More than one asteroid could have spelled doom for the dinosaurs

https://www.jameswebbdiscovery.com/d...jupiter-images

One of the greatest photos I've ever seen.

The second one with the ring and the moons is incredible.

Has the Webb Telescope disproved the Big Bang theory?

WEBB TELESCOPE SHATTERS DISTANCE RECORDS, CHALLENGES ASTRONOMERS

Distant galaxies in Webb images suggest we need to rethink star and galaxy evolution in the early universe.

From Slashdot

Pretty sure that’s not how telescopes work bro

Are you even an epidemiologist?

lol

Enough of that airy fairy space stuff...

T-Rex blood.

TLDR?
I hate when they confuse sharing scientific discovery with writing a biography for the scientist related.
I don't really care about the scientist. Give me the DATA!

The lady scientist took a left field approach and sliced up some bone samples from a big T-Rex discovery after a large bone got broken down to enable shipping and some bits chipped off. Then she took the bone samples to a vet convention and someone mentioned that here was blood in them. She realised that using weak acid might dissolve bone and reveal any underlaying tissue - found a weird bit of gunk in a petrie dish after three days, and when she looked under a scope found red circles - another lab assistant was a bird specialist and recognised structures in the bone that matched what female birds do in transferring calcium during breeding season to allow egg creation. Long and short was that the T-Rex was a lady dino and about to lay eggs.

Later on after dissolving the bone, she managed to use Ostrich and Emu protein connectors and found dino proteins in the tissue, which have a much better chance of providing DNA strands.

No word yet on life finding a way.

The natural world in your pocket: How citizen science is democratising discovery

RIP India's Mars Orbiter.

After an amazing run at Mars, India says its orbiter has no more fuel

The Universe Is Not Locally Real, and the Physics Nobel Prize Winners Proved It

So this leaves a question about the non-local universe, or the Universe. Is there one true Universe? Many true Universes? Or no true Universe?

Hey Lightspeed, you still floating around Auckland somewhere? Could I interest you in grabbing a coffee to talk shit about other people at NZG sometime?

Sure, send me an email, the address on this account is active.

This is the freaking awesome science thread not tinder

Not when I last looked! ;)

*grindr

I would never assume someone’s gender or sexual orientation like that

Do we even have a gender before we've been observed? If I have not met Nothing before, is their gender in a superposition until I do? Hahaha.

Gender uncertainty principle.

Definitely gotta learn that one before a trip to Thailand.

THERE’S A COLLAPSING WAVEFORM IN MY PANTS AND EVERYONE’S INVITED

Awww, are you guys jealous? Feeling left out because you didn't get an invite?

Planets don't exist

Hank and John Green's first ever shared educational video. Which also happens to be exceedingly adorable. I do feel some embarrassment with how much I admire a pair of rich, educated, white American men. At least they're doing good with what they've got.

Pedant alert:
The plural of fish is fish.
`That school of fish as many fish in it`

The plural of fish **species** is fishes
`There are many species of fishes, and of each species there are multiple fish`

So technically, we are all fish.
We are not all fishes because we are all one species (although that is debateable these days)

Unless, of course, "we" refers to tetrapods, or mammals, or some superordinal category along those lines, which, given the context of the video talking about a large number of different species, and the way that they are all fishes, isn't at all implausible.

The video title uses fish.
You used 'we' and 'fishes' whilst posting on here - ergo on here the context of we is NZG posters - unless there are other species that also use nzg?

I mean, ultimately, the reason I wrote it the way I did is because at some point in the NZG past, there was someone who had (iirc) "Cladistically speaking, we are all fishes." in their signature, or on the little title under their name, or something like that, and this video discussing it reminded me of that.

Of course, that's just how I remember it, and there's no guarantee I'm remembering it correctly, I didn't bother to look it up.

Hey, I *did* activate the pedant alert first!

There is a resulting podcast you know..?

That is interesting, quite so.

USSF-44 Mission
 

SpaceX launch out of the Florida sea mist.

T-01:00 (ish)

After leaving the secret payload to go and do its stuff:

Boostback

Double sonic booms on the return is awesome.

Double booster landing back at the cape.

I think I like the unsynchronised landing better - you can see the front one from the seconds on board camera.

"We just heard... sonic booms" would make a great sample in a spacewave track, if you could get a clean version.

This is epic af, thank you for posting, Stoolie. There is something about watching the FH side boosters landing that buzzes me right out _b

The company seems to be performing well overall:

SpaceX is now building a Raptor engine a day, NASA says

I wonder what the next big milestone for space is. One has to be extra-terrestrial mining, but that's probably still a ways off.

I mean, Musk has been fairly open about the target squarely being Mars.

I'm guessing the next milestone would be mars round-trip, then landing on Mars with SpaceX craft; then starting to deliver equipment.