Recent content by Galumph

I came to the comments to say something similar. The Big Bang model is good, and probably the best explanation for the evidence we have. However, we haven't really had enough evidence to treat it like it is essentially 100% certain. There has always been room for interpretation, for as long as...

Makes me wonder if some of the accreted matter gets recycled in the black holes' astrophysical jets. That is, I wonder if there's enough energy in those jets to create hydrogen atoms, which in turn form stars. We see the gamma-ray signature of electron-positron annihilation in these...

Oh, the good ol' Drake Equation--one of the least useful predictive formulae that exist. This particular analysis has at least some basis in mathematics/physics, in that the conclusion is based on the hypothetical scenario where we detect at least one other intelligent species in the galaxy...

This is a minor correction, but the article states that no other mission has done a double gravity assist--but that isn't true. The comment from ESA was with respect to using both the Earth and the Moon for gravity assists in a single mission. The Parker Solar Probe conducted 7 gravity...

Might want to check your articles for ads--I got one overlaid on the picture, and when I tried to X it out I ended up opening the ad. Tried it several times to confirm the X opens the link. Great article, but making advertising deals with shady ads just makes Live Science look like the worst...

All great points. Hypothesizing there to be super heavy elements in the Island of Stability within asteroids is wishful thinking. It's likely that if there were amalgamations of large quantities of these elements, they would form a critical mass and would quickly cease to exist in that form...