The Chang’e 6 lunar sample return probe has returned with its precious cargo from the far side of the moon. The successful mission is another small step on the long march to a Chinese crewed lunar landing.
Random thoughts on politics, current events, popular culture, and whatever else interests me.
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Research on the International Space Station has shown that long-term exposure to microgravity has ill effects on the human body, including muscle atrophy, bone density loss and vision problems. Humans also start losing their immune system if they spend too much time in microgravity, according to a study by Princeton University and the Buck Institute, as mentioned in the UK Telegraph.
Fortunately, two things humans have enjoyed consuming on Earth for centuries will go a long way toward limiting the ill effects space travel has on the human immune system: red wine and dark chocolate.
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If Test 3 of the SpaceX Starship was “awesome,” Test 4 of Elon Musk’s super rocket, which took place on June 5, was on another level that looked like something from science fiction happening in the real world. For the most part, the fourth test met the objectives for the launch vehicle that promises to take humans back to the moon, on to Mars, and beyond.
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Nothing better illustrates how snakebit the Boeing CST-100 Starliner has been than the number of times it has failed to launch.
This looks promising, but Kristin Stewart? She can't act her way out of a paper bag.
Neil deGrasse Tyson: Moon landing was a 'battle cry against communism'
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Well worth reading as the piece soundly debunks this "skepticism."
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Carter famously taught Bible lessons in his church. But published transcripts reveal a distressing, raw, theological hostility to Jews and modern Israel. Carter views modern Israel through an odd New Testament tunnel-vision, obsessively focused on the refusal of powerful Roman-era Jews to accept Jesus as their messiah (instead they “decided to kill him”) and the resulting forfeiture of Jewish national and covenantal rights. He projects disparaging characterizations of Jews from 2,000 years ago onto today’s Israel, teaching that Jews despise Christians as “dogs.” Does that sound like any Sunday school you attended?
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Recently, according to Live Science, the results of two scientific studies have been released that could, if verified, prove the existence of advanced alien civilizations elsewhere in the universe capable of building megastructures called Dyson spheres. Such a confirmation would be the most significant in the history of the world.