Deep Space Drones

So far, the biggest advance in Augmented Reality has been from Pokemon GO. Some don't even consider that to even be AR.

AR is Virtual Reality blended with the real world.

Apple's CEO Tim Cook envisions the next generation of smartphones to be loaded with AR capabilities. Apple has assembled a team to not compete with next gen devices, but to dominate the market.

Bixby is the name, the New Samsung Galaxy S8 launching next week is the game.

This new AI assistant is going head to head with Amazon Echo and Apple Siri.

Of course there are other AI's out there, like Google Assistant, Microsoft Cortana, IBM Watson, and Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg Jarvis.

What Samsung says is different about Bixby will be it's ability to work across multiple applications at the same time.

Microfossils called Hematites have been discovered in northern province of Quebec, Canada. Laser imaging showed that the may be the oldest form of life ever found.

These creatures are tiny, with a diameter half of a human hair, and up to half a millimeter in length.

There is a debate between scientists on the matter. Some are saying that the rocks these microfossils were found in are 3.77 billion years old, but other say they could be as old as 4.28 billion years.

That would put them on Earth a few 100 million years after the sun and Earth formed, before oxygen was present in Earth's atmosphere.

Not sure what the price of the ticket is, but considering the implication, does price really matter?

No one has been to the moon in over forty years. A lot of people don't even believe anyone has even been there at all.

NASA is currently studying the possibility of sending two people around the moon next year, well before they have planned.

Coincidently, one business day after NASA announced the plan to look at sending two people around the moon in 2018, Elon Musk announces the plan to send two tourists around the moon.

Who would bankroll such a trip? Who could? Is it even possible?

The Sun is a 4.6 billion year old yellow dwarf star at the center of the Solar System.

Although it's a dwarf, compared to the Earth, the sun is huge. You would need to line up 109 Earths, side by side to equal the Suns diameter. It has the mass of 330,000 Earths.

It formed from a molecular cloud that collapsed under gravity, into a nearly perfect sphere, made of hot plasma.

It contains 99.86% of the mass of entire Solar System. The rest of the stuff flattened into a disk that formed the planets.

The center became so hot and dense that it initiated nuclear fusion.

It's 73% hydrogen and 23% helium. The rest is a mix of heavier elements like carbon, oxygen, and iron, stuff that people are made of.

The solar system is about to become our new back yard.

Nobody has traveled beyond Earth's orbit in 40 years.

This may be about to change.

NASA is looking at sending us around the moon.

This would be step one to getting us to Mars.

The planning has just begun. Expect further details next month.

The objective is to explore deeper space, with a more ambitious plan to "Unlock the mysteries of space."

The Space Launch System, SLS, is the next generation of space travel since the space shuttle program, which ended six years ago.

Earth may have more siblings than once thought.

Known as TRAPPIST-1, this star system holds seven Earth sized planets, three of which may be in the habitable zone, the goldilocks zone, where liquid water can exist, where life could survive, and evolve.

These three may have surface oceans like Earth.

Europa, second closest moon to Jupiter, is slightly smaller than Earth's moon, and one of the most smoothest objects in the solar system.

It's thought to harbour a global ocean 100 Km thick. That's twice as much water than on Earth. It's covered with ice 25 KM thick. The surface ice has cracked like an eggshell all around the surface.

Just like we learned through astronomy that the Earth was not the center of the Universe, odds are good that we will discover that the Earth is not the center of all life in the Universe either.

Life can be transported from one planet to another, no space ship required.

Shortest podcast ever...

We can tweet 140 characters around the world at the speed of light to everyone that is listening.

That's great 'cause the better we communicate, the better we all can just get along.

But where are those flying cars that were promised nearly a century ago?