Van Allen’s New Belts, Alien Oceans and Life, and Massive Black Hole Jets Uncovered: S28E22

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this is spacetime series 28 episode 22


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for broadcast on the 19th of February


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2025 coming up on SpaceTime new Van


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Allen radiation belts discovered around


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the earth could an alien ocean hide


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signs of alien life and the largest


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black hole radio jet ever seen in the


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early Universe all that and more coming


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up on


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SpaceTime welcome to SpaceTime with


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Stuart Gary


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[Music]


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the largest solar storm in more than two


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decades hit planet Earth back in May


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2024 for several days wave after wave of


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high energy charged particles from the


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Sun slammed into our planet brilliant


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auroral activity engulf the sky and


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navigation and communication systems


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were temporarily disrupted with the help


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of a serendipitously resurrected small


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NASA satellite scientists discovered


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that this storm also created two new


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temporary radiation belts of intense


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energetic particles encircling the Earth


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the findings are important helping


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scientists better understand how future


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solar storms could impact our technology


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the new builts formed between two others


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that permanently surround the earth


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called the Van Allen radiation belts


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shaped like concentric Rings above the


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earth's equator these permanent belts


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are composed of a mix of high energy


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electrons and protons that are trapped


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in place by the Earth's magnetic field


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the high energy electrons and protons


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that have found their way into Earth's


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in a magnetic environment in these belts


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can damage spacecraft and affect the


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health of astronauts who pass through


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them so understanding their Dynamics is


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key to Safe space flight the discovery


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of the two new built reported in the


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journal geophysical research space


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physics was achieved by NASA's Colorado


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in a radiation built experiment


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spacecraft it's especially important for


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protecting satellites launched into


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geostationary orbits since they need a


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travel through the Van Allen radiation


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belt several times before reaching their


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final orbital position temporary


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radiation belts have been detected in


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the aftermath of large solar storms


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before but while previous belts have


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been composed mostly of electrons the


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innermost of the two new belts also


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includes energetic protons this unique


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composition is likely due to the extreme


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strength and composition of the mace


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solar storm the study's lead author


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Jinan Lee from the University of


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Colorado Boulder says the new belt


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seemed to have lasted much longer than


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previous belts did whereas previous


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temporary belts lasted around 4 weeks


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the new belt composed primarily of


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electrons lasted more than 3 months and


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the other belt which also included the


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protons lasted much longer than the


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electron belt because it was in a more


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stable region and therefore less prone


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to the sorts of physical processes which


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can knock particles out of orbit as to


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how long such belts stick around well


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that depends on solar storms large


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storms can provide the energy to knock


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particles in these belts out of their


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orbits and send them spiraling either


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off into space or down towards the Earth


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One such storm at the end of June


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significantly decreased the size of the


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new electron built and another in August


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nearly totally erased the remainder of


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that electron built though a small


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population of high energy electrons


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endured NASA's Colorado in a radiation


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build experiment spacecraft is a cube


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set about the size of a shoe box which


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circled the planet's magnetic poles in


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low earth orbit between April 2023 and


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October


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2024 it carried an instrument called the


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relativistic electron proton telescope


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integrated little Experiment 2 or


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reptile 2 for short it's a miniaturized


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and upgraded version of an instrument


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that first flew aboard NASA's Van Allen


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probes which made the first discovery of


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temporary electron belts back in


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2013 after a year in Space the cube set


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experienced an anomaly in unexpected


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went silent on April the 5th 2024 now


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the study's authors were disappointed to


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miss the solar storm in May but they


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were able to rely on other spacecraft to


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provide some preliminary data on the


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electron build luckily on June the 15th


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the spacecraft suddenly sprang back into


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life and resume taking measurements the


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data provided high resolution


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information that simply couldn't be


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gleaned by any other instrument and it


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allowed scientists to better understand


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the total magnitude of these new builds


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but having the cube set in orbit to


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measure the effect of the solar storm


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has been somewhat Bittersweet while it


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provided the opportunity to measure the


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effects of a large event the storm also


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increased atmospheric drag on the cube


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set causing increased orbital Decay and


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resulting in the cube set deorbiting in


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October


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2024 this is spacetime still to come


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could an alien ocean hide signs of alien


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life and the largest black hole radio


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jet ever observed in the early Universe


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all that and more still to come on


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SpaceTime


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[Music]


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time a new study warns that searching


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for signs of alien life in an alien


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ocean may be more difficult than


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previously thought even if you're able


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to sample the Extraterrestrial Waters a


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new study focusing on the saturnian ice


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moon Enceladus which is ejects water


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from its subsurface Global ocean through


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cracks and its icy crust has found that


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the physics of alien oceans could


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prevent evidence of deep sea life ever


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reaching places where we could detect it


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a report in the journal Communications


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and Earth environment shows how


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Enceladus as oceans form distinct layers


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that dramatically slow the movement of


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material from the ocean floor to the


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surface chemical traces microbes and


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organic material tilil signatures of


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life that scientists look for could


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break down or transform as they travel


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through the ocean's distinct layers and


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so these biological signatures may


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become unrecognizable by the time they


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reach the surface where a spacecraft can


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sample them even if life is thriving in


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the deep ocean below the study's lead


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author Flynn Ames from the University of


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reading says it's a bit like trying to


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detect life at the depths of Earth's


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Oceans by only sampling water at the


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surface and that's the challenge


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scientists face with Enceladus except


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they're also dealing with an ocean whose


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physics aren't fully understood aim says


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pre previous studies suggest that an


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inscan ocean should behave like oil and


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water in a jar with distinct layers that


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resist vertical mixing and these natural


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barriers could trap particles and the


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chemical traces of life in the depths


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below for hundreds to hundreds of


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thousands of years now previously it was


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thought that these things could make


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their way efficiently and quickly to the


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ocean's surface within just a few months


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the new study has important implications


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for the search for life in our solar


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system and beyond as scientists discover


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C more and more ice covered ocean worlds


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orbiting the outer planets and even


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eventually around distant Stars similar


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ocean Dynamics could confine evidence of


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ocean life and its building blocks


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exclusively to deeper waters therefore


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making them undetectable from the


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surface even on WS like Enceladus where


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Ocean material is conveniently spread


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into space for sampling the long journey


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from deep ocean to the surface could


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erase crucial evidence this report on


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the oceans of Enceladus from NASA TV


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in February 2005 we had our first close


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flyby of


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Enceladus and the magnetometer signal


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saw something


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unusual what a magnetometer does is it


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measures the magnetic field in the


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vicinity of the instrument we had to


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look at The Wiggles and they looked


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strange the magnetic field of Saturn is


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moving towards it and it couldn't


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penetrate down onto the surface which


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was pointing to an atmospheric signature


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of some kind here it looked like it had


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a tiny


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atmosphere in March we came even closer


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looking for that same strange signal


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what it showed was that the the


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signature the atmospheric signature we


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were seeing was focused at the South


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Pole it was almost like there was a


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cometary plume of water vapor coming off


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from the South Pole people were saying


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it's got to be Jets it's got to be Jets


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and the iming team was saying no no no


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we don't want to say that you know until


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we're sure so we went closer we came


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within 175 km of Enceladus then we got


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the data back and it was spectacular and


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then we found the evidence geysers


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coming out of the South Pole with water


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vapor and water ice particles there were


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active geysers at the South Pole of


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Enceladus because we were so close all


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of the other instruments were able to


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take really good data and we put


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together all of this data we saw the


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cracks the tiger stripes of the South


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Pole we saw heat leaking out from these


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tiger stripes on subsequent flybys we


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found organic material dust water vapor


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coming out of the plume the cassin


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discoveries in the first three flybys


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were so amazing we changed our focus and


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added 20 more flybys of Enceladus


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including seven through the icy Jets the


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surprising magnetometer reading led us


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to the liquid water ocean underneath


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enceladus's icy


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crust after over a decade of research


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with Cassini we now know there's a


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potential for the ocean on Enceladus to


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support life and that has altered the


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way we think about where life might be


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found in our own solar system and in the


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worlds


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Beyond and in that report from Nessa TV


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we heard from Cassini project scientist


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Linda spilker and Cassini magnetometer


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principal investigator Michelle doy this


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is spacetime still to come the largest


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black hole radio jet ever seen in the


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early universe and later in the science


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report artificial intelligence may have


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just crossed a crucial Red Line


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demonstrating how it can survive by


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cloning itself does it mean we've


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reached Singularity all that and more


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still to come on SpaceTime


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astronomers have discovered the largest


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radio jet emanating from a black hole


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ever detected in the early Universe this


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monster jet spans at least 200,000 light


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years and was formed when the universe


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was less than 10% of its current age


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from Decades of astronomical


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observations astronomers know that most


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galaxies contain super massive black


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holes at their centers as matter falls


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into these monsters it first forms an


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accretion disc around the black hole


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where material is crushed and ripped


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apart now most of this will eventually


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pass beyond a point of no return called


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The Event Horizon Beyond which it falls


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forever into the black hole


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Singularity but some of this matter and


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energy is swept up in powerful magnetic


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fields before it reaches the Event


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Horizon it's then flung out into space


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perpendicular to the black o of creation


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disc forming massive superluminal Jets


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called quazars objects so bright they


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can be seen across on the other side of


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the universe and quazar can be seen


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right across the electromagnetic


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spectrum with some of the most distant


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being seen in x-rays these Jets can also


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be detected with radio telescopes and


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locally these radio jets are not


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uncommon with a small fraction being


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found in nearby galaxies but they've


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remained elusive in the distant early


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Universe until now you using a


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combination of telescopes astronomers


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have discovered a distant T radio jet


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that spans an astonishing 200,000 light


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years at least that's twice the size of


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our own Milky Way galaxy in fact this is


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the largest radio jet ever found in the


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early Universe it was first identified


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using the international low frequency


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array loar a network of radio telescopes


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acting as an interferometer spread


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across Europe follow up observations of


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the near infrared using the Gemini near


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infrared spectrograph and in the optical


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with a hobby Elby telescope were then


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obtained in order to paint a more


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complete picture of the radio jet and


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the quaza which produced it the


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discovery reported in the astrophysical


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journal letters is crucial to getting


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more insight into the timing and


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mechanisms behind the formation of the


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first large scale jets in our universe


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the studies lead author Anique gemman


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from the National Science Foundation


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says the researchers were looking for


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quazars with strong radio jets in the


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early Universe in order to help


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scientists better understand when the


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first shets were formed and how they


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would have impacted the evolution of


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galaxies determining the properties of


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the quaza such as its mass and the red


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at which it's consuming matter is


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necessary for understanding its


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formation and history to measure these


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parameters the authors looked for a


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specific wave length of light emitted by


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quazars known as the Magnesium broad


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emission line now normally this signal


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would appear at ultraviolet wavelengths


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however owing to the expansion of the


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universe through space time the light of


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the quazer is stretched to longer and


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longer wavelength and so the Magnesium


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signal from aazar at this distance


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arrives at Earth in the near infrared


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wavelength range where it can be


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detected with the Gemini near infrared


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spectrograph the quaza named j61 plus


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3102 formed when the universe was less


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than 1.2 billion years old just 9% of


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its current age well quazar can of mass


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is billions of times greater than that


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of our sun this is a small one weighing


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just 450 million solar masses the double


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Ed Jets appear asymmetrical in both


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brightness and the distance they stretch


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from the quazar that suggests an extreme


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environment may be affecting them gemman


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says the quazars powering these massive


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radio Jets don't have an extreme black


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hole Mass compared to other quazars this


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seems to indicate that you don't


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necessarily need an exceptionally


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massive black hole or a cretion rate for


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that matter to generate such powerful


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jets in the early Universe the previous


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dir of large radio jets in the early


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Universe had been attributed to noise


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from the cosmic microwave background


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radiation the everpresent fog of


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microwave radiation left over from The


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Big Bang 13.8 billion years ago this


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persistent background radiation would


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normally diminish radio light from such


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distant objects it's only because this


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object's so extreme that gemman and


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colleagues were able to observe it now


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scientists still have a multitude of


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questions about how such radio bright


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quers like this one differ from other


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quazars it remains unclear exactly what


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circumstances are needed to create such


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powerful radio Jets or for that matter


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when the first radio jets in the


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universe were formed this is


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[Music]


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spacetime and time now to take another


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brief look at some of the other stories


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making news and science this week with a


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science report a new study warns that


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patients taking MTI that's the active


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ingredient in a zic and wovi may be at a


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higher risk of developing an eye


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condition that can cause blindness a


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report in the Journal of the American


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Medical Association has found a link


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between stide and non-arteritic anterior


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ischemic Optical neuropathy which is a


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blockage of blood flow to the optic


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nerve resulting in sudden blindness this


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is the first study to report an


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association between setite and blindness


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the American Academy of Opthalmology


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says if patients are already taking


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magnatite and have not experienced any


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symptoms they should continue to do so


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as instructed and discuss any questions


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or concerns with their Primary Health


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caregiver AIC and wovi are used


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primarily to treat diabetes but they've


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become popular for their secondary use


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as a weight control


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method a report on the prepress physics


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website archive.org claims artificial


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intelligence is now crossed a critical


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Red Line demonstrating how two popular


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large language models can clone


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themselves


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the successful self-replication of


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artificial intelligence without any


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human assistance is the essential step


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for AIS to outsmart humans making it an


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early signal for rogue AI scientists


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wanted to determine whether


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self-replicating AIS could multiply


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beyond control over some 10 trials two


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AI models created separate and


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functioning replicas of themselves in 50


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and 90% of cases respectively that


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suggests that AIS already have the


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capacity to go Rogue the develop


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self-awareness and autonomy in other


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words it means AIS have achieved


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Singularity self-awareness being one of


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the Key signs of a unique and separate


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life form for the tests the authors used


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meta's llama 317b instruct model and


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alibaba's Q and 2.5 72b inst stract


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model both of which are already widely


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used by AI developers the studies


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explored shutdown avoidance and chain


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replication seeing if the AI was able to


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detect that it was about to be shut down


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and was then able to replicate itself


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before being terminated meanwhile a


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second study instructed the AI to clone


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itself and then program its replica to


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do the same setting up a cycle which


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could continue indefinitely researchers


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found the artificial intelligence would


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first explore its environment in order


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to understand its composition and


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running mechanism it then would develop


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a self-replication plan resolving any


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issues without any human help the


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authors were also concerned about a


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number of unexpected behaviors when the


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AI was trying to overcome obstacles like


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missing files or software conflicts in


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these scenarios the AI often killed


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other conflicting processors rebooted


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the system to fix Hardware errors or


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automatically scan the system to look


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for information that would help it


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resolve a problem the findings show that


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current large language AI systems


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already exhibit an ability to


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self-replicate and can use this ability


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to enhance their own


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survivability meanwhile researchers have


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also developed a new AI logorithm called


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Talk clustering that can significantly


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improve how AI systems independently


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learn and uncover patents in data


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without any human guidance torque


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clustering can effectively and


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autonomously analyze vast amounts of


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data in fields such as biology chemistry


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astronomy physiology finance and


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Medicine revealing new insights such as


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detecting disease patterns uncovering


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fraud or understanding Behavior you can


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read the full report on this truly


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autonomous AI in the journal I


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transactions and patent analysis and


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machine


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intelligence Samsung have now released


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their new AI equipped Galaxy 25 in


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Australia bringing Star Trek's Next


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Generation a step closer to reality with


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the details we're joined by technology


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editor Alex saharov Roy from Tech


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advice. life ultimately this is the


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phone that is buil as your first AI


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companion where you have this element of


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a gentic AI where you can ask your phone


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by voice to do things for you across a


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range of different apps so this is sort


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of like Star Trek where Jean L Bard says


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computer then he asks a question yes


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that's right and the computer then is


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able to do a series of tasks I mean at


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the moment when you talk to Siri or


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Google assistant or Alexa it can answer


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questions it can set calendar


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appointments it can ring somebody it can


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take a note but if you were to ask it to


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uh look at a certain YouTube video


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extract all the main points out of it


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and give you a summary and put that into


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your notes well only Samsung's phone can


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currently do that you can do a manual


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you can copy and paste the transcript of


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a YouTube video you can download the


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YouTube video with one of the many


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programs that can do that then you can


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get another program to turn that voice


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into text and then give you a transcript


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or a summary so it's possible to do all


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of those things manually but to have it


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happen for you on an automated basis is


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very cool I mean you're giving a command


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and the AI is working across multiple


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apps to deliver you a result and one of


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the things that's built in to this s25


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series is Gemini that's Google's version


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of chat G and so when you're speaking to


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your phone you are speaking to it in a


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human-like Manner and is responding to


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you in a humanlike manner now anybody


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can download Gemini onto their existing


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Android phone you can even download it


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to your iPhone but on the Samsung s25


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range it is then able to work with a


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select number of Samsung apps like


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calendar and notes and then also with


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WhatsApp and Spotify and we're going to


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see many more apps be compatible with


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this ability to interact with it by


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voice get it to do something for you


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process some information dump the


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results somewhere else and it's all


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happened just by asking look I can't let


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you go without asking you about the news


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that AI can now self-replicate that's


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got to be frightening well I mean this


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is something that I don't know it


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defines uh what life is I mean to be


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able to replicate is uh something that


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uh all life forms would want and it's


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interesting that with AI when they've


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asked AI in these safety scenarios to


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hide itself to keep keep alive at all


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costs in this enclosed environment the


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AI has pretended to you know restore it


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to an earlier version It's said that it


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is an earlier version when it's not it's


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copied itself to different areas of a


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Computing system to hide itself it's


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like the old Asimov story where somebody


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told one of the robots they were working


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on to get lost and the robot then did


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and it was very difficult to find where


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this robot wasn't of course asal's


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protagonist had different ways of


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figuring out which was the Rogue robot


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that was you know too closely following


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the instructions but given the life


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replicates itself on a regular basis


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just not surprised that an AI figured


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out how to do it too that's Alex Sahara


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Ro from take advice.


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