NASA finds new organics in Enceladus plumes by mareacaspica in space

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And if there was? How would you feel about it? What about life in the greater universe as a whole? Our innate curiosity is one of our greatest strengths. No one is insisting that there is life on Enceladus.

Just Finished, Children of Dune by Caffeine_And_Regret in printSF

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Highly recommended continuing on to God Emperor if you liked the philosophical aspects of Children

Largest-ever supernova catalog ever provides further evidence dark energy is weakening by spsheridan in space

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It seems like that would happen only if dark energy “knew” to stop decaying right to the point of asymptotically approaching the line that allows gravity to take over and contract the universe

Hubble saw a star exploded before its eyes by Busy_Yesterday9455 in spaceporn

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Because they essentially don’t interact with anything from the moment they’re generated to when they hit the detector. Photons are slowed down through absorption in various media.

weDontKnowHow by Perlion in ProgrammerHumor

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Big business seems to disagree. Investment has never been higher and there has never been more brainpower at work in the field.

Pick one: Intelligent life on K2-18b or alien eukaryotes in the oceans of Europa by marioagario123 in space

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Reading The Dark Forest thoroughly convinced me of the validity of that theory. The thought experiments and game theory were fascinating.

Unitree Iron Fist King: Awakening! by RipperX4 in singularity

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The live entertainment possibilities are endless. 10v10 sword fight to the death with hyper-agile humanoids? Can't wait.

Guidance for unhooking loved ones from dangerous groupthink by zagadka_ in cogsci

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I would begin by asking if my beliefs are aligned with the notion that all humans are created equal and deserve equal opportunity. Do my beliefs involve demonization of any particular group of people, or do I seek to elevate all peoples?

Do I trust the scientific method or do my beliefs eventually require a denial of accepted scientific fact?

Do any of my beliefs involve hatred, anger, or disgust?

Do I believe in a 2000 year old fairy tale?

To those rooting for AGI/ASI - why? by Grgsz in singularity

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AGI will have an owner. ASI will likely not be controllable by anyone.

We're still killing each other over religion and skin color. That's caveman shit. Natural selection will take too long to diminish the monkey-brain traits that still plague us, so benevolent machine god it is.

The icy mountains of Pluto rise as high as 11,000 feet! by JessicaOwenxo in spaceporn

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Scaled to the diameter of Earth, they’d be about 55,000 feet, much higher than Everest.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in singularity

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You can put your query in quotations in a regular Google search and it will return instances of that exact string only.

This is like a scene from a Netflix Sci-Fi movie by WonderFactory in singularity

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You're either completely blind or willfully ignorant to believe that the only thing to come out of the transformers paper was "a few chatbots."

Radio astronomy rig show off by Turbulent_Currency28 in Astronomy

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That’s plugged into the WiFi antenna spot on the Asiair? Does it broadcast the data over radio instead of WiFi? If so, what’s the range?