True (phew!), but still much closer than the previously closest pair.
Isaac Schultz
isaacschultz
Science writer at Gizmodo, previously of Atlas Obscura. A native New Yorker. Mostly covering ancient things (on Earth and beyond) and masses extremely big or incredibly small.
Never been a cuter way to go :’)
Ah good catch, thanks. Fixing.
Got it, this time (I hope) correctly.
Really neat, thank you! Also, glad Cook never had a chance to see my penmanship.
Ah, thanks for pointing out. We’ve fixed this.
Mine too, but I’ve realized I need to raise my expectations. Petition to make Ingenuity do stunts?
Oops! Guess you have to go back.
That event has been treated a lot more skeptically by experts, though. The reviewer of the recent paper—who does a lot of airburst work—had some thorough stuff on Twitter explaining his problems with the Tall el-Hamman paper, as did numerous other unaffiliated geologists & other field scientists. Read more
Hell yeah. Not just found, raised!
I highly recommend looking up the “Servian Wall McDonald’s” if you don’t yet know about it.
Addressed, thank you!
I don’t know if they designed hungry or I wrote hungry.
10x would be cool. The basic idea is what you say: that fusion reactors would have more than enough power to power themselves alongside anything else electrical. But the current barrier is that no one has yet even hit “breakeven,” the point where you get as much out of a reactor as you put into it. Breakeven is often… Read more
We did! Update at top and new blog as of this afternoon on Gladys’ death.
This is helpful. The commenter wrote “Galaxy ave.” and was having the darndest time trying to find such a road.
Fair play. But I would say any radio-quiet zone is remote by definition! Maybe I should’ve specified a *remote part* of Western Australia.
The word used to flummox me, too!
Thanks, corrected.
This is a good point! Pity the sacrificial lobster, though.