[Space Bites+] Crazy New SpaceX Plans // AI Mars Takeover // NO Artemis 2 in February

I stumbled on this medical news and immediately thought how promising this could be for space travel and zero G. “This discovery could let bones benefit from exercise without moving Researchers have discovered a biological switch that explains why movement keeps bones strong. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/01/260127010149.htm

Thank you, Mr. Cain! 🫡🫡🫡

Musk's plans have nothibg to do compute or power. It has wverything to do with money. xAi needs money fast before it goes bankrupt. Ergo, soak the cash out of SpaceX. Then spin the merger as something exciting and pull in the suckers to give SpaceX, ie Musk, all of their money.

I think one good reason for moving data centres off planet is because of the waste heat that the earthbound centres produce. Dumping huge amounts of hot water into the environment is probably not the most sensible thing we can do when we are looking to reduce the amount of damage that we are doing to the environment altready.

We laughed so hard at the Accent Alert

Years ago I read that black holes might be wormholes. It seems preposterous, but is it?

Fraser, are you no longer publishing Space Bites and interview videos into your podcast feeds?

And it will be nuclear power, not renewable.

Your obsession with bogus AI, large language models is alarming. Yann LeCun said it best. The housecat is more intelligent than the best AI we have.

Question: You have been interviewing people for years now -- with excellent questions and insight -- my question is: How have you seen YOUR interviews as interventions or interactions with you change the direction or or rate of or changes in the course of discovery in astronomy?

In discussions about AI alignment, a common knee-jerk reaction is 'just unplug it when it goes rogue'; but how do you do that when the datacenter is in space?

Is the underground temperature of Venus lower then above ground temperature? Like the opposite of Earth where the deeper one goes the warmer it gets. Then maybe there are lava tubes on Venus with conditions for life :-) BTW What ideas are there to cool down Venus? And how long would it take?