Catching Up with Interesting Science/Tech Stories
While I was finishing work on Sunborn, I saved up a bunch of links to interesting new developments in science and whatnot. Time to send some your way before I lose them.
- Astronomers have discovered dark caves, or holes in Mars! They might be a place where life could be lurking, sheltered from the sun.
- In one of the more breathtaking views I've seen lately, Saturn was caught emerging from behind the Moon. It looks like a close neighbor, but really it's over a billion kilometers away.
- In a series of amazing images of another kind, artist Chris Jordan shows us profound views of what our consumption of products, as a society, really looks like. It's called Running the Numbers.
- Finally, from New Scientist, a couple more news items caught my attention: a new theoretical approach to teleportation (no, I can't say I understand it, but...), and a new dino discovery, Gigantoraptor, a feathered dino big enough to face off with a T-Rex.
"Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else." —Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Labels: science, technology
posted by Jeffrey A. Carver @ 2:33 AM
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The hole on Mars is extremely intriguing. I'd have to see one of the most mysterious things I've seen in years.
Some interesting links there as always Jeff, thanks for sharing!
Speaking of things that you've shared w/ us, I noticed that a film you talked about in your blog about a year (?) ago "A Flock of Dodos" is on Showtime this month. I actually got to watch it this past week and it is a fun documentary about the evolution/intelligent design/evolution situation. You definitely come away with an understanding with how those who a promoting the idea of intelligent design are being successful in promoting "their side of the argument" despite actual science.
- The anonymous tsmacro
correction in my above post: evolution/intelligent design/evolution should read: creationism/intelligent design/evolution
- tsm
Okay, the irony here is that I had no memory of having written about "Flock of Dodos," so I had to go back and look to see what I'd posted. And what I found was...I'd passed on a tip (from another web site) that you, Marco, had passed on to me!
So you've just acted, indirectly, on your own tip!
I'll have to take a look when it comes out on DVD.
Well that is funny! *L* When I saw it on the Showtime schedule the name rang a bell and the first thing I thought was "oh yeah I saw that on Jeff's blog a while ago". Obviously I had forgotten that I had found it somewhere else first. There must've been some discussion of intelligent design or something going on here that made me think to let you know about it when I stumbled across out on the web someplace.
- Marco aka tsmacro
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