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Sleepy Facts About the Universe
How Does Pluto's Frozen Heart Keep Its Atmosphere Alive? - Pluto's Unexpected Geological Activity | Sleepy Facts About the Universe
When the New Horizons probe reached Pluto in the summer of 2015, it revealed a vast, heart-shaped feature stretching across the equator. Far from the frozen, static fossil scientists expected, this region—known as Sputnik Planitia—is a dynamic sea of nitrogen ice that moves, breathes, and reshapes the dwarf planet's surface. This episode explores how slow-flowing convection cells act as a vast engine, sublimating frozen nitrogen to build an atmosphere that collapses and renews itself across a quarter-millennium year. I wanted to understand how a world so distant and cold could remain so active. While working on this episode, I kept returning to one question: how can faint internal heat and minimal sunlight drive such an elegant, closed-loop system? The discovery of this cycle forces us to rethink what geological activity means in the outer solar system and opens the door to serious speculation about hidden subsurface oceans on Pluto. It is a quiet, profound reminder that the universe is often more dynamic and inventive than our assumptions allow.
Today · 34 min
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Il processo Haber - Bosch
Prodotto dall'Ass. Culturale Atelier. Scritta e realizzata da Alan Zamboni. Sound design: Matteo D’Alessandro. https://www.matteodalessandro.com/ Per chi volesse info sul libro “L’atomo sfuggente” questo è il link al sito della casa editrice:...
Today · 17 min
Into the Impossible With Brian Keating
Former NASA Physicist: The UAP Maneuver That Should Have Exploded
A physics professor ran the energy budget on the Nimitz tic-tac. The maneuver needs about a thousand gigawatts, more than ten times every nuclear plant in the United States combined. Nothing we build survives its own waste heat at that scale. So what was flying? Kevin Knuth is a professor of physics at the University at Albany and a former NASA scientist who now applies Bayesian statistics to UAP sensor data. We cover: why a 5,400 g maneuver would turn a pilot into soup, where the energy went when the object stopped and no explosion followed, the 1954 radar measurements nobody wants to talk about, the New Zealand frigate that went dark and adrift in three seconds, and why the records from that deployment stay classified until 2062. Knuth says the power numbers alone rule out human technology. I push back on whether the sensors agree. Newsletter, full transcript, and my Monday M.A.G.I.C. Message: briankeating.com/aliens CHAPTERS 00:00 Why this field needs gatekeepers 03:50 How anomalous is anomalous? 06:40 The UFO photo that was a seagull 10:40 Radar clocked them at 19 km/s in 1954 15:00 5,400 g and a body weighing 227 tonnes 19:00 The radar return problem he had not considered 21:45 A gigawatt of waste heat and nowhere to put it 24:30 The 747 chased by something carrier sized 29:00 Why a number without an error bar is worthless 34:30 The NASA job he was not qualified for 37:00 Proxima Centauri in a day and a half 41:00 The warship that lost all power in 3 seconds 46:30 Pushing a column of water that cannot compress 48:45 The light that burned bark off the trees 53:00 What the power numbers rule out 56:00 The 95 percent problem Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Today · 1 hr 3 min
Into the Impossible With Brian Keating
Former NASA Physicist: The UAP Maneuver That Should Have Exploded
A physics professor ran the energy budget on the Nimitz tic-tac. The maneuver needs about a thousand gigawatts, more than ten times every nuclear plant in the United States combined. Nothing we build survives its own waste heat at that scale. So what was flying? Kevin Knuth is a professor of physics at the University at Albany and a former NASA scientist who now applies Bayesian statistics to UAP sensor data. We cover: why a 5,400 g maneuver would turn a pilot into soup, where the energy went when the object stopped and no explosion followed, the 1954 radar measurements nobody wants to talk about, the New Zealand frigate that went dark and adrift in three seconds, and why the records from that deployment stay classified until 2062. Knuth says the power numbers alone rule out human technology. I push back on whether the sensors agree. Newsletter, full transcript, and my Monday M.A.G.I.C. Message: briankeating.com/aliens CHAPTERS 00:00 Why this field needs gatekeepers 03:50 How anomalous is anomalous? 06:40 The UFO photo that was a seagull 10:40 Radar clocked them at 19 km/s in 1954 15:00 5,400 g and a body weighing 227 tonnes 19:00 The radar return problem he had not considered 21:45 A gigawatt of waste heat and nowhere to put it 24:30 The 747 chased by something carrier sized 29:00 Why a number without an error bar is worthless 34:30 The NASA job he was not qualified for 37:00 Proxima Centauri in a day and a half 41:00 The warship that lost all power in 3 seconds 46:30 Pushing a column of water that cannot compress 48:45 The light that burned bark off the trees 53:00 What the power numbers rule out 56:00 The 95 percent problem Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Today · 1 hr 3 min

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