Once again, Bosnian Ape Society comes to the rescue with an insightful video full of good ideas:
It’s nice to see some physics textbooks getting real about the dangers of statistics:
These words do in fact form the beginning of the first chapter of the book “States of Matter,” a text by CalTech physicist David L. Goodstein, as documented by the following extract from a digital copy of the book:
That’s neat. Who knew that statistical analysis was essentially the Necronomicon?
NOW IT IS OUR TURN.
The reporters accent seems to kinda clash with the story.
I hate to “victim blame,” but who the frak wears a $20K gold chain to the gas station?
Speedbump.
An interesting piece of “fan animation” depicting a test flight of a Starship/Superheavy stack with subsequent water landings. I have high hopes that a flight will look this good… but realistically, we can expect a few flights with a bit more energetic ends. And that’s ok: failure is an option here. Failure can be a fantastic teacher. Certainly a far better teach than “not trying.”
Also of note: there are some bits of the animation here that are distinctly not “Hollywood A-Game.” But compare what just a few guys managed to do with, say, the first couple seasons of Babylon 5. Technology progresses.
Buttons looking distinguished.
… fill in the rest. You know the words.
Might be a prank. I could easily believe it either way.
I was under the impression it’d be another couple months before it was available, but I’m hearing that it is starting to show up in Britain. No reviews as yet, though I hope to see some (and obviously hope that they’re positive…).
It is available directly through the publisher for £8.99 (Approx $12.41 or €10.34). It is also available through Amazon for pre-order for $12.99.
Small, but multicellular. Along with bacteria and maybe some form of algae, if there is a planet in the Alpha Centauri system capable of harboring life, we might be able to send it there in frozen form. Radiation might raise hell with the DNA of frozen critters; maybe the thing to do is to thaw them out every 500 or 1000 years, let them swim around and eat the sick ones, reproduce, repopulate, freeze and repeat as needed. and hopefully by the time the unmanned slowboat gets to the Alpha Centauri system the lifeforms it has stored will be ready to begin terraforming the local world. Or to be collected and installed in the Centauri City Museum of Ancient Human Artifacts, built by the humans who got there 23,500 years earlier via warp drive and left the place in the care of the AI after the local humans transcended.
