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https://github.com/deepseek-ai/Janus/blob/main/janus_pro_tech_report.pdf

USA lost, China Won, glory to the CCP! :marseysalutechina: :marseymaoist: :marseyxi:

https://i.rdrama.net/images/1738017067_PQy-yrh6dzvQA.webp

Orange Site:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42843131

:marseybluecheck:

:marsey4chan:

https://boards.4chan.org/g/thread/104075936

https://boards.4chan.org/g/thread/104077316

https://boards.4chan.org/g/thread/104077293

:marseysnoo:

https://old.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1ibd5x0/deepseek_releases_deepseekaijanuspro7b_unified/

https://old.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1ibe4j7/deepseek_drops_multimodal_januspro7b_model/

https://old.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/1ibdhct/once_you_think_theyre_done_deepseek_releases/

https://old.reddit.com/r/DeepSeek/comments/1ibfed1/news_deepseek_just_dropped_another_opensource_ai/

https://old.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1ibdyou/deepseek_just_dropped_janus_7b_mit_licensed/

https://old.reddit.com/r/China_irl/comments/1ibg4mh/deepseek%E5%88%9A%E5%8F%91%E5%B8%83%E4%BA%86%E5%8F%A6%E4%B8%80%E6%AC%BE%E5%BC%80%E6%BA%90ai%E6%A8%A1%E5%9E%8Bjanuspro%E5%A4%9A%E6%A8%A1%E6%80%81%E6%A8%A1%E5%9E%8B%E5%85%B6%E4%B8%ADjanuspro7b%E5%9C%A8%E6%B5%8B%E8%AF%95%E4%B8%AD/

:marseymouse:

https://hexbear.net/post/4363677?scrollToComments=false

https://hexbear.net/post/4364578?scrollToComments=false

BlueSky:

DeepSeek has released a new set of multimodal AI models that it claims can outperform OpenAI’s DALL-E 3.The models are part of a new model family that DeepSeek is calling Janus-Pro. They range in size from 1 billion to 7 billion parameters.Read more here: tcrn.ch/40Bc5Qm

β€” TechCrunch (@techcrunch.com) 2025-01-27T21:38:20.589Z

:marseyexcited:

https://rdrama.net/post/337205/deepseek-drops-multimodal-januspro7b-model-beating

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shoutout to my fellow blue name neighbors :marseycortana:

yall are real ones

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:toadcelebrate: you're going to be so happy

					
					
					
	

				
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Black Hawk :marseyblackcock: :marseysmug3:

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Meanwhile in Krautland

!germs

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:marseyitsoveryall:~75% of farm workers in Bakersfield didn't show up today :marseydarktrump: :marseylatinxpearlclutch:

					
					

ITT hysteria over food shortages, mocking Americans wanting good wages and wanting the brown wage slaves back in the fields

https://i.rdrama.net/images/1737653393ZLnd5omw6qrTvA.webp

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Theres more in the thread

I'm not used to liberal spaces anymore its weird to see them all mocking Americans for wanting money, advocating for CA separating and valuing illegal immigrants so much.

Personally I only think there will be prices increases on specific crops for now, and if Trump doesn't pull back farmers will just purchase automated picking machines they only didn't before because mexicans were that cheap

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G*mers rise up on :marseytrain: Lands 4 Steam forums!

It all started when some nazi chud made this racist post:

https://i.rdrama.net/images/1738243584sVF4jQLs2phcNg.webp

Thankfully he was swiftly banned by the 24/7 online shemale jannies:

https://i.rdrama.net/images/17382435840M27WZbjl3G9MQ.webp

But G*mers not having it, so they did the only thing they could think of, spam the entire forum with the same message like toddlers:

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Tomorrow's protests are gonna be a shitshow : VaushV

					
					
					
	

				
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Why did Elon Musk just say Trump wants to bring two stranded astronauts home?

For reasons that were not immediately clear, SpaceX founder Elon Musk took to his social media site X on Tuesday evening to make a perplexing space-based pronouncement.

"The POTUS has asked SpaceX to bring home the 2 astronauts stranded on the Space_Station as soon as possible. We will do so," Musk wrote. "Terrible that the Biden administration left them there so long."

Now generally, at Ars Technica, it is not our policy to write stories strictly based on things Elon Musk says on X. However, this statement was so declarative, and so consternation-inducing for NASA, it bears a bit of explication.

lmao bullshit, Ars loves to sneed about everything Elon does; it's basically TMZ but only covering Elon.

Foremost, NASA has gone to great lengths to stress that the two astronauts referenced hereβ€”Butch Wilmore and Suni Williamsβ€”are not stranded on the International Space Station.

The astronauts are clearly stranded as has been covered extensively over the last year by even leftie organisations:

https://i.rdrama.net/images/173818203923JrBx-CQn5RPA.webp

NPR also released an article insisting that the astronauts aren't stranded - https://www.npr.org/2025/01/28/nx-s1-5278636/iss-astronaut-rescue-spacex-trump:

https://i.rdrama.net/images/1738182039foRasI_xhODDHg.webp


Ars comments are of course mad:

https://i.rdrama.net/images/17381820399EiC2sgo4B8C_A.webp

Why wouldn't the US government want to bring two stranded astronauts home? Why is this the top comment? What are you mad about?


https://i.rdrama.net/images/1738182040RyK8YPMiTAsC-g.webp

They were meant to be there for eight days. The eighteen month stay was planned.


https://i.rdrama.net/images/1738182040kt_-3YyS89K-8Q.webp

And yet they're still stranded there, curious. Why don't they just fly back home? They must want to be there.


https://i.rdrama.net/images/1738182040ed7suviJK9SQBg.webp

The bottom two comments - note the guy who's had an account for 17 years.

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Wildcard Thread, Divisional Thread Regular Season MVP betting is still open.

NFC is Commanders @ Eagles Sunday Jan 26 3:00 PM Eastern

AFC is Bills @ Chiefs Sunday Jan 26 6:30 PM Eastern

Of the earlier bets we had 14 teams and 7 teams have been trimmed down to 4 and 2 options

For the 14 team free for all bet for a pot of 186 bets/37,200 coins

https://i.rdrama.net/images/1737403425rpszpIvmeoJ8yQ.webp

AFC for 88 bets/17,600 coins

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NFC for 115 bets/23,000 coins

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pings: !mensfootball !goomble !goomblers !bets @BILLYBIGBOLLOCKS @Freak-Off @Drippo @SpudsMackenzie

I know, that's a lot of losers! However, here's a bonus chance to recuperate some of those loses or for winning chads to double down on their sports wisdom. The 5th bet here & 3rd bet in the games below is just for me to add bonus money. If you click it you are throwing your money away and/or are a self-less patron of gamblers.

Of the 4 remaining teams Who will win the Super Bowl

Chiefs - 171 bets

Bills - 91 bets

Eagles - 93 bets

Commanders - 59 bets

DON'T CLICK THIS - 69 bets

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31 year old virgin it's not over (it's over)

no really, it bothers me but not like it does some people

i have my excuses (my spine is deteriorating haha) but it is what it is

worst part imo is how far ive come. i used to be a pure antisocial shut in, but it took until my mid 20s to become social. people seem to view me as charismatic now.

im going to ask a girl out soon. ive been on a few dates but its been way too long. i have no money and no car (of my own) so frick it why not.

but there's plenty of things in life that make me happy. my r-slurred cat is sitting on me and i love her so much, but shes making my legs way too hot, but i love her so ill endure it until i cant and then tell her i love her

of course i kinda wanna die but thats more due to the constant crippling pain. lol

its like 3am and i kinda want to kiss my self right now. haha

is it genuinely over? AMA, talk shit, give advice, manifest destiny, idc, i clearly just need attention. i just want to hold someone in my arms thst genuinely wants to be there with me. xD

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/r/games re- ACK!ts: https://old.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/1iciwl6/sony_corp_shake_up_hiroki_totoki_named_corporate/

ReetardEra re-ACK!ts: https://www.resetera.com/threads/hideaki-nishino-elevated-to-solo-ceo-role-at-sie-herman-hulst-remains-as-ceo-of-the-studio-business-group.1094379/

NeoStrags sneed: https://www.neogaf.com/threads/sony-shake-up-hiroki-totoki-named-corporate-ceo-hideaki-nishino-elevated-to-sie-solo-ceo-herman-hulst-reports-to-nishino-now.1680154/

4chuds chudlebrating: https://boards.4chan.org/v/thread/701522090

Kiwiggers are also chudlebrating the return of glorious Nippon: https://kiwifarms.st/threads/sony-hate-thread.87498/post-20448374

!g*mers !chuds !asians

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!transphobes !chuds

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Wifejack X Incel
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:marseydisgustnotes: COMMUNITY NOTED Now we know why Trump :marseyhitler2: had such an obsession :marseybardfinnsbiggestenjoyer: with Hunter :marseycastlevania: Bidens peepee

!r-slura I do not post very often but when I do it's quality :marseycertified: politician :marseykamalarentfree: Micropeepee :marseydicklet:

Community Note by @whatastory

this is 100% a real photo btw. certified bunked :marseyokay:

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Community Note by @Epicaricacy

This tweet is from 2011, but the image is from 2016. Trump did not post this image from the future.

Someone either changed the link shortener to point elsewhere, or bought the domain and changed the page itself.

https://i.rdrama.net/images/1738680561HXW33P6to7m6kw.webp

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:marseydisgustnotes: COMMUNITY NOTED The Great LKY demonstrates to humanity the true nature of Amerifats at every level from the lowest to the highest.

Hey peeps, how come we don't have an LKY Marsey yet?

Community Note by @forgor

:marseypajeetmask: YOU NEED TO LET ME LIVE IN YOUR COUNTRY BHENCHOD

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An armed man arrested at the U.S. Capitol said he planned to kill Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, and burn down The Heritage Foundation, federal authorities say.

Ryan Michael English, 24, of Massachusetts (:marseymayo:), was found with a knife and two Molotov cocktails on Monday afternoon near the south door of the Capitol, U.S. District Court records say.

"I'd like to turn myself in," English said after he approached a U.S. Capitol Police officer, the records say.

Officers detained and searched him and found he had a folding knife, a lighter and two 50-mililiter bottles of vodka with a gray cloth attached to the top.

English told officers he went to the Capitol to kill Bessent, who was being confirmed as Treasury secretary. He said he had more Molotov cocktails in his car.

He said he left home on Sunday with the intention to kill Hegseth, who he called a "Nazi," and Johnson, as well as burn down The Heritage Foundation. He said he aimed to "depose" the officials and send a message, records say.

As English headed to D.C., he stopped at a library in Chevy Chase, Maryland, and saw Reddit posts about Bessent's confirmation hearing. He then altered his intended target, the records say.

Read more @nbcwashington

!trump2024 !trump2028 !project2025 !the_donald !chuds !accelerationists !fedposters

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Google Maps announced that it will change Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America, r/worldnews is going through a LOT :marseyrope:

					
					

This reeks of "Freedom Fries."

I thought freedom fries was the dumbest thing i've ever seen out of washington... well until now. 4 more years of this BTW.

:m#arseyseethe:

Fun fact about World War One, the US started calling Sauerkraut by the name of Liberty Cabbage. We don't have fresh ideas.

The Gulf of Liberty Cabbage

Welp, I know which name I'm going with.

I'm going with Gulf of Mexico, with Gulfy McGulfface being a close second option.

:soysn#ooseethetyping:

I'm in NZ. Google maps says its Gulf of Mexico (because that's its fricking name).

>Google says it will change Gulf of Mexico to 'Gulf of America' in Maps after government updates

>will change

:ma#rseygigaretard:

Hopefully, it's only 4 more years.

if we're not in some kinda post apocalyptic scenario in 4 years i'll be pleasantly surprised

That's the shit that has me up all night.. Fricking lunatics have escaped the asylum again, but this time they're prepared. This ain't "Joker 2" muthafricka!

Four years, give or take a /r/collapse

:soysn#ooseethetyping: :soysn#ooseethetyping:

This was only the first week. ugh

4 more years so far...

Yup. Just the first week. Im so sick of the darn trump show and it doesn't seem there is a way to unsubscribe, disconnect, turn the channel, unplug the tv etc. His brand of stupidity is fricking everywhere.

4? Try 8 when vance gets elected

Hopefully you'll still have a country that resembles the US in 4 years.

:ma#rseydoomer:

They ruined the Dixie Chicks' career because they spoke out. Turns out we should trust some musicians for our foreign policy.

Just because some are sometimes right doesn't mean we should generally trust musicians.

The overwhelming majority of musicians are not geopolitics experts, or at all informed on political issues.

The fact that we constantly expect celebrities to chime in on issues they have no expertise in is one of the reasons politics is so toxic and polarised today. It's contributed to the dumbing down of political discourse.

But also, being a musician does not disqualify you from having and expressing political opinions, nor does it guarantee that you are politically illiterate.

The world might be a better place if pop artists were more inclined to sing about politics than vague romantic notions.

real big "shut up and dribble" vibes coming from that dude

:soyreddit: : Rich people are out of touch and have no idea about reality or what the common people are going through! Guillotine them all!

:soysnoo: : Actually, more celebrities should lecture people on how to be hecking good human beans, after all they all agree with me. Tee hee!

The funny part to me is that "America" isn't even the name of our country, it's the name of the continent. We're the United States. 'Gulf of the Americas' kind of makes sense, but has nothing to do with the United States of America.

I could see that if it was the gulf of USA but Mexico is part of America

:mar#seyseethe: :mar#seyseethe:

And everyone will continue to call it the Gulf of Mexico

In Florida we just call it "the gulf".

Not any more - we'll be sure to add "of Mexico" for clarity from now on.

:mar#seyseethe::mar#seyseethe::mar#seyseethe:

Seems confusing. How do you know which gulf you're talking about?

What an absolutely brilliant question. Your mother must be so proud of you. Do you go poo poo on your own too? Awwwwwww.

Woosh

Awwww, not yet? You'll get there.

They are so angry they just attack each other for no reason :marseyrage:

Everyone who matters will call it the Gulf of Mexico, at least.

I hate to break it to you but everyone matters, not just those that agree with you. That was made very evident with the election. Just because in your mind you can just tell yourself other people don't matter, they actually do. And sadly, their decisions can frick up the world for you.

I think he/she might mean those in communities that actually deal with the Gulf like those in the scientific communities, not just the average layman.

Sure, that's perfectly possible. However, that doesn't counter my point at all. The entire idea that some matter, and some don't, is how we ended up in this mess in the first place. It turns out, everyone actually does, and if you don't believe that, your world can get pretty fricked up by that disbelief.

Give up brother this place is like a blindfolded circlejerk

Leftists purity checking each other over things that aren't even disagreements :marseymanysuchcases:

Americans don't matter to me any more.

What irrelevant country are you from?

The great thing about American exceptionalism is that it can never have any negative consequences of any kind. Good luck with that!

:mar#seyseethe: :mar#seyseethe: :mar#seyseethe: :mar#seyseethe:

I will. Frick that nazi. Gulf Of Mexico.

Oh so you like deadnaming now, interesting.

:chu#dsmug:

PM Trudeau of Canada should issue an order renaming the USA to "South Canada". Let's see Google change it for Canadian viewing.

This is exactly the kind of high-level international trolling we need. Show Trump for the pathetic man-child that he is.

:marseydarktrump: : So you guys agree that we should be same the country then!

But _I_ don't desire they use that name, and I'm American. Can we, like, petition Google to not be punks who do what the totalitarian wants?

Lmao. The Google CEO was front row at Trump's inauguration. Best of luck

Maybe constantly bitching about CEOs/rich people/important people even when they're on your side could have some unfortunate consequences? :marseyquestion:

Californian checking in. It's the Gulf of Mexico.

>Google will change

Google is the scariest of all tech companies. They are essentially our library. They have the ability to manipulate the narrative on a different level. For the vast majority they are our dictionary, our encyclopedia, our Library of Alexandria. They are THE reference for day to day life. Our last arbiter of truth.

We are already aware that weighted searches are for sale.. but them kissing the ring is scarier than social media techs doing so. By my estimation, at least.

That's why I periodically download wikipedia

:s#mugjak:

"Here at Google, we deepthroat the whole boot"

Stop being anti-corporations and maybe they'll like your side too :marseyshrug:

Why do people think this ends when trump ends? It doesn't. It's being set up so it doesn't. We will get Vance, who is more cognizant and has the potential to be worse.

True but, I don't think anyone but Trump has what it takes to rile up the morons enough to get out and vote.

It's comments like this that make me think you people still do not understand the magnitude of this election.

Every single lever of power in the government that matters is now firmly controlled by people who are perfectly fine cheating in broad daylight with a violent mob to maintain that power.

They are not going to let themselves be voted out of that power.

Maybe choose an actual candidate next time instead of an identity checklist? :marseykamakama:

I think his cult followers can absolutely be manipulated, post Trump Death, into turning on themselves. I don't think they're accept the Charisma vacuum as the next leader.

I think the internal MAGA civil war will tear the movement apart.

You just have to hope that they haven't destroyed democracy too much post that point.

Like how you guys lost the election? :marseysmug2:

People want to believe that Trump is pulling the strings. They don't want to believe that there's a group of people putting EOs on his desk to sign without reading

Fricking wingcucks lmao :marseynoyouwingcuck:

Now factor in the very best healthcare that money can't buy.

COVID would have killed him if he wasn't POTUS. Sad this dude keeps escaping death. It's always the evil ones that live the longest. :/

Even the best medicine can't do miracles.

Ah, frick, who am I kidding, modern medicine is a miracle. We're fricked.

:ma#rseydoomer: :ma#rseydoomer:

[Karma] Doesn't exist.

I mean… it does. You'll see. And even if you don't believe, when bad things happen, I can assure you us real Americans will be cheering

I'm a real American too but I don't believe karma is an actual thing. If it were true, why would such monstrosities be done to innocent people over the course of history? What did they ALL do to deserve slavery/torture/murder/r*pe/genocide?

I meant real in the sense cheering for karma to happen to dotard. You are also assuming you know exactly how something you don't believe in actually works. Bold assumption

Do you know exactly how it works then?

I know what I believe, but is it what religious adherents believe? No, don't think so.

How is that any different than what I said?

Cause I think my version is real or is to me at least. You said none of it is real.

It's real to me that it doesn't exist.

Hippie with exotic beliefs meets edgy reddit atheist. The argument goes past this point btw :marseynoyou:

Regarding the BMI, I get the impression he's been taking Ozempic or something. He seems to have been slowly thinning out

Maybe but elderly people often thin out for a variety of reasons, most of which are not good.

Yeah that's usually a sign of deaths door

:m#arseycope:

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Let's read Daily Mail commenter opinions on Dry January

The article:

https://i.rdrama.net/images/1738338132DawuRhAuP7bJPQ.webp

The comments are full of alcoholic boomers in denial, furiously :marseycope:ing and :marseyseethe:ing:

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A lot of these guys seem like they have quite serious alcohol addictions.

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This is the classic Daily Mail alcohol "gotcha" - completely ignoring that if you're an alcoholic then you'll die 20 years earlier and in severe pain after decades of poor health.

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>mfw no FBI gf

if you are a fed PLEASE DM me

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[GOOMBLE :marseyladybugitsover:] Will the Federal Government of the United States Kill ALL Zoomers?

TikTok will be sold to an American company and continue operating. - 59 bets

It will be sold to a non-US company and @hACAppy_2025 will win at slots, namaste - 11 bets

TikTok will be kill - 89 bets

Tim Apple will bravely refuse to remove TikTok from the Apple store, in bold DEFIANCE of the kkkorupt kkkapitalist kkkrooks running the so-called "United" States - 9 bets

It will be sold to :marseyelmo: and promptly renamed TixTox - 3 bets


!remindme 24 hours "close the toktik"

!bets !goomble !goomblers !goombling !asians

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Astronomers have been left red-faced after announcing the discovery of a new near-Earth asteroid β€” only to realize that the supposed space rock was the remains of Elon Musk's cherry-red Tesla Roadster and its spacesuit-clad driver "Starman."

The misidentified object, which was launched into space on board a SpaceX rocket in 2018, highlights a growing problem in astronomy that could lead to costly errors, researchers say.

On Jan. 2, the International Astronomical Union's Minor Planet Center (MPC) added a new object, dubbed 2018 CN41, to its list of near-Earth asteroids. The supposed space rock was identified by an unnamed amateur astronomer in Turkey using years of publicly available data, Astronomy.com reported. However, just 17 hours later, the MPC released an editorial notice retracting the discovery after the citizen scientist realized they had made a mistake.

The Tesla Roadster, which was previously used by Elon Musk, was launched into space on Feb. 6, 2018, as the test payload for the maiden launch of SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket. The publicity stunt garnered widespread attention at the time, partly due to Starman β€” a mannequin in the car's driving seat that was wearing a likely defective spacesuit and "listening" to David Bowie's album "Space Oddity" on loop.

The car and its driver headed toward Mars after escaping Earth's gravity and were supposed to enter a stable orbit around the Red Planet, which raised alarms at the time that it could become a potential Martian "biothreat" if it accidentally crash-landed there. However, the pair overshot their target and instead entered a stable orbit around the sun. Now, it circles the sun and occasionally zooms past Mars.

The Tesla has now completed roughly 4.5 trips around the sun, traveling at roughly 45,000 mph (72,000 km/h), according to whereisroadster.com. This means that the car has now exceeded its initial 36,000-mile warranty around 100,00 times.

However, the car is probably unrecognizable now after being exposed to years of intense radiation from the sun and bombarded by tiny fragments of space rocks, which have likely stripped the outer layers of the car and shredded Starman.

This is not the first time that human-made objects have been mistaken for near-Earth asteroids. The MPC has temporarily listed a number of spacecraft as space rocks over the last two decades β€” including the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft, NASA's Lucy probe, the joint European-Japanese BepiColombo mission and others β€” as well as rocket boosters and other debris, according to Astronomy.com.

This type of confusion will also likely increase as more human-made objects are launched into space.

These misidentifications could lead to more false alarms for near-Earth asteroids, which could in turn result in costly errors, Jonathan McDowell, an astronomer at the Harvard and Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, told Astronomy.com. "Worst case [scenario], you spend a billion [dollars] launching a space probe to study an asteroid and only realize it's not an asteroid when you get there," he said.

While space agencies and private companies are required to accurately track their products in orbit around Earth, there is currently no legislation that forces them to do the same for spacecraft and debris that escape Earth's gravity, like the Tesla Roadster.

However, "such transparency is essential for promoting space situational awareness, reducing interference between missions, [and] avoiding interference with observations of natural objects," members of the American Astronomical Society warned in a 2024 statement.

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