We live in an age when all manner of scientific knowledge—from climate change to vaccinations—faces furious opposition. Some even have doubts about the moon landing.
that was it. a simple strip that reframed a banal human tradition—cleaning the house in anticipation of guests, something countless people had done for the super bowl the day before—through the eyes of an interstellar anthropologist. yet, reddit welcomed its alien overlords with open arms: ...
while two snipers prowled across the White House roof. It was a nice day to come out, yet only one American in ten million joined our motley crew. Why so few?
When the captain of an interstellar prison transport’s systems are crippled in an alien attack, locking the crew and the most violent prisoners in the galaxy in cryosleep, he must choose between risking everyone’s life to repair the ship and defeat the alien threat or do nothing, thereby ...
, so shorter wavelengths and bigger telescopes produce sharper pictures. The now-famous black hole image was taken using microwave light with a wavelength of 1.3 mm, which means that to get a fuzzy circle with a dark center (“Hey, a black hole!”) instead of...
This model fits well with the finding ofzircon crystalsin Western Australia – which are dated at 4.4 billion years and are suggestive that liquid water was present that long ago – although this preceded theLate Heavy Bombardment(4.1 to 3.8 billion years ago) which may have sent all that wat...
even a galaxy replete with life may have relatively isolated CCs in the absence of interstellar travel or extremely power signals. On the other hand, high estimates of CCs in our galactic neighborhood does not guarantee that there will ever be contact between them, especially reciprocal. ...
It can be difficult to know where to begin. If you have never experienced this unifying on a cosmic scale, it can be difficult to live. Although you may not realize it, you are interstellar. We are being called to explore the quantum soup itself as an interface between life-force and ...
With the advent of relativity that was no longer the case, however, new restrictions popped up. A pair of events can be separated in three ways: timelike, lightlike, and spacelike. For a given event (center, black) all other events fall into one of three categories: timelike, ...