Cheap Astronomy - Dear CA #138: In Space!

Some place in space.

Hosted by Steve Nerlich.

Dear Cheap Astronomy – What is the role of AI in space?

AI simulates human decision-making and finds most practical usage in the sorting and analysing of various kinds of data. So. you can feed an AI program pictures of galaxies and the classifications they fit into and then the AI can then identify and classify new ones that you feed it. It's kind of like how Galaxy Zoo used to work, except with Galaxy Zoo it was actual crowd-sourced people that did the work.

 

Dear Cheap Astronomy – What will space warfare look like?

We've previously discussed on this podcast that fighting a war from space is probably a bad idea. You might conceivably drop a bomb from orbit, but once you've identified yourself as an enemy it's pretty easy to take you out from the ground. You may be able to dodge a few missiles at the start, but once you're out of maneuvering fuel you'll be stuck in a straight-line orbit and hence a sitting duck.

 

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