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Some of you may have heard of SETI: the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. The idea is that if there's an advanced alien civilization, they'd try to contact us using radio. So we should look for radio signals from space that look like messages.
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The real science behind Rick and Morty | New Scientist
Multiverse theory
The world that Rick and Morty inhabit exists as part of the multiverse – a collection of different universes – offering infinite possibilities for the duo's adventures. It is still impossible to test or observe potential multiverses, but some physicists aren't ruling it out.
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Portal gun
Perhaps Rick's most treasured tool, his portal gun allows him to open wormholes to almost every conceivable location in the multiverse. This would require three things in reality, writes Brady: an energy source, a means to find the right destination and, most importantly, a way to traverse wormholes. Being the universe's most intelligent being, it makes sense that Rick has found a way to create this technology.
ESA CHEOPS mission: Exoplanets in focus | Science| In-depth reporting on science and technology |
The European Space Agency's CHEOPS mission plans to investigate known exoplanets in more detail. This way we can learn more about their mass, density and perhaps even their atmosphere.
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For Star Trek fans and science fiction nuts, it's long been clear that there are countless planets in the universe. But we have only really known this since the 1990s.
That's why the CHEOPS mission of the European Space Agency (ESA) is preparing to investigate some of the known exoplanets in more detail.
The European Space Agency Is Sending a Robot to Hug Junk Out of Space | Smart News |
That means a lot of the stuff we humans send out there—be it satellites or rocket parts—ends up indefinitely adrift in the cosmos after its job is done. No longer useful for missions and too cumbersome to move or destroy, space debris has spent the last six decades accumulating around our planet like a shroud of schmutz. And this halo of junk is more than an extraterrestrial eyesore: Its mere presence endangers active satellites and spacecraft.
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Julian Benbow's Top 10 albums of 2019 - The Boston Globe
Beyond honoring the memory of the legendary Percy Miracles (may he rest in peace), there was no reason for this album ever to come together — and for most of the decade there was no actual hope that it would. Little Brother was one of the early offspring of an Internet era that ate its young. Their return showed there was not only still ample space — and many open arms — but plenty of room to embrace their growth.
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It takes an extraterrestrial persona with an even more bonkers rap skill set to even consider stepping into the loops world of psychedelic samples and beat patterns that make up Madlib's universe. (Think MF Doom and Mos Def.) But Freddie Gibbs is a martian, able to bend flows to his will. Their follow-up to 2015's "Piñata" is somehow more trippy. Madlib throws out-of-nowhere samples like Donny Hathaway's unreleased "Make It on Your Own" at Gibbs like Frisbees, and Gibbs catches them with
Disney fights off Baby Yoda fan merch with its own DIY Christmas gift - Polygon
Baby Yoda merch! Believe us, it does exist . So does bootleg, slapcrap, un-official merch of varying quality and vague deliverability. To combat the thirst for this season's extraterrestrial Cabbage Patch Kid , The Mandalorian director Jon Favreau supplies this DIY Baby Yoda creche ornament.
Here's a craft project from #TheMandalorian that one of our artists put together for you. Get your scissors and tape. #HappyHolidays @LandisFields pic.twitter.com/Tks8zUk1fx
Trump channels his inner Thanos in ... campaign video | FOX 10 Phoenix
WASHINGTON - The campaign to re-elect President Trump has released a video that edits the head of Trump on the body of Thanos , the extraterrestrial menace in the Avengers films from Disney and Marvel Studios.
That's what the Trump War Room did on Tuesday on social media with a doctored video with a motif and message from the mythology of the wildly popular superhero films, according to Deadline.
The Trump War Room image and video has "President Thanos" vanquishing Democratic leaders House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler and House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff.
