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[BillK]

On Thu, 15 Jun 2023 at 16:54, Keith Henson via extropy-chat
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
> Tue at a zoom meeting we were discussing that Ray Kurzweil now
> predicts the possibility of immortality by 2030, people took me (and
> the other cryonicists there) to
> task about why we want to live a long time.
>
> Here is a good reason, I don’t think we can figure out what is going
> on at Tabby’s Star without going there. It’s 1470 light years distant
> and
>
> “Now, a new astronomical paper published on the prepublication science
> site Arxiv.org says KIC 8462852 is not alone.
>
> “In fact, it may be just one of a tight cluster of some 15 stars that
> show the same bewildering changes in brightness.”
>
> https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/tabbys-star-may-not-be-alone-as-study-finds-cluster-of-pulsating-stars/46ITNS5IJAQP444XEDA4YI7POY/
>
> Best wishes, Keith
> _______________________________________________


It would be a bit of a bummer if they spent a thousand years to get
halfway to Tabby's star and then their telescopes showed that the
brightness changes were all due to dust clouds after all.
Such long distance galaxy exploration must be left to AGI to do.


BillK