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“Whatcha doin?”
“Moon stuff, I guess”
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Wednesday, 1st June
Cover of the Voyager Golden Record. The Voyager probes were launched in 1977 to travel to the far reaches in the solar system and beyond. Currently traveling through deep space they are the furthest man-made objects from Earth. The records and plaque contain information about for human race in case either probe ever gets intercepted by an alien civilization.
Voyager? OR plans for the Death Star? #conspiracy
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Friday, 17th June
Don’t Get Neil deGrasse Tyson Started About the Un-Science-y Politicians Who Are Killing America’s Dreams
As we’ve learned time and time again, when you need to hear someone kvetch hard about the state of science in this country, point your radio telescopes at Hayden Planetarium head Neil deGrasse. In the midst of the debt debacle, he responds to Bill Maher’s question about Washington’s possible assassination of the James Webb Space Telescope with a ranty explanation of how Congress is mortgaging the futuristic dreams Americans used to have. He ends with a good question: How far can science go in Washington when so few Congressmen are scientists?
See the full discussion here, and calm your Tyson-ish nerves with this relaxing Carl Sagan video.
Source: motherboard.tv
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Wednesday, 10th August
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Thursday, 1st September
A World Without Us - people frequently talk about “saving the planet” when in fact it’s not the planet that needs saving, just the pesky humans inhabiting it. As a case-study on that point, National Geographic had a recent update on the aftermath of the Chernobyl nuclear event. Surprisingly, even with high levels of radiation remaining in the area, nature is doing better now than when people co-inhabited the area. The planet will do just fine without us.
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Monday, 12th September
Beliefs are frustrating things, aren’t they?
Yes, we DO have a bit of a situation.
(via xkcd)
(via thesoftberet)
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Wednesday, 21st September
Measurement of the neutrino velocity with the OPERA detector in the CNGS beam
Everyone with an interest in science and who has been awake for a minute probably has heard about the measurements of neutrinos travelling faster than light, after the link is the article where all the news sources are referring, but not linking, to.
I love anything that involves muons. (That’s not a joke.)
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Friday, 23rd September
