How Can We Get a Look at the Beginning of Time?
Image credit: ESA Written: December 30, 2021 The space industry has had a great 2021. A few highlights include amazing feats on the surface of Mars, the blooming of space tourism, and SpaceX’s one-hundredth recovery of Falcon 9 rocket’s first stage boosters. Even more spectacular may turn out to be what took place early on […]
SpaceX Pulls It Off Again
The SpaceX CRS-22 Dragon cargo ship approaches the International Space Station on June 5, 2021 during docking operations to deliver more than 7,300 lbs. (3,311 kg) of supplies to the orbiting laboratory. (Image credit: NASA TV) SpaceX hit another home run as it launched a Falcon 9 rocket this week from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center […]
The Limits to Growth
If you are a pessimist and revel in the gloom and doom the future may hold, robots and artificial intelligence (AI) can add a lot of fodder. Robots are mostly in manufacturing plants today, but their presence is growing in many other places, including hospitals, restaurants, retail stores, and homes. Millions of jobs will be […]
Why Should We Go To Mars?
https://youtu.be/rzmd7RouGrM Last July 30th, a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket blasted off from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. On February 18, 2021, 203 days later, and having travelled 293 million miles, the spacecraft reached Mars. The the car-size Perseverance, the centerpiece of NASA’s Mars 2020 mission, entered […]
An AI For An Eye
Machine learning, a key tool in the realm of artificial intelligence (AI) can be applied to data on weather conditions resulting in a forecast of the weather. Similarly, machine learning can be applied to medical data and enable an AI to learn how to diagnose a medical condition. AI systems are learning to diagnose disease […]
