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Jan 29, 2024

Arch Mission Foundation — Preserving humanity forever, in space and on Earth

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If you can help please message me privately or email me [email protected].

Thank you.


A nonprofit designed to preserve human heritage forever, in space and on earth. Join the Arch Mission.

Jan 29, 2024

Inside secret Bond-style Alpine vault ‘backing up Earth’ in case of WW3

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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.

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Jan 28, 2024

A ‘Chicken From Hell’ Could Rewrite the Story of the Dinosaurs’ Final Days

Posted by in categories: asteroid/comet impacts, existential risks

A newly identified species upends the theory that the dinosaurs were already dying before the asteroid.

Jan 27, 2024

Could AI Start Nuclear War?

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, existential risks, finance, robotics/AI

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.

Jan 24, 2024

A New Take on the Fermi Paradox: Where are the Aliens?

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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?

Jan 24, 2024

World’s first IVF rhino pregnancy could save near-extinct animals

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, existential risks

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.

Jan 23, 2024

Rethinking AI’s impact: Study reveals economic limits to job automation

Posted by in categories: business, economics, existential risks, robotics/AI

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!

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Jan 23, 2024

Find out all about the Doomsday Clock and how close it is to midnight

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The 2023 Doomsday Clock announcement is fast approaching — but who makes the decision to make changes and what is the current time currently at?

Jan 19, 2024

North Korea Unveils New Missile Designed for US Mainland Strike

Posted by in categories: energy, existential risks, military

North Korea claimed to have launched a new solid-fuel, intermediate-range missile with a hypersonic warhead, aiming to test its reliability and maneuverability. The missile, designed to strike U.S. military bases in Guam and Japan, flew approximately 620 miles before landing between the Korean Peninsula and Japan. The test follows a previous claim of successfully testing […] The post North Korea Unveils New Missile Designed for US Mainland…

Jan 19, 2024

The Dark Forest’s CHILLING solution to the Fermi Paradox

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Hi guys, in the video I get to grips with the chilling Dark Forest Theory from Liu Cixin’s The Dark Forest.

Thanks for watching.

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