Cool science stuff

I don't have one, but a wrote a story about them for a corporate freelance gig last year. Yes, battery life is a large issue with GoPros, but everything else is incredible.

 

As long as the battery lasts 6 seconds, we're all covered, amirite boys?

 

So black holes might not really be holes at all, or even three-dimensional objects. Apparently, there is growing evidence to support the idea that they are merely holographic images of a two-dimensional surface.

The case for black holes being nothing but holograms just got even stronger

 

Tupac lives.

 

In about 11 years Juno will become pregnant and a movie will be made about her.

 

Speaking of Juno and its arrival at Jupiter, I love this video:

Savor this Juno time-lapse approach to Jupiter and its moons

 

More on Juno and its mission:

Juno space probe will unlock mystery of Jupiter - CNN.com

 

So maybe liquid water isn't necessary for life. A team from Cornell, using models reproducing conditions on Saturn's moon Titan, has found the chemistry there could set the stage for life to arise. Titan is the only other place in the solar system known to have stable liquid on its surface, though because its temperature is in the neighborhood of minus-300 degrees that liquid is mostly methane (there are methane lakes and even methane rain). This finding could greatly expand the concept of the habitable zone (also known as the "Goldilocks zone") -- a planet might not need to be as warm as previously thought to have life.

http://www.space.com/33351-titan-chemistry-could-facilitate-life.html

 

Given how many planets have high levels of methane in the atmosphere, it's always made sense to me that there should be lifeforms that use it like we do oxygen.
Let's just hope we don't stumble across Thanos and piss him off.

 

One more item about Juno. In addition to its scientific instruments, the probe has carried these guys into orbit around Jupiter:



Yup, Lego guys -- well, sort of. They're actually made of special high-grade aluminum rather than plastic to withstand the trip.

On the left is everyone's favorite astronomer and physicist, Galileo, holding the planet Jupiter and his trusty telescope. On the right is Jupiter himself, king of the Roman gods, holding his trademark lightning bolts.

In the middle is the goddess Juno, for whom the probe is named, the wife of Jupiter, holding a magnifying glass. Why a magnifying glass? Well, Jupiter wasn't the most faithful husband around and was always hiding things -- including himself -- from Juno. Of course, she was always trying to find out what he was up to. So the magnifying glass symbolizes her "search for the truth."

BTW, that search is one reason the mission is called Juno. In mythology, Jupiter would hide himself in a veil of clouds to keep his misdeeds under wraps, but Juno, from atop Mount Olympus, was able to see through the clouds and figure out what was going on. Likewise, this Juno's mission is to see through Jupiter's previously impenetrable clouds to discover what's really going on inside the planet.

LEGO Figures Flying On NASA Jupiter Probe