“I increasingly suspect that the days of large-scale public distribution of unmoderated user generated content on the Internet may shortly begin drawing to a close in significant ways…” writes long-time Slashdot reader Lauren Weinstein. And then he shares “a bit of history”:
Back in 1985 when I launched my “Stargate” experiment to broadcast Usenet Netnews over the broadcast television vertical blanking interval…
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Giant viruses spew their DNA through a ‘stargate.’ Now, scientists know what triggers them.
Scientists combined several techniques to study the massive viruses in action. Source: https://www.livescience.com/triggers-for-giant-virus-infection.html
The mysterious yellow skies of WASP-79b
Scientists studying the huge, hot exoplanet WASP-79b have found that, surprisingly, the planet has yellow skies instead of blue. But why it does is still a mystery. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/wasp-79b-exoplanets-atmosphere-rayleigh-scattering…
Startup That Aims To 3D-Print Rockets Says It’s Fully Funded For Its First Commercial Missions
Aerospace startup Relativity Space — the company that aims to launch the first fully 3D-printed rocket to orbit — says it has raised all of the money it needs to launch its first mission and then enter commercial operations as early as 2021. After raising $140 million in its latest funding round, Relativity says its total funding now equals $185 million,…