As a Puerto Rican myself, I don’t understand how Gutierrez can support Trump after we saw how Trump treated Puerto Ricans during Hurricane Maria.
There were a few more topics, but these are the ones I remembered to right down. Hopefully some fun reading and thinking for the weekend.
...an equatorial debris field. And the paper did bring up my question about the paleoclimate. I think this is an idea that many groups could keep pursuing and produce great science, regardless of whether the hypothesis holds up or not.
The general vibe in the room was that it didn't seem that plausible, but of course, as you know, almost no one had read the paper, so it really was just a vibe. I did scan the paper later today and saw that the paper addressed a few critiques from the room, including the lack of evidence for... 1/2
There was a lot of interest in a striped rock found on Mars by the Perseverance rover: science.nasa.gov/blog/a-strip...en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gneiss) a type of metamorphic rock, but that was complete speculation.
Last week, team scientists and the internet alike were amazed when Perseverance spotted a black-and-white striped rock unlike any seen on Mars before. Is this a sign of exciting discoveries to come?
Meanwhile, a group primarily at the University of Chicago used isotopic analysis of lunar rocks to show that the luanr exosphere is mostly created by micrometeroid impacts: eos.org/articles/the...
Minuscule meteoroids slamming into the lunar surface could be kicking up most of the atoms that make up the lunar exosphere.
Next up was how the integration of data from multiple missions is giving us some new views into the interior of Mars: scitechdaily.com/what-lies-be...
Studies on Mars have revealed hidden structures and dense areas beneath old ocean beds, influencing the volcanic activity of Olympus Mons. Using gravity data and new insights from NASA’s InSight missi...
Personally, my first thought is wouldn't this affect the global average temperatures and thus wouldn't we see this in the recent work on global average temperatures? www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... I am in a "wait and see" position on ancient rings around Earth.
A long-term record of global mean surface temperature (GMST) provides critical insight into the dynamical limits of Earth’s climate and the complex feedbacks between temperature and the broader Earth ...
Another Friday, another Friday Science Discussion at the office. This week we started with a speculative topic that has gotten some press: the possibility of an ring system around Earth. phys.org/news/2024-09...#planetaryscience
In a discovery that challenges our understanding of Earth's ancient history, researchers have found evidence suggesting that Earth may have had a ring system that formed around 466 million years ago, ...
I have convinced myself this is a good thing. No more new messages is a nice reminder to go do something else, at least for me.