Space and Science BS Thread

It's terrible all those people who died and those whose houses are gone. On Sunday we had Very Unhealthy air, last 2 days it's been Unhealthy. Can't be outside for more than a short time without getting nauseated. We have 4 air purifiers going almost 24/7. They cancelled classes at the local UC College. When you look at that satellite image, notice the middle of the state is a long valley - it's a bowl where all that smoke goes. The only outlet is in the middle by the SF bay.

 

Model demonstration of how mangrove
forests protect coasts from waves

 

Canadian researchers have discovered a new kind of organism - called
hemimastigotes - that's so different from other living things that it
doesn't fit into the plant kingdom, the animal kingdom, or any other
kingdom used to classify known organisms.

 

Sounds like my ex girlfriend.

 

More material if interested.
https://www.google.ca/url?sa=i&sour...aw3SVqIBF2hPIVAeM6e_7x3L&ust=1542738199032908

 

Newly released NASA Juno spacecraft
footage of the "Dolphin" on Jupiter

 

Insight, NASA's Mars lander, just landed on Mars!!!!

 

But first, let me take a #selfie

 

https://www.adventure-journal.com/2...eird-wave-that-just-rippled-across-the-world/

 

Amy Schumer fell down.

 

Isn't that the plot of the video game Crysis?

 

It's the last sentence that I find most intriguing:

"But the strange uniformity is what’s freaking everybody out. “They’re too perfect to be nature,” said Helen Robinson, a volcanologist at the University of Glasgow."

 

could be 2 mega black holes collided millions of years ago, and the waves are just now reaching us.

 

It's the Russians.

Or maybe NK doing some more underground "testing"...

Or perhaps Martians, letting us know they don't want to be bothered.

 

Oh gee. Yet another thing that entities with a lifespan 1/10000000000000000 that of the universe struggle to explain.

 

How close Omuamua got to us beginning of October, 2017.
I didn't realize it came into the inner solar system.

 

While clicking around looking for info on Low Earth Orbit, I came upon this really cool model on Wikipedia - LEO

EDIT - Not sure how to embed it in the post.