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Apr 9, 2024

AI Could Explain Why We’re Not Meeting Any Aliens, Wild Study Proposes

Posted by in categories: alien life, existential risks, finance, media & arts, robotics/AI, transportation

Artificial Intelligence is making its presence felt in thousands of different ways. It helps scientists make sense of vast troves of data; it helps detect financial fraud; it drives our cars; it feeds us music suggestions; its chatbots drive us crazy. And it’s only getting started.

Are we capable of understanding how quickly AI will continue to develop? And if the answer is no, does that constitute the Great Filter?

The Fermi Paradox is the discrepancy between the apparent high likelihood of advanced civilizations existing and the total lack of evidence that they do exist. Many solutions have been proposed for why the discrepancy exists. One of the ideas is the ‘Great Filter.’

Apr 8, 2024

South Korea launches second military spy satellite

Posted by in categories: existential risks, military, satellites

The Koreas each launched their first spy satellites last year — North Korea in November and South Korea in December — amid heightened animosities. They said their satellites would boost their abilities to monitor each other and enhance their own missile attack capabilities.

South Korea’s second spy satellite was launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Sunday evening local time, which was Monday morning in Seoul.

South Korea’s Defense Ministry said it confirmed the satellite entered orbit and communicated with an overseas ground station after separation from a rocket.

Apr 6, 2024

Fermi Paradox: The Interdict Scenario

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An exploration of the interdict scenario solution to the Fermi paradox. My Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/johnmichaelgodierMy Event Horizon Channel: htt…

Mar 31, 2024

Fermi Paradox: Alien Life and The Phosphorus Conveyor Problem

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An exploration of an extension of the Phosphorus Problem solution to the Fermi Paradox. It’s far worse of a problem than we thought.

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Mar 29, 2024

The Anti-Magnetic Mass Extinction

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An exploration of the strange mineral bridgmanite, and how it could eventually shut down earth’s magnetosphere in the far future and cause the greatest mass extinction earth has ever known.

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Mar 25, 2024

A modern-day woolly mammoth may be just a few years away, biotech company says

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, existential risks

Colossal Biosciences, a Dallas-based biotechnology company, says it has developed the technology necessary to bring the woolly mammoth back from extinction. NBC News’ Morgan Chesky reports on the opportunities this new technology could bring as well as the concerns some scientists are raising.

Mar 22, 2024

Alien Life and the Myelin Sheath Solution to the Fermi Paradox

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An exploration of a new solution to the Fermi Paradox involving retroviruses and the very intricate needs to evolving the myelin sheath of nerve axons that allow for intelligent life.

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Mar 21, 2024

The Fermi Paradox: Rare Complexity

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Mar 19, 2024

DART Impact: Reshaping Dimorphos and Redefining Asteroid Dynamics

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

Dr. Shantanu Naidu: “When DART made impact, things got very interesting…the entire shape of the asteroid has changed, from a relatively symmetrical object to a ‘triaxial ellipsoid’ – something more like an oblong watermelon.”


On November 24, 2021, NASA launched the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission with the goal of demonstrating that deflecting an incoming asteroid could prevent it from striking Earth by striking the asteroid itself. Just over nine months later, on September 26, 2022, this demonstration was successfully carried out as DART acted as a kinetic impactor and intentionally struck the Dimporphos asteroid, which measures 560 feet (170 meters) in diameter.

But while the impact successfully altered Dimorphos’ orbit around the binary near-Earth asteroid, Didymos, could it have altered other aspects of Dimorphos, as well? This is what a recent study published in The Planetary Science Journal hopes to address as a team of international researchers led by the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) discovered the impact also altered the shape of Dimporphos.

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Mar 19, 2024

CRISPR is helping “de-extinct” the Tasmanian tiger

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, existential risks

Extinction is a regular part of nature. An estimated 99% of all species that have existed on Earth have gone the way of the dodo, sometimes because a fitter competitor came along or their environment changed (often because of humans) and they couldn’t adapt.

While life can go on relatively unchanged after the extinction of some species, the loss of a keystone species — one that plays a significant role in its environment — can upend an ecosystem.

Now, researchers exploring the idea of “de-extinction” believe that science might be able to intervene and restore the balance.

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