AI Pilots for Space Missions, A New Big Bang, Falsifiable Dark Matter | Q&A 236
Could another Big Bang happen in our existing Universe? Is dark matter theory falsifiable? Should we allow AI to control spacecraft? How many things can you put in a Lagrange point? Answering all these questions and more in this week's Q&A.
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Betazed: as a child of the sixties I can say that the future is here but not as depicted by Hollywood fantasies. Today our technology might be considered as between advanced and highly advanced on the "alien scale" insofar as it is approaching the boundaries of what is allowed by physics and quantum mechanics, what remains is to find better ways of using it. The disappointment lies in realising that those childhood fantasies have be proved impossible or impractical.
Remus: this question highlights the dubious nature of using atmospheric chemicals as bio or even techno signatures. To say that here on Earth such a chemical is only produced by life is an assumption that can't be tested on other worlds. If I can make a chemical in a test tube surely there's another world which might produce it naturally somewhere in the vast numbers we now know exist? To turn the question on its head, is it easier for a planet to create life or a much simpler "signature of life" chemical?