Researchers measured the temperature of the Chicxulub crater 66 million years ago, unlocking mysteries of the dinosaur-dooming mass extinction event.
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Would We Want to Live Forever?
More deathism from Mr Tyson. Really I’m a big fan but I dislike this sort of thinking. I commented on the vid.
What if we could live forever? Neil deGrasse Tyson takes us through life and death: if we could live forever what would life really mean? We explore why fresh flowers have meaning and why dogs make every day count. Learn about the Cretaceous-Tertiary Event, The Permian-Triassic Extinction, The Holocene Epoc, and how Earth is one killing machine.
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Inside secret Bond-style Alpine vault ‘backing up Earth’ in case of WW3
Some recent progress on our backup of civilization project …
A SECRET project to back-up planet Earth in the event of apocalypse is underway in a James Bond-style villain bunker in the Swiss Alps.
As a hotbed of conflict explodes around the globe with fears of all-out World War Three mounting, a US firm has installed a British-designed “superman” memory disk containing a compendium of human history.
Located deep inside a mountain vault near Flums, Switzerland, the futuristic quartz disk — designed by boffins at Southampton University’s Optoelectronics Lab — holds 60 million microscopic pages of human knowledge.
A ‘Chicken From Hell’ Could Rewrite the Story of the Dinosaurs’ Final Days
A newly identified species upends the theory that the dinosaurs were already dying before the asteroid.
Could AI Start Nuclear War?
Authored by James Rickards via DailyReckoning.com,
I’ve covered a wide variety of potential crises over the years.
These include natural disasters, pandemics, social unrest and financial collapse. That’s a daunting list.
A New Take on the Fermi Paradox: Where are the Aliens?
Life in the universe: everywhere or nowhere?
Posted on Big Think, direct link at https://www.searchforlifeintheuniverse.com/post/a-new-take-o…he-aliens?
World’s first IVF rhino pregnancy could save near-extinct animals
Scientists have cleared a significant hurdle in the years-long effort to save Africa’s northern white rhinoceros from extinction with the first-ever rhino pregnancy using in vitro fertilization.
A new medical breakthrough with embryo transfer offers hope for Africa’s northern white rhinos—there are only two left.
Rethinking AI’s impact: Study reveals economic limits to job automation
The study, authored by five MIT researchers and titled Beyond AI Exposure, delves deep into the practicalities of replacing human labor with AI in the US, focusing on tasks that lend themselves to computer vision, such as those performed by teachers, property appraisers, and bakers.
Like many of us, you might find yourself nodding to a familiar digital doomsday chorus that vibrates through offices and coffee shops alike: AI will take my job!
Is this looming threat substantiated, or simply a manifestation of our shared anxiety in the wake of constant technological advancement? A new study from MIT CSAIL, MIT Sloan, The Productivity Institute, and IBM’s Institute for Business Value is set to challenge our long-held beliefs.
Their research critically examines the economic practicality of using AI for automating tasks in the workplace, with a specific emphasis on computer vision.
Find out all about the Doomsday Clock and how close it is to midnight
The 2023 Doomsday Clock announcement is fast approaching — but who makes the decision to make changes and what is the current time currently at?