Lee Billings
@LeeBillings
Senior editor covering space & physics for @sciam. Author of Five Billion Years of Solitude, a book on the search for Earth-like exoplanets. Opinions my own.
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http://leebillings.com 06-05-2009 18:41:33
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Per Scientific American's own story (scientificamerican.com/video/no-one-c…), is it true that no one knows how planes fly?
Well, not exactly (the story says as much despite its catchy headline). But explaining *why* is complicated.
I tried my best here:
tiktok.com/@scientificame…
Special thx to Carin Leong!
Now on Scientific American: Moon dust could 'sandblast' lunar astronauts and infrastructure, warns Dr. Phil Metzger. New studies suggest rocket exhaust from lunar landings could loft 4-10x more hazardous high-speed dust than previously thought. By Michael Greshko.
scientificamerican.com/article/lunar-…
The article “Science Overview of the Europa Clipper Mission,” by yours truly & 88 superlative co-authors, is now published! The paper summarizes the mission & its science, & it’s free to download from Space Science Reviews. Enjoy! NASA Europa Clipper #PI_Daily
link.springer.com/article/10.100…
CMB-S4, a high-priority U.S. science project, is meant to unveil the 1st moments of cosmic history by studying the Big Bang's afterglow. Except now the U.S. govt says it can't support CMB-S4's construction at the South Pole. By Meghan Bartels, for Scientific American.
scientificamerican.com/article/cosmic…
#ScienceOnTheHill : Moriba Jah explains that even though we can’t clean up all space junk, we can start to reverse some of the damage
At #ScienceOnTheHill , brianweeden explains potential solutions to addressing the space junk problem.
brianweeden “We have a linear economy in space, where everything we launch is destined to become trash. So circularity means that you prioritize waste management. Responsible disposal of something would mean removing it, not just abandoning it.” —Moriba Jah
brianweeden Moriba Jah “We’re seeing close calls with satellites more and more, and there’s very little the Air Force can do to mitigate that traffic. So the tipping point is now. We’re long past it and we need to wake up to that.” —Michelle L.D. Hanlon
From today's #ScienceOnTheHill event on the science and policy of space junk:
“Every single thing we launch into orbit, its fate is to be garbage. It's very analogous to our problem with single use plastics.”
—Moriba Jah (Moriba Jah), Co-founder and Chief Scientist at Privateer
Moriba Jah “So much of our infrastructure relies on satellites. If one of the satellites gets hit by a piece of debris, that will affect thousands or millions of people.”
—Michelle L.D. Hanlon (@hanlonesq), Executive Director of the Center for Air and Space Law at the University of
A City on Mars by Zach Weinersmith and Dr. Kelly Weinersmith Review
The book is well researched, I learned some things from it, and they reference sources I am interested in following up on. However, it is written to make a certain small demographic of space geeks kind of mad by gently mocking
In DC for Springer Nature’s #ScienceOnTheHill event about the science and policy of space junk (springernature.com/gp/researchers…), and look what’s right across from my hotel!
I’ll scratch “visit NASA HQ” off my bucket list for now—but next time I hope to go inside.🤞
