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Jan 8, 2023

ELON MUSK’s must-read science fiction

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Today I’m looking at Elon Musk’s must read science fiction books. Thanks for watching.

Intro — 0:00
The Foundation Saga — 1:09
Atlas Shrugged — 2:22
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy — 3:38
The Dune Chronicles — 4:27
Stranger in a Strange Land — 5:38
The Culture series — 6:24
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress — 8:01
Daemon series — 8:43
The Machine Stops — 9:47

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Jan 8, 2023

Unistellar’s telescope turns your smartphone into a stargazer

Posted by in categories: mobile phones, space

Humans are eternally curious about the night sky, but figuring out how to use a telescope is non-trivial. At CES in Las Vegas, Unistellar believes it has the perfect solution with its Equinox 2 Smart Telescope.

“When I was a young teenager, I had a telescope that I used during the long summer nights. Fast forward to being an adult – I didn’t have any more time to do astronomy. With a friend of mine, we started to think about what we can do to bring astronomy back to our busy daily lives,” says Laurent Marfisi, co-founder and CEO of Unistellar in an interview with TechCrunch. “We thought up a telescope that is easy to use, that is powerful enough to see through the light pollution, and that has the possibility to reveal galaxies and nebulae, all those things that we could not see even when we were teenagers. The aim is to bring a lot of the power that professionals have in astronomy into the daily lives of consumers who just want to have fun, spend good quality time with their children and their friends around astronomy.”

Jan 8, 2023

A Comet Not Seen in 50,000 Years Is Streaking

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A newly discovered comet could be visible to the naked eye as it shoots past Earth and the Sun in the coming weeks for the first time in 50,000 years, astronomers have said.

The comet is called C/2022 E3 (ZTF) after the Zwicky Transient Facility, which first spotted it passing Jupiter in March last year.

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Jan 7, 2023

Partnership announced to develop new space station

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Airbus will collaborate with Voyager Space to develop the new Starlab space station by 2028.

Airbus and Voyager Space have announced a partnership to develop and operate Starlab – a free-flying space station that will serve NASA and function as a global customer base of space agencies and researchers. Starlab is planned for launch in 2028 to ensure a continued human presence in Low-Earth Orbit (LEO).

Jan 7, 2023

The first alien probes to reach us may be way more advanced than we expect

Posted by in categories: mathematics, space

Back-of-the-envelope math suggests interstellar probes get faster every year.

Jan 7, 2023

World’s-first live 4K stream from astronauts revealed how tech is turning space into a second home

Posted by in categories: habitats, space

Despite the 10-second lag, two astronauts had a lot to say about tech for space at CES 2023.

Today (Jan. 06), the International Space Station (ISS), which is the only location where people can investigate the long-term effects of living without gravity, completed the first call ever made in 4K to the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2023.

In the first instance, the discussion was unsurprisingly focused on what it’s like to be living in space now. After all, it’s not every day you get to watch two astronauts in real-time casually floating a mic between each other to answer our pressing earthly questions.

Jan 7, 2023

10 Ways We Might Colonize the Galaxy

Posted by in categories: futurism, space

An exploration of ten far future ways we might colonize the Milky Way.

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Jan 7, 2023

The Best of JWST’s Cosmic Portraits

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These new views of familiar space sights reveal details never before seen.

Jan 6, 2023

Yes, the Universe really is 100% reductionist in nature

Posted by in categories: computing, particle physics, space

In other words, what appears to be emergent to us today, with our present limitations of what its within our power to compute, may someday in the future be describable in purely reductionist terms. Many such systems that were once incapable of being described via reductionism have, with superior models (as far as what we choose to pay attention to) and the advent of improved computing power, now been successfully described in precisely a reductionist fashion. Many seemingly chaotic systems can, in fact, be predicted to whatever accuracy we arbitrarily choose, so long as enough computational resources are available.

Yes, we can’t rule out non-reductionism, but wherever we’ve been able to make robust predictions for what the fundamental laws of nature do imply for large-scale, complex structures, they’ve been in agreement with what we’ve been able to observe and measure. The combination of the known particles that make up the Universe and the four fundamental forces through which they interact has been sufficient to explain, from atomic to stellar scales and beyond, everything we’ve ever encountered in this Universe. The existence of systems that are too complex to predict with current technology is not an argument against reductionism.

Jan 6, 2023

A bright green comet unseen since the Neanderthals blazes in the night sky this month

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Comet C/2022 E3 will be visible in the northern sky this month.


Comet C/2022 E3 hasn’t been seen for 50,000 years, but now’s your chance.