He ran into the situation room clutching a sheaf of papers.
“Madam President, we have the first translation of the Arecibo message. 95% confidence.”
“And?”
“A short message in ASCII encoding. It says ‘link in bio’.”
“Does anyone know what this means?”
“If I may, Madam President-“
Eyebrows raised.
“Simpkins, Madam President. With the Comms team. It appears the aliens are familiar with instagram.”
A thing I’ve been doing: every time Richard Feynman is held up as a model genius scientist, or I find myself holding him up so, I remind myself that he held meetings in strip clubs, *AND HE WROTE THIS IN SURELY, YOU’RE JOKING*, and teenage me didn’t realize how much of a problem that was (and that’s just One Example of his horrendous behavior)
https://github.com/lifewinning/networked-terraforming This is the syllabus for the two-part session I'll be doing as part of @sfpc's Code Societies program that starts today, very excited to meet the students and the class project
RRS Ernest Shackleton via https://www.bas.ac.uk/data/our-data/images/webcams/rrs-ernest-shackleton-webcam/
fake statistician. fake ecologist. fake doctor.