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Eiffel
LPT: you can get pommes frites in Europe. Could Eiffel have been an agent? The history of the Eiffel tower. The Eiffel Tower’s science history. Cosmic rays. Wireless telepraphy (radio). Outliving its intended lifespan.
Aliens
Which government agency should you be applying to in order to research alien stuff? Remembering the MiB is an NGO.
Space tracking
Increasing ability to track nearby space objects. Tracking objects in our solar system’s plane. The difficulty of tracking interstellar objects. Being a good space neighbor. Confirmed tracked interstellar objects. Failing to pronounce “ʻOumuamua.”
A Danzig tale
justin: dude
Danzig lives next door to me in l.a.
down the street
and he is the worst neighbor ever
justin: so he has this huge pile of bricks in his front yard
and the house looks like an evil pixar house
so anyway, his neighbor was like, “dude, danzig your bringing property values down with these bricks in your yard.”
and danzig was pissed
so anyway, back and forth with his neighbor and danzig
and finally one day
i see danzig outside
in his front yard
and he’s hurling bricks into this drumpster and he’s screaming, “HERE I AM MOTHERFUCKER, JUST CLEANING UP MY FUCKING BRICKS BITCH!”
Just super loud
to no one in particular
for two hours
it was amazing
like, i couldn’t even think about other things
because it was so amazing
me: oh my god
this is amazing
justin: dude
it blew my mind
because it was danzig as just a really poor homeowner
Space security
Hacking satellites! Actually totally possible and has happened. Air Force satellites at DEFCON. DDoS in space. The possibilities for catastrophy in hacking things in space. The many ways an attacker could damage or destroy our space telescopes.
Stars!
Blue giants! They’re rather large, and luminous. And hot. Capturing star energy. Kardashev scales.
Memory
The tendency of our minds to backfill missing information. Using neuralizers without providing a cover story is probably actually good enough, really.
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Men in Black: human gestation, stimulants, and Earth as backwater w/ Liam Ginty: Decipher SciFi
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Isaac Arthur: YouTube
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