So we’re still where we were two weeks ago: Betelgeuse might explode tomorrow. It might explode a hundred thousand years from now. But if it does explode soon, we will get the best look we’ve ever had at how stellar explosions work.
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I’m not saying that it’s aliens but…it’s probably not aliens. Hold on to your hats, folks. It’s gonna be a long one this week.
A popular computer game asks a troubling question: Is space our salvation – or a cruel mirage?
The dimming is interesting. But it doesn’t change the overall math at all. Betelgeuse could explode tomorrow. Or it could explode a thousand centuries from now.
I was peripherally involved in this research, which detected some of the highest energy photons every seen from a gamma-ray burst.
It’s one thing to be critical of some of the excesses. It’s quite another to suggest that there’s something inherently wrong with people who work within STEM disciplines.
GRBs are dangerous. They can kill. But it’s rare. There is one candidate nearby that could be dangerous. But we’re still figuring out whether it is.
So if you are standing next to a nuclear bomb, you will experience conditions similar to the core of the Sun. But…don’t worry. You won’t experience them for very long.
I checked the calculations myself and this does appear to be accurate…
Yes, there are stars within a few hundred light years that will go supernova. No, we don’t have any way of predicting when it will happen.
In the decades to come, we’re going to learn a lot about alien planets. It would not surprise me at all if we found ones like New Caprica or Arrakis.
’90s music is messed up for the same reason my suburban Seattle city isn’t the most dangerous city in the United States. And that reason colors everything you consume on the internet
There is much about environmental sciences/climate change debate that I do not know much about. The water and air in West Virginia? That I know about.
I don’t think there are enough exclamation points out there for me to express how gob-smacking this is.
A new treatment for Ebola, if administered early, can cut the fatality rate to 6%, a stunning reduction from the normal rate of 75%. We now have this and a working vaccine.
Which is exactly why, regardless of cause, adults should be slow if not completely adverse to putting children out in front of their political causes.
I’m not one of the “we have 12 years to save the planet” doomsayers. But it does feel like we are approaching an inflection point. We will survive; but our options for how we will survive are narrowing rapidly.
Josh Hawley, like all ambitious men, is telling you who and what he is about. We should listen.
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