This week in space: an experimental AI data center is heading into orbit, a lunar race with China is heating up, and hidden ocean worlds are turning up at the edge of the solar system. Tell us what you think!
- Next week, on October 1st, Google is launching its first experimental space-based AI data center, while Jeff Bezos says it could take up to 20 years for such a solution to become economically competitive with ground-based server farms. Which side are you closer to?
- How real a risk do you think it is that China's Chang'e-7 mission could exclude Americans from the area around the Shackleton crater at the Moon's south pole?
- How much do you agree with the following statements?
- How excited are you about the news that Uranus's moon Ariel may have hidden an ocean more than 160 kilometers deep beneath its icy shell?
- In how many years do you think a space-based AI data center could become economically competitive with ground-based server farms?
- Do you think a major power today could still consider a plan like the Cold War-era A119 project, which would have detonated a bomb on the Moon?
- Which of these space stories genuinely excite you? (you can select more than one)
- How old are you?
- Which county do you live in?
- What size settlement do you live in?
- How would you describe your residential area?
- How many people live in your household (including yourself)?
- What citizenship do you hold?
- How long have you lived at your current residence?