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2023 will go down as a miracle year not unlike 1905. Between AI, this, and… what’s next?

There's technically still time for Starship to have a go at another test flight, so there's still time to add "Cheap reusable access to space" to "proto-AGI" and "RT Superconductors".

Next is that UFOs are real

Unidentified Flying Objects are absolutely real, though the newer cool kid term is UAP.

(From the internet: UAP stands for "unidentified anomalous phenomena.")

It's flying saucers carrying aliens from another planet that's controversial and up for debate.

>It's flying saucers carrying aliens from another planet that's controversial and up for debate.

Which is what "UFO" means to 99% of people.

I hate seeing it used that way on HN though because it actively undermines meaty discussion of objective data and promotes the treatment of articles about objective data as click-bait, like it's the "hot sheets" of Men in Black -- like HN is a place to take seriously the wildest conspiracy theories with no real basis.

But it's not what it means to the united states government when it announced it had seen UFOs, which is the point of discussion

I thought UAP stands for "unidentified aerial/aerospace phenomenon". Anyway it's better than UFO because it primes you for the fact that many "UFOs" are not flying at all. Many are stars, lights of all kinds, or artifacts of the the recording equipment.

I thought so too. I googled it and came up with the above quote but didn't provide the link.

Happy to be corrected if someone has a good source they can cite.

It is a better term overall and also lacks the baggage of being used colloquially to mean "aliens."

> It's flying saucers carrying aliens from another planet that's controversial and up for debate.

No, it isn't. There's some people out there stuck down in a conspiracy hole, but there is no real debate.

USAF has had LK-99 for 20 years and the UFOs are just sightings of them testing levitation engines.

LK-99, as its name suggests, was discovered 24 years ago.

I'm hoping for practical Li-Air batteries. Or at least cheap solid-state Li-Ion batteries.

Pretty please?...

Perhaps SpaceX Starship orbital launch, to really tie things together.

Superconducting AI. No more pesky Azure datacenters, finally put chatgpt4 in your watch

I'm missing a lot of historical context, so - what exactly happened in 1905? Was there a myriad of major scientific discoveries?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1905_in_science

> Over four months, March through June 1905, Albert Einstein produced four papers that revolutionized science. One explained how to measure the size of molecules in a liquid, a second posited how to determine their movement, and a third described how light comes in packets called photons—the foundation of quantum physics and the idea that eventually won him the Nobel Prize. A fourth paper introduced special relativity, leading physicists to reconsider notions of space and time that had sufficed since the dawn of civilization. Then, a few months later, almost as an afterthought, Einstein pointed out in a fifth paper that matter and energy can be interchangeable at the atomic level specifically, that E=mc2, the scientific basis of nuclear energy and the most famous mathematical equation in history.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-year-of-al...

Blockchain blockchain blockchain blockchain

The year we realized that Crypto was all a fraud

We realized that a long time ago. I first realized it in 2017. But a lot of people need to learn the lesson. Some people know it's all fraud but are in it to game it.

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