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Piotr Kosek on Technology — predictions scored

Piotr Kosek on Technology — predictions scored

290 tracked claims · Accuracy: 87%

Piotr Kosek Piotr Kosek 06.02.2026
True
"The James Webb Telescope is changing the rules of the game in star birth research. In the Sharpless 2284 region, Webb observed a protostar with a mass of 10 suns, which in the process of formation shoots out powerful gas jets, creating Herbig-Haro objects. These are narrow streams of matter moving at hundreds of kilometers per second, which collide with the surrounding gas and dust, creating bright shock waves. "
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Piotr Kosek Piotr Kosek 06.02.2026
True
"The James Webb Telescope looked into the abyss just 300 million years after the Big Bang and saw something that seemed absolutely impossible. It saw an object so bright and so massive and so mature that, according to the laws of physics we use, it should not have existed. "
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Piotr Kosek Piotr Kosek 02.02.2026
Fulfilled
"A space detector is planned, where we will have arms perhaps less precise, but much, much longer, and here it will be possible to detect waves that vary in the range of seconds or even minutes. "
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🔮 Forecast Technology 2031
Piotr Kosek Piotr Kosek 30.01.2026
True
"Quantum mechanics with all these strange phenomena like superposition or quantum entanglement is incredibly delicate. We know that to maintain a quantum state in a quantum computer, we must isolate it from the environment. We often have to freeze it to temperatures close to absolute zero in some types of quantum computers, of course, and protect it from every, even the smallest, vibration. "
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Piotr Kosek Piotr Kosek 28.01.2026
True
"Hawking radiation is predicted to be extremely faint and is many orders of magnitude below the current best telescopes' detecting ability. For astronomical black holes, the evaporation time is prodigiously long — about 10^61 times the age of the Universe for a 30 solar mass black hole. Since the universe contains the cosmic microwave background radiation at 2.7 K, no stellar black holes can evaporate: they are colder than outer space. "
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Piotr Kosek Piotr Kosek 28.01.2026
True
"Hawking radiation is an effect resulting from the nature of quantum fields that fill space. In empty space, the waves of these fields usually cancel each other out. However, the gravity of a black hole acts on space like a pinch of a string, blocking the possibility of some waves existing. "
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Piotr Kosek Piotr Kosek 28.01.2026
True
"The larger the black hole, the smaller its average density. The Schwarzschild radius, i.e., the event horizon radius, grows proportionally to mass, but the volume grows with the cube of the radius. "
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Piotr Kosek Piotr Kosek 28.01.2026
True
"A singularity is a place where the curvature of spacetime becomes, at least in our calculations, infinite, and the density of matter reaches values that our physics cannot describe. "
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Piotr Kosek Piotr Kosek 28.01.2026
True
"According to general relativity, time slows down in a strong gravitational field. The closer the matter of a collapsing star is to the event horizon, the slower it appears to move from the perspective of an external observer. "
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Piotr Kosek Piotr Kosek 28.01.2026
True
"For typical stellar masses, evaporation cannot prevent collapse. A horizon will simply form. "
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Piotr Kosek Piotr Kosek 28.01.2026
True
"The universe has a finite age, about 14 billion years. This is a large fact, but still less than infinity. "
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Piotr Kosek Piotr Kosek 23.01.2026
! Misleading
"We photographed an interstellar object from the surface of another planet. When the comet passed only 28 million km from Mars. Quite a "mere". The entire Martian fleet was put on alert. The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter probe, which can spot a coffee table with a Gerbera on the surface of the Red Planet from orbit, unfortunately disappointed us a bit, because the photos came out blurry, showing only a gaseous envelope with a diameter of about 1500 km. "
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Piotr Kosek Piotr Kosek 21.01.2026
Pending
"The biggest sensation of recent weeks is the discovery of a mysterious substance that we have never seen before in any meteorite. Scientists from NASA ASIMs Research Center have identified a material that resembles a polymer in structure. "
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Piotr Kosek Piotr Kosek 21.01.2026
True
"Ozyis Rex after dropping the capsule on Earth did not retire. It started its engines and sped towards its next target. Now the mission is called Ozyis Apex, and its target is the asteroid Apophis. "
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Piotr Kosek Piotr Kosek 21.01.2026
True
"What's more, ribose was found there. It's a simple sugar that forms the backbone of the RNA molecule. Notice, not deoxyribose as in DNA, but ribose. "
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Piotr Kosek Piotr Kosek 21.01.2026
True
"This evaporating gas takes away huge amounts of heat, moving it away from the ship. It's a kind of material sacrifice for the good of the cargo. Thanks to this, even though the outside temperature was around 2700 degrees C, the samples inside remained cool, below 75 degrees. "
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Piotr Kosek Piotr Kosek 21.01.2026
True
"In October 2020, Ozirus Rex attempted to collect a sample in a Touch and Go maneuver. The probe did not land in a traditional sense and its task was to graze the surface with a long robotic arm. "
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Piotr Kosek Piotr Kosek 21.01.2026
True
"Bennu is a B-type asteroid, rich in carbon, very dark, which reflects only a handful of sunlight. It is a relic from the time when our solar system was just forming, over 4.5 billion years ago. "
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Piotr Kosek Piotr Kosek 21.01.2026
Pending
"A nitrogen blast, which was supposed to stir up a bit of dust in microgravity conditions, threw up 6 tons of material. It was a powerful debris explosion. "
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Piotr Kosek Piotr Kosek 21.01.2026
True
"Chemical analysis showed the presence of glycine, alanine, and other amino acids. Amino acids are the building blocks of proteins, which are the foundation of all life on Earth. "
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Piotr Kosek Piotr Kosek 12.01.2026
! Misleading
"It has been developed. Usually, these are studies conducted on tomatoes, lettuce, but also on bananas. And in this way, it has been possible to develop in laboratory conditions vaccines against polio-tuberculosis, cholera, hepatitis B, and even research on such vaccines against HIV is being conducted. "
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Piotr Kosek Piotr Kosek 12.01.2026
! Misleading
"In November 2018, media from all over the world reported that two twin girls had been born with modified genes to make them HIV immune. [...] However, according with analysis done to Jiankui's work, 'neither Lulu nor Nana possessed the 32-base pair deletion desired in the CCR5 gene, and each embryo instead expressed variants of various lengths. These novel mutations have not been previously shown to prevent HIV infection and may even be harmful.' "
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Piotr Kosek Piotr Kosek 12.01.2026
True
"Researchers led by biologist Andrea Crisanti used CRISPR/Cas9 to generate a mutant gene that leaves female Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes unable to reproduce but allows males to continue spreading the female infertility mutation to offspring. "
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Piotr Kosek Piotr Kosek 12.01.2026
True
"There were also laboratory studies conducted on laboratory animals, which showed that CRISPR can be used to remove, for example, the HIV virus, yes, from infected animals. They would even no longer be carriers, such specimens. Yes, even so. "
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Piotr Kosek Piotr Kosek 09.01.2026
True
"Uranium 233 does not occur naturally, but it is an excellent nuclear fuel. It is fissile. So, in a thorium reactor, we first have to breed the fuel from thorium, and only then, in quotation marks of course, burn it. "
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Piotr Kosek Piotr Kosek 09.01.2026
True
"Natural uranium contains 0.7% of the U-235 isotope. The remaining 99.3% is mostly the U-238 isotope which does not contribute directly to the fission process. Uranium enrichment is strategically sensitive and capital intensive, creating significant barriers to entry for any new supplier. From a non-proliferation standpoint, uranium enrichment is a sensitive technology needing to be subject to tight international control. "
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Piotr Kosek Piotr Kosek 09.01.2026
True
"The reactor, called TMSR-LF1, is the first to combine two long-sought advances: molten salt cooling and a working thorium fuel cycle. "
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Piotr Kosek Piotr Kosek 09.01.2026
True
"Thorium-232, which occurs naturally, is not fissile. It cannot be simply ignited. It is a fertile material. "
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Piotr Kosek Piotr Kosek 09.01.2026
True
"After burning, we are left with waste that will be radioactive for tens of thousands of years. And here comes thorium, an element named after the Norse god of thunder. There is three, or even four times more of it in the Earth's crust than uranium. "
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Piotr Kosek Piotr Kosek 07.01.2026
True
"If spacetime is calm, the beams return perfectly aligned, but when a gravitational wave passes through the Earth, one tunnel slightly lengthens and the other shortens. Literally by a fraction of a proton's diameter, but this causes the light to return in a different phase. "
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Piotr Kosek Piotr Kosek 07.01.2026
· Unverified
"Samo zaobserwowanie zmiany energii nie jest dowodem na istnienie grawitonów. Dlaczego? Ponieważ ten sam efekt zmiany energii można wyjaśnić całkowicie klasycznie, bez odwoływania się do mechaniki kwantowej. "
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Piotr Kosek Piotr Kosek 07.01.2026
Pending
"Okay, we measure mirror displacements, but if a gravitational wave consists of gravitons, then another phenomenon must occur. It's about energy exchange. Laser photons should exchange energy with gravitons in the gravitational wave. "
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Piotr Kosek Piotr Kosek 06.01.2026
True
"A moon mission is planned for early February "
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Piotr Kosek Piotr Kosek 05.01.2026
! Misleading
"the most powerful acid we currently have, that is my dear acid. I wrote it down here because it's a difficult name. Fluorine, kvass acid. Very difficult name. Kvass acid, my dears, does not burn through everything and I don't know how it can be so available and sold in stores on shelves. No, kvass acid, so the super acid is fluoroantimonic acid, my dear. "
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Piotr Kosek Piotr Kosek 05.01.2026
! Misleading
"the only only substance known currently that is resistant to this and you can hold, you just asked what kind of acid, is Teflon, so the option is Teflon. "
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Piotr Kosek Piotr Kosek 16.06.2026
True
"The total number of space debris is probably greater than current numbers suggest. That's for sure, because they also collide with each other somewhere. The smaller ones, which we don't track, are also there, and they are sufficiently charged, so to speak, with kinetic energy to be able to cause some damage. "
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Piotr Kosek Piotr Kosek 16.06.2026
! Misleading
"still having an enormous surface area, however, because take a globe and now move away from it, see how the surface area of this sphere that is forming for us grows. The higher we are, in reality, there would still truly be a lot of free space around the satellites we currently have to carry out space missions, including cleaning ones. "
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Piotr Kosek Piotr Kosek 16.06.2026
True
"above 10 cm everyone is tracked by this system. And it's very important, because if we didn't have such a network of tracked objects of this type, we wouldn't have data on the basis of which appropriate orbits could be set. "
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Piotr Kosek Piotr Kosek 16.06.2026
True
"most of them will eventually burn up in Earth's atmosphere anyway. But some, for example, are in such stable orbits that it may take 5000 years, and as you yourselves admit, that is not the time we can devote here to the self-resolution of a problem that is, moreover, growing. "
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Piotr Kosek Piotr Kosek 16.06.2026
! Misleading
"for now, we have too little material launched into space to globally 'put to sleep' the entire Earth's orbit in such a way that nothing could launch. "
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