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[Sailorsaint]

We will be landing on the moon today at 5:30 eastern. Difficult landing at the southern pole.

 

[Sailorsaint]

Landing updated to 3:24 central with the landing stream beginning at about 2.

 

[fred8615]

Newly Discovered Cretaceous Mammal Was An Absolute Unit

Patagomaia chainko was orders of magnitude bigger than anything else we know of.

www.iflscience.com

 

[fred8615]

They're at it again. And they've got even more size analogies in the article.

Asteroid the size of 6 peacocks to fly close to Earth on Thursday - NASA

Asteroid 2024 DW is the size of around six adult Indian peacocks and will fly within the Moon's orbit of the Earth on February 22, according to NASA.

www.jpost.com

 

[Tapxe]

They're at it again. And they've got even more size analogies in the article.

Asteroid the size of 6 peacocks to fly close to Earth on Thursday - NASA

Asteroid 2024 DW is the size of around six adult Indian peacocks and will fly within the Moon's orbit of the Earth on February 22, according to NASA.

www.jpost.com

A number of other asteroids will be following 2024 DW as it flies past the Earth on Thursday. Here's a look at them, with their own metrics.

• 2024 CE8, a diameter of up to 47 meters, or almost 11 Mako sharks
• 2024 DX, a diameter of up to 21 meters, or over 137 pineapples
• 2024 DJ1, a diameter of up to 59 meters, or over over 151 Sony PlayStation 5 video game consoles

 

[Sailorsaint]

I’m having a hard time picturing 137 pineapples, they need a different measurement.

 

[mjcouvi]

40,000-Year-Old Multi-Compound Glue Suggests Neanderthals Were Smarter Than We Thought

The idea that Neanderthals were dumb just doesn't stick.

www.iflscience.com

They ate better than we did, bigger brains, more physically robust overall, so they had a higher capacity for processing information than modern humans. They just lacked the knowledge base we have access to.

 

[Sailorsaint]

It’s down and communicating, sort of.

 

[Zztop]

Odysseus achieves the first US Moon landing since 1972

We’re back on the Moon!

www.theverge.com

From another article, it almost didn't make it

A little US company makes history by landing on the Moon

“We’re not dead yet."

arstechnica.com

About 20 minutes after touchdown, NASA declared success, but some questions remained about the health of the lander and its orientation. Why? Because while Odysseus was phoning home, its signal was weak.

But after what the spacecraft and its developer, Houston-based Intuitive Machines, went through earlier on Thursday, it was a miracle that Odysseus made it at all.


The landing attempt was delayed by about two hours after mission controllers had to send a hastily cobbled together, last-minute software patch up to the lander while it was still in orbit around the Moon. Patching your spacecraft's software shortly before it makes its most critical move is just about the last thing a vehicle operator wants to do. But Intuitive Machines was desperate.

Earlier on Thursday, the company realized that its navigation lasers and cameras were not operational.

 

[GrandAdmiral]

Odysseus achieves the first US Moon landing since 1972

We’re back on the Moon!

www.theverge.com

From another article, it almost didn't make it

A little US company makes history by landing on the Moon

“We’re not dead yet."

arstechnica.com

About 20 minutes after touchdown, NASA declared success, but some questions remained about the health of the lander and its orientation. Why? Because while Odysseus was phoning home, its signal was weak.

But after what the spacecraft and its developer, Houston-based Intuitive Machines, went through earlier on Thursday, it was a miracle that Odysseus made it at all.


The landing attempt was delayed by about two hours after mission controllers had to send a hastily cobbled together, last-minute software patch up to the lander while it was still in orbit around the Moon. Patching your spacecraft's software shortly before it makes its most critical move is just about the last thing a vehicle operator wants to do. But Intuitive Machines was desperate.

Earlier on Thursday, the company realized that its navigation lasers and cameras were not operational.

little better news now...

 

[Nisey55]

I’m having a hard time picturing 137 pineapples, they need a different measurement.

Try 342 mangos, it's clear as day.

 

[longtime lurker]

Some international flights are exceeding 800 mph due to high winds. One flight arrived almost an hour early.

One flight from Philadelphia to Doha, Qatar reached a max speed of 840 miles per hour, about 60% faster than typical.

www.cbsnews.com

 

[GrandAdmiral]

So NASA and Intuitive Machines are giving an update and they've confirmed that the lander is on the surface. However, they've confirmed Odie is tilted on its side. It's still being charged by the sun with its solar panels and is sending data. They're now hoping to have some pictures this weekend.

 

[Optimus Prime]

Scientists have detected the pull of gravity on the microscopic scale in a feat that lays the groundwork for probing its nature in the mysterious quantum realm.

In an experiment involving sophisticated superconducting apparatus cooled to within a whisker of absolute zero, and brass weights stuck to an electrical bicycle wheel, physicists recorded a minuscule gravitational tug of 30 quintillionths of a newton on a particle less than a millimetre wide.

The demonstration paves the way for future work in which researchers aim to measure the gravity generated by ever smaller particles to understand how the unusual force behaves in the subatomic world where quantum rules dominate.

“We know that quantum mechanics and general relativity, Einstein’s theory of gravity, are not reconcilable as we formulate them now,” said Tim Fuchs, a postdoctoral experimental physicist at the University of Southampton. “The theories don’t work together, so we know something has to give, or both have to give. This is trying to fill in the gaps with actual experiments.”

For more than a century, physicists have tried and failed to combine gravity, which describes how mass bends space-time, with quantum theory, the rules of the subatomic world. Understanding gravity at the quantum scale could help solve some of the grand mysteries of the universe, from how it all began to the goings-on inside black holes. But while theorists have come up with a raft of promising ideas, it has proved hard to design experiments to see which, if any, nature has chosen.…….

Quantum physics makes small leap with microscopic gravity measurement

Experiment records minuscule gravitational pull as a step to understanding how force operates at subatomic level

www.theguardian.com

 

[Optimus Prime]

A brain pacemaker helped a woman with crippling depression. It may soon be available to more people

Researchers are testing deep brain stimulation as a treatment for people with a severe form of depression.

apnews.com