It’s further away than it was the last time it flew by and it doesn’t really look like a skull anymore – here it is…..the image above is an ‘enhanced’ version
msn.com: Skull-shaped asteroid to pass by Earth after Halloween
credit for featured skull asteroid image: 2015-tb145-skull-asteroid-credit-ja-penas-sinc-1120
Some believe that Monday morning – August 13 – will be the best morning for 2018’s Perseid meteor shower.
earthsky.org: Perseid meteor shower: All you need to know | Astronomy Essentials | EarthSky.org
Today these same companies are under fire from their employees over who this technology is being sold to, namely branches of the US government like the Department of Defense and Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
There’s no putting the cat back in the bag.
Workers from Google, Microsoft, and now Amazon have signed petitions and quit in protest of the government work.
Read more at qz.com: Facial recognition technology is here to stay. And we should all probably get over it — Quartz
Sharing my perspective on this subject: AI technology is moving so rapidly that if we don’t pay attention – and most people don’t – it will deal the final blow to what little is left of our privacy. Our personal lives will no longer be personal. We will become ‘profiles’ for governments, corporations, employers, and private citizens with the resources (aka $$$$$) to access and review and analyze. Our humanity reduced to data on a server somewhere. AI will record all our faces for what? because it can? The image our appearance, our moods and expressions, presents to the world is joining the rest of the 0’s and 1’s already accumulated to identify us. No one will have any privacy their entire lives and we have yet to see the price we’ll all pay for it. AmishHomo
If the Earth is conquered by robots sometime in the future then the world can look at Boston Dynamics as the starting point for the demise of the human race.
The robotics company released new videos of its Atlas and MiniSpot robots doing new tricks, and it’s both fascinating and terrifying.
inverse.com: Boston Dynamics: New Horrifying Tricks From the SpotMini and Atlas | Inverse
Hubble launched aboard the space shuttle Discovery on April 24, 1990, and was deployed into Earth orbit a day later. NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA), which jointly run the Hubble mission, release great photos every April to celebrate these milestones. – Space.com
read and see more via space.com: Hubble’s 28th Anniversary featuring Lagoon Nebula
To celebrate Earth Day (April 22) this year, NASA invites everyone to share views of Earth with the world — and to tack up artists’ perspectives of our home planet on their walls.
I’ve been to San Francisco, taking a flight that arrived late at night. I awoke the next morning to a “minor” earthquake
Read More "San Francisco Bay Area is a Nightmare – According to Science"
Record warm temperatures in Arctic melting ice much faster than expected – scientists in shock
Scientists interviewed for this story say that the Arctic warming event, technically known as a warm air intrusion, may be a common feature of the Arctic climate, as comparatively mild and moist air from the mid-latitudes is transported north by storm systems. However, this event was not like the others, researchers said.
mashable.com: Arctic warm event stuns scientists, as record warmth reaches North Pole
Today was a day that will long be remembered. Perhaps the most iconic images from space since the Apollo era as Elon Musk’s red Tesla climbed away from the Earth as millions watched it live. The images below are not fake. They are real, and from a video camera by the Tesla. You gotta love the car tag as well: Don’t Panic. THIS is how you make science cool. I …
blogs.agu.org: Nerds Rule, Tesla in Space! – Dan’s Wild Wild Science Journal
Visible super-moons—full moons that appear when the moon is at its closest orbital point to Earth—aren’t very rare. Having three in a row certainly is.
Heavens
Super-moons are happening during January 2018
quartz.com: Super-Moon Blue Moon Lunar Eclipse
