Berger and his team describe 1550 fossils representing more than 15 ancient members of a strange new kind of hominin, which they named Homo naledi. They'll be arguing over this for years.
But what about the box jelly? It is among the simplest of animals, just a gelatinous, pulsating blob with four trailing bundles of stinging tentacles. It doesn’t even have a proper brain—merely a ring of neurons running around its bell. Reminds me of a girl I used to go out with ... Anyway, in other news, it seems we were gadding about in the arctic before anyone thought we were... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-35320938
So science, astrophysicists, have newly discovered another planet. How could they have not noticed something so much bigger than Pluto out there? In other news Astrologers have always claimed that there has been another planet out there forever. They even named it Lilith.
If I had to make an educated guess Id assume that the sunlight is so weak in those areas out there that the planet how big it may ever be can not reflect much light back to us. One could say that this is not possible because we know about the Kuiper belt and the objects in it. But maybe the surface does not cover much ice so it is rather dark and cannot throw much light back.
Yeah....that immediately came to mind but I knew someone would come to the rescue. After all, how many spaced out Liliths can there be?
You've never seen the Milky Way look quite like this https://t.co/VZcHWo85x1 pic.twitter.com/PGQjExOCCS— HuffPost (@HuffPost) February 25, 2016
To beat my favorite dead horse in the whole world: it's important to remember, though, that when it comes to the Theory of General Relativity, the detection of gravitational waves does not mean that the theory has been proven correct. What it means is that the theory has yet more evidence in its favor.
Yep, I think that a lot of people don't understand that gravitational waves are not strong evidence for certain important aspects of GR, in particular its non-linear nature and that the gravitational field must be described by the spacetime metric, because they are described by an approximation of GR that is linear and where the gravitational field is separated out from a background metric.
Sure, and you can go further: you can replace "people" with "physicists and mathematicians", since most other people aren't going to understand what "non-linear" or "metric" mean in this context. But the reference to my favorite dead horse was a reference to a more fundamental (and depressingly pervasive) problem in the public concept of what science is: a detection of gravitational waves doesn't prove GR true because you don't prove theories true in science. You accumulate evidence in their favor, or you falsify them, but you do not prove them true.
The difference between a good scientist and a good academic The rise of "the Trump academic" https://academicirregularities.word...are-we-seeing-the-rise-of-the-trump-academic/