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Screenshot of GoPro footage from a spacewalk. (Credit: NASA)

Unless youre an astronaut on board the International Space Station or in the the Chinese space program, your opportunities to go on a spacewalk are pretty much non-existent. But if you want to know what its like, you can now experience the next best thing. Earlier today, NASA released GoPro footage of two real spacewalks, taken by astronauts Terry Virts and Bruce McCandless.

The first video comes from EVA 30, which happened on February 25 of this year. During that spacewalk, the astronauts serviced the space stations robotic arm. They also made preparations to the exterior of the station for future commercial space missions to the station. This was the second in a series of spacewalks for those preparations.

The second video comes from EVA 31, marking the final spacewalk in NASAs series to prepare the station for commercial spaceflight. That spacewalk took place on March 1 and involved installing new communications systems for commercial spacecraft.

You can watch both spacewalks in the video player below, or you can download it here.

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Blue Origin, the commercial space company founded by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, announced yesterday that it had completed acceptance testing of its BE-3 rocket engine.

The BE-3 is capable of 110,000 pounds of thrust and his powered by liquid hydrogen. Its first use will be as the propulsion system for the companys proposed New Shepard space capsule, which will carry passengers and scientific payloads on suborbital flights into space. As the company moves into its eventual goal of orbital spaceflights, the engine will be used for upper-stage rockets.

The BE3 has now been fired for more than 30,000 seconds over the course of 450 tests, Jeff Bezos said in a statement. We test, learn, refine and then test again to push our engines. The Blue Origin team did an outstanding job exploring the corners of what the BE3 can do and soon well put it to the ultimate test of flight.

Blue Origins BE-3 rocket engine being tested. (Credit: Blue Origin)

Company President Rob Meyerson told reporters yesterday that Blue Origin was going to begin unmanned test flights of the New Shepard capsule later this year, although no date was specified. And unlike other commercial space companies like XCOR Aerospace or Virgin Galactic, Blue Origin has yet to sell any tickets or announce pricing for the cost of a flight on New Shepard.

In addition to the BE-3, Blue Origin is also developing a larger rocket engine, the BE-4, which will be capable of 550,000 pounds of thrust and fueled by a mixture of liquid oxygen and liquid natural gas. Last September, the company announced a partnership with the Boeing Boeing-Lockheed Martin Lockheed Martin joint venture United Launch Alliance to develop the engine for use in ULAs next generation of launch vehicles.

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Prophecy Interpretation: Preterism, Futurism or Historicism?
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(Credit: CERN - Photograph: Dominguez, Daniel; Brice, Maximilien)

Yesterday, scientists at the Large Hadron Collider successfully turned it on, injecting two proton beams moving in opposite directions into the massive particle accelerator. The particles will be travelling at a relatively low energy at first of 450 GeV so that the operators of the can ensure that everythings working as it should be. Once all systems are cleared, proton beams will be accelerated to 13 TeV, nearly twice the energy used to find the Higgs Boson.

And thats where the fun will start.

The Large Hadron Collider has been shut down for about two years as upgrades were made to its various systems. This included consolidating some of the electrical systems, adding magnet protection systems, and making improvements to its cryogenic and vacuum systems. The LHC will also be able to fire proton beams in bunches separated by 25 ms, half the time it used to take.

The improvements to the LHC along with the higher energies will allow thousands of physicists around the world including over 1,700 in the United States alone to conduct experiments to test theories that so far have only been the province of computer simulations.

We are on the threshold of an exciting time in particle physics: the LHC will turn on with the highest energy beam ever achieved, Fleming Crim, National Science Foundation Assistant Director said in a statement. This energy regime will open the door to new discoveries about our universe that were impossible as recently as two years ago.

The Large Hadron Colliders particle accelerator consists of a ring 27 km (about 16.7 mi) long. The protons are emitted into the ring (which is a vacuum), and then are accelerated using superconducting magnets that are cooled to near absolute zero: -271 degrees C. They are then sped up to nearly the speed of light and have energies added to them. The particles are then crashed together, which produces huge amounts of energies. By studying the byproducts of those collisions, physicists are able to discover new particles and learn other things about the physics of subatomic particles.

Some of the things that the Large Hadron Collider will be looking for during its next round of experiments will be more information about the Higgs boson and how it works. Scientists at CERN will also be trying to create the particles that are hypothesized to make up dark matter as well as evidence for the first supersymmetric particle.

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Miami-based facial recognition software company Kairos announced today that it has acquired emotion analysis company IMRSV for $2.7 million. IMRSV will be folded into Kairos business structure rather than existing as a separate entity.

Prior to the acquisition, Kairos was a customer of IMRSV, incorporating their technology of emotional analysis into their facial recognition offerings.

The impetus for emotional analysis, Kairos CEO Brian Brackeen told me. Came from our customers. One of them, for example, was a bank that was using our facial recognition as a means of authentication. They came back later and said that there were scenarios when access might be desired by the right person, with the right code, but we dont want them to have it. Like if theyre anxious, maybe thats because its the day theyre going to rob the bank.

Another reason for the acquisition, Brackeen told me, was the companys developer focus. As part of the acquisition announcement, the company has also introduced new APIs and an SDK for facial recognition, emotion analysis and crowd analytics. Being able to combine emotion analysis and facial recognition means there are fewer APIs for developers to deal with, allowing them to incorporate Kairos technology more quickly.

As an added benefit, Brackeen said, the company also expects the acquisition to enable them to develop better products more quickly.

Now well have one API and code base to work with, Brackeen said. But more importantly, the larger sciences of computer vision and machine learning build on each other. This allows the improvement of both our facial recognition and emotion analysis because the synergies between the two are very strong.

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Ford at His Finest (Nightmares of Womanhood and Futurism)
instillation piece by Grace E Bowen spray painted bottles, plastic backdrop, video projection installed at M I N T gallery March 2015.

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Selena Daly: Mapping the Italian Avant-Garde: Futurism in Space and Time (1909-1944)
Recorded live at the spatial@ucsb Lightning Talks on Feb. 25, 2015. See the full lineup of talks at http://spatial.ucsb.edu/lightning-talks/.

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