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    Brian Roemmele Shares AI Alpha Centauri Mission Claim

    The AI thought leader posted about a planned spacecraft journey on X.

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    Brian Roemmele posted on X that AI discovered a trajectory for the Fermi Explorer Mission. He stated the spacecraft would reach Alpha Centauri by the end of 2029. The post described a vehicle carrying at least one kilogram of cargo that includes artistic and scientific items. An 82-second 3D CGI video accompanied the message. The post linked to a project site for additional information on the proposed interstellar trip.

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    @BrianRoemmeleBuckle up, we are going to Alpha Centauri! AI just plotted an interstellar journey to Alpha Centauri. The Fermi Explorer Mission plans to launch a spacecraft to our nearest star by the end of 2029, using a trajectory discovered by AI. The spacecraft will carry at least one kilogram of cargo, including artistic and scientific payloads, messages, and a copy of the Golden Record, the gold-plated disc of Earth’s sounds and images that NASA attached to its two Voyager probes in 1977 as a message to any civilization that might find them. After the Fermi team struggled to find a workable route, they ran it through an AI system called Get Physics Done. It is open-source software that takes a physics research question, breaks it into smaller tasks, and decides which simulations to run. A week later, the AI found a novel trajectory. It combined well-known orbital maneuvers in a way the Fermi team had not considered, according to the paper below, which has not been peer-reviewed. It suggested the spacecraft could first slow down so its orbit swings closer to the sun than Mercury. On each close pass, it would fire its engine so the solar panels get four times the light. A burst of thrust delivered at high speed would buy more energy than the same burst anywhere else. Because the engine would run only near the sun, the solar panels could stay small and the spacecraft light. The Fermi project is not just an interstellar mission driven by engineering ambition. It is also a quest to answer one of the oldest open questions in physics. In 1950, Enrico Fermi posed a puzzle: the galaxy has hundreds of billions of stars, most of them far older than our sun. Even a civilization traveling slowly between stars could spread across the whole galaxy in a few million years, which pales next to the age of the galaxy. If intelligent life exists somewhere, we should have seen signs of it by now. Somewhere out there, another civilization is asking the same question. We are sending an answer. The worst of us think it is an invitation to raid us; that very ambition is what the Fermi Filter filters out. The best of us get through because we see more. And this is the result. A galactic message in a bottle saying… “YOU ARE NOT ALONE, WE ARE HERE” Paper: https://fermiexplorer.github.io/PSI.pdf
    @katelin_cruseThe night I met @PhilipJohnston, we spent most of it on one question: "Where IS everybody?" Yep, we skipped the pleasantries and went straight to super intelligence and our musings on extraterrestrial life. Yesterday he announced he's building a spacecraft to go look for them. The very spacecraft we laughed and joked about as a wild idea over dessert. Philip, along with his @Starcloud_ co-founders @AdiOltean and @EzraFeilden, launched the Fermi Explorer Mission, a 501c3 with a single goal. Put a spacecraft in the sky before the end of 2029 and point it at Alpha Centauri. It weighs about a kilogram. The payload is roughly the size of a Post-it note. The trip takes 80,000 years. The whole mission costs under $15 million and requires zero new physics. They're using technology that already works, which is the part I found utterly fascinating. The barrier was never capability. It was that nobody had been curious enough to go. As a family, we look at the night sky often. We have conversations about life -- both here on Earth and trying to explain the sublime feeling of feeling tiny, yet meaningful, against the vastness of the Universe. My boys are still young enough to be free from a grown ego that stops most adults from experiencing this feeling freely. I decided that the best way to bottle this feeling is captured in this project. This was the easiest check I've ever written. My kids will never see this spacecraft arrive. Neither will their grandchildren, or the roughly three thousand generations behind them. And that's exactly the point. We spend our lives optimizing for the next quarter, the next cycle, the next twelve months. Once in a while you get the chance to put something into the world where the only possible return is that humanity tried. Garrett Jameson, ten years in the Air Force, is running the project day to day. Go read what they're doing. It's the most optimistic and human thing I think I've ever been a part of. Show me them interstellars! Ad astra! 👏 Congratulations Philip, Adi, and Ezra. See you at Alpha Centauri. Eventually. 💙
    @alexisohanianRT @katelin_cruse: The night I met @PhilipJohnston, we spent most of it on one question: "Where IS everybody?" Yep, we skipped the pleasant…

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    @BrianRoemmeleBuckle up, we are going to Alpha Centauri! AI just plotted an interstellar journey to Alpha Centauri. The Fermi Explorer Mission plans to launch a spacecraft to our nearest star by the end of 2029, using a trajectory discovered by AI. The spacecraft will carry at least one kilogram of cargo, including artistic and scientific payloads, messages, and a copy of the Golden Record, the gold-plated disc of Earth’s sounds and images that NASA attached to its two Voyager probes in 1977 as a message to any civilization that might find them. After the Fermi team struggled to find a workable route, they ran it through an AI system called Get Physics Done. It is open-source software that takes a physics research question, breaks it into smaller tasks, and decides which simulations to run. A week later, the AI found a novel trajectory. It combined well-known orbital maneuvers in a way the Fermi team had not considered, according to the paper below, which has not been peer-reviewed. It suggested the spacecraft could first slow down so its orbit swings closer to the sun than Mercury. On each close pass, it would fire its engine so the solar panels get four times the light. A burst of thrust delivered at high speed would buy more energy than the same burst anywhere else. Because the engine would run only near the sun, the solar panels could stay small and the spacecraft light. The Fermi project is not just an interstellar mission driven by engineering ambition. It is also a quest to answer one of the oldest open questions in physics. In 1950, Enrico Fermi posed a puzzle: the galaxy has hundreds of billions of stars, most of them far older than our sun. Even a civilization traveling slowly between stars could spread across the whole galaxy in a few million years, which pales next to the age of the galaxy. If intelligent life exists somewhere, we should have seen signs of it by now. Somewhere out there, another civilization is asking the same question. We are sending an answer. The worst of us think it is an invitation to raid us; that very ambition is what the Fermi Filter filters out. The best of us get through because we see more. And this is the result. A galactic message in a bottle saying… “YOU ARE NOT ALONE, WE ARE HERE” Paper: https://fermiexplorer.github.io/PSI.pdf
    @katelin_cruseThe night I met @PhilipJohnston, we spent most of it on one question: "Where IS everybody?" Yep, we skipped the pleasantries and went straight to super intelligence and our musings on extraterrestrial life. Yesterday he announced he's building a spacecraft to go look for them. The very spacecraft we laughed and joked about as a wild idea over dessert. Philip, along with his @Starcloud_ co-founders @AdiOltean and @EzraFeilden, launched the Fermi Explorer Mission, a 501c3 with a single goal. Put a spacecraft in the sky before the end of 2029 and point it at Alpha Centauri. It weighs about a kilogram. The payload is roughly the size of a Post-it note. The trip takes 80,000 years. The whole mission costs under $15 million and requires zero new physics. They're using technology that already works, which is the part I found utterly fascinating. The barrier was never capability. It was that nobody had been curious enough to go. As a family, we look at the night sky often. We have conversations about life -- both here on Earth and trying to explain the sublime feeling of feeling tiny, yet meaningful, against the vastness of the Universe. My boys are still young enough to be free from a grown ego that stops most adults from experiencing this feeling freely. I decided that the best way to bottle this feeling is captured in this project. This was the easiest check I've ever written. My kids will never see this spacecraft arrive. Neither will their grandchildren, or the roughly three thousand generations behind them. And that's exactly the point. We spend our lives optimizing for the next quarter, the next cycle, the next twelve months. Once in a while you get the chance to put something into the world where the only possible return is that humanity tried. Garrett Jameson, ten years in the Air Force, is running the project day to day. Go read what they're doing. It's the most optimistic and human thing I think I've ever been a part of. Show me them interstellars! Ad astra! 👏 Congratulations Philip, Adi, and Ezra. See you at Alpha Centauri. Eventually. 💙
    @alexisohanianRT @katelin_cruse: The night I met @PhilipJohnston, we spent most of it on one question: "Where IS everybody?" Yep, we skipped the pleasant…