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The Core: Flying bricks, pacemakers, and quantum avian eyeballs
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The valley of forgetability (The Core) between science-respecting sci-fi (e.g. Arrival) and totally bonkers nonsense (e.g. Jupiter Ascending).
Space shuttleLanding the “flying brick.”
Bird navigationMagnetite beaks. The possibility of quantum eyeball magnetic navigation HUDs. Corvid appreciation. Why birds don’t all fly into our windows and our eyeballs.
PacemakersKeeping your heart on-rhythm. Not as immediate a death sentence as portrayed.
Earth’s outer coreThe absurd energies in the spinning of Earth’s core - a ball of iron the size of Mars, spinning a thousand miles an hour
That’s a whole lot of energy. If it doesn’t sound like much, let’s convert it to megatons: it’s the equivalent energy of five trillion one megaton bombs going off. Phil Plait on the spinning outer core
- Phil Plait's Bad Astronomy Review of The Core: BadAstronomy.com
269 episode
Manage episode 273806665 series 2449478
The valley of forgetability (The Core) between science-respecting sci-fi (e.g. Arrival) and totally bonkers nonsense (e.g. Jupiter Ascending).
Space shuttleLanding the “flying brick.”
Bird navigationMagnetite beaks. The possibility of quantum eyeball magnetic navigation HUDs. Corvid appreciation. Why birds don’t all fly into our windows and our eyeballs.
PacemakersKeeping your heart on-rhythm. Not as immediate a death sentence as portrayed.
Earth’s outer coreThe absurd energies in the spinning of Earth’s core - a ball of iron the size of Mars, spinning a thousand miles an hour
That’s a whole lot of energy. If it doesn’t sound like much, let’s convert it to megatons: it’s the equivalent energy of five trillion one megaton bombs going off. Phil Plait on the spinning outer core
- Phil Plait's Bad Astronomy Review of The Core: BadAstronomy.com
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