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A train to space: all aboard the 20,000-mile-per-hour low-earth-orbit express
Posted by: | CommentsToday in grandiose space ambitions that would make even Newt Gingrich balk: a $60 billion, 1,000-mile long, 12-mile high, 20,000-miles-per-hour maglev train that starts on the ground and arrives in low Earth orbit. The minds behind the Startram project think it could reduce the cost per kilo (that’s like 2.2 pounds American) for cargo from roughly $10,000 to just $50.
Chinese government plans to cause ten percent more rain by 2015
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China is already doing plenty of things to the atmosphere above it, but most changes are byproducts of the country’s marathon industrial revolution. Now China plans to make some purposeful atmospheric changes — namely making it rain, for the purpose of growing crops.
Vertical Forest:The world’s first vertical forest
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Italian architecture firm Stefano Boeri Architetti hopes to merge vegetation and urban architecture, with its Bosco Verticale (Vertical Forest) project. The Milan-based firm has designed a model that could see the "reforestation and naturalization" of metropolitan cities, by growing forests sky-ways. "Bosco Verticale [is a] device for the environmental survival of contemporary European cities," says Stefano Boeri.
Green burial project developing corpse-eating mushrooms
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Visual artist Jae Rhim Lee is currently training shiitake and oyster mushrooms to feast on decaying human flesh to develop a new green burial system, while also increasing knowledge and awareness of the concept of death acceptance