Name the Rover Contest (ends Jan. 27th at UTC-5) - NASA Mars 2020 Mission https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/participate/name-the-rover/ ..
Social Media Posts Spread Bogus Coronavirus Conspiracy Theory - FactCheck.org https://www.factcheck.org/2020/01/social-media-posts-spread-bogus-coronavirus-conspiracy-theory/ ...
SETI@home
18 Jan 2020, 18:51:01 UTC For a couple of reasons, the result table has grown to the point where it no longer fits in main memory. That has been slowing the validators and assimilators, which is causing the result table to grow further. We'd like to get it down to a manageable size before our Tuesday outage. To that end we are throttling work generation to a rate at which the table size is shrinking. We hope that this rate will increase as the table gets smaller. So for the next few days work will be hard to come by (but not zero).
21-22 Jan 2020 - Weekly Tuesday outage extended to a 2nd day | Extended outage continues: "We're having an extended outage this week in order to do a reorg of our database. We hope that this will improve performance once we catch up." 21 Jan 2020, 17:46:14 UTC https://setiathome.berkeley.edu ...
22 Jan 2020, 22:51:58 UTC "We are now into the second day of the outage. We hope to wrap this up tomorrow. The reorganization of the database will help us reduce its size and this, in turn, should speed it up.
23 Jan 2020 +/- 16:20 UTC SETI@home is (most of the time) back up.
2020.01.16 SETI@Home will now cache 150 CPU work units (up from the previous 100 WUs) and 150 per installed GPU (up from the previous 100 WUs).
Check out Stars in Their Eyes? a research paper from the University of Geneva about why people run SETI@home (16 Jan 2020, 3:49:24 UTC_) ... https://boinc.berkeley.edu/dl/tancoigne_paper.pdf ... https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=85079 ...
ASTROBIOLOGY | EXOPLANETS | SETI
Jason Wright (u/AstroWright) posted to his blog a number of whitepapers, published over the past year, on technosignatures. Take a peek! https://sites.psu.edu/astrowright/2020/01/21/technosignatures-white-papers/ ... Technosignatures White Papers : SETI https://www.reddit.com/r/SETI/comments/etd380/technosignatures_white_papers/ ...
Problems of Assessing the Risk of Contact by Extraterrestrial Intelligence - The Futurescape https://thefuturescape.org/2019/12/09/problems-of-assessing-the-risk-of-contact-by-extraterrestrial-intelligence/ ...
Galactic Hegemony and the Zoo Hypothesis - The Futurescape https://thefuturescape.org/2019/12/02/galactic-hegemony-and-the-zoo-hypothesis/ ...
A Sustainability Solution to the Fermi Paradox - The Futurescape https://thefuturescape.org/2019/11/27/a-sustainability-solution-to-the-fermi-paradox/ ...
Is Earth Being Watched? In the last few decades, our astronomical techniques have developed to the point that we can now detect planets orbiting other stars. This makes us wonder - could someone out there already be using this method on usM and could this enable a possible means of direct communication across the stars? - Cool Worlds - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G71yqev301Q ...
Ad Astra says we're alone in the universe. What if that's true? https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/science-behind-the-fiction-what-if-like-ad-astra-suggests-there-are-no-aliens ..
Meet the NASA intern who discovered a new planet on his third day - BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-51122019 ..
How the solar system got its 'Great Divide,' and why it matters for life on Earth - Astrobiology Magazine https://www.astrobio.net/alien-life/how-the-solar-system-got-its-great-divide-and-why-it-matters-for-life-on-earth/ ...
Earth bacteria may have colonised other solar systems | Cosmos https://cosmosmagazine.com/space/earth-bacteria-may-have-colonised-other-solar-systems ..
Giant Chinese Telescope Joins the Search for Alien Radio Signals | Daily Planet | Air & Space Magazine https://www.airspacemag.com/daily-planet/giant-chinese-telescope-joins-search-alien-radio-signals-180973737/ ...
Problems of Assessing the Risk of Contact by Extraterrestrial Intelligence - The FuturescapeThe Futurescape https://thefuturescape.org/2019/12/09/problems-of-assessing-the-risk-of-contact-by-extraterrestrial-intelligence/ ...
SPACE
Name the Rover Contest (ends Jan. 27th) - NASA Mars 2020 Mission https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/participate/name-the-rover/ ..
The Spitzer Space Telescope will be shut down this week after 16 years of service. But unlike Hubble, which will burn up in our atmosphere after it's eventually put down, Spitzer will sail past Earth in about 50 years before drifting off into space for eternity." posted in /r/space by clayt6. http://redd.it/euuwqp ...
The Huge and Mysterious Planet Nine - Ella Alderson - Medium https://link.medium.com/JC5lsMtQv3 ... http://archive.is/7VRx5
A New Health Risk in Human Spaceflight - An Alarming Discovery in an Astronaut’s BloodstreamA study has turned up a side effect of human spaceflight that no one had observed before. | The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/11/astronaut-blood-clot/602380/ ...
Bad Astronomy | Where does the interstellar comet 2I/Borisov come from? https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/where-does-the-interstellar-comet-2iborisov-come-from ...
SpaceX performs an emergency escape test before the rocket explodes - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-01-20/spacex-mimicked-an-emergency-escape-shortly-after-liftoff/11881566 ..
An Unusual Radio Telescope, The CHIME, Could Hold The Key To Understanding Fast Radio Bursts https://www.forbes.com/sites/briankoberlein/2020/01/18/an-unusual-radio-telescope-could-hold-the-key-to-understanding-fast-radio-bursts/#2dbd8d3b3f0e .. Canadian scientists trace 2nd strange radio signal to nearby galaxy | CBC News https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/second-frb-located-1.5429450 ...
The James Webb Space Telescope Is the Largest, Most Powerful Space Telescope Ever Built [Video] https://scitechdaily.com/the-james-webb-space-telescope-is-the-largest-most-powerful-space-telescope-ever-built-video/ ...
As New Telescopes Prepare to Fly Into Orbit, Hubble Still Has a Big Role to Play | Discover Magazine https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/as-new-telescopes-prepare-to-fly-into-orbit-hubble-still-has-a-big-role-to ...
Bad Astronomy | Hubble's spectacular view of UGC 2885: Is this the biggest spiral galaxy in the Universe? https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/hubbles-spectacular-view-of-ugc-2885-is-this-the-biggest-spiral-galaxy-in-the-universe ...
SpaceX's CEO discusses plan to place one million humans of the Red Planet https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/elon-musk-mars-colonization ..
SCIENCE
The science fiction that became science fact in 2019 https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/the-science-fiction-that-became-science-fact-in-2019 ..
Science Behind the Fiction: What science fiction got right in 2019 https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/science-behind-the-fiction-what-science-fiction-got-right-in-2019 ..
First Living Robots Created by Assembling Living Cells From Frogs Into Entirely New Life-Forms https://scitechdaily.com/first-living-robots-created-by-assembling-living-cells-from-frog-embryos-into-entirely-new-life-forms/ ..
Coronavirus outbreak in China is spreading through human contact, authorities confirm - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-01-21/china-confirms-human-to-human-transmission-of-new-coronavirus/11884630 ...
How the Fight over a Hawaii Mega-Telescope Could Change Astronomy - Scientific American https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-the-fight-over-a-hawaii-mega-telescope-could-change-astronomy/ ...
SpaceX's Starlink satellites are so bright, they're being reported as UFOs https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/spacex-satellites-are-now-being-mistaken-for-ufos-and-making-astronomers-rage ..
Scientists are starting to find out how the giant squid got to be a behemoth https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/giant-squid ..
A new class of cool blues: Developers say they are also cheaper and safer | Cosmos https://cosmosmagazine.com/chemistry/a-new-class-of-cool-blues ..
SciCheck - Fact-checking science-based claims https://www.factcheck.org/scicheck/ ...
Social Media Posts Spread Bogus Coronavirus Conspiracy Theory - FactCheck.org https://www.factcheck.org/2020/01/social-media-posts-spread-bogus-coronavirus-conspiracy-theory/ ...
Lewis, Tayna. “Infectious Disease Expert Discusses What We Know about the New Chinese Virus.” https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/infectious-disease-expert-discusses-what-we-know-about-the-new-chinese-virus/
2019 Novel Coronavirus, Wuhan, China. CDC https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/index.html
Novel Coronavirus in Wuhan, China. CDC https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/notices/warning/novel-coronavirus-wuhan-china
Davies, Will and Stephen Tan. “The Age, Sex and Symptoms of All the Coronavirus Victims.” https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-23/several-china-coronavirus-victims-didn-t-even-have-a-fever Bloomberg. 22 Jan 2020, updated 23 Jan 2020
Taylor, Adam. “Wuhan: The Chinese mega-city at the center of coronavirus outbreak.” Washington Post. 23 Jan 2020 https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2020/01/23/wuhan-chinese-mega-city-center-coronavirus-outbreak/
OTHER
Ad Astra says we're alone in the universe. What if that's true? https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/science-behind-the-fiction-what-if-like-ad-astra-suggests-there-are-no-aliens ..
The science fiction that became science fact in 2019 https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/the-science-fiction-that-became-science-fact-in-2019 ...
"Carl didn’t want just to believe: He wanted to know." -- Ann Druyan | Ann is the exact source of the well known "I dont want to believe: I want to know." quote, often attributed to Carl Sagan himself. Both intros from the author Carl Sagan and editor Ann Druyan of "THE VARIETIES of SCIENTIFIC EXPERIENCE: A Personal View of the Search for God" can be found at https://www.amazon.ca/Varieties-Scientific-Experience-Personal-Search/dp/0143112627. See also a nice meme at https://imgur.com/gallery/FW9ob4X ...
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT
There's a very good chance the U.S. government isn't hiding aliens anywhere. According to Edward Snowden's 2019 memoir, Permanent Record, the United States government has never made contact with extra-terrestrial life. At least not that he could find. https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/edward-snowden-aliens-moon-landing ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efs3QRr8LWw ...
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