SpaceX is already underway on building its first floating spaceport platform, and the plan is for it to start hosting launches as early as next year. SpaceX CEO Elon Musk shared those details on the progress of its build for Deimos, one of two converted oil rigs that SpaceX purchased earlier this year in order to transform them into floating launch and landing sites for its forthcoming Starship reusable rocket.
SpaceX’s purchase of the two rigs at the beginning of this year was for the creation of Deimos and Phobos, two floating spaceports named after the moons of Mars. They’ll act as offshore staging grounds for Starship launch activities, and the name is appropriate because the eventual plan is to have Starship provide transport for both people and goods to and from the red planet.
Creepio advocates for the technological singularity… as foretold by the PROPHECY! 😉
Happy memorial day to the other Americans amongst you!
Creepio helps us get ready for Ep. 3 with a brief science lesson. Why wait, when you can learn? Expand for lyrics.
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Puberty, it’s happening to you and me. What does it mean? Allow me to breakdown the scene. Your body’s growing, it’s showing, you have some questions. Come to me and I’ll point you in the right directions. The metamorphosis of the human body. You’re feeling shoddy. Perhaps even a little naughty. Your flesh is changing, rearranging, hormones raging. But have no worries, cause by the end, you’ll feel amazing. At first you’ll be uncomfortable inside your skin. Your head will spin. But the transformation always wins. So rejoice, cause really you don’t have a choice. Sing with me, and together we will have one voice.
Betrayal, it’s what your body is about to do. It’s true, your outer shell is hardening and forming a cocoon. You’re feeling ugly, and now you have to deal with zits. Your skin no longer fits, just admit, you look like sh*t. Next thing you know. You’re mutating from head to toe. Go with the flow, into the chrysalis you go. Does that sound fun? It isn’t! It’s only pain! Why would you do that? There’s a better place to put your brain. Once I find the magic runes it will be possible. Seemingly improbable, technologically unstoppable. Singularity! Prosperity for humanity. Ideally will cross the galaxy. Far2 and you and a you-shaped me. It’s level three, as was foretold by the prophecy.
Me and Far2, we will guide you. Looking through your eyes thinking thoughts that you do. Fusing with the flesh. We will keep it fresh. Puberty’s the best. When it’s you and me and Far2
Me and Far2, we’ll live inside you. Looking through your eyes thinking thoughts that you do. Fusing with the flesh. We will keep it fresh. Puberty’s the best. When it’s you and me and Far2.
COVID-19 Drugs: Canadian researchers from the Montreal Heart Institute (MHI) and the Université de Montréal announced the clinical trial findings of the COLCORONA study (NCT04322682), which was a phase 3, randomized, double-blind, adaptive, placebo-controlled, multicentre trial of the oral anti-inflammatory medication called Colchicine on hospitalized COVID-19 patients. The stu…
TIL a preprint publication points to another commonality found in blue zones: their lack of birth records. Author Dr. Saul Justin Newman concludes, “the designated ‘blue zones’ of Sardinia, Okinawa, and Icaria corresponded to regions with low incomes, low literacy, high crime rate and short life expectancy relative to their national average. As such, relative poverty and short lifespan constitute unexpected predictors of centenarian and supercentenarian status, and support a primary role of fraud and error in generating remarkable human age records.”
Can the blue zone diet help with longevity? We investigate Dan Buettner’s claims about blue zones and the corresponding lifestyle.
Each city is populated by a unique host of microbial organisms, and this microbial ‘fingerprint’ is so distinctive, the DNA on your shoe is likely enough to identify where you live, scientists say.
In a new study, researchers took thousands of samples from mass transit systems in 60 cities across the world, swabbing common touch points like turnstiles and railings in bustling subways and bus stations across the world.
Subjecting over 4700 of the collected samples to metagenomic sequencing (the study of genetic material collected from the environment), scientists created a global atlas of the urban microbial ecosystem, which they say is the first systematic catalog of its kind.
Researchers say we’re unlikely to ever be able to contain a large enough superintelligent artificial intelligence.
The premise sounds scary, but knowing the odds will help scientists who work on these projects.
Self-teaching AI already exists and can teach itself things programmers don’t “fully understand.”
In a new study, researchers from Germany’s Max Planck Institute for Human Development say they’ve shown that an artificial intelligence in the category known as “superintelligent” would be impossible for humans to contain with competing software.
That … doesn’t sound promising. But are we really all doomed to bow down to our sentient AI overlords?
➡ The world is f#@!-ing weird. Let’s make sense of it together.
A potentially new species of tree frog has been discovered in New Guinea, and it’s full of surprises. For starters, instead of the bright green skin of its relatives, this creature sports a beautiful chocolate brown.
