assume the fired employees.
The executive order that Doge created in the first place affirms that the agency intends to “modernize federal technology and software.” But clicking the stimulated technology in government workflows is not a formula for efficiency. Safe and successful civic technology requires a human -centered approach that understands and respects the needs of citizens.
Unfortunately, this administration fired all federal workers with knowledge for that. And if this administration does not change their approach soon, US citizens will suffer much more than they probably realize. Read the complete story.
Meet the researchers who prove the “Armageddon” approach to the defense of asteroids
One day, in the near or distant future, an asteroid about the duration of a football stadium will be in a collision course with Earth. If we are lucky, it will land in the middle of the vast ocean, creating a good but harmless tsunami, or in an uninhabited desert patch. But if he has a city in his sight, one of the worst natural disasters in modern times will develop. The dozen houses of miles will be folded as a cardboard. Millions of people could die.
Fortunately for the 8 billion of the planetary defense, the science of preventing the impacts of asteroids, is a highly active research field. We already know that at least one method works: Embesting the rock with a spacecraft without using it from the earth.
But there are circumstances in which to give an asteroid a physical thrust may not be enough to protect the planet. If that is the case, we may need another method, one that is notoriously difficult to prove in real life: a nuclear explosion. Read the complete story.
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