‘Skyman’ Review: Ready for an Alien Reunion - The New York Times
As Carl enlists the help of his sister (Nicolette Sweeney) and his best friend (Faleolo Alailima) in elaborate preparations for the visitation, the movie's striking desert locations and generous tone are more soothing than scary.
Subdued and temperate, "Skyman" refuses to lean into the mystery of Carl's claims or wind us up for a final resolution. Those elements might be present, but they're never allowed to obscure what is essentially an empathetic, textured portrait of loneliness and loss.
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Desert Microbes Mine for Water - Eos
Once back in her lab, DiRuggiero cut the rock samples into tiny square "coupons" for microscopic and spectroscopic analysis. Kisailus's postdoctoral fellow Wei Huang used electron microscopy for the first analysis of the rock coupons, which revealed the cyanobacterium Chroococcidiopsis tucked between rock layers.
"The water itself is part of the [gypsum] crystal—it's not like pools of water are trapped in there." Using X-ray diffraction, which shows how atoms are organized inside rocks, the team could see the rock coupons were mostly gypsum, which is calcium sulfate dihydrate, or CaSO 4 plus two molecules of water. "The water itself is part of the [gypsum] crystal—it's not like pools of water are trapped in there," Kisailus explained.
My dad launched the quest to find alien intelligence. It changed astronomy. | National Geographic
Frank Drake and a BBC film crew at the Green Bank Observatory, with the Ozma telescope in the background. The telescope's control room has been restored to how it looked in 1960 when Drake became the first person to conduct a modern scientific search for intelligent civilisations among the stars.
Frank Drake , then an astronomer at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory , was gearing up to search for radio whispers from faraway civilizations that might be sailing the cosmic sea. For such a grand quest, he had a budget of £1,600 and access to a radio telescope thought to be sensitive enough to detect transmissions from any potentially broadcasting extraterrestrials.
These Baton Rouge movie theaters are now delaying reopenings because of coronavirus | Business |
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New Houston-made satellites to mimic versatility of the chameleon in space - HoustonChronicle.com
Like the versatile reptile, the satellites could be quickly updated and reconfigured while in orbit. Let’s say a volcano erupts and there isn’t an imaging satellite nearby. This planned Chameleon Constellation of 24 to 36 satellites could switch within minutes from running machine learning models on data collected in space to taking pictures of the disaster and aiding first responders.
Or perhaps a malicious hacker gets into the satellite’s software and renders it useless. An update to fix the security weakness could be quickly pushed out.
AI could deceive us as much as the human eye does in the search for extraterrestrials |
IMAGE: Picture of the Vinalia Faculae region of Ceres obtained by NASA's Dawn spacecraft on July 6, 2018 at an altitude of about 58 kilometres. Can a square and/or a triangle... view more
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An artificial neural network has identified a square structure within a triangular one in a crater on the dwarf planet Ceres, with several people agreeing on this perception. The result of this intriguing visual experiment, carried out by a Spanish neuropsychologist, calls into question the application of artificial intelligence to the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence (SETI).
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