Reality Checks: Damore’s Memo, Again, Asteroid Mining and Falcon Heavy, Golden Spikes, and Human Reactions to Alien Life

Elizabeth — February 20, 2018

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According to on federal memo, Damore’s memo was discriminatory and constituted sexual harassment. Gee, I wonder why. (via Ars Technica)
Falcon Heavy launch may give us more asteroid mining scope. (via Gizmodo)
A sitka spruce from 1901 may record the “golden spike” of a new geologic era. (via BBC)
Anticipating human reaction to ET life. (via Frontiers in Psychology)

Featured image credit: John Rusk via flickr

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Elizabeth is a professional belly dancer, a flaky computer scientist, and a returned Peace Corps volunteer. She lives in Georgia (the state of the U.S., not the country) but is nonetheless somehow not a combination of stereotypes from Gone with the Wind and Deliverance. Her personal blog is Coffeefied. Operafied. Fluffified. Beglittered.

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