asteroids

Thursday Throughput: Doomsday Rock Edition

Michael Siegel February 13, 2025

You may have heard an asteroid is headed our way? Do we need to worry? The short...

DART Closes In DART

DART Closes In

Michael Siegel September 26, 2022

If this asteroid were headed for Earth, DART would have to hit it about 500 years in...

Throughput: Interview With A Vampire, Asteroids and the Three-Rex

Michael Siegel March 3, 2022

It's been a while since I did one of these so here's a short video looking at...

Mini-Throughput: We’re All Doomed Edition asteroid

Mini-Throughput: We’re All Doomed Edition

Michael Siegel February 13, 2020

So, no, PZ39 is not a danger. This is not a sudden discovery that we are worried...

Thursday Throughput for 3/14 eb34b10b2bfc043ecd0b470de7444e90fe76e7d71db1194896f8c4_640_asteroid

Thursday Throughput for 3/14

Michael Siegel March 14, 2019

Here's the thing though: even if vaccines did cause autism, even if they caused other injuries, it...

Dark Matter in reply to Chris on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025Members of my extended family are homeless or headed there. They make terrible choices because of so…
Jaybird in reply to Chris on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025The extent to which that thought is comforting compared to "the government is feckless if not malici…
Chris in reply to Jaybird on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025One of the interesting things about homelessness is that we don't want to spend resources on people…
Jaybird in reply to Chris on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025Eh, it's fixing the problems you can talk about instead of the problems you can't talk about. And, a…
Chris in reply to Jaybird on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025Having a philosophy background, I'm sure you've thought a lot about language and thought (the house…
Jaybird in reply to Chris on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025The good news is that the article itself goes back to the good term: Department data shows nearly ha…
Jaybird in reply to David TC on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025The Newsweek article talks about stuff from 2023. But, hey. People make mistakes. Does the governmen…
Jaybird in reply to Philip H on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025My goodness. Is there footage of the event? We should be able to determine whether this was a case o…
Philip H in reply to Jaybird on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025Elected representatives who have their constituents removed by force because they don’t like what th…
Chris in reply to Jaybird on Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025Commenters temporarily experiencing shitposting?