What’s the big deal about tiny devices like springs and screws? This week, Roma Agrawal shows us how the world as we know it couldn’t function without these simple, but ingenious, objects. It’s “Nuts and Bolts” on Big Picture Science.
Check out this Martian panorama, captured by Curiosity two days ago, on Sol 4174. It is made of 50 adjacent images, each 1328x1184 pixels. Let's go for some zooms👇
Let me disabuse you of the idea that a Martian colony is the way to save mankind.
Survival on Mars is 1000x more difficult with no free flowing water, no atmosphere, no ozone, no magnetosphere, much less solar radiation to power anything including biological life.
Choosing Mars is picking the absolute worst probability to beat gambler's ruin.
Even a 3' warmer Earth is better.
The first IQ test is to stop pursuing stupid ideas as a magic bullet.
I love the idea of this "What is a #fact?" #humanities course aimed at #STEM students (as described in @TheConversationUS) and absolutely wish I could read the whole syllabus!
📷 The Horsehead Nebula as seen by three space telescopes
Credits: ESA/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA, image processing by J.-C. Cuillandre (CEA Paris-Saclay), G. Anselmi, NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (AURA/STScI), ESA/Webb, CSA, K. Misselt, M. Zamani (ESA/Webb)