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“Effects of Space Travel on Intelligence | Giga Gears”
Traveling to space should be an eye-opening experience, one that gives you a new perspective of humanity and its place in the cosmos. But while you might think an experience like this would make a person infinitely wiser, a new report found that space travel could actually make you a little bit dumber.
NASA Warns Against Interference with Hubble Space Telescope by Billionaires
Billionaires are having a moment with space right now. Elon Musk with SpaceX, Jeff Bezos with Blue Origin, even Richard Branson with Virgin Galactic — all the rich folks are building rockets so they can go look at space. But one billionaire isn’t satisfied with just looking at space: He wants to go touch it.…
“Top Weekend Events Beyond Cars – February 10, 2024 | Giga Gears”
The U.S. military is considering the use of AI during warfare but researchers warn this may not be a good idea given AI’s predilection for nuclear war. In a series of international conflict simulations run by American researchers, AIs tended to escalate at random, leading to the deployment of nukes in multiple cases,…
Sierra Space’s New Spaceplane Challenges SpaceX | Giga Gears
The private race to space basically has two main parties right now, there’s the Elon Musk-backed SpaceX, which regularly ferries supplies and satellites around for Nasa, and the Jeff Bezos-funded Blue Origin, which is the space travel agent of choice for the rich and famous. Now, there’s a third private space flight…
Virgin Galactic’s First Paid Space Flight with Italian Air Force Aboard
Two years after its last mission, space travel company Virgin Galactic is back today to launch its first commercial flight into the atmosphere. The VSS Unity rocket that will take the four lucky individuals into space, as well as the two pilots needed to fly. But who’s on board this landmark mission?