Jupiter's Ultimate Fate, New Targets for New Horizons, My Favourite Moons | Q&A Overtime 9
What's the best way to do science communication? Will Jupiter expand when the Sun dies? How would aliens experience their environment? Can New Horizons get new targets in future? Answering all these questions and more in this week's Overtime Q&A.
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Comments (4)
The problem with depending on any AI (including ChatGPT) for accurate information is trust. There is no algorithm that exists or can be theorized that determines the trustworthiness or accuracy of data sources. That’s a decision made by several someones not any somethings.
Not sure if this is the right venue to post a question for the next Overtime, but here's what I've never understood and the question. If immediately before the big bang the entire observable universe was the size of a grapefruit, or volleyball, or whatever, how would that not be the mother of all black holes from which nothing could ever escape, and how could there have been a big bang? What am I missing?
I liked how you related Unruh and Hawking radiation. I'm a (former) astronomer and never realized that.
Are you going to address the new National Academies Press report on "NASA at A Crossroads"? I'm reading it later today. There are a lot of troubling and unaddressed issues on the table, many of them related to the way it is funded and treated by Congress, I think.