Thursday Throughput: Dark Matter Edition
Dark energy, which comprises a whopping 70% of the universe, is something we are only beginning to formulate questions about, let alone understand.
Tagged: science
Thursday Throughput: Proxima Cen Edition
What happened here was that the team got a signal that can’t be easily ruled out as interference. That doesn’t mean it’s aliens.
Worlds Are Colliding!!!
Enjoy the “Christmas Star”. The ancients thought such conjunctions were portent. Let’s hope this one portends a better 2021.
Mini-Throughput: The Reality of a Vaccine
If everything pans out-and I caution the ice still a bit precarious-Dec 8, 2020 will go down as one of the great dates in human history.
Thursday Throughput: Death of a Titan Edition
“Sitting at control in Arecibo, watching that behemoth move around and thinking, “You know…this wouldn’t be a bad way to make a living.”
Thursday Throughput: Masks Edition
They have been doing this garbage for almost a year now: cherry-picking single weak studies that support their point and ignoring the massive swaths of studies that dispute them.
Thursday Throughput: Luna Water Edition
An interesting revelation and a reminder that our understanding of even our nearest neighbor is incomplete.
The Great Barrington Declaration
The Barrington approach won’t bring back lost jobs. It won’t restore failed businesses. It probably won’t even achieve herd immunity.
Space Junk
The Space Age has brought us miracles. Losing those abilities would be devastating. And losing a future of lunar bases, asteroid exploration and deep space missions would be a tragic cap on human ambition.
Thursday Throughput: Bigger Better Earths Edition
We are in the early days of an exciting phase of astrophysics: an age of exploration of planets outside our solar system. The science has been moving fast. It’s going to start moving even faster.
Thursday Throughput: Solar Cycle Edition
The Sun has just entered a new solar cycle…In other words, the clock continues to tick. And it’s about time we did something about it.
Mini-Throughput: Life on Venus Edition
This week the internets exploded with reports of a possible detection of life on Venus. Well … kinda.
Thursday Throughput: Big Black Hole Edition
This isn’t just a matter of a winnah and new champeen though. We’re learning how massive black holes are built.
Thursday Throughput: Polio Eradication Edition
Remember, a vaccine doesn’t have to give “sterilizing immunity”, in which you can’t catch the virus ever again. If it simply builds our resistance to the virus so that COVID-19 infections are mild, that will be enough.
Thursday Throughput: Galactic Cannibalism Edition
Sagittarius is not being “obliterated”. It’s finishing the process of joining our big happy Galaxy a little faster than we thought.
Thursday Throughput: The Hope of a COVID-19 Vaccine
There are 200 teams around the world contributing to the one of the biggest and most dramatic scientific efforts in human history: a COVID-19 vaccine
Vacation Throughput: Comet NEOWISE
It may be decades before we see another one like NEOWISE. Or it may be next year. Who will I be when the next one comes? Or where?
Thursday Throughput: Comparing Catastrophes
I can see why it is being made. Both climate change and COVID-19 are science-heavy global problems. But the comparison doesn’t work…
Mini-Throughput: The Living Sun
That’s why studying the Sun matters. That’s why SDO matters. The more we know about the Sun, the better our chances of avoiding a disaster.
Thursday Throughput: Xenon Edition
So have we finally detected dark matter? It’s not clear. As the group themselves note, even a tiny amount of contamination could produce the signal they are seeing.
