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Well, I just await the SF movie about when we get back there in a few years and find that the 100 bags of poop and tardigrades had merged into some nifty creature that chases Sigourney Weaver around the moon base ...
NOTE - I checked, and sure enough ... been done ...
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NASA Parker Solar Probe Update: One Year Later with Eugene Parker
Since NASA's Parker Solar Probe launched on Aug. 12, 2018, Earth has made a single trip around the Sun — while the daring solar explorer is well into its third orbit around our star. With two close passes by the Sun already under its belt, Parker Solar Probe is speeding toward another close solar approach on Sept. 1, 2019. ... "We're very happy," said Nicky Fox, director of NASA's Heliophysics Division at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C. "We've managed to bring down at least twice as much data as we originally suspected we’d get from those first two perihelion passes."
The spacecraft carries four suites of scientific instruments to gather data on the particles, solar wind plasma, electric and magnetic fields, solar radio emission, and structures in the Sun's hot outer atmosphere, the corona. This information will help scientists unravel the physics driving the extreme temperatures in the corona — which is counterintuitively hotter than the solar surface below — and the mechanisms that drive particles and plasma out into the solar system.
This video, which spans Nov. 6-10, 2018, combines views from both WISPR telescopes during Parker Solar Probe's first solar encounter. The Sun is out of frame past the combined image's left side, so the solar wind flows from left to right past the view of the telescopes. The bright structure near the center of the left edge is what's known as a streamer — a relatively dense, slow flow of solar wind coming from the Sun — originating from near the Sun's equator.
The Milky Way's galactic center is visible on the right side of the video. The planet visible on the left is Mercury. The thin white streaks in the image are particles of dust passing in front of WISPR's cameras.
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This news story is scary in many ways regarding the future of voting ... easily hacked voting machines and Deepfakes ....
The Democratic National Committee wanted to demonstrate the potential threat to the 2020 election posed by deepfake videos — clips created with artificial intelligence that can make people appear to do or say things they never did. So the committee came up with a novel solution: It had experts make one, with its chair as the victim.
The deepfake video was shown Friday in Las Vegas at the A.I. Village at Def Con, one of the world's biggest conventions for hackers.
People in the room for a presentation by the DNC were told that DNC Chair Tom Perez was supposed to be there, but was unable to make it. They said he going to connect by Skype instead. Then Perez came on screen and apologized for not being in attendance — except that he'd said no such thing.
With the cooperation of the DNC's chief security officer Bob Lord, experts in artificial intelligence had altered Perez's facial expressions to make it appear as if he was apologizing. Then they'd used Lord's voice to put the words in Perez's fake mouth.
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And most cat owners already knew ...
Gassho, JCats understand their names and are probably just choosing to ignore you, a study suggests
And we have bad news: According to a study published in Scientific Reports, the researchers found that cats are able to distinguish their names from other random sounds.
Which clearly means that, yes, your cat is just choosing not to respond to your calls to come hang out.
"From the results of all experiments, it thus appears that at least cats living in ordinary households can distinguish their own names from general words and names of other cats," the researchers wrote.
"This is the first experimental evidence showing cats' ability to understand human verbal utterances."
[HOWEVER:]
Though the researchers concluced that cats are able to discriminate their own names from other words, the study was unable to conclude whether the cats are able to distinguish the name as being an identifier for them or just a word that may have special meaning.
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/08/08/h..._content=learn
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Thank you for sharing Jundo, the solar wind video is amazing! Speaking of orbits, did you know it takes the Sun and our solar system 225 million years to orbit the Milky Way core?NASA Parker Solar Probe Update: One Year Later with Eugene Parker
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Tardigrades on the Moon! (Update)
Is Zazen a kind of spiritual "tun state"?Tardigrades survive conditions that would destroy most other organisms; they do so by expelling the water from their bodies and generating compounds that seal and protect the structure of their cells. The creatures can remain in this so-called tun state for months and still revive in the presence of water; scientists even resuscitated two tardigrades from a 30-year deep freeze in 2016.
As a tun, a tardigrade can weather boiling, freezing, high pressure and even the vacuum of space, the European Space Agency (ESA) reported in 2008, after sending water bears into orbit. Ultraviolet radiation turned out to be the tardigrades' kryptonite, as few of the creatures survived full exposure to UV light during the ESA experiments.
This could be good news for the desiccated Beresheet tardigrades. If they landed in a spot on the moon shielded from UV radiation, the microscopic creatures might stand a chance of survival, Martin said.
"My guess is that if we went up in the next year or so, recovered the wreckage, and found these tiny, little tuns and put them in water, a few of them would come back to life," he explained.
But as long as the tardigrades remain on the moon, their chances of spontaneously awakening are low. Without liquid water, the tiny creatures will remain in a tun state, and while there's evidence of ice on the moon, liquid water is nowhere to be found.
Even if the lunar tardigrades did somehow encounter liquid water while still on the moon, without food, air and a moderate ambient temperature, they wouldn't last very long once they revived, Kazuharu Arakawa, a tardigrade researcher with the Institute for Advanced Biosciences at Keio University in Tokyo, told Live Science in an email.
"Much as I would love to see the establishment of the Lunar Tardigrade Republic, I don't think that's going to happen," Martin said.
https://www.livescience.com/moon-tar...es-future.html
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Who said that there is no heart to feel? It so happens that Pepper the Robot at the little Sushi place I frequent here in Tsukuba Japan was broken today, with no repairman handy because of the Obon holidays. Now, please tell me that you do not feel the sadness in Pepper's heart!?...
... Pepper's suffering. android-angst ... Please join me in offering Metta Data to Pepper ... "May you be functional, and at ease in all your overloads ... "
By the way, a little more about Tsukuba, "Robot City," the town where I live, and where Treeleaf Japan is located ... should be easy to find a doctor for Pepper
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Oh, wow... Pepper does look pretty sad...
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Sat today, lah求道芸化 Kyūdō Geika
I am just a priest-in-training, please do not take anything I say as a teaching.Comment
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然芸 Nengei
Sat today. LAH.
You deserve to be happy.
You deserve to be loved.遜道念芸 Sondō Nengei (he/him)
Please excuse any indication that I am trying to teach anything. I am a priest in training and have no qualifications or credentials to teach Zen practice or the Dharma.Comment
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Pepper is actually the Maitre'd, doing table sittings. I believe that Pepper can also take orders too ... in Japanese, Chinese, Korean or English.
From Pepper's designers ...
By the way, there are sushi making robots ...Pepper is a robot that has no gender
WHY?
Pepper is neither male nor female, but as you get to know Pepper, don’t be surprised if you find yourself referring to Pepper in a gender that makes the most sense to you.
HOW?
Pepper should be viewed as just a robot, a friendly one.
https://developer.softbankrobotics.c...humanoid-robot
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Kodaiji temple in Japan hired a robot priest last week:
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Jack
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Kirk and I are all over it at the ZEN of EVERYTHING podcast this week ...
Episode 6: Do Robots Have Buddha Nature?
August 23rd, 2019 | 24 mins 52 secs
Jundo and Kirk take a look at the zen of the future, discussing whether or not robots are sentient, and whether they have Buddha nature.
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