Apparently, the word collision is, for Dr Madrid, much too brutal and masculine when referring to the convergence of two galaxies, and the subsequent merging of the supermassive black holes at their centres – an event that will entail the sling-shotting of countless stars and their orbiting planets, and which may release energy equivalent to around 100 million supernova explosions, and to subsequently be detectable halfway across the universe.
Come, let’s pay a visit to the publication laughingly referred to as Scientific American.
Scientific American.
weird memory. tagging along my much older cousin driving his wife to Flint Mich to catch a bus to Sudbury Cdn side. 1965 thereabouts. McCartney singing Lady Madonna on the radio. what year was that?
cousin stops in the library whilst there. l pick up a copy read a letter to the editor some whiz kid questioning ways to get a scanning beam image directly on film for higher resolution as opposed to photographing an oscilloscope display.
heady stuff for 12-13 yr old.
the mag aint what it used to be, havent bought or read one since whenever.
It’s looking more like the old ‘science’ magazine OMNI from the eighties. It’s taken Scientific American almost 200 years to go supernova, OMNI did it in about 3 years.
Nice observation there, Arty.
Yeah, I stopped reading those magazines when I started finding the National Enquirer to be more accurate scientifically and less sensational than they were. And I’m only half joking about that.
That’s because Cathy Keaton was dying of cancer. I noticed a major change in the magazine, but I didn’t know why at the time. I had already stopped buying it by the time it sopped publishing.
OMNI was more of a sci-fi magazine. Heck, it was published by the same people who put out Penthouse.
I quite enjoyed it. It had lots of great art, good sci-fi stories, etc.
A “mandatory affectation”. I like that.
Sci-Am has been crap for the last 20+ years.
“…. it’s led me to believe that astronomers should reconsider the language we use.”
…. and they will.
Gotta adopt the newspeak.
There was a time could not wait for the next issue of Scientific American.
Never read it in years now.
Space and dinosaurs are fake.
If they’re fake, then how do you explain this?:
https://www.amazon.com/Tyrannosaurus-Sext-Dinosaur-Erotica-Faust-ebook/dp/B0BKTWQFHR/ref=sr_1_5?qid=1704727885&refinements=p_73%3ADinosaur+Erotica&s=digital-text&sr=1-5
They have aliens too
I worked at an amazon warehouse ten years ago. First night we received an entire shipping container full of sex dolls. Half were avatar themed. Huge blue silicon things with five different “pleasure holes” and a reach around tail.
The other half were modeled on preteen Asian girls.
Amazon is a disgusting company.
…as is Wallmart, Target, AliExpress, Temu, Etsy, EBay, Tesco, Sainsbury’s, …
I honestly want to know how you even FOUND such a thing?! Tentacle sex … I’d understand … but Dino sex!? Really!?
I was reading Twitchy a few weeks ago, an article about some director who wanted to make a more “romantic” drama for the next Jurassic Park movie, and some guy’s tweet suggested he base the movie on it. Not believing such a thing existed, I had to check for myself.
An intergalactic “hug”. How sweet.
Picking up on Dr. Madrid’s kinder gentler scientific lingo theme, the atom bombs that devastated Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 can be described as the aftermath of a “group hug” of atoms.
And the good doctor has a point about misogynistic language: indeed the names Little Boy and Fat Man are male-dominated and insensitive. They unleashed the full fury of a woman scorned, so they have been misgendered. Any overweight man who was at one time a little boy has a right to be offended.
I propose the next nuclear platform be called the “Wild Karen.”
Think of the devastation of dropping a bunch of Wild Karens on the enemy.
Also, with Globohomo’s preoccupation with sex, we could call yet another platform the “F-bomb.”
Right on. And “Minuteman” should be renamed InstantKaren.
Dr Madrid must change his name. Using the name of capital of Spain, a colonialist country that had slaves and wiped out much of the indigenous population of the Americas, is insulting to progressive people everywhere.
sarc.