Lost in Space: supercooling, space imaging, and sexy robots w/ Adrian Falcone

Published: May 1, 2018, 7:45 a.m.

b'Space travel and orienteering \\n\\n

Space maps. Star brightnesses and reference points. The ESA Gaia Project. Landing in glaciers. Glacier life cycles. Fjords! Callback to Seveneves.

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Dude, we have video from a comet! How various inputs are composited into attractive imagery. Public data and the opportunities for citizen science and science communication. Spectroscopy and impactor makeup-detection. Detecting invisible glass clouds by how they scatter light. Red shift and blue shift.

\\n\\n \\u201cSuperfreezing\\u201d \\n\\n

Superfeeezing, supersaturation, etc. Booby-trapped microwaved water. Nucleation points. Slushy bear. Day/night cycles and weather around extreme freezing/thawing.

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The \\u201ccrew\\u201d

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Dad\\u2019s triage skills. Recognizing magnesium. Is it bigger than a breadbox?

\\n\\n Robots! \\n\\n

General Grievous gets the thigh ground. Fueling your nether regions with gasoline. Power-saving mode in the murder module.

\\n\\n \\u201cFire seeds\\u201d \\n\\n

Giant redwood reproduction strategies. Living through wildfires. \\u201cCleverness\\u201d in the unguided process of natural selection.

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  1. \\n\\t\\t\\t\\t"Video" from the comet 67p: Twitter\\n\\t\\t\\t
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  3. \\n\\t\\t\\t\\tLost in Space (1998 film): gifted children, future vlogging, and colonizing space: Decipher SciFi\\n\\t\\t\\t
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  5. \\n\\t\\t\\t\\tWhich Are The Real Pictures of Space? What\\u2019s a Photo and What\\u2019s An Illustration? by Fraser Cain: YouTube\\n\\t\\t\\t
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