If you want high investment returns you need to take a risk but the amount of risk you take for the reward you get is

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"If I am knowledgeable about biology and have the tools to create new organisms from scratch, then it would be entirely plausible I could certainly construct something that poses a threat to all

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"The risk of being blindsided by such an object emphasizes our need to develop a space-based observation platform [...] along with providing more accurate information about the movements of large

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"NASA can find and track most of the nearby asteroids that could hit and damage the Earth, but there is not enough money in its budget to finish the project within a 15-year deadline mandated by

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"An international panel of scientists has proposed that all countries cease building on coastal land that is less than a metre above high tide so as to avoid some of the worst impacts of climate

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"Here, then, is a first pass at a classification system for the varying types of "end of the world" scenarios." Frightening futurism from Jamias Cascio.

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"In fact, they are more likely to ponder the risks ... than adults -- and actually overestimate the risks. It's just that they often decide the benefits -- the immediate gratification or peer acc

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"If all goes well, NASA could have a permanent moon base by 2020. This is hopeful, because it’s a step towards putting our eggs in more than one basket."

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"Certainly an intriguing (and some may find, worrisome) idea -- but it would seem like there would need to be an awful lot of proof to find out if such software can be even the tiniest bit accura

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"Shadowed by peril as we are, you would think we'd get pretty good at distinguishing the risks likeliest to do us in from the ones that are statistical long shots. But you would be wrong." V

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"For me, this all boils down to a crisis of transparency. The disaster that we will face in a few days isn't that the machines will be hacked, it's that we won't know whether they have, and we wi

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"We over-react to things that offend our morals - When people feel insulted or disgusted, they generally do something about it, such as whacking each other over the head, or voting. Moral emotion

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"[SETI] could potentially be risky for Earth and its inhabitants. So researchers are developing a Richter-like scale to assess the chance that extraterrestrials could detect – and potentially rea

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"Drivers pass closer when overtaking cyclists wearing helmets than when overtaking bare-headed cyclists, increasing the risk of a collision, the research has found." That's my excuse, and I'

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"A very early look at launch video indicates that some pieces of foam insulation and ice came off the space shuttle Atlantis's external tank about four minutes after launch." Let's hope it's

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Worldchanging, as always, has the reasoned and sensible skinny on regulating an exciting but potentially hazardous new industry.

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Centauri Dreams argues against collective species pessimism, and advocates a positive attitude to progress rather than a 'it's all screwed already, why bother' sense of futility and failure.

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Does what it says on the tin.

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They have big old cracks in 'em, apparently. No doubt this will be used as proof that we should build more new ones...can't say I agree with that POV, as it happens.

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Jamais Cascio backs up my stance on people misinterpreting Hawking.

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Possibly the only sane post I have read about the smoking witch-hunts of current times.

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US Homeland Security decides arphids aren't as good an answer to security concerns as they were made out to be.

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Hands-free kits reduce radiation from mobile phones by about half, according to new research.

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