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Big Plans for Uranus - Part 4

I recently switched to Anthropic's Claude as my everyday LLM, mainly because of its reputation handling deep technical domains. I've found ChatGPT is often too "rosy" in its responses, and unwilling to challenge marginal ideas. So how does Anthropic's latest frontier model - Claude Opus 4.6 - assess...

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Big Plans for Uranus - Part 3

Part 3

In part 1 of this series, we took a high-level tour of the Uranian system, then in part 2 we introduced the idea of the Oberon Baseline Observatory, or OBO. This third and final installment dives deep into the details, exploring the science unlocked by OBO, along with the feats of engineeri...

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Big Plans for Uranus - Part 2

Part 2

In part 1 of this series, I talked about the Uranian system from a romantic perspective – the clockwork elegance of their sideways dance around the Sun, and how truly strange it would be for humans to stand on those alien moons. In part 2, it’s time for some hard science, because a mission...

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Big Plans for Uranus - Part 1

Part 1

The best thing about running your own blog is that you can write about literally anything that tugs at your interest. Lately, I’ve been researching Uranus, an Ice Giant planet 3 billion kilometers from the sun, and its system of 5 main moons. And believe me when I tell you this system deser...

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