The Weekly Weird - 2019-04-19
- 50% of the work is done by the square root of the total number of people who participate in the work.
- Virtio 1.1 gets a whole mess of new standard devices including a gpu.
- There appears to be some controvsery over the extent of the find described in this article but I enjoyed it. My favorite quote: The asteroid was vaporized on impact. Its substance, mingling with vaporized Earth rock, formed a fiery plume, which reached halfway to the moon before collapsing in a pillar of incandescent dust.
- Fusion: now only 20 years away!
- Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of backup tapes. Of course the store-and-forward model of interferometry only works for low-frequency astromony because 300 is a lot of terahertzes. For higher frequencies you need to let physics do the interfering which leads to the billion dollar diy selfie stick industry. Or just skip the stick entirely.
- Did you know that NASA runs a competition to build mining robots for use on Mars? Or that it has been going for ten years? Or that the Alabama Astrobotics team has won every single year, most recently with a fully autonomous run? Next up: robotic tunnel rats.