What's Cool in Science This Week?

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mirth

"45 minutes of pooping Tribbles being juggled by a drunken Horta would be better than Season 1 of TNG." - SirAndrewD

"you don't look at the mantelpiece when you're poking the fire" - Bawb

"Can't 'un' until you 'pre', son." - Gus


Silent Disapproval Robot

If the whale carcass is only 16 ft, those crocs must be Gus sized.

Barthheart

European Space Agency's Gaia telescope new images of the Milky way.

QuoteNow, as of April 25, 2018, Gaia lets us see the detailed locations and motions of 1.7 BILLION stars!



Click to make stupendously huge!  :o

Very cool video that you can pan while it's running:




Sir Slash

"Take a look at that". Sgt. Wilkerson-- CMBN. His last words after spotting a German tank on the other side of a hedgerow.


bbmike

^Makes sense, Whataburger is good stuff!  O0
"My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplace of existence."
-Sherlock Holmes

"You know, just once I'd like to meet an alien menace that wasn't immune to bullets."
-Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart

"There's a horror movie called Alien? That's really offensive. No wonder everyone keeps invading you!"
-The Doctor

"Before Man goes to the stars he should learn how to live on Earth."
-Clifford D. Simak

Sir Slash

"Take a look at that". Sgt. Wilkerson-- CMBN. His last words after spotting a German tank on the other side of a hedgerow.

Windigo

@ barf

"... And if thou gaze long into an the abyss, the abyss will also gaze into thee."


good post
My doctor wrote me a prescription for daily sex.

My wife insists that it says dyslexia but what does she know.

bayonetbrant

The key to surviving this site is to not say something which ends up as someone's tag line - Steelgrave

"their citizens (all of them counted as such) glorified their mythology of 'rights'...and lost track of their duties. No nation, so constituted, can endure." Robert Heinlein, Starship Troopers

Sir Slash

No problem. Thanos will fix the whole balance thing.  :hide:
"Take a look at that". Sgt. Wilkerson-- CMBN. His last words after spotting a German tank on the other side of a hedgerow.


Labbug

This is an infrared image so the red areas are vegetation, black and grey are old lava flows, and the yellow are the new fissures and lava flows.

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/nasa-satellite-images-show-fissures-from-hawaii-volcano

bayonetbrant

The key to surviving this site is to not say something which ends up as someone's tag line - Steelgrave

"their citizens (all of them counted as such) glorified their mythology of 'rights'...and lost track of their duties. No nation, so constituted, can endure." Robert Heinlein, Starship Troopers