News Roundup on Cool Cosmic Questions

Astrophysics
Jupiter’s mass already stands at a whopping 318 times larger than that of Earth’s. Now imagine a planet nearly ten times bigger.
Astrobiology Physics
At every step of our journey beyond Earth, water grows more and more valuable — here’s how tardigrades could make use of it on Mars.
Must Watch Video
Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares’s book “If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies” discusses the inherent danger superhuman AI poses to humanity. Here’s a play-by-play breakdown of this doomsday scenario. I’ll note that I really skeptical of this whole take but I wanted you to see what the major and (I think) majorly incorrect hype looks like.


