For example: in 1960, an Distant Early Warning System based in Thule, Greenland mistook the rising Moon for a Soviet missile launch (!)
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Cassini is like the old established probe that was getting sick of hearing about those young upstart probes:
Good question. What we’re seeing when we “see” black holes isn’t escaping from the black hole itself. We’re actually seeing radiation escaping just before it crosses the black hole’s point-of-no-return called the event horizon.
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Last week, Zoo was the second-most watched show in America. Yep, the silliest show on TV is a huge hit. Clearly, the…
Also, can we talk about how amazing the music on this show always is?
This was, and continues to be, the consistenly best show on television.
You obviously missed the 100 times we called it the best show on network TV. :) Yep, totally worth getting into!
Steak cake? Hmm.
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Actually its not because, as the article states, they removed relativistic effects. Time stops when you reach light speed, so a trip at light speed to you would be instant, but the amount of time experienced by the people on the world you just left or the one you’re travelling to is equal to the amount of time it…
Eris can be Queen of the Kuipers. They can argue amongst themselves which is technically the ruling party.
So, between the last comment and this one, I met a guy from Lockheed who worked on building the RTG. Yes, I got his card. Yes, I’ll be interviewing him for io9 once I catch up on sleep.
16 months! We’ll be getting new data home for 16 months! And if our history of reprocessing or remashing old data is any indicator, we’ll be getting new visualizations from New Horizons for a long, long time.
And the very best bit? That’s just for the Pluto-Charon system flyby. The trusty probe will be flinging off…
Why...what are you saying? Hardly anyone has heard of this “Star Wars” yet.
Detective Story: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detective…
Right, but for a meatbag living on a ball of dirt on the Oort Cloud, what's the difference between 10^50 and 10^48?
Nah, something just hit me and it fizzed off.
You’ve been waiting half your life to make that joke, haven’t you?
I hate you with every atom of my being.