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Uplink and Inquiry written by fencesit A Expert Judgment on Markers to Deter Inadvertent Human Intrusion... - Sandia Labs Podfic read by mistbornhero as a ITPE gift for @kitsuneheart

A professor aboard an inter-System college ship talks to a colleague who's been involved in a massive archaeological dig on the Third Planet.

Podfic Length: 14:13 minutes

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Sandia Labs announce QSCOUT, an open access quantum computer testbed

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On March 15, Sandia National Laboratories announced that their open-access quantum computing testbed is now ready for the public.

Sandia National Laboratories (commonly referred to as Sandia Labs) is “a multimission laboratory operated by National Technology and Engineering Solutions of Sandia LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Honeywell International Inc., for the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration”.

Scientists from Indiana University recently became the first team to begin using Sandia National Laboratories’ Quantum Scientific Computing Open User Testbed, or QSCOUT.

Quantum computers are poised to become major technological drivers over the coming decades. But to get there, scientists need to experiment with quantum machines that relatively few universities or companies have. Now, scientists can use Sandia’s QSCOUT for research that might not be possible at their home institutions, without the cost or restrictions of using a commercial testbed.

“QSCOUT serves a need in the quantum community by giving users the controls to study the machine itself, which aren’t yet available in commercial quantum computing systems. It also saves theorists and scientists from the trouble of building their own machines. We hope to gain new insights into quantum performance and architecture as well as solve problems that require quantum computation,” said Sandia physicist and QSCOUT lead Susan Clark.

She said the new testbed is a rare machine in three ways: first, as a free, open-access testbed; second, as one made with trapped ion technology; and third, as a platform that gives users an uncommon amount of control over their research.

Last month, Sandia began running the testbed’s first user experiment for scientists from Indiana University. Researchers from IBM, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the University of New Mexico and the University of California, Berkeley, have also been selected to begin experiments soon. Their projects range from testing benchmarking techniques to developing algorithms that could someday solve problems in chemistry too complex for normal computers.

Source: Sandia National Laboratories

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Uncle Sugar closes in on self-guided bullets -- maybe by stealing patents

Uncle Sugar closes in on self-guided bullets — maybe by stealing patents

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), basically the US military’s mad scientist division, announced it had cleared another milestone in its quest to develop self-guided bullets. The agency released footage of live-fire tests conducted earlier this year showing .50-caliber bullets making sharp turns in midair…

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F-4 vs concrete wall. A famous rocket-sled test by Sandia National Laboratories, 1988. Animgif: me. Via Sandia Labs.

The purpose of the test was to determine the impact force, versus time, due to the impact, of a complete F-4 Phantom -- including both engines -- onto a massive, essentially rigid reinforced concrete target (3.66 meters thick). Previous tests used F-4 engines at similar speeds. The test was not intended to demonstrate the performance (survivability) of any particular type of concrete structure to aircraft impact. The impact occurred at the nominal velocity of 215 meters per second (about 480 mph). The mass of the jet fuel was simulated by water; the effects of fire following such a collision was not a part of the test. The test established that the major impact force was from the engines. The test was performed by Sandia National Laboratories under terms of a contract with the Muto Institute of Structural Mechanics, Inc., of Tokyo.

The plane was atomized by the impact.

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Sandia Cooler (by SandiaLabs)

Kinda geeking out over this one.

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Dangerously Beautiful: New Self-Guided Bullets

The beautiful path tracing across the twilight desert above is not a firefly. It's actually an LED streaking across the sky.

Only that LED's attached to a new self-guided bullet developed by Sandia Labs. It has the ability to make 30 flight adjustments per second to zero in on a laser target over a mile away. It can be fired out of traditional guns to within 8 inches of a target at a half mile's distance.

There's a really frightening and deadly beauty to all of this. On one hand, it's a truly amazing feat of modern engineering. On the other hand, couldn't they have made a self-guided butterfly instead?

It reminds me of the awful 1980's film Runaway starring Tom Selleck and Gene Simmons, who were decades ahead of Sandia in the guided bullet department.

Previously: If the bullets aren't bad enough, check out these cute-for-now-but-wait-until-they-get-a-weapon robots jumping and flying/playing music like never before.

(↬ Co.Design, image by SandiaLabs)

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Sandia researchers have invented a dart-like, self-guided bullet for small-caliber, smooth-bore firearms that could hit laser-designated targets at distances of more than a mile (about 2,000 meters). The four-inch-long bullet has actuators that steer tiny fins that guide it to its target.

A tiny light-emitting diode, or LED, attached to a bullet shows a bright path during a nighttime field test that proved the battery and electronics could survive the bullet’s launch. (Photo by Scott Rose)