NASA SATELLITE CATCHES AVALANCE HAPPENING ON MARS.
TOUR THE BENNU ASTEROID just before US probe lands. It's the size of a football field and you can see every bit of rock and rubble on its surface in exquisite detail, rotated past your eyes in 3D.
LIFE INSIDE THE SUN? A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT LIFE FORM PROPOSED
The author posits that the ability to copy itself is a way to define life.
It all depends on how you define life. If the key criteria are the ability to encode information, and the ability for those information carriers to self-replicate faster than they disintegrate, then hypothetical monopole particles threaded on cosmic strings - cosmic necklaces - could form the basis of life inside stars, much like DNA and RNA form the basis of life on Earth.
LOOKING BACKWARDS THROUGH A TELESCOPE? NASA scientists took telescope imagery of our sun and have been analyzing it viewed from the wrong end of the telescope to see if sunspot changes could be detectable in a low-pixel image that we get of distant stars that might have habitable planets..
In a new study, scientists looked at sunspots – darkened patches on the Sun caused by its magnetic field – at low resolution as if they were trillions of miles away. What resulted was a simulated view of distant stars, which can help us understand stellar activity and the conditions for life on planets orbiting other stars. “We wanted to know what a sunspot region would look like if we couldn’t resolve it in an image,”
ORGANICS IN UPPER VENUS' ATMOSPHERE. This is a big surprise. It appears a wet Venus may have been lived on before runaway heat and acid messed it up. Scans of the upper atmosphere have detected Phosphine. Only the presence of life seems to explain it.
PEOPLE ON MARS: Lockheed Martin announced a few years ago a plan to have a space station with humans orbiting Mars for 2028. Hmmm. Elon Musk is planning to get people there soon and acknowledges some will die. He hopes, however, that the first settlers will die comfortable. From a Sept 2020 interview:
“If I can go to Mars and be a human guinea pig, I’m willing to sort of donate my body to science. I feel like it’s worth it for me personally, and it’s kind of a selfish thing, but just to turn around and look and see Earth. That’s a lifelong total dream.”
NASA has been studying the technnology to support manned Mars missions. For one thing, the equipment has to be overcome more gravity. SPACE-EX is gearing up to send people to Mars too.
MINING TRILLIONS FROM ASTEROIDS. Be sceptical but not too much. Just divide the numbers by about 100. Rare earths are one of the targets. "The first trillionaire will be made in space" How about "Quintillionaires"? Money 101 says that what is scarce is expensive. "Rare" is a clue to scarcity. If it's common, it will be cheaper. When Spaniards grabbed the gold hoards of South America, there was inflation in Europe as the gold spread around.. But it wasn't really inflation of the cost of bread but deflation of the value of gold which had suddenly become more common. Interestingly, this Inca gold was gradually traded out of Europe and off to China and India back in the day, with spices, silk and crockery coming in exchange. (I've read a wondrous book that included this topic, The Structures of Everyday Life by Fernand Braudel.
WE WEREN'T SUCKED INTO A MICROSCOPIC BLACK HOLE.
This is actually news. NASA Science references the speculation with this:
The Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland reached some new collision energies and is shut at the moment for some maintenance but will be back on shortly with a further increase. In September they reported bouncing light off light (and created a form of matter from it!) for the first time.Switching on the world's largest and most powerful particle accelerator near Geneva, Switzerland, did not trigger the creation of a microscopic black hole. And that black hole did not start rapidly sucking in surrounding matter faster and faster until it devoured the Earth, as sensationalist news reports had suggested it might.
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