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/FEATURED NASA WANTS NEW 'DEORBIT TUG' TO BRING SPACE STATION DOWN IN 2030 NASA has proposed a budget that includes $180 million to develop a space tug capable of steering the International Space Station to a controlled destruction in Earth's atmosphere when it reaches the end of its operational life in 2030, reports Space.com. Here’s to you, I.S.S., for it looks like your days are now, sadly, numbered.

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/STORIES THE WILDEST SCI-FI MOVIE ON NETFLIX REVEALS A REAL-LIFE ETHICAL DILEMMA Per Inverse, there is a truly wild sci-fi movie on Netlfix called Sorry To Bother You. We won’t spoil it, but it’s about a ne’er-do-well’s climb up the corporate ladder of success, which with every rung, gets more ethically complicated and absurd. This leads to one of the wildest moments in any movie this writer has ever had the pleasure of seeing in theatres. A great allegory about labor in the 21st century? A great allegory about CRISPR and gene modification? Both? You decide, we’re just recommending it. 'HIGHLY MANEUVERABLE' UFOS DEFY ALL PHYSICS, SAYS GOVERNMENT STUDY A new paper from the Pentagon’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office and Harvard University confirms that Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAPs) likely defy physics, but this may be due to inaccurate distance measurements and a lack of range data, reports Popular Mechanics. The authors suggest this could be an explanation for the lack of tell-tale signs such as an ionized tail or optical fireball produced by friction. Or, in layman’s terms: They are playing optical tricks on us.  5 LINKS TO SMARTNESS It’s simple: Just like The Futurist (which is why we like it), Refind picks 5 articles every day that make you smarter, tailored to your interests. After all, over 200,000 curious minds can’t be wrong. SUBSCRIBE FOR FREE » MICROSOFT WILL LAUNCH CHATGPT 4 WITH AI VIDEOS NEXT WEEK Next week, according to Digital Trends, Microsoft is set to release GPT-4, an AI tool that may allow users to create AI-generated videos from simple text prompts. This update offers multimodal models that provide different possibilities enabling ChatGPT to move beyond text-based replies.

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/CURIOUS //QUESTION OF THE DAY HOW DO YOU LIKE THE FUTURIST SO FAR? On a scale of 1-10, what are thoughts? How are we doing? TELL US, WE CAN TAKE IT » //FROM YESTERDAY YOUR FAVORITE MOVIE OF 2022? Here are your top 3, based on last Sunday night’s Oscar nominations/winners: Δ 26.8% of you voted “Everything Everywhere All At Once” — Do we have Academy voters in the house? Δ 23.2% of you voted “Top Gun: Maverick” — The Futurist can relate, we too are on a highway to the danger zone every day. Δ 12.5% of you voted “Tár” — The writer of this newsletter is a total Tárhead so he agrees. Also, in case you haven’t heard: R.I.P. Lydia Tár (Yes, it’s parody)

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