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AIs Ability To Predict Virus Mutations Helps To Design More Effective Drugs and Vaccines – Technology Networks

Posted: October 30, 2021 at 2:50 pm

Researchers have developed a new method that uses artificial intelligence to foresee the most likely mutations of pathogens like SARS-COV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.

The new research has implications for the rapid development of vaccines, treatments and diagnostic tests that would be much less likely to be impacted by new or emerging variants of concern.

Mohammad Kohandel, a professor and head of the Mathematical Medicine Laboratory in the Department of Applied Mathematics at the University of Waterloo, helped pioneer the research in the context of the ongoing pandemic.

With a highly infectious pathogen like SARS-COV-2, we want to have a method for extracting the mutational information as quickly as possible, Kohandel said. Variants are a huge problem because we dont know whether the diagnostic tests that are available are going to work or whether the treatments or vaccines will be effective in the long run.

Kohandels research team initially focused on using a single ancestral sequence to identify the parts of the viral genome that are not significantly affected by mutations. These are the so-called conserved part of the virus.

Identifying the conserved parts of a pathogen is valuable because even if there are mutations, it will not impact the efficacy of vaccines, treatments or tests that work by targeting those stable pieces.

Imagine that from the beginning of the pandemic, we knew exactly which parts of the genome were going to be stable and which ones would likely change, said Amirhossein Darooneh, a member of the research team and a professor in applied mathematics at Waterloo. Everything would be different right now.

Now that we have so much data on the sequencing of SARS-COV2 and its variants, we are able to use all that information to train a neural network to predict the most likely mutations of the genome. Our AI can predict the mutations that happened with really high accuracy.

After identifying the conserved parts, the team trained an AI to anticipate the mutations that would occur in a pathogen. The machine learning program assessed millions of genomic sequences as part of its training process. The AI was then tested on the genomic sequence of the original strain of coronavirus.

Based on its analysis of the original virus, the AI predicted and identified the variants that came to be known as alpha, beta, gamma, delta and other variants of concern as most likely mutable regions of the genome. Had this information been available at the early stages of the pandemic and when vaccines were first being developed, it could have led to more effective tests and vaccines that were much more resilient against current variants.

Along with its impacts on the pandemic, the new technology can also contribute to other medical treatments.

Even with cancer, we should be able to identify the therapeutic targets for overcoming mutation-driven drug resistance, said Michelle Przedborski, another of the team members and a professor of applied mathematics at Waterloo. Lots of drugs are targeting a specific part of the protein in cancer cells. But if there are mutations in those, then drugs wouldnt be effective anymore. We can apply the same analysis and AI method to other pathogens.

Kohandel, Darooneh and Przedborski are working towards commercializing their AI-based software for pathogen mutation prediction with the University of Waterloo Commercialization Office (WatCo).

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COVID-19: How worried should we be about the new AY.4.2 lineage of the coronavirus? – Down To Earth Magazine

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There are now 75 AY lineages identified, each with different additional defining mutations in their genome.AY.4 has accounted for 63% of new UK cases in the last 28 days

No sooner than you thought all the talk of new COVID variants was over, theres news of yet another one: AY.4.2. But what is it, where did it come from, and should we be concerned?

AY.4.2 is whats termed a lineage. These are labels given to branches of the COVID evolutionary tree to illustrate their relatedness. They are overseen by the diligent Pango network, a joint team of researchers from the universities of Edinburgh and Oxford, who act as the custodians of lineages and handle the assignment of new ones.

If we go back to April of this year, we can trace the origins of AY.4.2. Our team in Northumbria, working as part of Cog-UK the British consortium that sequences the genomes of COVID samples to see how the virus is changing had just sequenced two samples connected via travel history to India.

At the time we knew the lineage circulating in India was B.1.617, but the cases we had sampled didnt match this. Variants are distinguished by the different mutations they have in their genetic material and, looking at the mutations in our samples, it appeared our cases were missing some of the commonly accepted mutations of B.1.617 but also had some additional ones.

What we were reporting to colleagues in Cog-UK was classified the following week as B.1.617.2, one of three main sub-lineages of B.1.617, and which was later named delta by the World Health Organization.

AY is a further evolutionary step forward from here. Once a lineages labelling gets five levels deep, a new letter combination is started to avoid the name getting too long. So the AY forms of the virus arent vastly different from whats come before, even though their labelling is different. They are all sub-lineages of delta.

There are now 75 AY lineages identified, each with different additional defining mutations in their genome. One of these AY.4 has been steadily growing in proportion in the UK over the last few months, accounting for 63% of new UK cases in the last 28 days.

Does AY.4 have an advantage?

Were still not sure if AY.4s mutations confer a genuine advantage or if the increasing frequency of the lineage is simply down to whats called a founder effect. This is when a subset of viruses get separated from the overall viral population, and then reproduce in isolation. In the area where the separated viruses are, all subsequent viruses will therefore be descendants of this subset.

With COVID, this might have happened by there being a single case at a large event. This lone virus would have been the founder, the only virus spreading at the event. If it infected a sizeable number of people, who later infected others, this may have quickly built up a large amount of virus all from the same origin. Sometimes, for a certain form of a virus to dominate, it doesnt have to be better than others it simply needs to be in the right place at the right time.

But, given its rise to dominance in the UK, AY.4 might well have a selective advantage. The defining change in AY.4 is the mutation A1711V, which affects the viruss Nsp3 protein, which plays a number of roles in viral replication. However, the impact of this mutation is unknown.

This brings us to AY.4.2 a sub-lineage of AY.4 which was first noted at the end of September, though it appears it surfaced in the UK around June. Its defined by two additional genetic mutations, Y145H and A222V, that affect the spike protein. The spike protein is a key part of the viruss outer surface, and is the part of its structure that it uses to get inside cells.

AY.4.2 has grown steadily in volume to the point where it now accounts for about 9% of UK cases in the last 28 days. It has also been observed in a few European nations: Denmark, Germany and Ireland, to name a few.

But whether its two mutations offer the virus a selective advantage is unclear as well. A222V was previously seen last year in the B.1.177 lineage that probably emerged in Spain and was then spread across northern Europe, most likely by holidaymakers. At the time, many were sceptical that A222V conferred an advantage. Indeed, the increase in the form of the virus thats become known as AY.4.2 seems to have only occurred since it acquired its Y145H mutation.

This mutation is within an antigenic supersite of the spike protein a part of the protein that antibodies frequently recognise and target. We know that this part of the spike protein has already been modified once before by a mutation in deltas genetic material, and that this possibly contributes to deltas greater ability to escape immunity, as antibodies have a harder time targeting it as a result.

However, the research exploring this is still in preprint, meaning it is yet to be formally reviewed so we need to treat its findings with caution.

But its therefore possible the Y145H mutation could give the virus an even greater ability to escape immunity by making this supersite less recognisable to antibodies.

The counterargument is that, despite introduction into several European countries, AY.4.2 has failed to take hold, dropping off the radar in Germany and Ireland though it is lingering in Denmark. This would suggest its ability to get around immunity isnt any greater than deltas. Equally, it might just be that there wasnt enough of AY.4.2 arriving in these places for it to take hold.

Really, its too early to tell if this is the beginning of the next dominant lineage. Any ability it might have to escape immunity needs to be confirmed by experimental work. Clearly, though, its emergence shows that theres a continued need for genomic surveillance of the virus.

Matthew Bashton, Senior Fellow in Computational Biology, Northumbria University, Newcastle et Darren Smith, Professor of Bacteriophage Biology, Northumbria University, Newcastle

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Analysis of Sociodemographic, Clinical, and Genomic Factors Associated With Breast Cancer Mortality in the Linked Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End…

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JAMA Netw Open. 2021 Oct 1;4(10):e2131020. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.31020.

ABSTRACT

IMPORTANCE: Understanding interactions among health service, sociodemographic, clinical, and genomic factors in breast cancer disparities research has been limited by a disconnect between health services and basic biological approaches.

OBJECTIVE: To describe the first linkage of Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER)-Medicare data to physical tumor samples and to investigate the interaction among screening detection, socioeconomic status, tumor stage, tumor biology, and breast cancer outcomes within a single context.

DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS: This population-based cohort study used tumor specimen blocks from a subset of women aged 66 to 75 years with newly diagnosed nonmetastatic, estrogen receptor-positive invasive breast cancer from January 1, 1993, to December 31, 2007. Specimens were obtained from the Iowa and Hawaii SEER Residual Tissue Repositories (RTRs) and linked with Medicare claims data and survival assessed through December 31, 2015. Data were analyzed from August 1, 2018, to July 25, 2021.

EXPOSURES: Screening- vs symptom-based detection of tumors was assessed using validated claims-based algorithms. Demographic factors and zip code-based educational attainment and poverty socioeconomic characteristics were obtained via SEER.

MAIN OUTCOMES AND MEASURES: Molecular subtyping and exploratory genomic analyses were completed using the NanoString Breast Cancer 360 gene expression panel containing the 50-gene signature classifier. Factors associated with overall and breast cancer-specific (BCS) survival were analyzed using Cox proportional hazards regression models combining sociodemographic, clinical, and genomic data.

RESULTS: SEER-Medicare data were available for 3522 women (mean [SD] age, 70.9 [2.6] years; 3049 [86.6%] White), of whom 1555 (44.2%) were diagnosed by screening mammogram. In the SEER-Medicare cohort, factors associated with increased BCS mortality included symptomatic detection (hazard ratio [HR], 1.49 [95% CI, 1.16-1.91]), advanced disease stage (HR for stage III, 2.33 [95% CI, 1.41-3.85]), and high-grade disease (HR, 1.85 [95% CI, 1.46-2.34]). The molecular cohort of 130 cases with luminal A/B cancer further revealed increased all-cause mortality associated with genomic upregulation of transforming growth factor activation and p53 dysregulation (eg, p53 dysregulation: HR, 2.15 [95% CI, 1.20-3.86]) and decreased mortality associated with androgen receptor, macrophage, cytotoxicity, and Treg signaling (eg, androgen receptor signaling: HR, 0.23 [95% CI, 0.12-0.45]). Symptomatic detection (HR, 2.49 [95% CI, 1.19-5.20]) and zip codes with low levels of educational attainment (HR, 5.17 [95% CI, 2.12-12.60]) remained associated with mortality after adjusting for all clinical and demographic factors.

CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE: Linkage of SEER-Medicare data to physical tumor specimens may elucidate associations among biology, health care access, and disparities in breast cancer outcomes. The findings of this study suggest that screening detection and socioeconomic status are associated with survival in patients with locally advanced, estrogen receptor-positive tumors, even after incorporating clinical and genomic factors.

PMID:34714340 | DOI:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.31020

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Futurist Kevin Surace On AI, IoT And Cloud: Solution Providers Have To Embrace The ‘Big Disruption’ – CRN

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AIs Impact On Businesses And Solution Providers

While most peoples understanding of artificial intelligence is as likely to come from watching science fiction movies such as Ex Machina, AI is in reality already an important and growing part of everyones daily lives. And the impactgood or badwill only continue to grow, said Kevin Surace, futurist, inventor and entrepreneur.

Surace, who has given keynotes on the future of technology at events from conferences to the TED stage to the U.S. Congress, Sunday helped open the NexGen 2021+ conference, held this week in Anaheim, Calif., with a look at how the interactions between AI, the Internet of Things and the cloud not only impact businesses and ordinary citizens but also the solution providers who help their customers navigate the future of technology. The NexGen 2021+ conference is hosted by CRN parent The Channel Company.

Surace early on in his keynote said that he does not have all the answers about the impact of future technology.

I do not have a crystal ball. All I can do as a futurist, all I can do is help us take a little journey together three years, five years, 10 years into the future, maybe 20, and say, with these technologies coming along, what does the future look like for us? What does it look like for our businesses?

Surace said that some time ago he noted that AI was about to change our lives forever, and the brightest future awaits those who embrace this change with fervor.

And I really meant it then. And I mean it today. We see people in our industry, in fact in all industries, at the customer level, at the MSP level, saying, Well, artificial intelligence stuff, I dont know when its going impact me, I dont know how its going to. Trust me. It can impact you today. It can make money for you today. It can help your customers move forward today.

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ADDING MULTIMEDIA Faraday Future to Host EV Industry Veterans Munro & Associates to Help in the Co-Creation of its FF 91 Futurist Flagship Vehicle…

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LOS ANGELES, October 27, 2021--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Faraday Future Intelligent Electric Inc. ("FF") (NASDAQ: FFIE), a California-based global shared intelligent electric mobility ecosystem company, today announced its upcoming work with Munro & Associates, Inc., a world class engineering and manufacturing consulting firm, who will help to evaluate and co-create Faraday Futures flagship vehicle, the FF 91 Futurist.

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Faraday Future to Host EV Industry Veterans Munro & Associates to Help in the Co-Creation of its FF 91 Futurist Flagship Vehicle. (Photo: Business Wire)

Over the next year, Faraday Future will host Munro & Associates at the Faraday Future headquarters and offer hands-on experiences with the intelligent techluxury FF 91 and create independent comparative analysis against the current ultra-luxury market. Having performed quality assessments for over 100 vehicles in the past decade, the Munro team will provide valuable feedback and outside perspective on Faradays flagship offering.

"We are excited to work with Munro & Associates, who has a tremendous amount of experience in the electric vehicle space and has a highly respected reputation within the industry," said Faraday Future Global CEO Carsten Breitfeld. "We are grateful to be on the right track in our production of the FF 91 Futurist and to have the support and opportunity to co-create our products and technologies with this esteemed firm."

For over 30 years, Munro & Associates has helped within manufacturing industries such as aerospace, defense, automotive, marine, medical, heavy industries, MTDM, consumer electronics and more. They have a successful track record of assisting companies to reduce their "time to market," research and development, engineering and manufacturing costs while increasing the quality of the companies products, processes and systems. Munro & Associates is led by Sandy Munro who has provided even-handed assessments for every go-to market EV since 1991. He is an engineer by trade, a frequent speaker, senior advisor, and influencer with a strong presence on social media.

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"Were looking forward to being a part of history, and joining the process to help co-create the cutting-edge FF 91 Futurist vehicle with Faraday Future," said Corey Stueben, President of Munro & Associates. "Were confident that our expertise and assessments will help drive forward Faraday Futures progress."

Working with Munro & Associates is an important next step in bringing the FF 91 Futurist to market and understanding where it will compare within the EV and automotive industry. The FF 91 Futurist Alliance and FF 91 Futurist models represent the next generation of intelligent internet electric vehicle (EV) products. They are high-performance EVs, all-in-one all cars, and ultimate robotic vehicles, allowing users to "gain back their time" in the third internet living space. The models also encompass extreme technology, an ultimate user experience and a complete ecosystem.

Users can reserve an FF 91 Futurist model now via the FF intelligent APP or FF.com at: https://www.ff.com/us/reserve

Download the new FF intelligent APP at: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id1454187098 or https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.faradayfuture.online

ABOUT FARADAY FUTURE

Established in May 2014, FF is a global shared intelligent electric mobility ecosystem company, headquartered in Los Angeles, California. Since its inception, FF has implemented numerous innovations relating to its products, technology, business model, profit model, user ecosystem, and governance structure. On July 22, 2021, FF was listed on NASDAQ with the new company name "Faraday Future Intelligent Electric Inc.", and the ticker symbols "FFIE" for its Class A common stock and "FFIEW" for its warrants. FF aims to perpetually improve the way people move by creating a forward-thinking mobility ecosystem that integrates clean energy, AI, the Internet and new usership models. With the ultimate intelligent techluxury brand positioning, FFs first flagship product FF 91 Futurist is equipped with unbeatable product power. It is not just a high-performance EV, an all-ability car, and an ultimate robotic vehicle, but also the third internet living space.

ABOUT MUNRO & ASSOCIATES, INC.

Founded in 1988, Munro & Associates Inc. is a world class engineering and manufacturing consulting firm based at a 47,000 sq. ft. headquarters and benchmarking center in Auburn Hills, Mich. With offices in Canada, Europe, Australia and Asia, the firm specializes in upfront, predictive methods to increase profitability by improving quality, reliability and value, while reducing total lifecycle costs.

Munro's unique Lean Design methodology enables engineers to build accurate business cases for product design, and manufacturing process optimization. Using Munro's Design Profit software, teams can create highly accurate predictive models that analyze quality, manufacturability, weight and cost reduction, labor and sustainability metrics. For more information, visit http://www.leandesign.com.

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This communication shall neither constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any securities, nor shall there be any sale of securities in any jurisdiction in which the offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to the registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such jurisdiction.

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McDonald’s Partners With IBM to Replace Drive-Thru Employees With AI – Futurism

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"I'm sorry, Dave. I can't give you fries with that."I Said Fries!

McDonalds is partnering with IBM to implement artificial intelligence tech to take orders at its drive-thru lanes.

In my mind, IBM is the ideal partner for McDonalds given their expertise in building AI-powered customer care solutions and voice recognition, McDonalds CEO Chris Kempczinski said during a Wednesday earnings call, as quoted by CNBC.

Its arguably the last thing we need: the kind of frustration we get from trying to communicate with AI-powered software cough, Siri could make anybody rip their hair out the next time they hit up a fast food joint.

And thats not to mention losing more human jobs to automated systems, a worrying trend thats already well underway.

In 2019, the restaurant chain bought a tech startup called Apprente and renamed it McD Tech Labs. As part of the partnership, IBM will acquire the company.

McDonalds has already tested the tech developed by Apprente at several restaurants in Chicago this summer.

At the time, McDonalds claimed the system could already handle about 80 percent of the orders that come its way, filling them with about 85 percent accuracy.

Bizarrely, Kempczinski claimed human workers were actually eager to help the system out. Weve had to do a little bit of training of just keep your hands off the steering wheel, let the computer do its work,' he said at the time.

The companys shares were up two percent Wednesday after the chain beat Wall Street estimates with its third quarter earnings, CNBC reports.

McDonalds is betting big on technology to drive sales, as already evidenced in a widespread rollout of automated order-taking kiosks.

But whether its AI technology will be able to keep up with disgruntled drive-thru customers remains to be seen.

READ MORE: McDonalds and IBM could bring AI-powered drive-thrus to more restaurants [Engadget]

More on automation: Buffalo Wild Wings Is Allowing Robots to Take Over the Deep Fryer

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Head of NASA Suggests That UFOs Could Be Alien Technology – Futurism

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During an appearance this week at the University of Virginia, NASA boss Bill Nelson made some eyebrow-raising remarks about a possible connection between military sightings of unidentified flying objects and the search for alien life.

Ive talked to those pilots and they know they saw something, and their radars locked on to it, Nelson told the crowd at the university, which is where he got his law degree. And they dont know what is. And we dont know what it is. We hope its not an adversary here on Earth that has that kind of technology.

Thats an interesting analysis on its own. But look what he said next, when he started directly speculating about the search for life beyond Earth:

But its something, Nelson added during the wide-ranging event. And so this is a mission that were constantly looking, Who is out there? Who are we? How did we get here? How did we become as we are? How did we develop? How did we civilize? And are those same conditions out there in a universe that has billions of other suns and billions of other galaxies? Its so large I cant conceive it.

Provocatively, Nelson even went on to conjecture that alien civilizations could be found in a parallel universe.

Now there are even theories that there might be other universes, Nelson added. And if thats the case, who am I to say planet Earth is the only location of a life form that is civilized and organized like ours?

Obviously, Nelson isnt claiming to have any specific information, and in all likelihood he was just having some fun during a public appearance. Its also not Nelsons first time opining that theres almost certainly alien life out there somewhere.

But it worth contrasting Nelsons freewheeling style with that of his immediate predecessor, Steve Jurczyk, who was much more reserved and circumspect on the topic. Take this interview he did with Futurism earlier this year:

You know, its, uh, hard to say, he told us with a laugh when asked about the search for alien life. But you know, part of the Mars mission is looking for past signs of life, and were detecting planets around other stars, right? With Kepler and eventually with the James Webb Space Telescope and other missions, we want to do direct imaging of exoplanets, planets around other stars. So were advancing our knowledge there.

But so far, no aliens, he said.

READ MORE: Space Jam: Former Senator Talks Aliens, Asteroids and Star Trek With Larry Sabato [University of Virginia]

More on UAPs: The Pentagon Just Released Its UFO Report

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The Navy Can’t Figure Out What Damaged Its Nuclear Submarine – Futurism

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What the hell was it?Unknown Object

The US Navy still has no idea what its submarine hit in the South China Sea earlier this month.

Officials announced earlier this month that the nuclear submarine USS Connecticut had sustained damage and its crew members had reported several injuries after colliding with an unknown object in the South China Sea.

Now, it sounds as though military officials still have no idea what the hell the submarine hit. While the submarine is being repaired in a port in Guam, preliminary investigations have yet to come up with an answer, USNI News reports.

According to USNIs sources, the mysterious undersea object had not been definitively determined.

While the Navy is trying to get its submarine back in order, China is voicing its discontent with the US militarys communications regarding the incident,with officials practically seething.

The Chinese side has repeatedly expressed grave concerns over the matter and asked the U.S. side to make clarifications, Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said in a statement.

However, as of now, we have seen nothing but a brief and vague statement issued by the US military with procrastination, and a confirmation by a so-called informant that the incident did happen in the South China Sea, he added.

Such an irresponsible, cagey practice gives regional countries and the international community every reason to question the truth of the incident and the intention of the US, Lijian concluded.

Chinese officials also accused the US of covering up the collision earlier this month a claim that was refuted by Pentagon spokesman John Kirby at the time.

Its an odd way of covering something up when you put out a press release about it, Kirby told reporters, as quoted by Insider.

READ MORE: Navy Not Sure What USS Connecticut Struck in the South China Sea, Beijing Accuses U.S. of Cover-Up [USNI News]

More on the incident: US Nuclear Sub Damaged in Collision With Unknown Object

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New Hypersonic Space Plane Is Called the "Sexbomb" for Some Reason – Futurism

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"It is sexy, so it is a sexbomb."Launching the Sexbomb

A Canadian aerospace company has chosen an eyebrow-raising name for a hypersonic space plane it plans to launch in 2022: Sexbomb.

Space Engine Systems (SES) announced that it wants to launch the, uh, Sexbomb in Manitoba, according to a press release from the company. The vehicle will be used to test the companys spacecraft engine prototype.

Of course, you might be wondering whats with the name. Perhaps it was inspired by Tom Jones, or maybe the employees are all just huge Scott Pilgrim fans. Or, more realistically, maybe its just a grabby name from Elon Musks meme marketing playbook.

The kinetic energy at Mach 5 is very high, Pradeep Dass, president and CTO of the company, told Futurism. It will act like a bomb if [it] hits anything. It is sexy, so it is a sexbomb.

The company said that the demonstration will involve Sexbomb being dropped from a giant balloon at 110,000 feet in the air. The craft will eventually fall at almost twice the speed of sound before turning on its engines and accelerating to speeds of more than 3,700 mph before landing.

The engine itself will be using a multi-fuel combustion system of non-toxic liquid and solid propellants, according to SESs website.

While the company had initially planned on a 2021 test, it is now expected to launch in 2022 due to the regulatory approval process, The Manitoba Post reports. SES said that it wants to launch crewed missions by 2025, though, with tickets costing a third of what it costs at other space tourism businesses.

It also hopes that hypersonic technology will open the doors to new innovations, suggesting that their vehicles could deliver human organs for life-saving transplants from Toronto to Edmonton in 30 minutes.

Indeed, there is a lot of hype behind hypersonic tech as of late though much of it has less to do with space travel and more to do with apocalyptically destructive weapons.

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