{"id":198094,"date":"2024-10-22T00:26:40","date_gmt":"2024-10-22T05:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/supernovas-mars-and-solar-sails"},"modified":"2024-10-22T00:26:40","modified_gmt":"2024-10-22T05:26:40","slug":"supernovas-mars-and-solar-sails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/supernovas-mars-and-solar-sails","title":{"rendered":"Supernovas, Mars, and solar sails!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/J3d_e_Efy0I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Weekend posting was delayed by our trip to accept an honor from Caltech\u2026 but here it is! Almost entirely about space and science!! Stuff I promise you hadn\u2019t heard before.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>We just returned from Pasadena, where Caltech \u2014 my alma mater \u2014 installed me as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.caltech.edu\/about\/news\/2024-distinguished-alumni-award-daa\" target=\"_blank\">Distinguished Alumnus<\/a>. An honor that I sincerely never expected, given the many brilliant minds I knew when I was there. Reflecting on that is humbling \u2014 even \u2018imposter syndroming\u2019 \u2014 though people kindly urged me to think otherwise.<\/p>\n<p>In today\u2019s delayed posting, I\u2019ll be mostly taking a pause from politics\u2026 though the topic of <a href=\"https:\/\/davidbrin.blogspot.com\/2024\/10\/republicans-admit-were-blackmailed-plus.html\" target=\"_blank\">my previous blog<\/a> \u2014 about the likelihood of <i>blackmail<\/i> poisoning top levels of the U.S. republic \u2014 remains horrifically plausible\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2026especially now that prominent members of one party are openly <a href=\"https:\/\/davidbrin.blogspot.com\/2024\/10\/republicans-admit-were-blackmailed-plus.html\" target=\"_blank\">admitting that their party is suborned<\/a> in this way, by foreign powers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weekend posting was delayed by our trip to accept an honor from Caltech\u2026 but here it is! Almost entirely about space and science!! Stuff I promise you hadn\u2019t heard before. We just returned from Pasadena, where Caltech \u2014 my alma mater \u2014 installed me as Distinguished Alumnus. An honor that I sincerely never expected, given [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198094\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}