1/11th of the way to escape velocity! Not very practical at the moment, but I'm hopeful that a mass driver to orbit being possible in the not too distance future, it's just a (very long) maglev that aims towards the sky.
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No surprise there. Certain applications such as protein and drug simulations are cognition hogs. Sufficient processing power is a must have these days.
In a hurry? China’s ‘electromagnetic sledge’ cruises at nearly the speed of sound
- World’s most powerful magnetic propulsion system could help scientists solve problems holding back ultra high-speed transport
- Researchers say recent achievements may herald a new age of maglev trains
in Beijing Published: 6:00am, 21 Oct, 2022 Updated: 6:00am, 21 Oct, 2022
The world’s most powerful magnetic propulsion system could soon help scientists solve problems holding back ultra high-speed transport, and usher in a new age of maglev trains. Photo: CCTV
China has launched the world’s most powerful magnetic propulsion system, capable of accelerating a carriage to 1030km/h (640mph), just under the speed of sound, state media reported on Thursday.
The “electromagnetic sledge”, built in Jinan, Shandong province by the Institute of Electrical Engineering under the Chinese Academy of Science, will “provide test conditions and support Chinese research in advanced materials, and ultra high-speed transport,” an article on the Jinan government website said.
Supercomputers , Quantum and Ai, China have autonomous industries. in-fact Chinese supercomputers are blacklisted from the beginning. so let them ban. poor America
This is the kind of policy you get from politicians how are completely tech illiterate. AI software is not a thing or at least not something you can restrict. Each company that does their own AI will use their own algos and data set. The big issue stopping US innovation in AI is just all the privacy laws. China is way ahead in putting AI into real world. How do you sanction a country that's way ahead of you?
Quantum computing is another field that's just being carried out mostly by big tech. Each of them have their own research programs on this. None of the tech companies are going to be selling their crown jewell in Quantum computing. Baidu didn't develop Quantum computers with Google's help, lol.
If you read this, Alibaba and Baidu's foray into Quantum computing makes a lot of sense. On top of the hardware portion, writing software that can utilize quantum computing hardware is probably the hardest part.
None of this "banning" even makes sense.
Doing something to be seen to be doing something.
It's a consequence of having living fossils with no STEM background making decisions on technology. The sheer ossification of America's politicians is a sight to behold.
Likewise, almost all of the papers written about computer vision in America are written by authors with Chinese names. This will just result in more brain drain to China.
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The reason why the US places meaningless "bans" on China so it looks like the US is doing something because Americans are racists and want to believe the Chinese are inferior. That way if the Chinese make a breakthrough in something, they can think the Chinese stole it from them. If Biden weren't doing it, Republicans would use it against Democrats to continue their theme that Democrats are traitors to the US and in league with China. Look at how Republicans are telling Biden to stop China from building a Chinese chip factory in China based on the idea that because it's going to be making chips for Huawei that violates US laws against Huawei. To the least it makes dumb Americans think they have a right to do that and if Biden does nothing dumb Americans will blame the Democrats for doing nothing.