Mon. 01/10 - Deep Space Tardigrades
Scientists are working on a plan to shoot tardigrades into interstellar space on lasers. Plus, the James Webb Space Telescope is so-far going better than anyone had dared to imagine. And alpaca’s favorite new year snack: Christmas trees.
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Links:
- Scientists Want to Send Tardigrades to Distant Stars With Massive Lasers (Vice)
- Sending Life to the Stars (The UCSB Current)
- All hail the Ariane 5 rocket, which doubled the Webb telescope's lifetime (Ars Technica)
- Even NASA Seems Surprised by Its New Space Telescope (The Atlantic)
- Bad Astronomy | James Webb Space Telescope ready to begin testing components (Bad Astronomy, Syfy Wire)
- In a Truly Historic Milestone, JWST Has Been Successfully Deployed! Now What? (Science Alert)
- Louth alpaca farmer delighted at Christmas tree donations (RTÉ)
- The weird reason why alpacas and goats love Christmas trees (Suffolk Live)
- Arby's new sandwich is so spicy it comes with a free shake (CNN)
- Best Deals During National Pizza Week 2022 (Thrillist)
- 05/20/2020 episode about Chuck E. Cheese's ghost kitchen & character lore (Kottke Ride Home)
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