You may have read one or more articles today about dire warnings from scientists about AI. This is because Stephen Hawking, Elon Musk and others have signed an open letter detailing their concerns about the advancement of artificial intelligence technology. If you read the letter, you will see that it is much along the lines of …
Cloud City on Venus
NASA has plans for a Cloud City on Venus, seriously. Our nearest neighbor, Venus, is always ignored when it comes to explorations, probably because the surface is around 465C (870F). Venus is very similar to Earth otherwise, though, and is called Earth's twin. It's nearly identical in size and composition and gravity, we just can't …
To Mars!
NASA had a successful test flight with the spacecraft Orion today. The craft they plan to use to send a manned mission to Mars sometime in the 2030's. It's so exciting to me that space exploration is getting such interest again. If we want to live among the stars, our first step is to live …
Kepler 186F
Astronomers announced yesterday that they've found what they think is an Earth-like planet, 490 light-years away in the constellation Cygnus, orbiting the star Kepler 186. The planet is only slightly bigger than Earth, rocky, and orbits its star in the so-called 'Goldilocks zone', making it likely hospitable for life. Though the planet is too far …
ARKYD: A Space Telescope for Everyone
Planetary Resources launched a kickstarter a couple days ago to launch the first publicly accessible telescope. They will be launching a few other telescopes, mostly for searching for asteroids to mine, but this telescope will be the only publicly funded one, and the only publicly accessible one. The rewards range from having a picture of …
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