Scattered across the ancient Mediterranean were alleged gateways to hell, according to Roman fables. One such gateway remains at Hierapolis in Turkey - Hooray ! We can throw the evil-doers (mostly high-ranking government officials) into the fiery pit from whence they came..but wait - it appears that toxic gas was responsible for the fate of sacrifices....
Speaking of Pluto, New Horizons recently made a course correction, putting it on target for its rendezvous with Kuiper Belt object MU69 - 'Ultima Thule', on Jan 1, 2019
Voyager 2 is nearing the beginning of interstellar space, following Voyager 1 , which left our solar system 6 years ago, and is now the farthest spacecraft from Earth, at 13 billion miles distant.
In the never - ending search for the elusive planet X , they have discovered an extremely distant object...personally, I just want Pluto re-instated as a planet. It's a lot closer - and we've 'been' there...just because it has an elliptical orbit is no reason to expel it from our solar system !
A news report asks whether the JWST could spot alien life - the answer is possibly, but first they have to actually get the damn thing into space. Currently looking at a 2021 launch, it is running 14 years behind schedule - at this rate, you'd have a better chance taking pictures from the porthole of a Space X cruiser...
Speaking of the JWST, it appears that its predecessor is hobbling through space with stabiliser problems- down to one gyro from four...fingers crossed for the Hubble telescope, our 'eye-in-the-sky' since 1990
In other news we may have evidence of the first exomoon , which is great, but the current fad for deducing where something is by defining where it's NOT strikes me as possibly counter - productive*...discuss
A giant meteorite used as a doorstop in a rural farmhouse ? Sounds like the start of a science fiction...
Speaking of quantum computers, which we were not, or perhaps we were - here is a good / straight forward guide to that world of bizarreness
Another way to feel small and insignificant is to read this report on hypervelocity stars racing through our milky way...and the icing on the cake has to be this apocalyptic theory of vacuum decay ...honestly, what's the point ?
In a parting wave of cheerful news, the Ukraine has just announced plans to build a solar energy station...in Chernobyl.
If I were being crass, I'd say that every cloud has a silver lining.
Cheery Bye !
G
* I parallel this with our Anti-Social 'social' media culture, where a person is judged for what they didn't do- Person: You didn't 'like' that anti-government joke
Me : I worry about 'humanising' the monsters.
Person: So you're a nazi sympathiser, then ?
Me : WTF
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In the never - ending search for the elusive planet X , they have discovered an extremely distant object...personally, I just want Pluto re-instated as a planet. It's a lot closer - and we've 'been' there...just because it has an elliptical orbit is no reason to expel it from our solar system !
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Speaking of the JWST, it appears that its predecessor is hobbling through space with stabiliser problems- down to one gyro from four...fingers crossed for the Hubble telescope, our 'eye-in-the-sky' since 1990
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In other news we may have evidence of the first exomoon , which is great, but the current fad for deducing where something is by defining where it's NOT strikes me as possibly counter - productive*...discuss
A giant meteorite used as a doorstop in a rural farmhouse ? Sounds like the start of a science fiction...
Speaking of quantum computers, which we were not, or perhaps we were - here is a good / straight forward guide to that world of bizarreness
Another way to feel small and insignificant is to read this report on hypervelocity stars racing through our milky way...and the icing on the cake has to be this apocalyptic theory of vacuum decay ...honestly, what's the point ?
In a parting wave of cheerful news, the Ukraine has just announced plans to build a solar energy station...in Chernobyl.
If I were being crass, I'd say that every cloud has a silver lining.
Cheery Bye !
G
* I parallel this with our Anti-Social 'social' media culture, where a person is judged for what they didn't do- Person: You didn't 'like' that anti-government joke
Me : I worry about 'humanising' the monsters.
Person: So you're a nazi sympathiser, then ?
Me : WTF
