MAROKO133 Update ai: OpenAI Board Member Resigns After Deep Connections to Epstein Exposed

📌 MAROKO133 Eksklusif ai: OpenAI Board Member Resigns After Deep Connections to Ep

Following the release of thousands of deceased sex criminal Jefferey Epstein’s emails by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, it came to light that Larry Summers, former US Treasury Secretary and Harvard Economist, was deeply involved in the arch-pedophile’s affairs. But Summers isn’t just a top-level economist — he’s also a shareholder in the massive AI company OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT and Sora.

Unlike other problematic OpenAI investors, Summers is a top dog at OpenAI, holding a spot on the board of directors.

At least, he used to; earlier today, Summers announced he was stepping down from his role with the company.

“In line with my announcement to step away from my public commitments, I have also decided to resign from the board of OpenAI,” he told the company in a statement. “I am grateful for the opportunity to have served, excited about the potential of the company and look forward to following their progress.”

In a separate statement to Axios, OpenAI confirmed that the resignation was moving forward, adding that “we appreciate his many contributions and the perspective he brought to the Board.”

Summers isn’t any old OpenAI investor, and he likewise wasn’t merely an acquaintance to Epstein. In one 2018 email, Epstein described himself as Summers’ “wing man.” The context was somehow even worse, as the student newspaper the Harvard Crimson reported, because the economist was asking Epstein for advice as he pursued a relationship with someone he was mentoring — despite having been married since 2005 — in a staggeringly unethical breach of academic norms.

As Summers fretted that the woman he was teaching valued his professional insights more than his personal acumen, Epstein told him “she is doomed to be with you.”

“Think for now I’m going nowhere with her except economics mentor,” Summers told Epstein at the time. Later in 2019, as tensions seemed to flare in Summers’ situationship, he wrote to Epstein that “she must be very confused or maybe wants to cut me off but wants professional connection a lot and so holds to it.”

“She’s already begining [sic] to sound needy nice,” Epstein replied.

“I have great regrets in my life,” Summers told the Crimson in a statement. “As I have said before, my association with Jeffrey Epstein was a major error of judgement.”

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📌 MAROKO133 Eksklusif ai: Moss survives 9 months outside NASA space station, retur

For humanity to establish a sustained presence in space, cultivating plants is essential for survival.

And now, researchers from Hokkaido University in Japan have conducted experiments to understand moss survival outside the International Space Station (ISS). 

Mosses are exceptionally resilient plants that thrive in extreme environments on Earth, including high-altitude peaks, deserts, polar regions, and volcanic fields.

The team wanted to test the plant’s endurance in harsh space conditions. 

As part of the experiment, moss sporophytes — spore-encasing reproductive structures — were mounted outside the ISS for nine months.

Surprisingly, over 80% of the spores successfully survived and were still capable of reproducing and germinating back in the lab.

This study is the first to showcase the long-term survival of an early land plant in space conditions.

“Most living organisms, including humans, cannot survive even briefly in the vacuum of space,” said Tomomichi Fujita, lead author. 

“However, the moss spores retained their vitality after nine months of direct exposure. This provides striking evidence that the life that has evolved on Earth possesses, at the cellular level, intrinsic mechanisms to endure the conditions of space,” the author added.

Resilience findings in simulated space

Inspired by moss’s ability to colonize harsh environments on Earth, researcher Fujita conceived the idea of “space moss.”

To test this, his team subjected the moss Physcomitrium patens to simulated space conditions (including high UV, temperature extremes, and vacuum). 

Three specific moss structures were tested: protonemata (juvenile moss), brood cells (stress-induced stem cells), and sporophytes (encapsulated spores). This helped to determine which part was most likely to survive in space.

“We anticipated that the combined stresses of space, including vacuum, cosmic radiation, extreme temperature fluctuations, and microgravity, would cause far greater damage than any single stress alone,” said Fujita. 

Simulation tests revealed that UV radiation was the most difficult factor for the moss to survive. Among the three parts tested, the sporophytes (encased spores) came out as the “most resilient.”

The encased spores showed 1,000 times greater tolerance to UV radiation than the brood cells.

These structures also demonstrated extreme temperature hardiness, surviving exposure to −196°C for over a week and 55°C for a month while remaining able to germinate.

Agriculture system for space habitats

The team suggests the spore’s surrounding structure acts as a protective barrier, absorbing UV radiation and preventing damage. This resilience is likely an evolutionary adaptation that enabled mosses (bryophytes) to transition to land 500 million years ago and survive mass extinctions.

To test this adaptation in real conditions, researchers sent hundreds of sporophytes to the ISS in March 2022. They were exposed outside the station for 283 days before being returned to Earth for analysis in January 2023.

“We expected almost zero survival, but the result was the opposite: most of the spores survived. We were genuinely astonished by the extraordinary durability of these tiny plant cells,” said Fujita.  

The returned moss spores showed extraordinary survival: over 80% survived the 283-day exposure outside the ISS. Although a 20% reduction in sensitive chlorophyll a was noted, it did not appear to affect the spores’ overall health.

Using a mathematical model based on their experimental data, the researchers predicted that the encased moss spores could potentially survive in space for up to 5,600 days (about 15 years). However, this is a rough estimate requiring more data for confirmation.

The experiments could help advance the use of mosses to develop agricultural systems in space, ultimately contributing to the construction of ecosystems in extraterrestrial environments like the Moon and Mars.

The study was published in the journal iScience on November 20.

🔗 Sumber: interestingengineering.com