From The Desk Of Tim Ozman 1/27/22: Elon Musk May Have Caused Real Life Moonfall
Space junk from a 2015 launch is about to impact the moon where it will explode. This is happening now as Moonfall is released in theatres, the plot of which has to do with something knocking the moon off its orbit and it falls on us. At least that's what I can discern from the trailer. I may go watch it tomorrow. It looks so terrible and I love bad space movies. It's apparently so implausible that even NASA's Twitter account criticized the movie with a facepalm emoji. (Hello kettle, meet pot. The most expensive science fiction disaster ever was Apollo 11 so NASA's opinions shouldn't count here.) Recently on Infinite Plane Radio (back to a 24-7 live-stream channel), we've been discussing the notion of an incoming A.I. as savior. This is something we are being conditioned to accept as inevitable: the only question is, will this hypothetical techno-savior perfect society and save man, or eliminate man and save the world? James Cameron recently suggested a "Sk...