Interstellar articles
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Exclusive Articles on Nextbigfuture Substack – Sustainable Interstellar Colonization and
There are exclusive articles for paid subscribers on the Nextbigfuture Substack. The history of human colonization tells us what is needed for a future sustainable human interstellar colonization. What is needed for Artificial Superintelligence. Here is an overview of what is needed for AGI and ASI level AI. I will briefly review some key concepts
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NASA re-establishes communication with Voyager 1 interstellar spacecraft that went silent for months
NASA and Voyager 1 are communicating back and forth again, after the most distant human-made object in space stopped sending usable data back to the space agency nearly five months ago. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory said Voyager 1, which is more than 15 billion miles away from Earth, stopped sending readable data back to scientists on Nov. 14, 2023, though mission controllers could still see the spacecraft was receiving commands and operating as intended. The Southern California-based...
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Peptides on interstellar ice: Study finds presence of water molecules not a major obstacle for formation
A research team led by Dr. Serge Krasnokutski from the Astrophysics Laboratory at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy at the University of Jena had already demonstrated that simple peptides can form on cosmic dust particles. However, it was previously assumed that this would not be possible if molecular ice, which covers the dust particle, contains water—which is usually the case.