#meti — Public Fediverse posts

Japan's industry ministry has asked suppliers of liquefied petroleum gas to inspect equipment, after reporting that leaked gas was "highly likely" to have caused an explosion at Aeon Mall Kumamoto that killed seven. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/08/06/japan/meti-instructs-gas-inspections/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #aeon #kumamoto #earthquakes #2026kumamotoearthquake #meti

The government plans to expand financial support to companies investing in pipeline projects overseas, as part of efforts to strengthen alternative transportation routes in the Gulf region to bypass the Strait of Hormuz. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/07/28/economy/japan-government-support-overseas-oil-investments/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #economy #oil #middleeast #meti

One year since Japan reached a deal with the United States in tariff negotiations, Japan's investments in U.S. projects promised under the pact has reached about 20% of the planned total. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/07/19/20-percent-japan-pledged-us-investments-underway/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tariffs #usjapanrelations #trade #ryoseiakazawa #meti #donaldtrump

Micron Technology on Saturday broke ground on the expansion of its factory in Hiroshima Prefecture, a ¥1.5 trillion ($9.3 billion) undertaking to produce advanced memory chips. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/07/05/companies/micron-hiroshima-chip-plant-groundbreaking/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #microntechnology #chipmakers #ryoseiakazawa #hiroshima #ai #meti

Japan's industry ministry said it would provide ¥387.3 billion in aid for a project to develop a domestic model that serves as the foundation of a physical artificial intelligence system that controls robots. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/06/30/companies/physical-ai-meti-aid-model/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #meti #ai #robots #startups #softbank #noetra

Japan's industry ministry plans to establish a council to consider ending Cool Japan Fund, a public-private initiative aimed at promoting Japanese culture and products overseas, according to sources. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/06/25/japan/cool-japan-fund-future/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #meti #cooljapan

Japan's industry ministry and the International Atomic Energy Agency have agreed to cooperate on the development of small modular nuclear reactors (SMR). https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/06/24/japan/japan-iaea-team-modular-reactors/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #rafaelgrossi #ryoseiakazawa #iaea #tepco #nuclearenergy #nuclearwaste #meti

Finished a book on attempts to send Messages to Extraterrestrial Intelligence #METI: how do you construct a message that can be understood by a hypothetical alien we will never meet or converse with, and what should be in the message? My interest in this comes because Hans Freudenthal, inventor of the Lingua Cosmica (Lincos), was earlier taught by, and collaborated with, Brouwer. But it turns out there's a much more direct #typeTheory link, as Alexander Ollengren proposed an extension to Lincos built on the Calculus of Inductive Constructions! I can't recommend the book though, because despite being written by a journalist rather than an academic it's written in a rather dull way, with no sense of flair and fun in what is, after all, a pretty eccentric enterprise. Also, the explanations of the logical and type theoretic ideas were a bit garbled.

Japan needs to rebuild between two and five aging nuclear reactors by the 2040s and as many as 11 to 14 by the 2050s to secure stable ​power supply, the industry ministry said in ‌a policy proposal on Friday. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/06/05/japan/japan-rebuilding-nuclear-power-plants/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #nuclearenergy #electricity #energy #meti

Japanese officials who visited Moscow met commodity exporters along with Russian government representatives in a rare high-level contact since Putin ordered the 2022 invasion of Ukraine. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/06/04/moscow-lng-talks/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #russia #russiajapanrelations #lng #energy #meti

[Перевод] Почему радиоастрономы убеждены, что контакт с инопланетянами — лишь вопрос времени

Более пяти десятилетий назад астроном Фрэнк Дрейк использовал одну из крупнейших на Земле радиоантенн, чтобы отправить в космос закодированное сообщение, надеясь, что однажды оно достигнет глаз, ушей или других непостижимых органов чувств разумных инопланетян. Бесшумно прорезая Млечный Путь со скоростью света, ставшее теперь знаменитым сообщение Аресибо пролетело уже около 50 световых лет от Земли — это примерно в 10 раз больше расстояния до ближайшей звезды, Проксимы Центавра, но составляет лишь одну пятисотую часть пути до его предполагаемого пункта назначения в созвездии Геркулеса. Поиск внеземного разума (SETI) — это игра в ожидание, но для радиоастронома Эммы Чепмен , астрофизика из Ноттингемского университета, вопрос о том, удастся ли человечеству когда-нибудь установить контакт с внеземной жизнью, звучит не как «удастся ли», а как «когда». Вселенная слишком обширна и богата планетами, чтобы человечество было единственной разновидностью жизни в ней, пишет Чепмен в своей новой книге « The Echoing Universe: How Radio Astronomy Helps Us See the Invisible Cosmos » (Basic Books, 2026). И когда мы действительно услышим наших гипотетических инопланетных соседей, радиоастрономы будут первыми, кто об этом узнает.

https://habr.com/ru/articles/1043724/

#радиоастрономия #seti #meti #инопланетяне #аресибо

Japanese government officials visiting Russia said their visit was aimed at protecting the assets of Japanese companies doing business in Russia. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/05/28/japan/japan-officials-russia-visit/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #russiajapanrelations #russiaukrainewar #meti #foreignministry

Japan may send government officials to Russia as early as the end of May to maintain communications with Moscow to support its companies that are still operating there, report says. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/05/10/companies/japanese-companies-in-russia/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #russiajapanrelations #russia #meti

Japan is strengthening cybersecurity for its space sector as growing cyber threats and the integration of advanced technologies make satellites and related systems increasingly vulnerable. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2026/05/01/world/japan-space-systems-cybersecurity-threats/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #sanaetakaichi #us #russia #ukraine #noaa #starlink #spacex #jaxa #meti #isac #iog #space #cybersecurity

The industry ministry said Friday that it will provide up to ¥60 billion ($375 million) in aid for a state-of-the-art image sensor plant being built in southwestern Japan by Sony. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/04/17/companies/sony-japan-government-aid/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #sony #meti #kumamoto #cameras #selfdriving #phones

Global economic challenges present an opportunity for Prime Minister Takaichi to build the next generation of "national champions." https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2026/04/05/world/takaichis-path-as-crisis-manager/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #sanaetakaichi #ldp #donaldtrump #china #iran #us #meti #usjapanrelations #chinajapanrelations #japaneseeconomy

Crude oil shipments bypassing the Strait of Hormuz, which Iran has effectively closed, are expected to arrive in Japan from May, industry ministry officials have said. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/04/04/oil-bypassing-hormuz-japan-may/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #iran #middleeast #oil #meti

Japan's deregulated utility market was meant to give consumers more choice, but complaints about misleading electricity and gas contracts continue to pile up. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/03/30/japan/electricity-gas-contracts/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #utilities #electricity #energy #meti

Japan will allow more use of coal-fired power plants in an effort to boost security of supply to cope with the energy shock from the war in the Middle East. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/03/27/coal-power-plants-energy/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #coal #energy #oil #meti #iran #lng

Japan started the largest-ever release of oil from its strategic reserves — 15 days’ worth of domestic demand from mandatory private reserves and one month from national reserves — as crude oil prices continue to soar. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/03/16/economy/oil-release-japan/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #economy #oil #energy #meti

Japan begins its largest-ever oil release from strategic reserves

Japan started the largest-ever release of oil from its strategic reserves on Monday, an 80 million-barrel effort as…
#NewsBeep #News #Economy #Business #Energy #Iran #METI #MiddleEast #Oil #U.S. #UK #UnitedKingdom #Yen
https://www.newsbeep.com/uk/478870/

Japan and the United States agreed to launch a framework in which the two countries will quickly work together to prevent disruptions to critical mineral supplies, industry minister Ryosei Akazawa said. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/03/16/economy/us-mineral-supply-chain/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #economy #ryoseiakazawa #meti #dougburgum #rareearths #energy #economicsecurity

Industry minister Ryosei Akazawa has called on countries and regions in Asia to diversify energy supply sources amid rising Middle East tensions. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/03/15/akazawa-energy-supply-sources/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #ryoseiakazawa #energy #meti #ryoseiakazawa #straitofhormuz #iran #oil #lng

Japan's industry minister Ryosei Akazawa on Saturday asked Australia, Japan's biggest supplier of liquefied natural gas, to boost output in light of the Middle East crisis. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/03/14/australia-lng-boost/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #australia #australiajapanrelations #lng #energy #middleeast #iran #meti #ryoseiakazawa

The difference between a high-power, targeted #METI transmission 📶 and the passive leakage of media signals : If you want to communicate with a camp on the other side of the lake, you could kneel down at the end of the lake and slap the water in #Morse code. If they are spectacularly technologically advanced, they might build instruments that would be able to parse out your Morse code. But then you whip out your laser-pointer and point it at their dock" https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/28/magazine/greetings-et-please-dont-murder-us.html

#SETI

@TerryHancock Looking back on the last fifty years, I assume that in the next 50 years it will become technically feasible to transmit #METI signals permanently in all directions. The question is whether we should expect future generations to deal with the possible consequences 🤔

Unintentional "leaked signals" are millions-fold weaker than intentional #METI signals 📶. Given the number of messages already sent to target stars https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_SETI#Transmissions, do you expect a reply

#DarkForest #SETI #FermiParadox #Extraterrestrial #DoctorWho

#University of Warwick, #Astronomy and #Astrophysics Group

"Of course it remains possible that #alien 👽 mindsets differ substantially from our own. Perhaps no other race is so cynical about the intentions of others, or wedded to game theory analysis of the potential threat. Perhaps no other species is quite so #aggressive as we imagine" 🤔 https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/physics/research/astro/people/stanway/sciencefiction/cosmicstories/the_dark_forest

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#METI #DarkForest #SETI #FermiParadox #SciFi