Space Nerds

[[Ph...]]

 

Drats!  A new examination of The Drake Equation suggests that we're probably the only intelligent civilization in the entire universe, which answers Enrico Fermi's famous question "where is everybody?"  Answer:  There ain't anybody.  Bummer.

 

https://www.universetoday.com/139467/new-model-predicts-that-were-probably-the-only-advanced-civilization-in-the-observable-universe/

 

[[Ph...]]

Here's a three-part series of podcasts on the subject of black holes from "Stuff to Blow Your Mind."

 

All three parts are outstanding, but the third part is killer and gets into everything that you would experience as you fall into a black hole, including what happens to time during that ummm, time...it gets infinitely weird, man.

 

Part 1:  https://www.stufftoblowyourmind.com/podcasts/black-holes-part-1-phantom.htm

 

Part 2:  https://www.stufftoblowyourmind.com/podcasts/black-holes-part-2-detection.htm

 

Part 3:  https://www.stufftoblowyourmind.com/podcasts/black-holes-part-3-the-future.htm

 

And check out the rest of the podcasts at "Stuff to Blow Your Mind."

 

[[Ph...]]

Brian Greene's masterful TED talk about "why our universe is fine-tuned for life."  (And why other universes aren't.)

 

 

Just amazing, not just the content but the delivery as well !!

 

 

[[Es...]]

Wow. You mean there ain’t anybody else. I don’t know if it’s good news or bad news. Gonna watch those vids later. I need to see some order emerge from the chaos which is my own day first.