Showing posts with label space exploration. Show all posts
Showing posts with label space exploration. Show all posts

December 9, 2014

Big Data, internet of things, graphene, and Java's death

Big Data hasn't been on the debate desk until this very moment, because it was unlikely that we'd be able to deal with such amount of information, given our current communication lines. 

That has changed in the last years, and thanks to new materials, and new algorithms, even new computational systems in a short period not far from the present, we'll be using applications which use tremendous quantities of data. But I'll explain the details:


What's exactly Big Data?

November 23, 2014

Why is the space program tackled? How far is Mars?


As you may know, I'm not talking about physical distance. First because Earth and Mars have different orbits around the sun, so this distance changes in their own planetary year (one spin around the sun); and second because I'm talking about technological distance. 

We've bought this abstract idea that we're already space explorers. Not even close, dear reader. We're barely scratching the sky. Did we go to the Moon? That's not the point of this deliver. But what's actual proof is that we don't have the proper means. Even as we can predict many of the issues we'd face, and even to program a robot to do that trip, we're quite far from accomplishing it. And I'll explain why in simple terms.

What difficulties will we have to overcome?