Cool science stuff

Sixty years ago today, an American first ventured into space.

https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/60-years-ago-alan-shepard-becomes-the-first-american-in-space

 

SpaceX launched, hovered, and landed Starship SN15 a few minutes ago. Big obstacle cleared.

 

Let’s light a newer candle.

 

Cool. That looks so much like 1950s science fiction of a rocket landing. That was one that blew up the last time after it landed right?

 

That was SN11. This one stuck the landing without falling over and going kaboom.

 

Pretty sure that's on purpose -- Elon Musk being a showman.

 

If, like me, you’re a fan of particle physics (and who isn’t?), you’ll find this interesting:

1st matter in the universe may have been a perfect liquid | Space

 

Dude, quit gasping into the mike.

 

Scientists revived a creature that was frozen in ice for 24,000 years

 

Have these people never read a book about the zombie apocalypse?