planetary engineering
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Terraforming Mars Publisher Calls AI ‘Too Powerful’ Not to Use
Throughout the year, there’s been ongoing concerns about the use of generative AI across various forms of entertainment such as film and TV. Every industry has their own stance on the matter, and in the case of tabletop games, it’s quite divisive: some in the industry have put restrictions on AI-made products, while others have…
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MIT Scientists Propose Space Bubbles to Reverse the Worst of Climate Change
A team of researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology believe that we can mitigate the worst of climate change with… space bubbles. They’ve outlined a strategy in which a huge raft of bubbles, carefully positioned between Earth and the Sun, would deflect sunlight (and thus heat) to stop further global warming.
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In a First Look at Annalee Newitz’s The Terraformers, a Planetary Invader Proves Uniquely Irritating
Last week, we had an audio excerpt from Gizmodo co-founder Charlie Jane Anders’ new YA fantasy. Today, we’ve got an exclusive cover reveal and excerpt from Gizmodo’s other co-founder, Annalee Newitz — author of acclaimed works of both fiction (The Future of Another Timeline) and non-fiction (Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban…
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Amazon Is Helping Researchers Study How to Dim the Sun
Computer processors across Amazon Web Services recently hummed into gear to create 30 simulations of what Earth could look like by the middle of this century. Normally, climate models run on supercomputers. But this effort on Amazon’s servers represents one of the first attempts to do modelling on the cloud and could revolutionise how modelling…