Sorry, a german special...
✅ Artist: #JADA streetart - in City: somewhere 🤫 in #Cologne Germany 🇩🇪 - Title: "Schätzchen, mein Absatz ist höher als dein Niveau und ich trage Ballerinas!" 👡 (Honey, my heels are higher than your level and I wear ballet flats!") - #Art#Streetart#Köln#Pasteup#Comics#Peanuts#Lucy#DonaldDuck
I'm watching #Lucy again (nth time) and I realised something I didn't before.
All our #scifi about man becoming very intelligent and/or “accessing more of our brain capability” leads to us losing our emotions and turn robotic. Like in #Fringe (remember Season 05).
Another example is in #StarGate, not humans exactly, but the Asgard hinted that they once were like humans, full of emotions. However, when they reached their current level of intelligence and brain processing, it all went away.
I don't know why I like #Lucy (2014) so much. The science ("We use only a small fraction of our brains") is utter twaddle. I didn't realize that was Scarlett Johansson; she's good! But the basic "ordinary person gets super powers, fights bad guys, transcends time and space" is somehow very appealing. I could watch several (interestingly different) takes on this!
The moonlet discovered during the Lucy mission encounter with asteroid Dinkinesh on Nov 1 has an official name - “Selam” or ሰላም, which means “peace” in the Ethiopian language Amharic.
Selam is the name of a fossil of a 3-year-old Australopithecus afarensis female hominin, whose bones were first found in Dikika, Ethiopia in 2000. Nicknamed Lucy's baby, the specimen is actually 120K years older than "Lucy", who lived 3.2 mya.
Lucy was such a sweet and lovingly cat. I gave her a home when I lived together with my now-ex girlfriend. I still regret giving her away when we decided to break up. 😓
🛰️☄️ Le 7 novembre, le Southwest Research Institut et la NASA publient de nouvelles images du survol de Dinkinesh par #Lucy qui révèlent une nouvelle surprise : la lune de Dinkinesh est en fait un corps binaire à contact.
🪨 Connaissez-vous #Dinkinesh ? Cet astéroïde, finalement binaire, a été survolé le 1er novembre par la sonde #Lucy qui en a envoyé la première photo jamais réalisée !
📷 NASA/Goddard/SwRI/Johns Hopkins APL/NOAO
Surprise Again! Not only does Dinkinesh, the asteroid imaged by the #Lucy spacecraft, have a moon. It's moon has a moon. It's a moon moon (or at least a contact binary).
NASA's Lucy spacecraft is getting ready for its close flyby of asteroid Dinkinesh this Wednesday, Nov 1, at 16:54 UTC.
Asteroid Dinkinesh is about 760 m wide; it is part of the main belt of asteroids located between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.
Lucy will use this encounter to test its instruments and tracking systems, in preparation for its main mission of surveying 7 Jupiter trojan asteroids in 2027-2033.
Note that at the time this image of asteroid Dinkinesh was taken, Lucy was traveling at ~16,000 km/h or 4.44 km/s. Lucy was slewing at ~0.6 degrees/s to keep the camera and instruments pointed at Dinkinesh. This encounter was primarily a test of Lucy's tracking system and looks like it passed with flying colors!
The image is highly processed, the original must be much darker.
The images of Dinkinesh and its moon may sound like a great discovery about our solar system, but let's keep in mind that there are millions of asteroids between here and Jupiter and trillions of icy ones beyond the orbit of Pluto. Only the nearest and largest ones have been catalogued. Most are too small to be seen by our most powerful telescopes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroid https://cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/ #Lucy#Dinkinesh
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Surprise! Surprise!
The newly discovered companion of asteroid Dinkinesh, is itself a contact binary – that is, it is made of two smaller objects touching each other.
This second image was taken by Lucy about 6 minutes after closest approach from a distance of approximately 1,630 km.