SpaceX conducted its second test launch of Starship, a colossal rocket aiming for Mars colonization, while NASA anticipates a modified version for lunar missions. This follows a previous April launch that resulted in an explosion.
Chica, Texas, on November 18, 2023. SpaceX on November 18, 2023, carried out the second test launch of Starship , the largest rocket ever built that Elon Musk hopes will one day colonize Mars, while NASA awaits a modified version to land humans on the Moon. It comes after a first attempt to fly the spaceship in its fully-stacked configuration back in April ended in a spectacular explosion over the Gulf of Mexico.
\Here’s the first thing to explain – I’m getting this term, ‘wait calculation’, from an essay by notable MIT grad and author Ethan Mollick early this year, as I look at a brand-new X post by the same expert on what AI can now do as we prepare to enter 2025. “Claude, change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. … Do them in order, do not skip any.”\An Update On The Surprisingly Close ‘Squid Game’ Season 3 Release Date If you’re going to travel to a destination in deep space, and it’s going to take you 12,000 years with the current technology – do you set off on that trip, or wait a few hundred years on earth until the technology advances?In the books, when humans undertake to travel to far-away parts of the universe where alien life exists, they dehydrate their bodies, and put themselves into temporary, if lengthy, sleep, to be reconstituted at their destination.“When a fish came on land, it ceased to be a fish. When a human travels into the reaches of space , they cease to be human.” This concise screed to evolution speaks of going beyond the bounds of what has been possible in the past. That’s where we now are with AI, in a wa
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