3490

Says you.

3491

Well since the end is near, there isn’t much harm in revealing that they are being beamed directly to me.

3492

This is pretty cool:

3493

Want to be what’s happening in space?

Ah, if only I was less old. And lazy.

3494

They are looking for lazy candidates? Where do I sign up? I hope I am not over-qualified!

3495

Every 20-something stoner is lining up to sign on right now.

3496

I thought this was pretty cool:

3497

This is fantastic. “What was happening before the big bang?”

3498

How cool would it be if Betelgeuse actually went supernova in our lifetime? Having a star as bright as a full moon, clearly visible, even during daytime, for about a 100 days… I’d love to see that!

3499

Me too!

3500

Is Betelgeuse too far away to cause other issues, e.g. interactions with the Earth’s magnetosphere or something?

3501

It’s about 700 lightyears away, and as far as I can tell from the stuff I read about it, no issues would arise.

3502

I guess the ejected plasma would take longer than 700 years to get here too, and not be very dense.

3503

Thanks for posting. Brian Greene taught me almost literally everything I know about physics. His book The Fabric of the Cosmos was so so good.

3504

Well, technically it’s already heading towards us and has been for quite some time, probably at a significant fraction of the speed of light behind a bunch of fun radiation, which would likely be the bigger concern if anything.

3505
3506

This book was good enough to just allow me to comprehend something of the subject matter, like a goldfish nibbling on a floating beach ball - no idea what’s really going on with the numbers, but at least understanding the shape of them a little. Remarkable book.

3507

If we’re tossing out physic pop-sci book recommendations, I recommend anything written by Sean Carroll (the physicist, not the biologist, though his books are good too.) I particularly liked his book on entropy: From Eternity to Here.

3508

For the other Sean Carroll, Endless Forms Most Beautiful is great.

3509

here is someone I follow on twitter, who was taking some pics down under

Notice the starlink traces?

Thanks Elon