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Behold, the Mess That Is Charon
Charon is so, so weird.
It's also astonishingly beautiful. Look at it! The image above is a newly released high-resolution color photo of Pluto's largest moon, taken by the New Horizons spacecraft when it zipped past the Pluto system in July 2015. It's been enhanced to bring out the color variations more, but this also gives us an idea about the surface features, and how they vary across this strange little world.
There's so much to see! The most obvious bit is the red splotch at the north pole, informally named Mordor Macula (macula means spot and is commonly used in planetary nomenclature to refer to a big dark region; Mordor is a place you simply don't walk into).* Pluto is covered in red spots, and it's thought these are tholins, carbon-based molecules created when ultraviolet sunlight breaks apart molecules, which then reorganize themselves into more complex structures.
Very little of the rest of Charon is red, prompting some scientists to conjecture that Mordor Macula is from some sort of transfer of material from Pluto onto Charon's surface, possibly from Pluto's extremely tenuous (but observable) atmosphere. Craters in Mordor are bright, indicating the red material is a veneer; thin enough that small impacts excavate brighter material (likely ices) underneath.
The next most obvious feature is that huge canyon separating the north and south hemispheres. The canyon is staggeringly huge, at least 1,600 kilometers long, making it four times longer than the Grand Canyon and in places far deeper. To scale with Charon, it's similar to Valles Marineris, the vast canyon scarring the face of Mars.
By the way, the stretch of the canyon just to the right of center, to the right of that centered crater? That's called Serenity Chasma, and it's named that way for exactly the reason you think. Shiny.
There's a big dichotomy between the hemispheres, too. The southern half of Charon has a smoother look—this area is dubbed Vulcan Planum, the Plains of Vulcan—dotted with craters and what looks like cracks or graben (downward thrusted rocks, usually due to faulting as the crust expands). The northern half looks more rugged, less smooth. Perhaps some ancient event caused cryovolcanism—ice volcanoes!—in the southern hemisphere, flooding the plains with ice.
We only have good images of this side of Charon, unfortunately, because the New Horizons mission was a very fast flyby. I'd love to know what the other side looks like in this sort of detail!
A high-res mosaic of part of Charon was also released. It's well worth your time to peruse the whole thing, but there's one spot I want to point out:
See that linear feature just above center? That's a crater chain, usually caused when debris from a big impact is ejected, and then falls back to the ground. But this one is a bit weird; the craters are very close together, almost overlapping, and they don't seem to point to any other obvious big crater. I'm wondering if this is due to a small body breaking up before it hit, forming a long chain of objects that then hit one after the other along a line. This happened when the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 hit Jupiter in 1994; Jupiter's immense gravity ripped the comet into pieces, which hit one after another over several days. Neither Pluto nor Charon has strong gravity, so I'll admit this seems unlikely. It's an intriguing formation either way.
As I mentioned, the picture of Charon is enhanced in color to show surface variations. Here's one more picture, showing what it actually looks like in comparison with Pluto, with both bodies scaled the same way.
Charon is a lot darker than Pluto! That in itself is interesting. Charon most likely formed when an impact on Pluto blew some or most of its crust into space, which went into orbit and coalesced to form Charon (and perhaps the smaller moons, too). It seems to me that they may have started off looking similar, but subsequent events changed them, either brightening Pluto or darkening Charon, or both. Both show evidence of cryovolcanism or more recent resurfacing (the left side of Pluto's "heart" is likely to be nitrogen ice that's glacially flowed into lower elevations).
As more images and data trickle back from New Horizons, traveling the long, long emptiness stretching for five billion kilometers, we'll learn more about the surfaces of these worlds. But every new picture shows something weird and wonderful, and while we get traction on some mysteries, others deepen.
Oh, how I love that! Science is fun.
*Features on Charon are informally named at the moment, but the agreed-upon nomenclature is that they are named after fictional destinations, ships, or voyagers.
GOP Presidential Candidates, Science, and Reality
It's time to not only face facts, but to call them out, too: This cohort of Republican presidential candidates isn't exactly a brain trust.
Every time I see an article about something one of the GOP contenders has said, I'm stunned at just how much lower they can sink. It's as if they're scrambling on purpose to brag about the dumbest possible thing they can come up with.
Think I'm exaggerating? Here are some choice examples of ideas that have come out of the mouth holes of the remaining viable candidates:
- Donald Trump—whose campaign, I'm increasingly thinking, is simply an elaborate performance art piece to amplify his brand and who, it needs to be remembered, has been the front-runner for months now—has said so many forehead-slappingly dumbosities that picking any is like trying to choose a specific drop of water from the ocean. But two obvious ones are his tax plan that would almost literally destroy our government and his idea to build a border wall that is literally impossible to build.
- Carly Fiorina tells outrageous lies, repeats them over and again, and thinks no one will check her on them. Too bad for her there are experts willing to speak up.
- Ted Cruz wants to shut down the government based on the subject of those lies. Remember, Planned Parenthood doesn't get federal money for abortions (except under extremely limited circumstances like the imperiled health of the mother), making this whole thing a political and theatrical farce.
- Marco Rubio is uncertain about things he should've learned in eighth grade science, and when confronted on this claims he's not a scientist. That's like saying you don't know where Washington, D.C., is on a map because you're not a cartographer.
- Jeb Bush apparently openly mocks smart people, saying, "When I am elected president, the political hacks and the academics are going to take the back seat." Yes, heaven forbid we let people like academics who have spent their lives studying a problem actually have a say in the solution.
- As for Ben Carson … well, there's this.
None of this stuff is exactly rocket science … but when it comes to climate science, not a single one of these people is even close to planet Earth. They're in their own alternate reality where up is down and, I suppose literally, hot is cold.
Let's do a quick rundown of where they all stand:
- Donald Trump thinks climate change is some sort of China-manufactured hoax. By the way, if you look up irony in the dictionary there's a picture of Trump.
- Carly Fiorina wants to play both sides as well, saying global warming is real (but there's nothing we can do about it) but by the way global warming isn't real.
- Ted Cruz thinks climatologists are flat-Earthers and that he himself is Galileo. I think he was confusing Galileo with George Orwell.
- Marco Rubio simply parrots long-debunked denier nonsense.
- Not to be out-ironied by Trump and Rubio, Jeb Bush was unhappy about Pope Francis saying we need to take action on climate change. Bush said we should ignore the pope because he's not a scientist. Actually, he is. And while the problems I have with this pope are legion, in this particular case he's right.
- As for Ben Carson, well. He says climate change is irrelevant. Irrelevant. So there's that.
I've been railing against the GOP's party plank on climate change for years now, so none of this is surprising. But it's upsetting. I disagree with almost all of the stances of the Republican Party these days, but in the past they at least used to embrace science. Now, though, if one of their candidates says the Sun will rise in the East, I'd lay better odds on the Earth's rotation having reversed.
This stunning intellectual deficit, whether real or pandering, is wholly the fault of the party itself (and, to an extent, the American public for letting it slide this far). The abject dismissal of reality has become more and more mainstream in the party politicians, and its power soared upward like a hockey stick graph when the Tea Party gained congressional seats in the in 2010 election.
The fallout from this is as fascinating as it is maddening. For example, the Heartland Institute—or as I think of it, the Mos Eisley of think tanks—attacked the pope on his climate change stance, and even a Catholic congress person boycotted the pope's speech. The internal paradoxes in the minds of these folks must be incredibly turbulent.
More examples can be easily found from other conservative groups. But there's a glimmer of hope, a glimpse of the path back to reality for the GOP. As the pope showed, religious belief doesn't necessarily lead to rejecting science; one need only look to outspoken climatologist and Christian evangelist Katharine Hayhoe for that as well. This reveals an underlying aspect of all this that seems to be forgotten: Belief in conservative principles doesn't lead inevitably to the denial of science.
Conservative political parties in other countries don't necessarily deny global warming either. It's only endemic to the GOP. And while funding from the über-far-right Koch brothers clearly affects the way politicians vote in the U.S., not all wealthy donors are the same; Republican businessman Jay Faison has put the incredible sum of $175 million on the table to invest in climate-change–accepting Republican politicians.
The response to that was as predictable as rising temperatures: James "Snow disproves global warming" Inhofe, R-Oklahoma, denounced it. Of course he did; Inhofe is so far removed from reality he actually thinks the pope wasn't discussing climate change in front of Congress.
I can make a laundry list of problematic GOP planks, but global warming is perhaps the single biggest threat facing humanity today. Faison's move is a step forward, even if it makes some deniers froth and fume. Their staunch denial may yet lead to political extinction: A majority of Republican voters acknowledge the reality of global warming, and humanity's role in it. That's hopeful indeed.
And to those who still deny it, I'll note that it's better to take the carrot than the stick: Some people are proposing siccing the RICO Act on corporations actively suppressing global warming and climate change information. This isn't fringe stuff; an investigation into Exxon revealed they allegedly knew about the threat of global warming for 40 years, yet still funded misinformation campaigns about it. Fossil fuel interests use the same tactics employed by the tobacco industry to downplay harm, and it was the RICO Act that brought those same tobacco companies low.
I'd rather not see things go this far, of course, but that's the world we now live in: a planet that needs saving from those who would actively burn it down. And that, in sum, accurately describes the current crop of GOP presidential candidates.
Perhaps most sad is that it needn't be this way. Republicans are supposed to be conservatives. Isn't it about time they started conserving?
Bloom With a View. Two of Them, in Fact.
Oh, I do so love a coincidence. And when it's about imaging Earth from space, that's even better.
I subscribe to NASA's Earth Observatory Image of the Day (and you should, too!), which, oddly enough, posts an image of Earth every day. They're almost always satellite shots, featuring various amazing portraits of our planet. As a satellite photo nerd I love it, and I learn a lot about Earth every time I see a new one. The cloud images alone are worth it.
One of the most spectacular and lovely kinds of photos they post are of phytoplankton blooms—huge bursts of growth (usually of cyanobacteria) in the ocean. Warmer waters can create conditions where nutrients and sunlight become abundant to the little plants, and they go forth and multiply. Blooms can be huge, hundreds of kilometers across.
The image above shows (a small part of) a bloom in the Baltic Sea, just north of Poland. It was taken by Landsat 8 on Aug. 11, and it's not "true color," that is, what your eye would see. The detectors used are sensitive to colors across a range of the spectrum, so the colors displayed are close to red, green, and blue, but there's quite a bit of overlap (for example, the detector that sees in the green is also sensitive to yellow, and the blue one sees green as well). Still, the bloom is eerily beautiful. You can see airplane contrails and the wakes of ships in the original full-res image, too.
The spiral pattern is lovely, caused by eddies in the sea currents. Cyanobacteria are plants (more or less) so they flow along with the water.
The coincidence? The European Space Agency released a similar picture taken just a few days before, on Aug. 7, using the Sentinel-2 Earth-observing satellite:
Whoa. I'm not positive that's the same swirl, but it's from the same general area of the Baltic Sea (the Sentinel image is also part of a much larger image). Interestingly, both images from Landsat and Sentinel-2 show ships crossing their respective swirl; in each you can see the ship as a dot followed by a black trail.
Cyanobacterial blooms are important to study. They can rob water of oxygen and nutrients, and some phytoplanktons produce toxins that can be dangerous. And here we have two space agencies studying the same bloom at two different times with two different satellites! It's really gratifying to see nations taking this sort of work seriously … especially when one faction of my own nation doesn't.
We need to understand our planet as best we can. Not just because doing so produces such wonderful natural art, but because we are part of Nature ourselves, and we influence it just as it influences us. Understanding it is critical.
After all, Nature can live without us, but we can't live without Nature.
Global Epic Eclipse
Well, despite some baseless fears, we're still here after Sunday night's lovely lunar eclipse.
It was quite nice here in Colorado; the Moon was still very low to the horizon when it started to pass into the darkest part of the Earth's shadow. I was just finished setting up my Celestron Regal M2 80ED spotting 'scope to watch when I saw an airplane approaching the rising Moon … and as I shot the video, to my surprise I got two planes transiting!
That was fun. The Moon was still yellowish as it rose due to atmospheric effects. It was just about the enter the darker part of the Earth's shadow (called the umbra) but even then you can see the left side is darker and redder than the right.
I also did a live Periscope as the Moon darkened, winding up with more than 8,000 people watching at different points. I love seeing so many folks interested in what's going on in the sky!
I think my video is pretty cool, but master astrophotographer Thierry Legault did me one better. Well, more than one: He caught the International Space Station transiting the Moon during the eclipse!
That is so cool. He told me that, to the best of his knowledge, this is the first time anyone has caught the ISS transiting the Moon during a lunar eclipse on video.
I want to share a couple of photos, too. As the sky darkened, the eclipsed Moon rose through several thin cloud banks, and I liked the feel of this one:
You can see the eclipsed part of the Moon on the left. It helps sometimes to have something else in the field of view when you're taking pictures like this. A cloud is nice, but sometimes something more recognizable can turn a nice shot into a fantastic one.
Like, say, this:
Wow. Yeah, sometimes it's all about the framing.
If you want to learn more about these events, I talk all about them in my Crash Course Astronomy episode on eclipses. The next lunar eclipse visible to the U.S. won't be until 2018, but August 2017 will bring the Great American Solar Eclipse. Stay tuned for more on that.
The Big Mars News: Flowing Water on Mars, at Least Briefly
Scientists have found what they think is evidence of extant, if brief, flowing water on Mars.
In a NASA press conference on Monday, scientists claimed that images and spectra taken by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's HiRISE camera show what are called Recurrent Slope Lineae, or RSLs, straight dark streaks that run down the sides of craters and canyons on Mars. These features, which are a few meters across and hundreds of meters long, change with the seasons, becoming darker and more obvious in the spring and summer on the sides of crater walls facing the Sun. That strongly implies that warmth triggers the formation of the RSLs. The important finding: Scientists found evidence of salt deposits in these features, which in turn implies that briny, salty water is the force behind them. They think the darkening seen every spring is from water seepage!
If you want details, I wrote all about this Sunday in an article based on papers written by the scientists in question to be presented at a planetary science conference in Europe. I had not read the (embargoed) science papers, so what I wrote was based solely on those public papers, but it looks like I was right on the money.
Mind you, the detection of water here is indirect, through the dark streaks and the presence of salt. Still, the evidence they presented is very compelling, and their conclusions, in my opinion, likely to be correct. But there's a problem, and it's a big one: Where does the water come from?
We know there's ice under the Martian surface. We see lots of evidence for it—it was seen directly by the Phoenix lander in 2008, and small asteroid impacts leave craters behind that excavate ice that can be seen. But Phoenix landed at high latitude, near the north pole where you'd expect ice, and the craters with ice only reach as far as midlatitude. But these RSLs are seen closer to the equator of Mars. Over time, the water ice there, to at least mild depths, should have disappeared, melting away.
Because of this, the authors of the work speculate that perhaps water is absorbed into the ground from the atmosphere, where it collects until there's enough for it to flow—a process with the lovely name of deliquescence. The soil of Mars is loaded with a chemical called perchlorate, which is capable of absorbing water in this way, and perchlorates were found at the RSL sites.
So this idea ... holds water.
Still, the air on Mars is exceedingly thin, less than 1 percent of Earth's. And there's not much water in it, either, so it's difficult to understand how enough water could collect to form these seepages. Although deliquescence is the preferred scenario by the scientists involved, they also admit the actual source of the water is still something of a mystery.
Opinion time: This is a wonderful discovery, and an important one. The origin of these features has been a mystery for a long time, and it does look like we're finally starting to get a grip on it.
But it's far from solved. Where does the water come from? How much is there? Is it just water, or are there other substances involved?
And what does this mean for the possibility for life on Mars? Well, in my opinion, it doesn't change much. Not yet. We know Mars has lots of water ice, and it once had vast amounts of standing and flowing liquid water on its surface in the past. This doesn't change that. Mars may once have had life, but we still don't know, and don't know if there's life there now.
What it does change is the idea that there could be liquid water beneath the surface of Mars. This makes it less unlikely, I'd say, which I know sounds weak. But what we've seen here is temporary flowing water, not persistent liquid water. The bottom line is that we still don't know if liquid water exists under the Martian surface or not.
But we're learning. This is just one of many steps we're taking in observing Mars. Remember, Mars is a planet, an entire world, with a rich history, diverse geography, and a lot of real estate. We've only just scratched the surface—in this case, almost literally—and there are great depths left to explore.
Mars News: "Major Science Finding" to Be Announced Monday
By now, many of you have heard about some big announcement NASA is about to make about Mars. The news is embargoed until the press conference Monday (which you can watch live at 11:30 EDT), but of course speculation is rampant, especially since the press release says it's a "major science finding."
In the email NASA sent out, the names of some panelists were given: Alfred McEwen, Lujendra Ojha, and Mary Beth Wilhelm. McEwen is the principal investigator for the wonderful HiRISE camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Ojha studies recurrent features on Mars that look very much like they were carved from water, like gullies down the sides of craters. Wilhelm studies many things, including the habitability of ancient Martian terrain.
As many people have pointed out on social media, at a European planetary science conference on Monday, McEwen and Ojha are presenting results of a study showing that seepage in crater walls appears to be seasonal, and most likely due to water. Not only that, but Ojha and Wilhelm are presenting results that show the presence of salts in crater wall gullies, too, implying strongly they are due to water leakage.
I'm posting this now to hopefully extinguish rampant speculation (what I write here is based on evidence, so call it mild speculation). I assume these new results will be a major part of the news conference, but there might be more as well.
I also wanted to give a little bit of background on these gullies, since they're pretty cool. As far back as 2007, NASA announced they might be from water, though a year later a study was released indicating many might be better explained as dry grains flowing downhill. In 2010 more gullies popped up that looked like they could be from liquid flowing, but the evidence was still a bit circumstantial. We know water once flowed on Mars, a long time ago, and there's plenty of evidence for ancient standing lakes and even oceans. Also, even now there's lots of water ice just below the surface across a wide range of latitudes, too.
Salty water melts at lower temperatures than fresh water, so if that's what lurks behind crater walls, then in the spring sunlight can warm the ground and cause seepage. The results being presented at the European conference question the idea of water ice under the surface being the cause, and suggest it may be from deliquescence; absorption from the atmosphere in the ground until the water can break through. That seems unlikely, but we'll get more info during the press conference.
Mind you, as of right now we have never seen any evidence for the presence of extant liquid water on Mars. Even the temporary existence of water in a liquid state is scientifically interesting, even exciting. However, it's also been found that a type of chemical called perchlorates is widespread in Martian soil, which makes the hunt for life a bit more of a problem. I expect that will come up in the press conference as well.
I'll be listening in and will write up the news as soon as I can. Stay Tuned.
In the meantime, because why not, here's my Crash Course Astronomy episode on Mars. Enjoy!
*Correction, Sept. 28, 2015: In the caption of the photo, I originally misspelled Russell.
Hey, I Can See My House From Here
I love posting pictures of the Earth from space. It's fun to see things from a height, and get an overview of our planet. Volcanoes, lakes, deserts, cyanobacterial blooms … sometimes you need to take a step back (well, up) to see things for how they are.
But then you get a picture of some place you recognize, and suddenly it becomes personal.
To wit: On April 29 an astronaut on the International Space Station took a picture of me.
Crash Course Astronomy: Black Holes
OK, so here's the thing about black holes: They're weird.
Well, that's not the only thing about black holes. And that's the problem. There's a lot to know about black holes, and it goes from simple to brain-melty pretty quickly. I had big plans for the Crash Course Astronomy episode about black holes, covering so many of the cool things about them.
After writing more than 3,000 words on them—the equivalent of about 25 minutes of footage—I realized I had a problem. A lot of stuff had to go. So I went through and cut this, excised that. What was left is, I hope, a pretty good primer on black holes, with the info you need to understand the basics.
The good news? Most of the stuff I cut will show up in later episodes. I'm pretty good about recycling electrons. If you're impatient and want to know more about them now, then try these articles:
- Ten Things You Don't Know About Black Holes
- Why Do Black Holes Have Such Strong Gravity?
- Weighing a Galactic Monster
- Let Me Hold You in My Anomalous Arms
- Sputtering Black Hole Caught by Hubble
- What Kind of Object Can Survive a Close Encounter With a Monster Black Hole?
- A Supermassive Black Hole's Fiery and Furious Wind
- Follow-Up: Interstellar Mea Culpa (I made a boo-boo about black holes)
- Superfast Spinning Black Hole Tearing Up Space at Nearly the Speed of Light
- How Do You Weigh a Supermassive Black Hole?
- … or you could just search my blog for "black holes." And stay tuned, because they'll turn up many more times in future episodes!
Oh, one more thing: In the video, at about the 8:30 mark, I talk about the perception of time near an object with gravity, and how it slows down. I say that someone near a black hole perceives time as moving more slowly than someone far away does. I should have phrased that differently; both people observe time to flow normally. To them. But they see each other's time flow rate change. Someone far away from the black hole sees the time flowing more slowly for the person near the black hole while the person close to the black hole sees the person's time far away flow more quickly. Time is relative; grammar isn't. I should've been more clear.
Pluto. Oh My, Pluto.
I was going to write a big flowery introduction to preface this new image of Pluto from the New Horizons spacecraft, but screw that.
Just look at it. Seriously. Look.
That ridiculously gorgeous picture is actually a combination of three images shot by New Horizons, one each using a blue, red, and near-infrared filter. So this isn't what you'd see with your own eyes if you flew past Pluto (and weren't dead from hypothermic anoxia), but it's still simply amazing. By the way, this is a very, very ensmallened version of the picture; click it to get a 2,000 x 2,000 pixel version.
Or, you could grab the 8,000 x 8,000 pixel shot. Y'know. If you want.
As usual, Emily Lakdawalla does a great job explaining all this. In a nutshell, it was taken by the Multi-Spectral Visible Imaging Camera. It has several detectors on it, three of which are dedicated to seeing blue, red, and infrared. They use what's called the "pushbroom" technique to take images, basically sweeping across an object like a scanner does when you scan a document. It's a commonly used technique for spacecraft, so you don't have to build a huge detector.
What can you say about this shot, though? Pluto is gorgeous! You can see the heart-shaped Sputnik Planum feature in the middle, and some terrain on the left that's highly reflective in infrared (colored red in the photo). Those highlands are pocked with craters, in contrast to Sputnik, which is smooth—that's an indicator of relative age; smooth terrain has probably been resurfaced, and so it's younger.
I'm pretty interested in the higher surface features you can see that define the left side of the heart. What could cause such tall mountains so close to lower terrain?
And check out this close-up of a region near the leftmost part of the heart:
Whoa. Mountains pop up higher than the nitrogen ice plain below … which isn't as smooth as I first thought. It appears almost corrugated, like it's stippled with dunes. There's no word yet on what's actually causing that; the ice might be sublimating (turning directly into a gas), which could cause a rippling effect.
Again, Emily has more close-ups and discussion, care of Alex Parker, the astronomer who created this jaw-dropping image. NASA has a few more detailed shots as well, including the highest-resolution map ever made of the surface of Pluto.
Remember, too, that new raw images are released every week on the New Horizons website. You should check there to see what's hot off the interplanetary presses; it'll take the better part of a year to get all the data back from the spacecraft. These marvels are just the beginning. It's a whole new world out there on the edge of the main solar system. A lot more wonder awaits.
Ben Carson: Evolution Is Satanic and the Big Bang Is a Fairy Tale
At one point in time, GOP presidential candidate Ben Carson may have been best known as an excellent, even groundbreaking, neurosurgeon. In recent years, though, he's done everything he can to throw that reputation away.
It won't surprise regular readers to know I disagree with him on, well, almost everything. But recently he's starting to get more heat about his religious views. He's an outspoken creationist.
This actually goes way back. In 2006 he clearly stated his anti-evolutionary views and has repeated these claims many times since. In 2012 there was controversy over this when he was asked to give the commencement address at Emory University. In 2004 he said that people who accept evolution "dismiss ethics," a comment he later backed down on a very tiny little bit (later saying they "might have more difficulty deriving where their ethics come from").
I'd heard about all this before, but an article at BuzzFeed has something I hadn't heard: In 2012, in a speech at an event called "Celebration of Creation," he said that Darwin came up with evolutionary theory because the devil made him do it.
I mean that literally. He said, "I personally believe that this theory that Darwin came up with was something that was encouraged by the adversary." The Adversary is a nickname for the devil; it's the actual translation of the word "Satan." So there's that.
He also dismissed the Big Bang, calling it a "fairy tale." The irony of this is palpable. When recently called on this claim, he dug in, saying (about people who think the Big Bang is true), "Here's the key, I then say to them look, 'I'm not gonna criticize you, you have a lot more faith then I have.' I couldn't, I don't have enough faith to believe that."
Wow. Where to start?
OK, how about this: The Big Bang is not something you believe in. It's a scientific model, supported by a truly vast amount of evidence. It doesn't take faith, it takes science (and, despite Carson's claims, science is not faith-based).
Creationists who dismiss the Big Bang usually do so because they think the Earth is young, 6,000–10,000 years old. This belief is, to put it simply, wrong. We know the Earth is more than 4.5 billion years old, give or take a few million years. The evidence for this is overwhelming.
We also know the Universe itself is old; a huge number of independent lines of evidence make this clear. It doesn't take faith to think the Big Bang is true, it takes a profound dismissal of all of science to think it isn't.
Which brings us to evolution. Young Earth Creationists dismiss this as well due to the age issues, as well as others (for example, the Bible stating that God created Adam fully formed and in his image).
But evolution is a fact. Like the Big Bang, the evidence for it is overwhelming (it's even been observed).
It bothers me greatly when a presidential candidate is so cavalier in dismissing facts. That's a route we've been down before, and it leads to Very Bad Things.
As for Carson's statement on ethics, well, humans were ethical long before monotheism came around. His claim that people who accept evolution is true might have difficulty with ethics is profoundly insulting to scientists.
The almost unutterable irony here is how Carson dismisses this all, talking about "high-faluting" scientists. But he was a neurosurgeon. His entire career owes its existence to science, yet he tosses out the men and women over the past few centuries whose expertise allowed him to benefit so greatly from his practice.
I know a lot of the Republican base is very religious, and they have every right to be. But fundamentalism is dangerous; it promotes clearly erroneous claims while simultaneously encouraging people to legislate those beliefs. We've seen what happens there; fittingly enough due to the antics of Bobby Jindal, another GOP presidential candidate. It shortchanges our children out of an education they'll need to survive in our science- and technology-based society.
I also know that the vast majority of creationists have very basic misunderstandings about evolution, the Big Bang, and science in general; I addressed this in depth when I wrote my article "Answers for Creationists." I tried very hard to be polite in that post, given I was dealing on a personal level with people's personal beliefs.
I take a different stance when it's a politician who espouses these views, especially when he's running for the highest office in America. If someone wants to run this country, then he better show that he has a solid grasp on reality. Dismissing and actively denigrating strongly understood science—whether it's astronomy, biology, or climatology—is at the very least cause to dump him.


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Is the POP-BOT arduino microchip compatible with the BOE-BOT developer board?
July 26, 2011
I have an Inex POP-BOT which came with an arduino-like microchip, and was thinking of getting a BOE-BOT, which uses a Board of Education with a BASIC stamp microchip attached to it. Now my question is, there two chips seem to look identical in size, and can both be detached from their respective developer boards, so what I'm wondering is, would they be interchangeable?
This would be really handy as it would mean I could buy a BOE-BOT and be able to program in either in the BASIC stamp or arduino languages. It would also allow me to have all the advantages of the BOE-BOT robot (which I feel is superior to the POP-BOT).
They seem to be similar in set-up, so I can't really see any reason why not, but I just wanted to ask someone here to make sure.
The only issue I can think of
is pinout. For starters, the power and ground must be on the same two or more pins, some microcontrollers have more than one power and/or ground. Following the power pins, you then need to be sure that your analog sensors would all be connected to analog inputs. I would imagine that the Stamp and the other microchip will have similar current source/sink capabilities, so that shouldn't be a problem. As I recall, the Basic Stamps are kinda like Arduino Teensys. A surface mount controller with voltage regulator and what not already on board. Be sure that the Voltage going to the Stamp is not more than the other microcontroller can handle.
PS - I just looked at the POP-BOT page. They seem to say that it is similar to the Basic Stamp. The pinout and power requirements are still the biggest concerns I can think of at the moment.

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A New Jersey judge issued a report Tuesday saying Gov. Chris Christie's school-funding cuts last year were so deep, they prevented schoolchildren from receiving an education up to the standards required by the state constitution.
The report, written by Superior Court Judge Peter Doyne, was ordered by the state Supreme Court as part of a challenge to Mr. Christie's budget. The court asked the judge to determine whether the state could still provide the constitutionally required "thorough and efficient" education when funding was $1.6 billion less than required by law.
The court's eventual ruling could have major implications for the governor's proposed $29.4 billion budget. It would be the latest judicial intervention in the way New Jersey pays for public schools. The state spends about a third of its budget on local school districts.
"It is clear the state has failed to carry its burden," Judge Doyne said in the report. He wrote that disadvantaged students have been hurt the most despite an administration effort to shield them from the cuts.
Mr. Christie rejects that notion.
"The Supreme Court should at last abandon the failed assumption of the last three decades that more money equals better education, and stop treating our state's fiscal condition as an inconvenient afterthought," the governor's spokesman Michael Drewniak said about the report. "The court's legal mandates on the legislative and executive branches of government have incontrovertibly contributed to our current fiscal crisis."
The challenge was filed last year by the Education Law Center, an advocacy group. Both sides have until April 14 to respond to the report.
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For more than three decades, the court has been involved in spending decisions, through a series of lawsuits including the long-running case Abbott v. Burke that ended with the court requiring equal funding for poor and rich districts. One of Mr. Christie's top goals is to remake the court by appointing his own justices.
Judge Doyne was appointed in 1993 by then-Gov. Jim Florio, a Democrat, and reappointed in 2000 by then-Gov. Christie Whitman, a Republican. In 2009, he was named an assignment judge in Bergen County by current Supreme Court Chief Justice Stuart Rabner, who was appointed by former Gov. Jon Corzine.
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The Education Law Center said the state shirked the court's order, while lawyers from the state attorney general's office said the Christie administration had no choice in a dire budget year but to trim from the largest piece of the pie.
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Olson has served as Editor & Curator at Rhizome, the inaugural curator at Zero1, and Associate Director at SF Camerawork. She's contributed to many major journals & books and this year Cocom Press published Arte Postinternet, a Spanish translation of her texts on Postinternet Art, a movement she framed in 2006. In 2015 LINK Editions will publish a retrospective anthology of over a decade of her writings on contemporary art which have helped establish a vocabulary for the criticism of new media. Meanwhile, she has also curated programs at the Guggenheim, New Museum, SFMOMA, White Columns, Artists Space, and Bitforms Gallery. She has served on Advisory Boards for Ars Electronica, Transmediale, ISEA, the International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences, Creative Capital, the Getty Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Kennedy Center, and the Tribeca Film Festival.
Olson studied Fine Art at Goldsmiths, History of Consciousness at UC Santa Cruz, and Rhetoric & Film Studies at UC Berkeley. She has recently been a visiting artist at Yale, SAIC, Oberlin, and VCU; a Visiting Critic at Brown; and Visiting Faculty at Bard College's Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts and Ox-Bow. She previously taught at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts' new media graduate program (ITP) and was Assistant Professor of New Media at SUNY-Purchase's School of Film & Media Studies. She was recently an Artist-in-Residence at Eyebeam & is currently Visiting Critic at RISD.
Collectible After All: Christiane Paul on net art at the Whitney Museum
The Whitney Museum artport has been an important institutional presence in net art and new media since its launch in 2002. Created and curated by Christiane Paul, artport features online commissions as well as documentation of new media artworks from the museum's exhibitions and collections. This year, artport as a whole was made an official part of the Whitney Museum collection; to mark this occasion, participating artist Marisa Olson interviewed Paul about the program's history and evolution over thirteen years.
Douglas Davis, image from The World's First Collaborative Sentence (1994).
Collections like artport are a rare and valuable window onto a field of practice that, in some senses, was borne out of not being taken seriously. From mid-80s Eastern European game crackers to late-90s net artists, the first people working online were often isolated, by default or design, and were certainly marginalized by the art world, where few curators knew of their existence and fewer took them seriously, advocated for them, or worked to theorize and articulate the art historical precedents and currents flowing through the work. Help me fast-forward to the beginning of this century at one of the most important international art museums. Many of the US museums that funded new media projects did so with dot-com infusions that dried-up after 2000. Artport officially launched in 2001; the same year, you curated a section devoted to net art in the Whitney Biennial. What was the behind-the-scenes sequence of events that led to artport's founding?
I think artport's inception was emblematic of a wave of interest in net art in the US around the turn of the century and in the early 2000s. This more committed involvement with the art form interestingly coincided with or came shortly after the dot com bubble, which inflated from 1997–2000, had its climax on March 10, 2000 when NASDAQ peaked, and burst pretty much the next day. Net art, however, remained a very active practice and started appearing on the radar of more US art institutions. To some extent, their interest may have been sparked by European exhibitions that had begun to respond to the effects of the web on artistic practice earlier on. In 1997, Documenta X had already included web projects (that year the Documenta website was also famously "stolen"—that is, copied and archived—by Vuk Cosic in the project Documenta: done) and Net Condition, which took place at ZKM in 1999/2000, further acknowledged the importance of art on the web.
US museums increasingly began to take notice. Steve Dietz, who had started the Walker Art Center's New Media Initiatives early on, in 1996, was curating the online art Gallery 9 and digital art study collection. Jon Ippolito, in his role as Associate Curator of Media Arts at the Guggenheim, was commissioning net art in the early 2000s and in 2002, Benjamin Weil, with Joseph Rosa, unveiled a new version of SFMOMA's E-space, which had been created in 2000. This was the institutional netscape in which I created artport in 2001, since I felt that the Whitney, which had for the first time included net art in its 2000 Biennial, also needed a portal to online art. The original artport was much more of a satellite site and less integrated into whitney.org than it is now. Artist Yael Kanarek redesigned the site not too long after its initial launch and created version 1.1. Artport in its early days was sponsored by a backend storage company in New Jersey, which was then bought by HP, so HP appeared as the official sponsor. I think it is notable that sponsorship at that point did not come from a new tech company but a brand name that presumably wanted to appear more cutting edge.
booomerrranganggboobooomerranrang: Nancy Holt's networked video
Nancy Holt, Boomerang (1974), still from video.
In her time on this planet, Nancy Holt came to be known as a great American Land Artist, and certainly her brilliant installations, like Utah's Sun Tunnels and collaborations with her partner Robert Smithson and their peers, are profoundly significant, but it was her work in film & video that has had the greatest personal impact on me.
I somehow didn't see Boomerang, her 1974 video performance usually credited to her collaborator Richard Serra, until I was a Ph.D. student in Linda Williams's Phenomenology of Film seminar at UC Berkeley's Rhetoric program, but the time delay was more than made up for by the work's formative resonance. In the video, made during Serra's residency at a Texas television station, a young Holt is seen sitting in an anchor's chair before a staid blue background. Despite brief station ID graphic overlays and one minute of silence in the midst of the ten-minute piece (announced as audio trouble and reminding viewers of the work's live TV origin), the work is in many ways sound-centric.
Sound and Image in Electronic Harmony
On Saturday, April 11th, New York's School of Visual Arts will co-present the 2009 Visual Music Marathon with the New York Digital Salon and Northeastern University. Promising genre-bending work from fifteen countries, the lineup crams 120 works by new media artists and digital composers into 12 hours. If it's true, as is often said, that MTV killed the attention spans of Generations X and Y, this six-minute-per-piece average ought to suit most festivalgoers' minds, and the resultant shuffling on and off stage will surely be a spectacle in its own rite. In all seriousness, this annual event is a highlight of New York's already thriving electronic music scene and promises many a treat for your eyes and ears. The illustrious organizers behind the marathon know their visual music history and want to remind readers that, "The roots of the genre date back more than two hundred years to the ocular harpsichords and color-music scales of the 18th century," and "the current art form came to fruition following the emergence of film and video in the 20th century." The remarkable ten dozen artists participating in this one-day event will bring us work incorporating such diverse materials as hand-processed film, algorithmically-generated video, visual interpretations of music, and some good old fashioned music-music. From luminaries like Oskar Fischinger, Hans Richter, and Steina Vasulka to emerging artists Joe Tekippe and Chiaki Watanabe, the program will be another star on the map that claims NYC as fertile territory for sonic exploration. - Marisa Olson
The National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMST) in Athens, Greece, has committed itself to curating a number of recent exhibitions of internet art. Their current show, "Tag Ties and Affective Spies," features contributions from both net vets and emerging surfers, including Christophe Bruno, Gregory Chatonsky, Paolo Cirio, JODI, Jonathan Harris and Sep Kamvar, Les Liens Invisibles, Personal Cinema and The Erasers, Ramsay Stirling, and Wayne Clements. The online exhibition takes an antagonistic approach to Web 2.0, citing a constant balance "between order and chaos, democracy and adhocracy." Curator Daphne Dragona raises the question of whether the social web is a preexisting platform on which people connect, or whether it is indeed constructed in the act of uploading, tagging, and disclosing previously private information about ourselves on sites like Flickr, YouTube, and Facebook. Dragona asks whether we are truly connecting and interacting, or merely broadcasting. While her curatorial statement doesn't address the issue directly, the show's title hints at the level of self-surveillance in play on these sites. Accordingly, many of the selected works take a critical, if not DIY, approach to the internet. The collective Les Liens Invisibles tends to create works that make an ironic mash-up of the often divergent mantras of tactical media, culture jamming, surrealism, and situationism. In their Subvertr, they encourage Flickr users to "subverTag" their posted images, creating an intentional disassociation between an image's content and its interpretion, with the aim of "breaking the strict rules of significance that characterize the mainstream collective imaginary..." JODI's work, Del.icio.us/ winning information (2008) exploits the limited stylistic parameters of the social bookmarking site. Using ASCII and Unicode page titles to form visual marks, a cryptic tag vocabulary, and a recursive taxonomy, their fun-to-follow site critiques the broader content of the web ...
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In 1997, internet art hall-of-famer Olia Lialina made a "net drama" called Agatha Appears that was written for Netscape 3 and 4 in HTML 3.2. One of the main features of the interactive narrative was the travel of the eponymous avatar across the internet. Let's just say the girl got around. But the magical illusion of the piece was that she appeared to stay still, even when links in the narrative were clicked and the viewer's address bar indicated movement to another server. But in time, both the browser and code in which the story was written became defunct and the piece unraveled as the sites previously hosting the links and files upon which Agatha was dependent disappeared or cleaned house. Such a scenario is common to early internet art (and will no doubt continue to plague the field), as ours is an upgrade culture constantly driving towards new tools, platforms, and codes. Many have debated whether to let older works whither or how it might be possible to update these works, making them compatible with new systems. For those who are interested, some of the best research on the subject has been performed by the folks affiliated with the Variable Media Initiative. Meanwhile, luddites and neophiles alike are now in luck because Agatha Appears has just undergone rejuvenation. Ela Wysocka, a restorer working at Budapest's Center for Culture & Communication Foundation has worked to overcome the sound problems, code incompatibilities, and file corruption and disappearance issues, and she's written a fascinating report about the process, here. And new collaborating hosts have jumped in line to bring the piece back to life, so that like a black and white boyfriend coming home from war, Agatha now offers us a shiny new webring as a token of ...
webcam theory?
essays extending porn theory to webcam play? just curious... let me
know and i'll compile a bibliography to send to the list at large.
Re: Surveillance Art
depends on how you define surveillance. would you include
packet-sniffing (a la RSG)? would you include "watchdog" parody (a la
RT Mark)? would you include google spiders? of course issues of
tactical media & open source could sneak in here, too...
there are many surveillance-related projects referenced here, around
steve dietz & jenny marketou's Open Source Art Hack exhibition:
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Schoolin @ AOV
I'm excited to tell you about a show I've curated at AOV Gallery. It
features new work by some of my favorite artists and it opens Friday.
Hope you can make it...
AOV Gallery
March 5 - April 11
School-related video, photography, and painting by
Jona Frank, Anthony Goicolea, Alison Pebworth, Naglaa Walker
Curated by Marisa S. Olson
Opening Reception Friday, March 5, 7-9pm
Hours: Thur-Fri, 5-8; Sat 12-5 & by appointment
AOV: 3328 22nd Street, SF 94110 - 415.431.8341
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to see video stills from Anthony Goicolea's Classroom:
Killer Shots/Moving Targets at Camerawork
about the two exhibitions opening Tuesday, at SF Camerawork. Key
details are below and you can find more online, including info on
lectures by Rebecca Solnit, Ed Kashi, and Glenda & Jesse Drew, at
One year after going to war with Iraq,
Two exhibitions exploring the face of war
and the character of resistanceS
KILLER SHOTS: A Photographic Response to War
Curated by Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago
February 17-March 20, 2004
Opening Reception: Tuesday, February 17, 2004, 5-8 pm
Killer Shots: A Photographic Response to War begins with images from
the Vietnam War, often referred to as the first picture war, setting
the photographic yardstick for photographers who risk their lives
showing the atrocity of human violence. These photographs are
imbedded in our visual memory and, brought together, force us to
examine what we've learned about war and humankind over the past
thirty years.
Artists: Abbas, Eddie Adams, David Burnett, Larry Burrows, Horst
Faas, Lori Grinker, Jean Gaumy, Matt Harnett, David Leeson, Marta
Lopez, Alex Majoli, Steve McCurry, Don McCullin, Susan Meiselas, Joel
Meyerowitz, Jon Mills, James Nachtwey, Sebastiao Salgado, Larry
Towell, Nick Ut, Sal Veder, and Alex Webb.
MOVING TARGETS: The Art of Resistance
Curated by Marnie Gillett and Chuck Mobley
February 17-March 20, 2004
Opening Reception: Tuesday, February 17, 2004, 5-8 pm
Starting with the foundation laid in Killer Shots, this companion
exhibition draws its inspiration from the strong protest movement
surrounding the US war in Iraq. The five Bay Area artists in this
exhibition take a measured look at the weighty causes and varied
consequences of war and offer an alternative view to traditional
photojournalistic interpretation.
Artists: Shingo Annen, Glenda Drew, Jesse Drew, Kenneth Hung, Ed
Kashi, and Claudia Leger.
coming next:
Curated by Marisa S. Olson
May 11 - June 12, 2004
Opening Reception: Tuesday, May 11, 5-8pm
A contemporary, photo-based redux of Pop Art arguments about the
context of image-production, the work in this exhibition takes as its
marrow the material of moving image culture. Segments of popular
films, television programs, and screen-based video games are
deconstructed and repurposed as meditations on mainstream
image-making and its cultural import. Each project is at once
accessible-even fun!-by virtue of its relationship to pop culture,
while simultaneously revealing the deeper cumulative effects of our
relationship to its content. Ultimately, we are invited to consider
the impacts these popular lens-based genres have had upon the ways in
which we choose to look at the world.
Artists: Cory Arcangel, Anthony Discenza, Alex Galloway, Jennifer &
Kevin McCoy, Paul Pfeiffer
* This exhibition will be accompanied by an issue of Camerawork: A
Journal of Photographic Arts, featuring major essays by Philip
Sherburne, Mark Tribe, and Jose Luis de Vicente, among others.
Marisa S. Olson
Associate Director
SF Camerawork
1246 Folsom Street
xhtml, xml, and html..?
just missed it (a disclaimer i feel the need to posit since, in some
ways, we all seem tired of html discussions), but i'd be interested
in some of the practitioners' takes on the state of html and the
creative, "artistic" significance of xhtml or xml. in particular
(though not exclusively), does this shift allow for the addition of
finer meta-level analysis/reading of info-organizational/navigational
just curious what people think...
Marisa S. Olson
Associate Director
SF Camerawork
415. 863. 1001


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Best actress - Meryl Streep, Mama Mia
Best actor - guy who played Nixon in Frost/Nixon (guy who played Frost was good too).
Best film - Australia
Best cinematography - Australia
Best FX - Iron Man
Best music - Mama Mia
(I did see other movies, but we are only talking about the best)
The poll on the home page doesn't offer enough options, so I thought I would put mine here.
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Best actress - Meryl Streep, "Doubt"
Best actor - Sean Penn, "Milk"
Best film - "Slumdog Millionaire"
Best director - Danny Boyle, "Slumdog Millionaire"
Best supporting actress - Kate Winslet, "The Reader"
Best supporting actor - Heath Ledger, "The Dark Knight"
Best cinematography - "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"
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- Shows perform on the ship Anthem of the Seas.
- Auditions: Oct 5, 6, 7, 8 in New York, NY
Casting "We Will Rock You," a production for the Royal Caribbean ship Anthem of the Seas. Synopsis: The spectacular Olivier Award-winning musical phenomenon "We Will Rock You" rocked over 6.5 million people in a record-breaking 12 years at London's Dominion Theatre. Written by legendary comedian and author Ben Elton and ...Sep 22


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O.o Banjo-Kazooie 64 Rated E?
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