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🚀👩🚀 MEET NASA’S NEXT MOON-TO-MARS CREW — NASA just unveiled its newest astronaut class: 10 candidates chosen from over 8,000 applicants. It’s the 24th astronaut class ever and the first since 2021. These rookies will train for two years at Johnson Space Center, learning everything from spacewalking to spacecraft systems — and some of them could one day step onto Mars.
—> 🧑🚀 WHO THEY ARE: Ben Bailey (38), Lauren Edgar (40), Adam Fuhrmann (35), Cameron Jones (35), Yuri Kubo (40), Rebecca Lawler (38), Anna Menon (39), Imelda Muller (34), Erin Overcash (34), Katherine Spies (43).
—> 🌑 WHY THEY MATTER: While too new for Artemis 3 (the next Moon landing), this class will be ready as NASA establishes a permanent lunar base — a testing ground for the first human Mars mission. They might also become the first NASA astronauts to live on commercial space stations after the ISS retires in 2030.
Source: Space.com
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SPACE
🌑☄️ MOON IN DANGER? — A giant space rock called asteroid 2024 YR4 is zooming through the solar system — and it’s got a 4% chance of slamming into the Moon in 2032. If it hits, the crash could blast clouds of tiny space shrapnel into Earth’s orbit, threatening satellites and astronauts.
—> 💥 TO NUKE OR NOT TO NUKE: NASA once practiced bumping an asteroid off course (the 2022 DART mission). But this time, scientists say “nudging” might actually backfire — possibly even sending the rock toward Earth. That’s why the leading idea is far more dramatic: blow it up.
—> 🚀 TWO WILD OPTIONS: One plan is a kinetic smash — crash a spacecraft into the asteroid hard enough to shatter it. The other? A nuclear detonation in space between 2029–2031 to break it apart before it ever gets close. Neither has ever been tested on a real threat.
—> 📣 WHY YOU CARE: Odds are the Moon stays safe. But this asteroid is a perfect cosmic dress rehearsal. It’s a chance for humanity to prove we can defend our home — and maybe save the Moon from a scar big enough to change the night sky forever.
Source: Gizmodo
QUANTUM // ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
🖥️🤖 SIMULATION GUY SAYS 2025 = HORROR SHOW — Nick Bostrom, the Oxford philosopher who made tech bros lose sleep with his simulation theory paper back in 2003, is back with a new warning. The man behind Superintelligence now says AI’s rapid rise is “all happening now” — and that people will “look back on 2025 and shudder in horror.”
—> 🧩 THE BIG QUESTIONS: Bostrom’s checklist for the AI future: align AI with human values, govern it so we don’t use it for evil, respect the “moral status of digital minds” (yes, he thinks AIs may deserve rights), and make sure our superintelligence plays nice with… alien AIs.
—> 💼 FROM WORK TO “FULL UNEMPLOYMENT”: Forget the 9-to-5. Bostrom says the endgame of advanced AI is total joblessness — but he frames it as freedom, not doom. “We’d need to find new bases for self-worth and dignity,” he said, predicting AI could unlock “much greater space for human flourishing.”
—> 📣 WHY YOU CARE: Love him or hate him, Bostrom is one of the first thinkers to call this moment. If he’s right, the AI future isn’t just automation and disruption — it’s a full rewrite of human purpose. Welcome to the weird new utopia.
Source: Futurism
Meanwhile…
🕹️🌌 SCIENTIST CLAIMS HE’S FOUND EVIDENCE WE’RE IN A SIMULATION — Melvin Vopson, a physicist at the University of Portsmouth, says his new “Second Law of Infodynamics” shows the universe runs like a giant data-compression system. Translation: everything from viruses to galaxies might be proof we’re inside a cosmic computer. Big claim, still needs big proof.
Source: Popular Mechanics
WEIRD AND WILD
🪨✨ STONEHENGE MYSTERY UNLOCKED — A new study has cracked one of Stonehenge’s biggest puzzles: the famous Altar Stone isn’t from Wales after all. Geologists traced its chemical “fingerprint” to Scotland’s Orcadian Basin — 466 miles away from the Wiltshire site.
—> 🚢 HOW DID IT GET THERE? The six-ton sandstone slab dates back to 2600 BC. Moving it that far without wheels or roads would’ve been a logistical miracle. Researchers now think Neolithic builders used Britain’s coastline as a shipping route, proving ancient Britons were far more advanced at transport and coordination than once believed.
—> 🔮 WHY YOU CARE: This isn’t just about a single rock. It hints at long-distance trade networks, seafaring skill, and a level of societal organization thousands of years ahead of what we thought. Stonehenge just got even more mysterious — and more impressive.
Sources: Daily Galaxy | Yahoo News
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Kev
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