Caltech receives $100-million gift to develop new technologies at the speed of SpaceX

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Caltech receives $100-million gift to develop new technologies at the speed of SpaceX
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Inspired by the approach followed by Elon Musk's SpaceX, the gift from a longtime Caltech donor will create the Brinson Exploration Hub to facilitate faster research by Caltech and JPL scientists and engineers.

Thirty-six years ago, Gary Brinson cracked open Stephen Hawking's 'A Brief History of Time,' a bestseller in which the renowned physicist sought to explain the mysteries of the universe in layman's terms. It accomplished more than that for the Chicago-based asset manager, igniting a decades-long interest in science — and, ultimately, leading to a $100-million donation to Caltech announced Thursday.

, everything has to work first and if you have a failure everybody starts wringing their hands.' One project, for example, might involve studying the seismology of Venus through balloons that are tested first on Earth, or the deployment of small subsurface drones to study melting of Antarctic ice shelves. 'Maybe the solution is just to put 10 CPUs that you're used to from your laptop and say, OK, we can tolerate the loss of three,' Simons said.

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