the headline makes it sound like he survived an assassination attempt
Well, he was extremely lucky a couple of times… which was due to, I think, a combination of thinking for himself, a certain stubbornness, not being an asshole, and, yes, luck.
was somebody trying to kill him, or is it clickbait for “he had a dangerous job”
The most important consideration is the psych eval. I hope that we have the technology to provide comfort rooms to those who inevitably fail.
Also-- space baboons. Those suckers are dangerous.
When amateur astronomer Gennady Borisov spotted the new object on August 30
Something of a badass for an amateur in an era of spy-grade equipment, where spotting comets is probably a byproduct of their real job of spotting satellites.
To find 2I/Borisov, he used a new homemade 25.5-inch (0.65-meter) reflector telescope with an extremely short focal length that yields a huge field of view of 120 arc minutes — large enough to see four full moons, side by side.
What’s the scoop with Mars InSight’s mired mole? It’s digging again, thanks to trowel trickery
Neat!
(This pretty close to what I’d paint. If I could paint.)
