This document discusses various topics across space exploration, longevity research, devices, and energy. Some key points include: 1) The NanoSail-D solar sail successfully deployed in low Earth orbit to test the technology. Bigelow Aerospace is working with NASA on inflatable spacecraft modules for the ISS. 2) Studies in mice found that amino acid supplementation extended lifespan by 12% and improved energy and coordination. Cryosleep research aims to safely store patients at very low temperatures. 3) New technologies include tiny holographic projectors, optical computing with plasmonics, and a hydrogen fuel bead that could provide gasoline-equivalent energy density.

1. Various Subjects
When you can’t pick just one..

2. Space
• NanoSail-D success
– Though sost we now have confirmation the 100
square foot sale is deployed
– 630 kilometers up
– In orbit 70 – 120 days
– However it apparently consumed all power
unfurling the sail.

5. Space
• Bigelow Aerospace
– Make inflatable spacecraft
– In talks with NASA to add inflatable rooms to ISS
– Small Genesis (I and II) modules up now
– Sundancer in 2014
• 180 m3
• ISS equiv or better radiation shielding
• Micrometeor and orbital debris shielding
• Two propulsion systems.
– Station complex (BA330)
• 330 m3

6. Bigelow Sundancer

7. Longevity
• Amino acid supplementation extends mice life 12%
– Starting in middle age even!
– Middle aged mice gained increases in energy, stamina,
muscle coordination
• Real Cryosleep
– Use magnetic filets to prevent ice crystal formation
– Drop temperature to 10 – 15 C is used to keep patients
with no heart function alive over 3 hours today
• Would have to go much colder to stop microbes and such for
longer time periods

8. Cryosleep?

9. Longevity
• Genescient
– Stem Cell 100 product
– Research:
– AI algorithms over fly and animal assays screening for mainly herbal
combinations
– Claims a doubling of lifespan in fly studies
• Almost 100 genes of difference identified
• Claims wide-spectrum anti-aging nutraceuticals can produce such
a difference
– Result of their search is StemCell 100 formula
• Seems to also increase good cholesterol in humans
• Reduces blood pressure
• Me? Skeptical but hopeful

10. StemCell 100 effects (flies)

11. Longevity
• Reversing immune system aging
– Removed B lymphocytes from old mice
• Their bodies responded by producing potent young
cells to replace them
• B lymphocytes are major components in function of
immune system (production of antibodies)
• New cells improved antibody response by 400% over
the original aged B lymphocytes

12. Devices
• GRIN Plasmonics
– Enables
• Superfast optical computing
• Optical microscopy (see DNA in visible light)
• Invisibility cloaking devices
– Plasmonics –
• confining light to sub-wavelength areas
– Transformation optics
• Warps small space areas light travels through
– GRIN is hybrid of these technologies

13. Devices
• Affordable Holographic television
– MIT research
• Uses Xbox Kinect and standard graphics chips
– Kinect to scan model
– Chips to process and produce holographic diffraction fringes
– 17 fps now, 30 fps soon
– Holographic displays are still pricey though
• Tiny projectors in full sunlight
– Nanostructured arrays of lenses
• Recording and projecting ultra sharp images in brilliant color
– Pocket sized projectors replacing todays overhead and
digital projectors

14. Devices: Tiny Projector/Camera

15. Energy
• TMV-Battery Project
– 10-fold lithium ion battery capacity increase
– Uses tobacco mosaic virus bound perpendicularly to electrodes
very densely
• These are coated with a conductive film
• Result is much more surface effective electrode surface area
• Economist – small nuclear reactors
– More modular
– Low maintenance
– Grow total capacity over time
– Transportable
– Not totally competitive with large nuclear plants
– Most of article was on fairly conventional reactors

16. Energy
• Hydrogen fuel beads - $1.50/gallon
– Cella Energy
– Synthetic fuel with no carbon emissions
– Works in current IC engines
• Requires change out of fuel taken and delivery lines
– Each bead contains liquid hydrogen
• But storable at room temperature
• Liquid hydrogen has > 3 times the energy density of jet
fuel.

17. Energy - $1.50/gallon fuel

18. Energy – Hydrogen cell car conversion