April 2012
20 posts
Japanese astronomers said Wednesday they had found a cluster of galaxies 12.72 billion light-years away from Earth, which they claim is the most distant cluster ever discovered.
The Hubble Space Telescope was deployed from the Space shuttle Discovery on April 25, 1990.
Of the roughly 8000 satellites that have been launched, which would seem to result in a veritable shooting ground for meteors, only one has ever been hit and subsequently destroyed by such a force.
TTR0’s epic comment on Ron Garan’s IAmA NASA Astronaut that recently returned to Earth after a 1/2 year in space. I’m brand new to reddit (like hours ago) AMA
If the dinosaurs had a space program, we’d all be in trouble.
Human-Dinosaur tensions would mount as they developed a rocket capable of achieving high orbit. An arms race would ensue, followed by the stalemate of Mutually Assured Destruction.
Mankind would act first, with a strike upon the Dino capitol, the warhead would be a several-megaton ICBM with a dozen MIRVs. It would be nicknamed ‘The Meteor, Pt. 2.’
Great commentary on the recent assertions made by Ronald Breslow’s “Evidence for the Likely Origin of Homochirality in Amino Acids, Sugars, and Nucleosides on Prebiotic Earth”
Last week, chemist Ronald Breslow made a splash the size of the Yucatan crater with the greatest non-sequitur in the history of academic papers: he decided that the concept of chirality (that is, a molecule’s dominant orientation) probably means that there are Star Destroyers manned by T-Rexes floating around in our galaxy.
TL;DR Chemist has a crazy-pants theory and hilarity ensues. Also, who knew Paleocosmology was a thing?
Shout out to my friend John for passing this along.
