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Title: Odds on: 10 science breakthroughs you can bet on
Post by: rangerrebew on May 15, 2017, 12:14:11 pm

 

10 May 2017
Odds on: 10 science breakthroughs you can bet on

 

By Michael Brooks

A Mars colony

It’s all go. Stephen Hawking has declared that we should start colonising other planets as soon as possible, and last year billionaire venture capitalist Elon Musk announced plans to establish a Mars colony in the 2020s.

That’s possibly a little ambitious, says Lewis Dartnell, an astrobiologist based at the University of Westminster, UK. Mars is a brutal and unforgiving environment. A quick land and return is one thing, but it’s quite another to set up a self-governing human colony largely independent in terms of food and energy, and 18 months’ travel time from Earth. “I’d hope for a colony within 50 years, but even that is probably verging on 1950s levels of credulous optimism,” he says. So don’t bet your house.

Bookie’s odds: 33/1 A permanent Mars colony by 2027

Bookie’s odds are for the stated breakthrough to occur within 10 years, and were calculated by bookmaker PaddyPower

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg23431250-500-odds-on-10-science-breakthroughs-you-can-bet-on/

Title: Re: Odds on: 10 science breakthroughs you can bet on
Post by: Polly Ticks on May 15, 2017, 12:44:23 pm

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Title: Re: Odds on: 10 science breakthroughs you can bet on
Post by: bolobaby on May 15, 2017, 02:50:21 pm

Yeah, posting pay content kind of sucks.

Title: Re: Odds on: 10 science breakthroughs you can bet on
Post by: Oceander on May 15, 2017, 11:27:59 pm

Lamarckian evolution is the next one.  :rolleyes:

Title: Re: Odds on: 10 science breakthroughs you can bet on
Post by: bolobaby on May 16, 2017, 04:02:23 am

CRISPR CAS9

I'm heavily invested.

Title: Re: Odds on: 10 science breakthroughs you can bet on
Post by: Frank Cannon on May 16, 2017, 04:07:06 am

I heard rumors that in the next ten years we will develop a voice activated search for the interwebs. Some even say that we will be able to use it anywhere with communication devices similar to those on Star Trek.

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Title: Re: Odds on: 10 science breakthroughs you can bet on
Post by: Oceander on May 16, 2017, 10:43:27 am

Quote from: Frank Cannon on May 16, 2017, 04:07:06 am

I heard rumors that in the next ten years we will develop a voice activated search for the interwebs. Some even say that we will be able to use it anywhere with communication devices similar to those on Star Trek.

(http://www.thinkgeek.com/images/products/additional/large/iphv_tos_st_bt_communicator_inhand.jpg)

Keep dreaming!!

Title: Re: Odds on: 10 science breakthroughs you can bet on
Post by: Polly Ticks on May 16, 2017, 11:34:05 am

I'm looking forward to the medical advances from Star Trek ....

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