For the other Astronuts out there

No worries- found it.

 

Amazed at the stuff they keep discovering. Now they neeed to unravel why.
"Catastrophic events on Earth don't come at random, but are dictated by a 'pulse' of geologic activity that occurs every 27.5 million years, a new study reveals.
Researchers performed an analysis of 260 million years of major geological events, including extinctions, eruptions and sea-level fluctuations.
The team, from New York University, found the events occurred in 'recurring clusters' spaced roughly 27.5 million years apart.
These pulses may be the result of as-yet-undetermined 'cycles' of activity in the Earth's interior, such as plate tectonics, although similar cycles in the Earth's orbit in space might also play a part.
The most recent 'pulse' of major geological activity was around 7 million years ago, suggesting the next one is more than 20 million years in the future."
www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-9707865/Earths-pulse-geologic-activity-happens-27-5-million-years-says-study.html

 

I shall sleep easy tonight.

 

You would think so.

 

Don't know if it has been mentioned...But I just saw that Allan J. McDonald passed away back in March. If you remember the Challenger, you should remember Allan McDonald.





https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_J._McDonald

 

Bezos goes up and comes down...not in the same category as Musk, but a great effort anyway.

 

Extra large windows too...first time i've seen them that big. I wonder if phones are/were allowed on the flight (probably not). Surely that would be the ultimate selfie (Australia invented the word "Selfie" - true story) - Blow all those no use "influencers" out of the water...

 

Nice work.
"A team of astronomers at Stanford University has detected light coming from behind a black hole in a first ever observation that proves famed theoretical physicist Albert Einstein's theory of relativity.
The study, published Wednesday in Nature, analyzed X-ray 'echoes' surrounding a black hole, some 100 million light-years from Earth, which were a result of the intense gravity of the object warping space and bending the light back around into view.
These 'echoes' are flashes of X-ray light that come from the disk, which scientists use to map the black hole's inner structure.
The scenario was predicted by Einstein's theory, which determined that massive objects cause a distortion in space-time, which is felt as gravity.
Roger Blandford, a co-author of the research, published in Nature, said: 'Fifty years ago, when astrophysicists starting speculating about how the magnetic field might behave close to a black hole, they had no idea that one day we might have the techniques to observe this directly and see Einstein's general theory of relativity in action.'
While conducting the research, Stanford University astrophysicist Dan Wilkins observed a series of bright flares of X-rays and then the telescopes recorded something unexpected: additional flashes of X-rays that were smaller, later and of different 'colors' than the bright flares."
www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-9835851/Scientists-observe-light-coming-black-hole-time.html

 

NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Spots Perseverance From Above

This image may not mean much to the ignorant eye...but for those following space exploration (the astronuts out there) this picture is simply amazing. The Rover is out there in the distance. Note the copter shadow below...beautiful resolution. Take a bow America/NASA.

 

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210820-where-did-supermassive-black-holes-come-from

They are the biggest black holes in the known Universe, billions of times more massive than our Sun, but little is known about how these monsters form and grow so big. New telescopes and techniques are giving us a new way of looking at these giants.

Black holes have a spherical boundary known as an "event horizon". Within this sphere, light, energy, and matter are inescapably trapped. Space and time fold in on themselves, and the physical laws that describe how most of our Universe works break down. But, just outside the event horizon, a spinning black hole can whip nearby material into a spinning, superheated disc. Reaching temperatures higher than 10 million C, the accretion disc in a quasar releases blindingly bright radiation across the electromagnetic spectrum.

"Black holes are the most effective, efficient engines in the Universe," says Marta Volonteri, a black hole researcher at l'Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris. "They transform mass into energy with up to 40% efficiency. If you think of anything we burn with carbon, or chemical energy, or even what happens in stars, it's just a small, small fraction of what a black hole produces."

 

Our digestive system is a matter energy machine…I wonder how efficient that is?