Posted for the headline, but the article is pretty cool as well!
Bit of a metaphor; isnât it?
I mean⌠
Are they completely sure it hasnât already happened?
⌠oh good, something new to be afraid of 
It was the 60âs.
What happens in orbit; stays in orbit.
⌠we had to destroy the space station to save it 
They were in excellent condition and quite vigorous.
jet being launched
Yes⌠I know they do not mean an actual jet, donât @ me!
<quote voice="Richard Burton">
No one would have believed, in the first half of the twenty-first century, that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than manâs and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water.
</quote>
I better close the blinds.
Nah, it seems theyâre only worried about men, youâll be fine.
Was M87 also the galaxy they used to get the first image of a black hole, back last decade some time?
(searches)
Ah yep, it was! In 2019. I thought it was more like 2015, but I guess 2020 feels like three or four years all by itself.
ETA: it still boggles my mind that in 2019 (and now too) it was faster to hand-deliver the hard drives than it was to do a file transfer over the Internet. It really put into perspective how big a petabyte is, and they had 5 petabytes of data.
What if they misinterpreted the data and it actually wasnât a Jet but a Shark?
