I’m obsessed with knowing as much as we can about our nearest solar system neighbors. What are their planets like? I’d be focusing a lot of money and NASA projects at this concept if I were somehow in charge of such things.
I’ve worked in AI for many years and I’m the strongest skeptic of the Skynet model. AI is NOWHERE close to becoming self-aware or being sentient or even intelligent. It mimics some of those things, but it is not those things. The human brain is the most complex object in the universe.
Watching Back to the Future, realizing how different the 80s were to the 50s - but that it is only a 20 year difference! 20 years ago was 2004, we didn’t have iPhones but we had internet, smart phones, WiFi… we didn’t have wide use of social media, phone addictions, umm what else?
The image of Messier 81 blows my mind. A collection of stars too big to understand and too numerous in stellar systems to count, further away than we’ll ever comprehend.
I’ve noticed this also. I saw one headline asking about what the fare evader will be charged with. What will the cops who harmed innocent civilians be charged with?
Musk has a poor reputation for running software companies. He’s also become a conspiracy nut and amplifies messages of hate. These two things combined don’t bode well for his chances of success running Twitter.
