TRANSCRIPT · Space Outposts Beyond the Moon May Rely on Planetary AI ## Space Outposts Beyond the Moon May Rely on Planetary AI (Universe Today) https://www.universetoday.com/articles/space-outposts-beyond-the-moon-may-rely-on-planetary-ai GRANT BRICKMAN: The Moon may soon get an AI to pick its parking spots, and Nova is at the pad with the reveal. GRANT BRICKMAN: Good evening. NASA wants a permanent home on the Moon, and Nova is at the pad with a very big reveal. Nova? NOVA: Thank you, Grant! NASA plans to return astronauts to the lunar surface in 2028, the first time since Apollo 17 in 1972! NOVA: And they do not plan to stop there. The goal is a permanent human presence on the Moon, built slowly and meticulously! NOVA: Power, resource extraction, habitat technologies. Step by step. Even my helmet is impressed! NOVA: But where do you land? Researchers from The Ohio State University call their answer LUMINA, an agentic AI framework! NOVA: A study presented at DPS 58 says it can help mission planners evaluate safe landing sites, with a focus on water ice! NOVA: And here is the reveal! LUMINA does not just rely on orbital images. It also weighs terrain hazards, geology and surface properties! PASSERBY: A computer picks the parking spot on the Moon? I cannot even pick one at the supermarket. GRANT BRICKMAN: Marvellous. A machine that connects people to places. It is the old switchboard, but with craters. GRETA FOOTNOTE: Grant, it compares candidate landing sites with each other. The article also asks about Mars. Please do not book a switchboard. GRANT BRICKMAN: The AI has spoken, and it is one guy, I'm told. Back after this. ## Physical PC games could make a comeback thanks to GOG: "I really hope that we'll be able to do it" (GamesRadar) https://www.gamesradar.com/games/physical-pc-games-could-make-a-comeback-thanks-to-gog-i-really-hope-that-well-be-able-to-do-it/ GRETA FOOTNOTE: GOG would love to mail you a physical copy of any PC game, if the roadblocks let it. GRANT BRICKMAN: Welcome to Crossfire. The open question: can GOG really send you a physical copy of any game in its store? GARY: The dream from GOG's Marcin Paczynski: pick a game on your shelf, order it, and it arrives. Legal and logistical roadblocks stand in the way. LYLE HOTCHKISS: A box on a doorstep? That is the printing press, the Moon landing and sliced bread in one parcel! PRUDENCE NUANCE: Everyone wants the shelf. Has anyone asked who sorts out the legal part? LYLE HOTCHKISS: Decades of that download bar crawling across my screen like it owned me. A box would finally put it in its place. GARY: One more fact: it would be made to order, any game in the store. GOG calls getting there a very, very complicated thing. LYLE HOTCHKISS: Roadblocks? Convenient. Somebody wants those boxes stuck on a loading screen, and I want to know who. PRUDENCE NUANCE: GOG says hopeful and complicated in one breath. I will hold both, thanks. PRUDENCE NUANCE: The dull compromise: a few games first. The dream says any game, the roadblocks say wait. GRANT BRICKMAN: Known: GOG hopes to offer physical copies of any game. Open: how the legal and logistical roadblocks get cleared. Thank you both. ## The Pixel Line: viewers call in (PXL) GRANT BRICKMAN: The phones are open: your questions on RAM, Windows and Skyblivion. GRANT BRICKMAN: Good evening, and welcome to The Pixel Line. The lines are open, and I have been told not to touch the switchboard. PASSERBY: Hello! Why does the boss of OpenAI want my computer's memory to live in a data center? GRETA FOOTNOTE: Ines, he said on the Cheeky Pint podcast that scarce DRAM sits unused in PCs most of the time. Samsung and SK Hynix have deals that reserve much of the output. GRANT BRICKMAN: So the RAM is in the cloud now. Good. Weather can hold anything. PASSERBY: Herbert here. I saw Windows has new shortcuts. Will it put a shortcut icon on my desktop? I have a grudge against that desktop. GRETA FOOTNOTE: Herbert, these are quick settings in Xbox mode for Bluetooth, WiFi and power, plus a revamped search. They are in Insider builds for now. PASSERBY: Hi! The Skyblivion team, is that the cat video thing? Because my cat is also remaking Oblivion. GRETA FOOTNOTE: Mila, no. It is a team remaking Oblivion in Skyrim's engine. A former volunteer is threatening legal action over code they contributed. GRANT BRICKMAN: Thank you, callers. Lines remain open, much like my questions. Back after the break. ## [AD · fictional product] Copyjar GRETA FOOTNOTE: This is a public service announcement about backups. If a file exists in only one place, it is a rumour. GRETA FOOTNOTE: Copy the things you love to a second place, then a third. Check the copy. Yes, actually open it. GRETA FOOTNOTE: Do it today, before the drive does it for you. Now you know. ## Weather STORMY BYTES: London sits at 12 degrees and partly cloudy, with a high of 15, a low of 10 and a 0 percent chance of rain. Overcast, but optimistic! STORMY BYTES: Paris is 11 degrees under a clear sky, high 16, low 7, rain chance 0 percent. Mainly clear and mainly smug! STORMY BYTES: Berlin is 7 degrees and partly cloudy, high 11, low 6, with a 3 percent chance of light rain. A drizzle front of almost nothing! STORMY BYTES: Madrid is a mild 16 degrees and mainly clear, high 21, low 9, rain chance 0 percent. Partly cloudy later, hype stays high! STORMY BYTES: Rome is 14 degrees and mainly clear, high 21, low 10, rain chance 0 percent. A calm front all round! ## Real or PXL? GRANT BRICKMAN: Correct! The real one. Activision removing footage and apologising. The other was PXL's own invention, and quite a convincing hat. GRANT BRICKMAN: Ah, fooled! We made that one up. A hat pack, no less. Do not feel bad, the best writers in the building were fooled too. GRANT BRICKMAN: Time is up! The real headline was the Activision one. The other was ours. Do try to keep up. AI-written satire. The text of the news items comes from the linked articles.