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Scientists in race to discover why our Universe exists

Researchers in the US and Japan are competing to explain the existence of the planets, stars and galaxies.
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I wouldn't mind hearing President Trump weigh in....given his response to a reporter asking him whether he would call former President Biden after his cancer diagnosis.
 
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Astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore recall tension of troubled Starliner flight

Nasa pair Butch and Suni tell the BBC they feared being unable to get home when they failed to dock on the ISS.
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“And if they couldn't dock, they didn't know if they could make it back home again.
‘Docking was imperative,’ Mr Wilmore told BBC News, two months after he and Ms Williams finally made a successful return to Earth. ‘If we weren't able to dock, would we be able to make it back? We didn't know.’”

Uhh. It was that bad?

“‘We are very positively hopeful that there will be opportunities to fly the Boeing Starliner in the future,’ Mr Wilmore said.

And both astronauts said they would personally fly in the craft again - once those technical issues were resolved.

‘It's a very capable spacecraft,’ Ms Williams said. ‘It has unique capabilities compared to other spacecraft that are out there that are really great for future astronauts to fly.’”

Sounds like toeing the corporate line.
 
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Trump-Musk row fuels 'biggest crisis ever' at Nasa

The space agency has published its budget request to Congress which would see funding for science projects cut by nearly a half.
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There is no need for NASA to do this. It will be outsourced to the great companies of the world like SpaceX Blue Origin…even Roscosmos.
 
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Cells are the smallest, most basic unit of life. Do they also hold memories?

Like AI, cells change and learn from experience, while unlike computer chips they arrive naturally preprogrammed
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Dying cells surround healthier cells to protect them from dying. They seem to communicate to each other like peer to peer torrents instead of having top down orders. The last paragraph the guy starts saying DNA shed in the environment causes people to see ghosts. A bit far fetched.
 
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With a final screech, AOL's dial-up service goes silent

One of the earliest consumer internet options, AOL's dial-up service was once the most common way for people to access the early web.
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"A fair number of internet users — especially in rural or remote areas where broadband Internet is not available or is too expensive — also still rely on dial-up: as many as 163,000, according to recent U.S. Census data. CNBC reported that only a few thousand AOL users were paying for dial-up access."

Starlink?.....or please wake up from your coma and cancel.
 
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Scientists race to make 'living' computers powered by human cells

BBC News goes inside the lab powering computers with 'mini brains' grown from human cells.
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"Sometimes they observe a flurry of activity from the organoids before they die – similar to the increased heart rate and brain activity which has been observed in some humans at end-of-life.

'There have been a few events when we had a very fast increase in activity just the last minutes or 10s of seconds [of life],' Dr Jordan said.

'I think we have recorded about 1,000 or 2,000 of these individual deaths across the past five years.'

'It's sad because we have to stop the experiment, understand the reason why it died, and then we do it again,'"

What happens if we take the silicon AI generated LLM and put it on biocomputing?
 
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In China, a rush to 'raise lobsters' quickly leads to second thoughts

OpenClaw, a highly autonomous open-source AI agent, is especially popular in China, but security concerns have both users and the government seeking to rein it in.
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“Since Hu installed OpenClaw, the open-source AI agent has memorized his resume and scours the web each day for any newly posted jobs in software engineering, helping him apply for openings, prepare for interviews and track updates to his application status.”

Can it find appropriate women on Leolist and negotiate rates and dates and times that fit my bank account and diary?
 
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NASA just walked away from its lunar space station dream. Here's why.

Goodbye, Gateway.
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Besides Canada losing the contribution of the arm, how the hell are we getting to Mars? Can't imagine you want to engineer something that lands & then launches from the moon to Mars.

Or we do the Elon Musk way and just send people one way.

I'm guessing the ISS sticks around for awhile longer - maybe under private/public funding combination instead of NASA+Roscosmos.
 
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Nasa's Artemis II mission was a triumph - but when will astronauts land on the Moon?

The mission was almost flawless but there are considerable obstacles ahead before a Moon landing.
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Not sure why everyone was fretting about the landing.

"I mean, you-you're NASA for cryin' out loud, you put a man on the moon, you're geniuses! You-you're the guys that think this shit up! I'm sure you got a team of men sitting around somewhere right now just thinking shit up and somebody backing them up!"
 
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