NASA's Artemis 2 crew officially broke the record for the farthest any human has ever traveled from Earth this evening.
Artemis II Mission Timeline
The first crewed mission to the Moon since Apollo 17 in 1972. Four astronauts will fly around the Moon and back in about 10 days. Here's what happens and when!
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The morning opened to the beat of “Working Class Heroes (Work)” by CeeLo Green as the Artemis II crew, now flying about 65,235 miles from the Moon, began preparations for their first test objective: an evaluation of the Orion Crew Survival System suit. The crew also heard a special message from Apollo astronaut Charlie Duke.
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Shakuntala Devi
Shakuntala Devi was an Indian mental calculator, astrologer, and writer, popularly known as the "Human Computer". Her talent earned her a place in the 1982 edition of The Guinness Book of World Records. However, the certificate for the record was given posthumously on 30 July 2020, despite Devi achieving her world record on 18 June 1980 at Imperial College, London. Devi was a precocious child, and she demonstrated her arithmetic abilities at the University of Mysore without any formal education.
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Jacob is correct here—we really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans! I personally think it is >10% within the next decade. I believe Anthropic is trying its best, but we do not yet have a plan to solve alignment for superintelligence and are not clearly on track to. https://t.co/QAIHiFP3QZ— Evan Hubinger (@EvanHub) September 9, 2026
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Big news! (And not really my area, but yes, I would rank this as bigger than the unit distance counterexample. Maybe not bigger than a proof of unit distance would have been, but in terms of constructions, this is big.) https://t.co/VDRti1HZ6Z— Thomas Bloom (@thomasfbloom) August 1, 2026
Imagining the Voyager 1 probe's journey through space when humanity no longer exists
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record: broken. 21.7K unique identities have published non-bluesky data so far this week, the most ever. (and we're less than halfway through the ufos-week)
fig (aka:[phil])
oooooo ya we're only like three days into this ufos-week, and on track to blow past the non-bsky weekly-actives record