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Metal monolith in Utah prompts unanswered questions - Alton Telegraph
It takes a great deal to shock me. An article I read earlier this week, however, almost made me fall out of my chair at the book shop. Wildlife officials in Utah, who were flying in a helicopter to check on bighorn sheep, spotted a metal monolith in the desert.
The structure, which they estimated to be between 10 to 12 feet in height, appears smooth and clean in a video released by the Utah Department of Public Safety. Its base has been buried into the rock to an unknown depth. Authorities didn’t disclose the monolith’s precise location in order to discourage curiosity-seekers. Using Google Earth, however, the monolith has been located and is already drawing visitors.
Arecibo telescope in Puerto Rico to close; #WhatAreciboMeans trends
A massive radio telescope in Puerto Rico used by scientists worldwide will close, the National Science Foundation announced Thursday.
"This decision is not an easy one for NSF to make, but the safety of people is our number one priority," said Sean Jones, the agency's assistant director for the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Directorate. "We understand how much Arecibo means to this community and to Puerto Rico."
An auxiliary cable broke in August and tore a 100-foot hole in the reflector dish and damaged the dome above it. Then on Nov. 6, one of the telescope's main steel cables snapped, causing further damage and leading officials to warn that the entire structure could collapse.
China launches Chang'e-5 to collect, return moon samples - Xinhua | English.news.cn
A Long March-5 rocket, carrying the Chang'e-5 spacecraft, blasts off from the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site on the coast of southern island province of Hainan, Nov. 24, 2020. China on Tuesday launched a spacecraft to collect and return samples from the moon, the country's first attempt to retrieve samples from an extraterrestrial body. (Xinhua/Jin Liwang)
A Long March-5 rocket, carrying the Chang'e-5 spacecraft, blasted off from the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site on the coast of southern island province of Hainan at 4:30 a.m. (Beijing Time).
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The Scientific Benefits of Social Distancing - Scientific American
Personally, I practiced social distancing long before the term became a household phrase during the COVID-19 pandemic—not because I am germophobic, but because the only way to remain creative within the turbulence of mediocrity is to float like a boat above its crashing waves. When seashells and pebbles are dragged by back and forth by ocean waves and rub against each other, they erode and eventually become indistinguishable. The final product is sand.
We do not want our scientists to be like sand. “The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.” wrote the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche in his book The Dawn of Da y , published in 1881.
Lumberton students prep to make mark in space
Nearly a year after beating out international competitors, two Lumberton teens are just days away from sending a pivotal experiment to the International Space Station.
“It is pretty cool because not everybody can say that they left their mark on space,” Lumberton High School senior Austin Havard told The Enterprise when his project was selected in December.
Havard and fellow Lumberton student Lucas Mason designed the experiment, which aims to explore how a special kind of fiber-reinforced concrete casts in a microgravity
AREA15 transforming outdoor space into holiday experience | blooloop
AREA15 ‘s outdoor event space, A-Lot, will become Wanderland through January 3. It will boast a 30-foot intergalactic art sleigh, Balanceville, illuminated in hundreds of festive lights.
Other features include an illuminated tree-lined village brimming with extraterrestrial surprises, and a festive path of igloos with holiday vignettes.
There will also be pop-up retailers such as Kappa Toys and Wild Muse Boutique, as well as sweets by Emack & Bolio’s, and open fire pits throughout A-Lot.
Amateur astronomer Alberto Caballero finds possible source of Wow! signal
In studying his search results , Caballero found what appears to fit the bill—a star (2MASS 19281982-2640123) that is very nearly a mirror image of the sun—and is located in the part of the sky where the Wow! signal originated. He notes that there are other possible candidates in the area but suggests his candidate might provide the best launching point for a new research effort by astronomers who have the tools to look for exoplanets. Explore further
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The David Zwirner gallery says the mystery monolith buried in the Utah desert is the work of John McCracken, a Mini… https://t.co/Rr5PcDWUbs nytimes (from New York City) Fri Nov 27 22:00:07 +0000 2020
Helicopter pilots discovered a strange metallic monolith on federal land in the Utah desert. Currently authorities… https://t.co/ir4CwY4mzi IGN Thu Nov 26 16:01:04 +0000 2020
Remember that mysterious monolith found in the Utah desert? Authorities wouldn't reveal its location, but a Reddito… https://t.co/2tajbNPZnh juliagalef (from San Francisco) Thu Nov 26 18:55:29 +0000 2020
"Who does this kind of stuff?" Workers with Utah's Department of Public Safety discovered a mysterious metallic mo… https://t.co/zSLPzlaKms Quicktake Fri Nov 27 02:00:10 +0000 2020
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