With Gaia it’s not so much the position as the phenomenal accuracy: measuring angles with a precision in fractions of a micro arcsecond is mind blowing. (View Post)

Off topic, but a bit of good, if not amazing, news in astronomy: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-55178257 I've been reading about it since before it was launched, but I wasn't expectin… (View Post)

There are millions of children under 11, and I'm not sure the vaccine has even been tested on them, so its a certainty. (View Post)

Not as bad as texting someone to see if they've seen your phone... (View Post)

The fear of invasion via a tunnel is even older than that: (View Post)