Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos want to colonize outer space to save humanity, but they couldn't care less about protecting the rights of workers here on earth.
Mr. Musk's SpaceX just won a $2.9 billion NASA contract to land astronauts on the moon, beating out Mr. Bezos.
The money isn't a big deal for either of them. Mr. Musk is worth $179.7 billion, Mr. Bezos $197.8 billion. Together, that's almost as much as the bottom 40% of Americans combined.
Don't Get Caught Up In ... Semantics: Biden's Plans Are
Besides traditional public works — earthbound (the interstate highways) and even extraterrestrial ("scientific breakthroughs [that] took us to the Moon and now to Mars") — Biden talked up human infrastructure: "Eight hundred thousand families are on a Medicaid waiting list right now to get home care for their aging parent or loved one with a disability. This plan will help those families and create jobs for our caregivers with better wages and better benefits."
7 Free Things to Do in and Around Denver This May - 5280
Denver's Vegan Market | May 1
Calling all vegetarians, vegans, and flexitarians! Pete's Corner House Lounge will be hosting its first vegan market to highlight 14 different plant-based vendors with goodies ranging from pepper jam to macaroni and cheese. 1515 Madison St.; 1-5 p.m.; find more information about the vendors here
Free Barre Class at Modern Nomad | May 1
Sweat, shop, and sip mimosas with Modern Nomad and The Barre Code to start the new month on the right foot. During the 50-minute outdoor class, attendees will have a total body workout while abiding by social-distancing guidelines. Following the class, the Green Bus Cafe food truck will make a pit stop at the pop-up. Don't forget your yoga mat and water. 2936 Larimer St.; 10-11 a.m.; RSVP to claim your spot here
Wendy Vogel on Ping Zheng - Artforum International
For “Reflection,” Ping Zheng’s intimate exhibition of fourteen oil-stick-on-paper paintings at Kristen Lorello, the artist created dreamlike, supersaturated pictures of nature. Zheng, who was raised in China and is now based in Brooklyn, made all the works in 2020, our pandemic year.
These modestly sized works seemed to radiate from within. Paintings such as Morning Sun , one of the most purely abstract pieces here, exemplify Zheng’s skillful use of heavy oil stick to achieve a nearly weightless, meditative luminosity. At the center of an upside-down isosceles triangle rimmed with gold sits the titular orb, its heart a blazing orange mist encircled by rings of celadon, white, and dirty apricot.
Where to see art gallery shows in the Washington region - The Washington Post
Park's response has been to make ersatz monuments like the ones on display at Plain Sight, a pop-up storefront gallery whose small shows are viewable only from the street. The five physical artworks (there's also an audio one) include a floor piece whose mineral-like cragginess is actually the result of paint and plastic foam beads, and three wall-mounted panels that look like inscribed rock but are in fact Polystyrene foam, plaster and stone-textured paint.
The massive extraterrestrial boulder is made of foam covered with reflective glass beads, yet appears to be far more substantial. Although this is not the first time the artist has simulated a naturally occurring stone object, previous efforts were not so imposing. Park's motivation may still be to highlight the fragility of human existence, but "The Beginning of Everything" feigns a crushing permanence.
Why bringing Martian rocks back to Earth is a bad idea | New Scientist
AROUND a decade from now, astrobiologists from NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) will be looking out for a ballistic delivery from the heavens: the first space capsule containing soil and rock samples from the surface of Mars .
At a time when covid-19 is showing the appalling impact of a pandemic, NASA and ESA surely need to change tack. There is a clear new course: bring the samples back for analysis on a lunar orbiting space station, or to a lab on the moon itself, both of which may exist a decade hence.
Looking up and looking down: What's happening in the sky
Since October 4, 1957, when the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the first artificial satellite, there have been nearly 6000 satellites launched into Earth's orbit, as well as dozens of extraterrestrial probes exploring the far reaches of the solar system and beyond. I covered the latter in a previous article , so this month, we'll explore what is happening above our home planet.
While there are no definitive answers as to how the Moon, Earth's first and largest satellite, was formed , we have a pretty clear picture of the history and current status of human-made satellites.
The Mysterious History of Cattle Mutilation - HISTORY
The bovine corpses stunned the ranchers who found them. The animals’ ears, eyes, udders, anuses, sex organs and tongues had routinely been removed, seemingly with a sharp, clean instrument. Their carcasses had been drained of blood. No tracks or footprints were found in the immediate vicinity—nor were any of the usual opportunistic scavengers.
Between April and October of 1975, nearly 200 cases of cattle mutilation were reported in the state of Colorado alone. Far from being mere tabloid fodder, it had become a nationally recognized issue: That year, the Colorado Associated Press voted it the state’s number one story. Colorado’s then-senator Floyd Haskell asked the Federal Bureau of Investigation to get involved.
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