The Singularity Saints Podcast

026: The Emerging Final Frontier


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Space may be the final frontier, but what technology will be required to really get us out there, beyond our solar systems and out among the stars. What emerging technology will shape the future of space exploration? Part 1 of 2.

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Topics:

  • Entering a new age of space exploration
  • BBC: Space 2020: What does the future hold?    
    • https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20150128-space-2020-what-happens-next
  • Returning to the Moon
  • Private Space travel
  • The Moon as a new jumping-off point
  • NASA: NASA to Return Humans to the Moon
    • https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-to-return-humans-to-the-moon
  • AI and space exploration
  • The International Society of Optics and Photonics: Artificial Intelligence and Space Exploration
    • https://spie.org/news/op19-sunday-plenaries?SSO=1
  • AI and the search for exoplanets
  • AI and probes
  • AI/Machines and the limits of the human body
  • Autonav for Mars Rover
  • NASA: Leave the Driving to Autonav
    • https://mars.nasa.gov/resources/20147/leave-the-driving-to-autonav/
  • Singularity Hub: AI Is Kicking Space Exploration Into Hyperdrive
    • https://singularityhub.com/2018/10/07/ais-kicking-space-exploration-into-hyperdrive-heres-how/  
  • The search for stromatolites on Mars
  • Searching for water and life on Jupiter’s Europa
    • https://europa.nasa.gov/
  • AI and medical care for astronauts
  • AI and terraforming
  • BioCarbon Engineering  and drone planting
  • Mining in Space
  • BBC: The truth about asteroid mining
    • https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20160103-the-truth-about-asteroid-mining
  • Independent: Asteroid mining made legal after Barack Obama gives US citizens the right to own parts of celestial bodies
    • https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/asteroid-mining-made-legal-after-barack-obama-gives-us-citizens-the-right-to-own-parts-of-celestial-a6750046.html   
  • 2015: U.S. Commercial Space Launch Competitiveness Act
  • MIT: How the asteroid-mining bubble burst
    • https://www.technologyreview.com/2019/06/26/134510/asteroid-mining-bubble-burst-history
  • Issues and challenges of asteroid mining in the near future
  • Space Tourism
  • Popular Mechanics: Virgin Orbit's LauncherOne Rocket Is Ready for Its First Full Flight Test
    • https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/rockets/a32600712/virgin-orbit-launcherone-rocket/
  • Life in the universe
  • Eurpoa Clipper’s search on Jupiter’s moon
  • The Drake Equation and the Fermi Paradox
  • Singularity Hub: Where Is Everyone? 4 Possible Explanations for the Fermi Paradox
    • https://singularityhub.com/2019/09/02/where-is-everyone-4-possible-explanations-for-the-fermi-paradox/

     

    Stick around for Part 2, with out For The Church Segment and the Looking Ahead Segment

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    Intro and outro music: Cosmic Pluck from Vycroft. ( https://freesound.org/people/vykroft/ )

    “For the Church Segment” transition music: Marketing from Skibka Music. ( https://freesound.org/people/SkibkaMusic/ )

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