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Vi Hart Is Amazing
I’ve been following her YouTube channel for awhile now. She’s basically the modern Martin Gardner, but without the sour waspishness that he developed later in life.
I first noticed her with one of her “Doodling in Math Class” videos (I think this one: Connecting Dots), but then, since
Phil Plait says
The wind is no longer at Voyager’s back. It’s in the heliosheath.
This means that in a few years Voyager will have left the solar system and be in the interstellar medium. Amazing.
He adds:
Imagine! It was launched before personal computers were everywhere, before cell phones, before
Aliens on Mars? Probably not
Phil Plait has a new post on his Bad Astronomy blog, referencing an article on Chandra Wickramasinghe’s claims that NASA is hiding evidence of life on Mars.
It’s a good comment. There’s no good evidence for NASA hiding life, and Wickramasinghe has a tendency to cry wolf.