Zathura: planetary ring lifecycles, science words, and light pollution

Published: May 8, 2018, 7:45 a.m.

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Jumanji in space. Card-by-card science words.

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The night sky \\u201cnever looked that close before.\\u201d The majority of Americans being unfamiliar with a real view of the night sky. Light pollution. Dark sky preserves. The LA blackout and the milky way. Light pollution and the effect on wildlife. And the effects on us.

\\n\\n \\n Sky glow. Light pollution!\\n\\n \\n\\n Royal Astronomical Society CC-BY\\n\\n \\n\\n Planetary rings \\n\\n

100% ring rate on gas giants in our solar system. Ring size and albido. The lifecycle of a ring system. The \\u201cRoche Limit.\\u201d Ring formation beginnings. Rocks vs ice in ring systems. Super-large ring system discoveries.

\\n\\n \\n The Roche limit\\n\\n \\n\\n Theresa Knott CC-BY-SA-3.0\\n\\n \\n\\n Cryonic sleep \\n\\n

Cryonic sleep and galactic travel. Teenager sleep schedules.

\\n\\n Gravity Wells \\n\\n

Weightlessness in orbit. Orbit is falling.

\\n\\n Meeting aliens \\n\\n

As per Hawking: you might not want to!

\\n\\n Zorgons \\n\\n

Don\\u2019t forget: people are meat too! Cold blooded vs warm-blooded intelligence. Metabolic rates and bloodedness. Dinosaurs may have been mesotherms!

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You are as meat as a cow!

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-Colbert

\\n\\n Space food \\n\\n

Tubes and bricks. Bad roomates and sardine tubes. Kimchi rocket ships in spaaaaaace. Eating your sandwich in the bathroom, just in case your microbiome can\\u2019t handle the onslaught.

\\n\\n Shooting stars \\n\\n

IRL shooting stars. Rogue stars. Meteor shower disappointments.

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