climate change 3
- Our technosphere is immature: it is currently destroying the conditions it needs in order to sustain itself.
- A Mars base is not a backup plan for climate change or nuclear war, because self-sufficiency there is centuries away.
Adam Frank
Professor of astrophysics at the University of Rochester, who works on star and planet formation, the search for technosignatures, and the astrobiology of civilisations.
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What Adam Frank says most about
physics 3
- Every faster-than-light proposal depends on exotic matter, which does not exist and was invented to make the equations behave.
- The many-worlds interpretation invents infinitely many unobservable universes to avoid what quantum mechanics is plainly saying: that measurement matters.
robotics 2
- Alien life should converge on things like legs and wings, but the humanoid body plan is a random accident nobody should expect to see repeated.
- Large language models will not get to real agency, because a mind has to be embedded in a world through a body.
space 2
- We should not be broadcasting powerful, easily detectable messages into interstellar space, because we have no idea who would receive them.
- A Mars base is not a backup plan for climate change or nuclear war, because self-sufficiency there is centuries away.