🌌🌌🌌🌌🌌🌌🌌🌌🌌🌌🌌 Holy crap Milky Way enthusiasts, get psyched! Roman Space Telescope has selected a Galactic plane survey as one of its main activities in the first 5 years. This would produce a catalog of 100,000,000,000+ stars and a dust map that extends across the Galactic plane!
Let's do space! Boooo Magellanic Clouds: americanornithology.org/about/englis...
How long until we fully red-code AI? As far as I can tell everything now needs to be red or blue, and I can see which way this one is going.
During the fog of war, please read any news while asking “does this confirm my priors?”
Its Nobel Prize week. The only 'good thing is that it gets media to cover science. Otherwise, it should be abandoned. It doesn't reflect how science is done, it gives weird incentives for research and, most importantly, it spreads a very wrong idea about science and scientists to the general public.
Happy Sukkot, y’all. The pumpkin spice latte to Rosh Hashana’s sparkling wine and Yom Kippur’s… well, nothing.
I feel like there is still a large number of lefties who are making personal choices to combat the malthusian boogeyman of population explosion.
The world's population is set to peak in the later part of this century -- after that, a sharp decline, writes Dean Spears in @nytimes: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Most people now live in countries where two or fewer children are born for every two adults.
Oh, my least favorite star us IRC+10216 and it isn’t even close. This pest is RIDICULOUSLY far-IR bright and blots out the thermal dust signature from my very favorite interstellar cloud. UGHHHHH DOWN IN FRONT. 🔭