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Luke Haines 781 Views If Sir Paul Mac, who has a mildly eccentric new elpee out “rite” now, had not gone on to become unfathomably famous, successful, and rightly revered as one of the true immortals of all music, then perhaps he would have been as wildly eccentric as some of those he championed. McCartney (1970) has a properly eccentric core that only perhaps a self-preservation instinct towards fame has tempered. Think – one third of his solo output is dedicated to whimsical doo...

Harvard University astronomer Abraham Loeb claims that a discarded alien machine visited the solar system but was mistaken as a natural object because of “groupthink.” In his forthcoming book, “Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth,” Loeb wrote about the solar system’s first known interstellar visitor, ‘Oumuamua. He posited that ‘Oumuamua is really technological trash thrown away by an intelligent alien civilization based on its cigar or disk sh...

January full moon 2021: The Wolf Moon rises with winter constellations Space 1/27/2021 Jesse Emspak © Provided by Space The full moon of January, known as the Full Wolf Moon, arrives Thursday, Jan. 28, at 2:16 p.m. EST (1916 GMT). The full moon of January, called the Wolf Moon, will occur on Thursday, Jan. 28, at 2:16 p.m. EST (1916 GMT) according to NASA. The moon will be in the constellation Cancer, and rises just a few minutes before sunset.  Full moons happen when the ...

January 26, 2021 There is no way to stabilize the world’s temperature without an aggressive plan to pull carbon out of the atmosphere. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change estimates than more than 3 to 7 gigatons (GT) of CO2 will need to be removed per year by 2050—up to 15 GT by the end of the century—to limit warming to 1.5° C. That’s akin to “running the fossil fuel industry in reverse,” says Rob Jackson, an earth system science professor at Stanford University who lead...

Elon Musk just bought $100 million in publicity for climate change Quartz 1/26/2021 © Provided by Quartz There is no way to stabilize the world’s temperature without an aggressive plan to pull carbon out of the atmosphere. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change estimates than more than 3 to 7 gigatons (GT) of CO2 will need to be removed per year by 2050—up to 15 GT by the end of the century—to limit warming to 1.5° C. That’s akin to “running the fossil fuel industry in rev...

Did an Alien Life-Form Do a Drive-By of Our Solar System in 2017? An artist’s rendering of Oumuamua. Central to Avi Loeb’s argument is what he calls the “Oumuamua wager,” a takeoff on Pascal’s famous wager, that the upside of believing in God far outweighs the downside. Likewise, believing that Oumuamua could have been an alien spacecraft can only make us more alert and receptive to thinking outside the box.Credit...M. Kornmesser/European Southern Observatory Buy Book ▾ EXTRATERREST...

" " An artists conception of Arcturus, a red giant star easily visible from Earth. Pablo Carlos Budassi/Wikimedia/CC BY-SA 4.0 When the 1933 Worlds Fair opened in Chicago, it was marked by a mechanism that captured the light of a distant object: the star Arcturus, shining in the constellation Boötes. Worlds Fair organizers had chosen Arcturus, because at the time, it was believed that the star was roughly 40 light-years from Earth – and the previous Worlds Fair in Chicago had taken pl...

ZAGREB (Croatia), January 25 (SeeNews) - Croatia's leading software company and global cloud communications provider Infobip is in the final stage

Strategy games, ADHD, and the curse of ‘one more turn’ Strategy games can compel us to play when we know we should stop - and some of us feel the pull especially hard When is it time to stop playing a strategy game? After just one more turn, of course! And then, maybe one more. And then one more… I have fallen into the ‘one more turn’ (OMT) trap more times than I can remember. When I was young it was less noticeable, less important. It didn’t matter if I was up past midnight turni...

A team of astronomers is working to analyze an unusual radio signal detected early in 2019 with characteristics more typical of an artificial broadcast than a natural source.