And sorry but not impressed after experiencing the Saturn V in Huntsville 
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Iāll be interested to see what comes out of this, but Iām a bit worried about the approach.
Weāve figured out decades ago that the only way to make recycling effective is to make it a priority when designing the product. But this challenge is explicitly not about that, but about dealing with waste. Iām sorry, but if you have to worry about recycling food packaging during a space mission, then you need different food packaging, thatās the only way to really get anywhere.
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Iāve been so out of the loop with news etc while sick that I didnāt even realise what I was looking at a few nights ago.
I remember thinking, wtf, I donāt recall a star being that close or visible to the moon. I thought it was kinda cool that my brain caught it in my periphery and was telling my gut something had changed, but I convinced myself I donāt know enough about the night sky to have just not noticed it before.
This morning, a friend visiting from Austria asked if we had seen it, they unfortunately had cloudy skies in Austria the past week. And thatās when I realised what Iād seen.
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The planet Jupiter has been close to the Moon recently. Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS is moving away from the Sun and has been visible after sunset. I was able to see the comet with my naked eyes on the 14th and 15th. It was cloudy the next few of days, and forest fire smoke was blowing around and caused glowing city lights that made things harder to see without a camera.
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Ah mustāve been Jupiter I seen so. I donāt drink often, it was early and I was hungover when my friends were discussing the comet; thatās my excuse 
@Jupiter.blues what are you doing up at the moon?
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Just playing some jazz. 
Uh I mean, blues 
Could use a drummer.
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Would Keith Moon be too on the nose?
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No, but it would beā¦ on the moon.
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You forgot the badum-tish!
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Circular 16 cavity magnetron with a single source resonance
Loop16āish.
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Interesting 
Time dilated portals eh
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They call it the best-timed TV shot in history. That is Voyager 2 being launched into space for its now historic voyage. 1977
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I had to stop watching Sabineās videos because I noticed a bit of a change in their content, then they put up a video that I couldnāt stand by and support (acting authoritive in a field they have zero experience in).
I felt like they were caring less about explaining complicated physics for the layman and more about pandering to the algorithm but couldnāt quite put my finger on it.
This does a pretty good job of praising her work and approach but highlights the problem her channel is having in recent years.
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I think thereās a couple of things to that. For one, I do think her criticism of theoretical physics has a lot of validity. Itās getting tired hearing how believing in a superior being is obviously stupid and everybody should just stop with it, and then have crap like multiverses, simulation theory and boltzmann brains being considered āscientificā by people that have obviously forgotten what āfalsifiabilityā means.
On the other hand, sheāsā¦ very german. And as far as I can see, about the only german trying to address a very american field of youtube. And sheās not going about that very smartly. Sheās just going about it veryā¦ german. If sheād be doing german videos and mostly be engaging with the german community, I think the problem would be a lot smaller. On the other hand, I also get that itās tiresome constantly having to handle americans with silk gloves because they have a culutural blindspot as big as Sagitarius A. Iām not a scientist, but I know it from other fields of work. You basically canāt talk to americans about serious things without upsetting them when youāre not very familiar with their cultural priorities. And Sabine doesnāt give a rats ass, which is not helping either. But itās veryā¦ German.
She has gotten more about ranting than about explaining things, that much is clear. I just think she often rants about stuff thatās kind of neccessary to point outā¦
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Interestingly, the point at which almost any āsupreme beingā theory falls flat on its face.
Like yourself, I do not consider myself a scientist. In my working life, however, I had to plough through, and try to make sense of, a mass of academic papers from toxicologists, epidemiologists, radiologists, and many others. When you do this, it rapidly becomes apparent that there are academic institutions who measure their success in the quantity, rather than the quality, of their published research.
It is an uncomfortable fact that published papers attract grant money, which in turn ensures institutional survival. There is continual pressure for otherwise viable research departments to become little more than paper mills.
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And many people want their 15 minutes of fame. Then some want to hang onto it and therefore try to make themselves more relatable to the ever shifting tide of opinions and end up losing themselves as they get sucked out to sea.
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I mean, thatās kind of the irony, isnāt it. Iām not advocating for God to become an accepted scientific theory. But theyāve somehow managed to work on string theory for like 50 years without any tangible criteria for falsification, and it seems to me weāre going for another round of that with the multiverse. Stuff like that just shouldnāt happen, but seems to become more frequent, and thatās exactly what Sabine has been ranting about lately.
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