Cool science stuff

Why would anyone care about this if Shatner wasn’t involved
Pretty smart move by Bezos

 

Of course it's a PR stunt. But the science is real. We are blowing through our natural resources faster than we can control. We are going to need the asteroids, we're going to have to mine them for resources if humanity is going to survive our current hubris. The only way we get there is a reusable rocketry. That is what's important about all of this.

 

Meh. The better way to describe this is that they’re developing the technology for a few select rich people to get off the surface of the Earth before the asteroid hits it.

21st Century version of the mineshaft gap.

 

I'm sure this will end well.

Robot Dog Gets Outfitted With Sniper Rifle

 

But can it still lick its balls?

 

An oldie but a goodie.

Distant Planet Terrified It Might Be Able To Someday Support Human Life

 

Well, she wasn't a Star Trek cast member when she went to space. Although she went to real space, to orbit, and she actually did something while she was up there.

 

She was never a cast member. She was a guest star. And she's also an astronaut.

 

It's terrible that elephants have had to do this, because of us, but I'm glad it has been going on, and quickly. Now, if only there were a way to help the boys.

African Elephants Evolved Tusklessness Amazingly Fast

 

Here's one of those stories I've been meaning to post for way too long.

Heard of Sodom and Gomorrah? Well, it might have happened this way:

A giant space rock demolished an ancient Middle Eastern city and everyone in it – possibly inspiring the Biblical story of Sodom

 

And here's another.

A lab working on creating nuclear fusion "ignition" -- the point at which the fusion reaction generates more power than it takes in and becomes self-sustaining -- didn't quite accomplish that, but it created enough energy for a brief moment that its chief scientist called it a "Wright Brothers moment."

"It’s not practical, but we got off the ground for a moment,” said Omar A. Hurricane (great name), chief scientist for the Inertial Confinement Fusion Program at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

A "Wright Brothers Moment" for Nuclear Fusion | Chemistry And Physics