Good article, Isaac. The ethical issues around these initiatives need to be examined.
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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.
You know, you’re talking about the same people that came up with the name “Very Large Array”, right? Read more
Having Earth’s first introduction to a civilization potentially being Beavis and Butthead is quite the thought!
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I’m 100% sure they could have (and should have) found a way to make the acronym “CONTACT”. Read more
For those unfamilair with the story, should know that it was the canine, Togo who had endured the most grueling aspects of the race to save those lives. No disrespect to Balto. I cover this and am happy to say that Togo has made it into my latest book, Greatest Canines. Due 2023. greatestcanines.com Read more
Am I alone in hoping that someone decides to clone Balto and any of the other dogs involved in this? Read more
Fun fact! Even though M87* is in another galaxy, it’s easier to image than Sagittarius A* at the heart of our galaxy. It’s proportionally larger than Sagittarius A* as it is far away from us to the point that they appear almost the same size in the sky, kind of like how solar eclipses are possible. But since one is… Read more
So Soundgarden was right all along... Read more
From what I can tell of this - no, these things are not direct stepping stones between neutron stars and black holes. These ‘black hole stars’ appear to not be created of matter at all from what I discern, so wouldn’t really qualify as a star as they wouldn’t generate light/energy of their own, merely distort that… Read more
...planet Earth as no human ever saw it: during the age of the dinosaurs, over 66 million years ago.
I’ve watched most of season 1 and while the show looks great, it’s missing the magic of ‘Planet Earth’, ‘Blue Planet’, etc. There’s just something less interesting about watching dinosaurs ‘filmed’ how humans think they acted and behaved compared to watching actual animal behavior filmed in the wild. Read more
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Fusion physicists remind me of the builders from the Tom Hanks movie The Money Pit. Everything is finished in two weeks. I was a young teen when the cold fusion debacle happened, and it fucking broke my heart. I sat through the press conference that was shown live here in Ireland and saw a boundless safer, cleaner… Read more
Considering we currently have a swath of the populace freaking out about putting a little piece of fabric over their faces, sadly you’re correct. Read more
The problem is they just need to find the right 20 yrs Read more
The universe is thought to be 13.77 billion years old, and this star formed 13 billion years after a hypernova. How did the precursor star(s) that caused the hypernova coalesce and then explode in just 770 million years? Was the early universe on a speed run? I assume all of the matter was more tightly packed back… Read more
The expansion of gravitational wave detection and turning it into imaging is exciting. That the data came from Arecibo is saddening with the loss of the observatory. I really hope a new facility is built somewhere to replace it Arecibo if not on the same site even, giving FAST a competing/complementary capability. Read more