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Welcome to Life
A science fiction story about what you see when you die. Or: the Singularity, ruined by lawyers.
All of Earth’s Water in a Single Sphere
This picture shows the size of a sphere that would contain all of Earth’s water in comparison to the size of the Earth. The blue sphere sitting on the United States, reaching from about Salt Lake City, Utah to Topeka, Kansas, has a diameter of about 860 miles (about 1,385 kilometers) , with a volume of about 332,500,000 cubic miles (1,386,000,000 cubic kilometers). The sphere includes all the water in the oceans, seas, ice caps, lakes and rivers as well as groundwater, atmospheric water, and even the water in you, your dog, and your tomato plant.
It is becoming a widely held belief that failure is a necessary component to serious innovation. Startup veterans counsel newcomers to “fail fast.” Inventors, like Sir James Dyson, have become the new champions of failure as a way to foster breakthroughs.
But governments have a very different view of failure. When it comes to buying big ticket items – like technology systems or solutions – governments are, understandably, risk averse.
After reaching an undisclosed altitude, the aircraft jettisoned from its protective cover atop the rocket, then nose-dived back toward Earth, leveled out and glided above the Pacific at 20 times the speed of sound, or Mach 20.
When you settle your bill in a restaurant, in addition to getting the itemized receipt, you are supposed to receive a stack of fapiao of equivalent face value. And so, China has crowdsourced tax enforcement, by potentially rewarding citizens with a cash reward for asking for all of their tax pre-payment receipts, and using them up by scratching off the prize areas. It is a nice cultural touch to the end of a big meal, everyone sitting in a circle, scratching their fapiao to see if they won a prize for playing the part of a Chinese tax enforcement agent.
In spite of the frustration startups experience, coming up with a name is a straightforward process.
Man flies like a bird flapping his own wings
1. What do you propose to do? [20 words]
Using Nation Builder, produce a vibrant microblogging community and content repository of value to inventors and entrepreneurs of all kinds.
2. Is anyone doing something like this now and how is your project different? [30 words]
Ours is driven by…
Today, and for the following 19 days, the Knight News Challenge is open for business. The theme of the challenge is Networks.
The most common question I’ve been asked since we announced the challenge is exactly what we mean by Networks. We’re trying not to define the term too…
