Writer (on science, travel & curiosity), Yorkshireman, tedious enthusiast, professional overthinker, Megathreader. Now: Scotland. Writes Everything Is Amazing.
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Anyway, I'll leave you to do your own reading - although, if you like excitable takes on science stories like this, maybe you'd enjoy my newsletter?
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Also, let me say this very loudly:
AS YOU CAN SEE, GEOLOGY IS NOT BORING.
Thanks for reading. :)
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In January of 2021, photos started bouncing round Twitter of this deeply weird thing happening in the sky above Glasgow, Scotland.
Photoshop trickery?
The bizarre truth:
- yes, everyone really saw these
- no, they're not faked or manmade
- they absolutely don't exist.
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Okay!
If you like sciencey-stuff-that-makes-you-go-wow like this, please give my newsletter a try:
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Thanks for reading!
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Also, if you're looking for another science-story thread like this one, give this a go:
A while back, I learned something mindblowing about the geological history of the Mediterranean Sea, and I just can't get it out of my head.
Now I'm going to make it *your* problem too. Sorry.
Hang onto your hat. This gets wild.
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An idea about the Fermi paradox:
1) What if advanced civilizations communicate using the 95% of the universe that's dark matter & dark energy, neither of which we have detected except indirectly? And...
2) ...we're also too young to have been e-m detected by *them* yet?
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“SONDER: noun.
The realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own - populated with their own ambitions, friends, routines, worries and inherited craziness - an epic story that continues invisibly around you...
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"...like an anthill sprawling deep underground with elaborate passageways to thousands of other lives that you’ll never know existed, in which you might appear only once..."
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Mike Sowden retweeted
There's a lot we still don't know about how the Moon formed, but new computer simulations show that the Moon might have come together in just a *few hours*.
Which makes me feel really unproductive today.
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