This is the worst kind of flackery, and it is good it was caught as quickly as it was.  One wonders what Facebook employees think about it and the ham-handed way it was handled.  There is little excuse for running paid editorial that looks like real copy.  There is far less excuse for the chief […]

Posted on January 11th, 2020 by admin
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The Hubble Space Telescope is celebrating the start of its 30th year with an image of a gigantic galaxy.  This is amazing for an instrument that was defective at the start and needed several astronaut visits over its lifetime.  It is a PR success, the like of which NASA scientists did not think possible.  Hubble […]

Posted on January 6th, 2020 by admin
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Christina Koch has just set a record for the longest time a woman has spent in space.  NASA is using it for publicity.  But should it?  We know now that lack of gravity has effects on the body, not all of them good.  Koch surely will have trouble when she returns to earth.  Her muscles […]

Posted on January 2nd, 2020 by admin
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