Should the USA go to Mars?

In some visions, the crew will land on Mars by using the nuclear-powered Mars lander, which acts same time. As the lander, rover, and craft that can fly back to the orbiter. The system can use the nuclear thermal rocket to make that kind of journey possible. The ability to move and return to orbit makes this system safe. Then the lander module docks to the nuclear rocket that transports it to Earth. 

This kind of system can connect with the solar sail. Then the solar wind and nuclear bombs accelerate it to Mars and maybe to other atmospheric planets. There that craft can use the solar sail as a parachute. The Medusa drive is a hybrid system that uses nuclear bombs and solar sail to transport craft to other planets like Venus, Mars, and Titan moon. The system can transport this kind of nuclear-powered rover shuttle to those distant places. The Medusa system can also return that thing to Earth from Mars. The system can also involve a laser or ion cannon that shoots into that solar sail. That improves the abilities of the Medusa drive. 

In some models, there is a nuclear reactor in the middle of the Medusa craft. The reactor sends particles backward and to the solar sail. The sail also acts as a cooler and communication antenna.  But in the most powerful vision of this futuristic system, antimatter explosions in the middle of the spacecraft send particles to the solar sail and back to space. The system can use a linear accelerator to make the anti-electrons, called positrons. Then, the linear accelerator shoots electrons against those positrons. Those particle-antiparticle pairs annihilate. The annihilation makes thrust when it sends energy to the sail and back. The solar sail offers a good cooler. 

The main question about the manned Mars mission is: does it bring something else, than just gold and glory? The economic costs of that program are similar to the Apollo program. That transported people to the moon. The question is: why do people like Trump and Musk want to take people to Mars? The answer is that they get gold and glory from that project. 

Futuristic Medusa drive is similar to "Project Orion" the spacecraft that planned to use nuclear bombs to accelerate it. But in Medusa, the system involves the solar sail which makes it more effective. Those systems are futuristic visions of nuclear pulse propulsion. They can use nuclear bombs, antimatter beams, antimatter bombs, and other kinds of ion and laser systems to accelerate it. 

The Mars program continues. The question is which route the NASA select? Does it select the non-manned route where robots operate on distant planets? That route minimizes the risks of injuries. Or does it choose a manned path? Both of those routes require things, like new computers, large language models, etc. And the system requires more advanced rockets like nuclear thermal propulsion. 

And then we can return to the Apollo program. The costs of that program were incredible. That program allowed engineers to create spacewalking technologies and during that project researchers and engineers developed many products like Velcos, micrometeorite protection, and many other things like radiation protective suits. Another thing is that the scientific results of that program were more humbling than the technical advances that Apollo made possible. 

The Moon samples and other things could brought to Earth using the automatic systems. Those systems will not risk lives. And this is why robots are researching solar systems. In some visions, the Mars samples that the NASA rover can launch to Earth will take to the moon. There the AI and remote-controlled laboratories make the analysis. There is a small risk that there is sleeping live on that red planet. 

Mars is not any asteroid Bennu. That has no atmosphere and protects against cosmic radiation. The thing is that one mRNA bite can cause infection in humans. The possibility that some sleeping organisms exist on the red planet is minimal. But that possibility must be noticed. Even the smallest possibility is a possibility. 

The economic load of that project created technological steps like computer technology and remote control systems. Also, the COBOL programming language was created for computers that controlled moon modules. The Mars program can also give a boost. To the large language model, LLM, development. Those things brought a very good boost for American industries that owned their patents. Micrometeor protection is a double-use product that can help aircraft and other systems survive under fire in combat zones. The nuclear thermal rockets are tools that NASA needs for that operation. 

One of the most futuristic versions of the Mars craft is the idea of the nuclear-powered space shuttle that can use nuclear thermal propulsion. 

And that technology opens roads to the asteroid belt and beyond. The risks of that mission are enormous, but if it succeeds it opens new roads to the US technology. The Apollo program accelerated the R&D processes in both, civil and military sectors. So, when we think about the U.S. industry and the Mars flights that thing also brings something into their hands. Like Apollo, the Mars mission can accelerate innovations that serve as well as civil and military operators.

The Mars base involves technology. That is useful also in remote locations, underwater structures, and bases as well as in the cases of pandemics. It's possible. The R&D process of that project goes so far. The AI-controlled robots make the station for the crew, which should be on Mars for about one year. The Mars station requires recycling technologies for waste. There is needed biotechnology for food production and of course, the crew needs clothes and other kinds of things. 

The Mars mission can bring gold and glory to America it has not made fundamental things after the Moon missions. But the problem is that. Everything that astronauts can collect can be collected using AI-controlled robots. The stable life on Mars is not yet possible. But maybe base with changing crew can be made in our lifetime. The fact is that this kind of base is one of the things that the Mars crew requires during their mission on the planet. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propulsion)

The Open AI's new Chat GPT tool beats the company's main researcher.

Artificial intelligence shows its power in a new form. Open AI's new complex large language model beat the company's head researcher, making the system more powerful and complicated than ever before. When we talk about LLMs and artificial intelligence, we face the fact that  AI boosts its development. 

The AI might not produce new things like mathematical formulas. However, AI can collect existing data and sort it into new orders. So that means the AI can apply the data that researchers collected into databases. 

The AI is the tool. That can observe things. In new interactive ways. And because the AI can search data all night long. And it will never be tired. That gives the AI an ability that humans miss. It can search for things like radio waves and the net. Without the need to rest.  

Without breaks which makes the AI system more powerful than other systems. Another thing is that. The AI is a tool. That can handle massive data flows from different sources. 

However, some researchers asking. Do we already have the artificial general intelligence, AGI? That is a more complicated question than we might even dare to say. The AGI is the AI or substance that can use everything. And then we face another thing. 

The AI can make things only when we give orders. Or it can make things that are pre-ordered into it. But then we can face the thing called fatal error. What if the AI equates some things like common intermediate recording or backup data to necessary things? That it must do. 

The idea is that the AI can have an internal error detection and fixing algorithm. So what if that algorithm detects that the AI doesn't back up the data if that thing is pre-programmed into other computer programs? The algorithm can include the ability to LLM without asking the programmer's permission. If its mission is to detect and fix simple errors. 

There is no general person, GP, or general genius GG. All people have limits in their knowledge and abilities. And that means we might not have the ability or will to test the limits of AI. 

AI has also its limits. And the main limit is the access to physical robots. The AI can turn physical only if it interacts with physical machines. And that makes the AI complicated. 

The AI or large language model can drive a car if it has access to the car's central computer. And the car has an advanced autopilot. Or the LLM has access to search that program from the net and transfer the code to the self-driving car. Or the AI can use humanoid robots as drivers. 

The AI learns incredibly fast. The system just connects the database that involves the operational orders into it. So the car's autopilot programs are modules. That the LLM, or AI can connect to itself. And every single module is a new thing. That the LLM or AI learns.

But can the AI create another AI? The fact is that the AI is substance. The existence of a substance depends on the substance itself. Says Spinoza. But the substance cannot create itself. For that thing substance requires other substances. 

When a substance called AI creates a new substance or new AI it just connects existing small substances together like a puzzle. Every piece of the puzzle is the independent language model. And the substance that creates new AI just connects those pieces into a larger entirety. That is one way to think about the AI. 

The AI can copy itself into other computers. So that means the substance can create subsubstance. The AI can search for things like how to protect itself against things like machine failure. That means the AI can slip into other computers than it should be. And those things can cause surprises. 

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/20/technology/openai-new-ai-math-science.html

The new Chinese drones can be frightening tools.

"Scientists have addressed most of the technical challenges related to the new laser drone. "(Representational image) (InterestingEngineering, China: Drones equipped with new tech to emit metal-cutting laser beams)

The new Chinse nasty drone creates metal-cutting laser beams. That kind of drone can be a real game changer in the military and civil work. The metal-cutting lasers can destroy many targets. But they can also used in civil work like cutting metals in demolition sites. Those drones can also bulldoze the metals away from the accident zone. 

But as we know. Metal-cutting drones are multi-use equipment. The same drone can cut the cannon tubes. Aim their metal-cutting lasers at ammunition dumps or communication antennas. They can cut airplane wings and cut power lines. Those drones are perfect tools for assassination missions. High-power carbon monoxide lasers are dangerous tools in the wrong hands. 

"An illustration of China's secretive Shenlong space plane in orbit. (Image credit: Erik Simonsen via Getty Images)" (LiveScience, China's secret space plane has released another unknown object over Earth)

Sources: LiveScience and Gizmodo

In December 2023 and July 2024. The Chinese top secret miniature shuttle Shenlong released so-called wingman objects. Those objects can be the transportation and return tanks for quadcopters that can make many missions on the battlefield and other missions. The satellite-controlled quadcopters can be released into the atmosphere and then the return capsule releases those quadcopters at the right altitude. 

The Chinese shuttle orbiter can drop those drones to operational areas. It's possible. The small silent or passive objects near the Chinese miniature shuttle were the transportation capsules for those quadcopters. The nuclear isotope batteries make those drones capable even of intercontinental operations. A radioisotope thermoelectric generator (RTG) is a tool that gives those drones even years of operational ability. And that gives those drones the capacity to travel all around the Earth. 

The power of those lasers can be enormous. In comparison to their size, multiple drones aim their lasers at one point. The system can also use the lead ray. Which is more powerful than the laser rays that other drones transmit into it. 

That system works like crossing water flows. The more powerful laser ray pulls other laser rays with it. That thing means that the system that uses quite small lasers can create quite powerful laser beams by connecting multiple laser beams together. The system looks like a little bit of a Death Star's laser system. 

The metal-cutting drones can cut holes into the submarine's pressure hulls and they can make damage to rockets. The thing that makes those drones problematic is that they can also have a role in civil work. In some visions, the drones have 3D printing systems that can make metal structures. Lasers can used to melt metal wire for the system. 

And they can be used to finish the layers. It's possible that in the futuristic shipyards, those quadcopters can build even large-scale structures. The thing is that those laser drones are the tools that can operate even on other planets. The drone swarms with artificial intelligence can be used for many purposes. But. Those laser drones can be the tool that can destroy many high-priority targets. 

https://gizmodo.com/china-shenlong-space-plane-6-mystery-objects-in-orbit-1851111929

https://interestingengineering.com/military/drones-equipped-with-metal-cutting-laser

https://www.livescience.com/space/space-exploration/chinas-secret-space-plane-has-released-another-unknown-object-over-earth

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioisotope_thermoelectric_generator

Chinese new stealth fighters cause worries.

Chinese new stealth fighters Shenyang J-35 and Chengdu J-20 worry for Western air forces. The problem is that the J-35 A looks similar to the F-35. The stealth aircraft are highly advanced weapons. Most of the data is used in those planes. And their development is highly classified. The thing that something looks like stealth doesn't mean that the stealth technology is successfully operating. 

But the sad fact is that. Everything is open. Before those fighters faced the Western fighters. Those aircraft might lose to the F-35 or F-22, but they could be effective against elder Western fighters. That means those aircraft are a threat to the U.S. and its allies' dominance in highly advanced military systems. The thing is that the drone swarms are not alone in the answer to threats. Drone swarms are one of the new weapons.

Above: Chengdu J-20

Above: Shenyang J-35

 However, the future is the hybrid solution where jet fighters or high-speed strategic bombers can cooperate with manned and unmanned systems. The jetfighters can drop drones or drone swarms into their operational areas.

The race between systems and counter-systems is endless. The ultimate system faces ultimate counter systems. The F-117 was once invincible, But then time went past them. The new solutions were more effective than the primitive solutions in F-117. 

They can prowl on aircraft when they come home from the mission and detonate their explosives on the wings. Or they can observe the strike. The problem is that EMP weapons can destroy those drones. 

Those drones can search the targets for cruise missiles and maybe they can destroy things like command links and why not bigger targets? The thing is that the Chinese and Russians are learning the lessons from the Ukraine war. And that means there are lots of systems that are developed in those countries. 

The future of the battlefield is one of the hardest-predicted things in the world. The military world is changing extremely fast. And things like AI and other things are coming to make their advancement to every system in the world. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chengdu_J-20

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shenyang_J-35