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[33]Close binspamdupenotthebestofftopicslownewsdaystalestupid freshfunnyinsightfulinterestingmaybe offtopicflamebaittrollredundantoverrated insightfulinterestinginformativefunnyunderrated descriptive typodupeerror NEW: [34]Check out ConnectWise RMM and automate your technician's day-to-day activities through a single intuitive interface. Human-led customization, automation, and NOC services together reinvents how you adopt, use, and manage your RMM moving forward. [35]Browse the new Slashdot job board to find a new remote job or view jobs in your area [36]× 171844184 story [37]China [38]Was China's 'Spy Balloon' Just Blown Off Course? [39](cbsnews.com) [40]15 Posted by EditorDavid on Monday September 18, 2023 @07:34AM from the answer-is-blowing-in-the-wind dept. China [41]appears to have suspended its global surveillance balloon program after a balloon was spotted drifting over the United States in February. But now an anonymous reader shares [42]this report from CBS News: Seven months later, Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, tells "CBS News Sunday Morning" the balloon wasn't spying. "The intelligence community, their assessment — and it's a high-confidence assessment — [is] that there was no intelligence collection by that balloon," he said. So, why was it over the United States? There are various theories, with at least one leading theory that it was blown off-track. The balloon had been headed toward Hawaii, but the winds at 60,000 feet apparently took over. "Those winds are very high," Milley said. "The particular motor on that aircraft can't go against those winds at that altitude..." After the Navy raised the wreckage from the bottom of the Atlantic, technical experts discovered the balloon's sensors had never been activated while over the Continental United States. But by then, the damage to U.S.-China relations had been done. On the CBS News show Sunday Morning, the host had this exchange with America's chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. CBS: "Bottom line, it was a spy balloon, but it wasn't spying?" Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff: "I would say it was a spy balloon that we know with high degree of certainty got no intelligence, and didn't transmit any intelligence back to China." apply tags__________ 171845452 story [43]Role Playing (Games) [44]It's the 40th Anniversary of 1983's 'Dungeons & Dragons' Cartoon [45](newsfromme.com) [46]15 Posted by EditorDavid on Monday September 18, 2023 @04:34AM from the honor-among-thieves dept. 71-year-old Mark Evanier is a legendary comic book/TV writer. Today [47]he posted on his personal blog that "Forty years ago, I spent about six days (cumulative) of my life writing the pilot script and small-b bible for a Saturday morning cartoon series called Dungeons & Dragons... "I feel like I have now spent more than six days (cumulative) being interviewed about this series." It went on CBS on September 17, 1983 and lasted three seasons. Do not believe those who claim it was driven from the airwaves by pressure groups who saw satanic subtext in the series. It went off for the same reason most shows go off: Because the ratings were declining and — rightly or wrongly — the brass at the network didn't think it would have enough viewers to sustain another season. Yes, there were protests about its content but not many and CBS, at least in those days, was pretty good about ignoring such outcries if — and this is always a Big If — the viewers seem to want whatever is being outcried about. [48]From Wikipedia: The level of violence was controversial for American children's television at the time, and the script of one episode, "The Dragon's Graveyard", [49]was almost canceled because the characters contemplated killing their nemesis, Venger. In 1985, the National Coalition on Television Violence [50]demanded that the FTC run a warning during each broadcast stating that Dungeons & Dragons had been linked to real-life violent deaths. The show ultimately ran for a total of 27 episodes. The blog post continues: It was a good show because of good writers, good producers, good artists, good voice talent, good everything...and I was mostly a spectator to all that goodness, having opted not to stick with it. Still, thanks to the gent who was my agent at the time, my name was seen for a micro-second in the credits each week so I get more kudos than I probably earned... Quite recently, I sat for [51]this video podcast with a fine interviewer and a major fan of the series, Heath Holland. It's almost an hour and we talked about some other things but it's mostly about Dungeons & Dragons... The podcaster notes that the cartoon's six adventurers even made a cameo in 2022's live-action Dungeons & Dragons movie, Honor Among Thieves — and several other companies are still celebrating the cartoon. Hasbro recently released a [52]line of [53]action figures based on the cartoon, while IDW has released a [54]comic book mini-series called Dungeons & Dragons: Saturday Morning Adventures. In the series six children are transported from an amusement park's Dungeon's & Dragons ride into the game's realm, where a kindly Dungeon Master helps them battle various villains and monsters as they search for a way home. More lore about the series [55]from Wikipedia: A final unproduced episode would have served as both a conclusion to the story and as a re-imagining of the show, had it been picked up for a fourth season. However, it was canceled before the episode was made. The script has since been published online and was performed as an audio drama as a special feature for the BCI Eclipse DVD edition of the series... A fan-made animated version of the finale appeared online in 2020 [[56]according to TheGamer.com]. apply tags__________ 171845146 story [57]Programming [58]JetBrains Previews 'RustRover', a New Dedicated IDE for Rust Developers [59](infoworld.com) [60]31 Posted by EditorDavid on Monday September 18, 2023 @01:34AM from the inventing-IDEs dept. An anonymous reader shared [61]this report from InfoWorld: JetBrains is previewing a dedicated IDE for the Rust programming language, called RustRover, which combines coding assistance with an integrated Rust toolchain. Available in preview September 13, [62]RustRover is positioned to simplify the Rust coding experience while "unlocking the language's full potential," JetBrains said. Capabilities include real-time feedback, code suggestions, simplified toolchain management, and team collaboration. Previously, JetBrains offered [63]IntelliJ Rust, an open source Rust plugin for IntelliJ IDEs. But with RustRover, the company aims to provide a dedicated product with enhanced functionality for the growing Rust developer community. JetBrains also has been previewing a multi-language editor and IDE, called [64]JetBrains Fleet, that supports Rust development... RustRover will have some similarities to JetBrains' other language-specific IDEs including [65]PyCharm for Python, [66]GoLand for Go, and [67]RubyMine for Ruby. RustRover integrates with version control systems, supporting GitHub and Git. apply tags__________ 171845228 story [68]Businesses [69]Unity Says 'We Apologize,' Promises Changes to Previously-Announced Pricing [70](ign.com) [71]80 Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday September 17, 2023 @09:52PM from the Unity-we-stand dept. "We have heard you," Unity [72]posted on Twitter/X on Sunday afternoon. "We apologize for the confusion and angst the runtime fee policy we announced on Tuesday caused." "We are listening, talking to our team members, community, customers, and partners, and will be making changes to the policy. We will share an update in a couple of days. Thank you for your honest and critical feedback." Within 90 minutes Unity's tweet had been viewed over 1 million times. Pushback had built over the last five days to Unity's announcement that next year they'd charge developers per game installation (beyond certain thresholds). [73]IGN reports: [74]Unity tried to clarify the policy, saying it will only count "net new installs" on any devices starting January 1 and devs would not be paying fees on re-installations, "fraudulent" installs via botnets and the like, trial version, web and streaming games, and charity-related installs. Unity also claimed that "90 percent of customers will not be affected by this change." The development community did not take kindly to these proposed changes and clarifications, and many teams across the globe, [75]including Rust 2 developer Facepunch Studios, said they won't be making their games in Unity now. Others, like Massive Monster, [76]threatened to delete its Unity-made game Cult of the Lamb on January 1 should these changes happen. The pushback got so severe that Unity offices in San Francisco and Austin had to close [77]due to what it called a credible death threat. apply tags__________ 171844810 story [78]AI [79]Maybe ChatGPT Isn't Coming for Your Coding Job [80](wired.com) [81]65 Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday September 17, 2023 @08:20PM from the if-then-statements dept. Today Wired published an opinion piece by software engineer Zeb Larson headlined "[82]ChatGPT Isn't Coming for Your Coding Job." Firing engineers and throwing AI at blocked feature development would probably result in disaster, followed by the rehiring of those engineers in short order. More reasonable suggestions show that large language models (LLMs) can replace some of the duller work of engineering. They can offer autocomplete suggestions or methods to sort data, if they're prompted correctly. As an engineer, I can imagine using an LLM to "rubber duck" a problem, giving it prompts for potential solutions that I can review. It wouldn't replace conferring with another engineer, because LLMs still don't understand the actual requirements of a feature or the interconnections within a code base, but it would speed up those conversations by getting rid of the busy work... [C]omputing history has already demonstrated that attempts to reduce the presence of developers or streamline their role only end up adding complexity to the work and making those workers even more necessary. If anything, ChatGPT stands to [83]eliminate the duller work of coding much the same way that compilers ended the drudgery of having to work in binary, which would make it easier for developers to focus more on building out the actual architecture of their creations... We've introduced more and more complexity to computers in the hopes of making them so simple that they don't need to be programmed at all. Unsurprisingly, throwing complexity at complexity has only made it worse, and we're no closer to letting managers cut out the software engineers. apply tags__________ 171844714 story [84]Transportation [85]'Uber Was Supposed to Help Traffic. It Didn't. Robotaxis Will Be Even Worse.' [86](sfchronicle.com) [87]126 Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday September 17, 2023 @07:20PM from the ride-shaming dept. Saturday the San Francisco Chronicle published a joint opinion piece from MIT professor Carlo Ratti (who directs an [88]MIT digital lab exploring the collection of digital data about urban life) and John Rossant (founder of the collaborative data-sharing platform CoMotion). Together they penned [89]a warning about a future filled with robotaxis. "Their convenience could seduce us into vastly overusing our cars. The result? An artificial-intelligence-powered nightmare of traffic, technically perfect but awful for our cities." Why do we believe this? Because it has already come to pass with ride-sharing. In the 2010s, the Senseable City Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where one of us serves as the director, was at the forefront of [90]using Big Data to study how ride-hailing and ride-sharing could make our streets cleaner and more efficient. The findings appeared to be astonishing: With minimal delays to passengers, we could match riders and [91]reduce the size of New York City taxi fleets by 40%. More people could get around in fewer cars for less money. We could reduce car ownership, and free up curbs and parking lots for new uses. This utopian vision was not only compelling but within reach. After publishing our results, we started the first collaboration between MIT and Uber to research a then-new product: Uber Pool (now rebranded UberX Share), a service that allows riders to share cars when heading to similar destinations for a lower cost. Alas, there is no such thing as a free lunch. Our research was technically right, but we had not taken into account changes in human behavior. Cars are more convenient and comfortable than walking, buses and subways — and that is why they are so popular. Make them even cheaper through ride-sharing and people are coaxed away from those other forms of transit. This dynamic became clear in the data a few years later: On average, ride-hailing trips generated far more traffic and [92]69% more carbon dioxide than the trips they displaced. We were proud of our contribution to ride-sharing but dismayed to see the results of a [93]2018 study that found that Uber Pool was so cheap it increased overall city travel: For every mile of personal driving it removed, it added 2.6 miles of people who otherwise would have taken another mode of transportation. As robotaxis are on the cusp of proliferating across the world, we are about to repeat the same mistake, but at a far greater scale... [W]e cannot let a shiny new piece of technology drive us into an epic traffic jam of our own making. The best way to make urban mobility accessible, efficient and green is not about new technologies — neither self-driving cars nor electric ones — but old ones. Buses, subways, bikes and our own two feet are cleaner, cheaper and more efficient than anything Silicon Valley has dreamt up... Autonomous technology could, for example, allow cities to offer more buses, shuttles and other forms of public transit around the clock. That's because the availability of on-demand AVs could assure "last-mile" connections between homes and transit stops. It could also be a godsend for older people and those with disabilities. However, any scale-up of AVs should be counterbalanced with investments in mass transit and improvements in walkability. Above all, we must put in place smart regulatory and tax regimes that allow all sustainable mobility modes — including autonomous services — to scale safely and intelligently. They should include, for example, congestion fees to discourage overuse of individual vehicles. apply tags__________ 171844066 story [94]Crime [95]Las Vegas Still Struggling to Recover from Last Sunday's Cyberattack [96](go.com) [97]37 Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday September 17, 2023 @05:18PM from the what-happens-in-Vegas dept. "Chaos and Concern in Sin City," read this morning's headline on [98]a video report from ABC News about "the massive cyberattack in Las Vegas crippling several hotels and casinos, and putting a damper on getaways for thousands of tourists there." "Today marks a week since that cyberattack hit Las Vegas, and MGM hotels and casinos are still working on getting systems back up and running.. The online reservation site for MGM is still down, ATMs not working, and those playing the slot machines or even video poker having to wait for attendants to pay them out in cash. All of this fiasco leading to long lines at check-in, and now a cyber investigation with the FBI... Other gaming resorts also having issues. Caesar's entertainment says they too were a victim of a cyberattack, but their online operations were not impacted. Then this weekend at the Venetian, an outage shutting down some slots, but the resort says they're back up, and that at least thankfully was not due to a cyber attack. They report MGM properties were affected as far away as Atlantic City, New Jersey. apply tags__________ 171843802 story [99]Power [100]Lithium in Extinct US Volcano - More Smoke Than Fire? [101](bloomberg.com) [102]26 Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday September 17, 2023 @04:08PM from the power-supplies dept. On August 30th a scientific paper discussed [103]lithium in an extinct volcano in the western United States. But would it also increase supplies of a crucial battery-making ingredient? "[104]The mining industry is seldom that simple," argues Bloomberg's Energy Digest newsletter: The discovery of new deposits — be it the giant Simandou iron ore mine in Guinea or diamonds in Canada's Northwest Territories — rarely turns an industry on its head, and certainly not quickly. For lithium, that's likely to be especially true. Unlike cobalt and nickel, lithium isn't geologically scarce when it comes to [105]economically viable deposits. And while there are short-term bottlenecks as the mining world reacts to a sudden spike in demand, few see long-term [106]shortages. In fact, the supply outlook is so compelling that all but one of the biggest miners — Rio Tinto Group, which accidentally stumbled across a big deposit — decided it's not an industry they want to be in. Instead, much of the focus is on processing and refining the element into a grade suitable for batteries. "The news is a reminder that lithium isn't rare, but producing battery-grade quantities at scale is the true challenge," said Chris Berry, president of House Mountain Partners, an industry consultant. apply tags__________ 171843424 story [107]Displays [108]Amid Unity Pricing Controversy, Is Epic Games Eying 'Unreal Engine' Integration for Apple's Vision Pro? [109](substack.com) [110]19 Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday September 17, 2023 @02:34PM from the dissing-Unity dept. The VR blog Nifty Sparks made an interesting discovery: In a strategic move that could reshape the gaming industry, Epic Games, the creator of the widely-used Unreal Engine, is reportedly considering native integration with Apple's forthcoming Vision Pro. The mixed-reality headset, slated for a 2024 release, could greatly benefit from this integration, but the timing of this development is particularly noteworthy, as it comes amidst ongoing legal disputes between Apple and Epic Games and a recent controversy surrounding changes to Unity's pricing structure. Victor Lerp, Unreal Engine XR Product Specialist at Epic Games, has indicated that the company is actively exploring native support for Apple Vision Pro. In Unreal Engine's developer forums, Lerp turned up in a thread titled "Support for Apple Vision Pro in Unreal ??" Someone had posted "Please tell me there is support coming?" and [111]in June Lerp had first responded "We don't have any information to share at the moment, but stay tuned for the future." But four days ago, Lerp [112]returned to the thread with an update. "Internally we're exploring native Unreal Engine support for Apple Vision Pro, but it's too early for us to share details on the extent of support or timeline. We have access to the public SDK's like everyone else, and there's nothing fundamentally stopping us, or you, from developing support, or shipping Apple Vision Pro applications with Unreal Engine." The VR blog notes that this follows Unreal Engine 5.2's native support for Apple Silicon Macs. And "meanwhile, Unity's recent pricing changes have led some developers to consider alternatives like UE and [113]Godot." Thanks to Slashdot reader [114]NiftySparks for sharing the article. apply tags__________ 171842944 story [115]Electronic Frontier Foundation [116]'Public Resource' Wins 2012 Case. Judge Rules Posting Regulations Online is Fair Use [117](abajournal.com) [118]58 Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday September 17, 2023 @01:34PM from the copying-rights dept. From [119]an EFF announcement this week: Technical standards like fire and electrical codes developed by private organizations but incorporated into public law can be freely disseminated without any liability for copyright infringement, a federal appeals court [120]ruled Tuesday. The judge ruled that posting the materials constituted fair use — so the nonprofit group doing the posting won't be liable for copyright infringement. The American Bar Association Journal reports: The decision is a victory for public-domain advocate Carl Malamud and the group that he founded, [121]Public.Resource.org. The group posts legal materials on its websites, including the standards developed by the three organizations that sued... "It has been [122]over 10 years since plaintiffs filed suit in this case," said Malamud in a press release by the Electronic Frontier Foundation. "The U.S. Court of Appeals has found decisively in favor of the proposition that citizens must not be relegated to economy-class access to the law." In 2012 Carl Malamud [123]answered questions from Slashdot readers. And now, finally, from the EFF's announcement: Tuesday's ruling by a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upholds the idea that our laws belong to all of us, and we should be able to find, read, and share them free of registration requirements, fees, and other roadblocks... "In a nation governed by the rule of law, private parties have no business controlling who can read, share, and speak the rules to which we are all subject," EFF Legal Director Corynne McSherry said. "We are pleased that the Court of Appeals upheld what other U.S. courts, including the Supreme Court, have said for almost 200 years: No one should control access to the law." Or, as the EFF puts it [124]on another page, "Copyright cannot trump the essential public interest..." Thanks to long-time Slashdot reader [125]schwit1 for sharing the news. apply tags__________ 171840668 story [126]Transportation [127]What Happens When You Cross a Gas Turbine With an Internal Combustion Engine? [128](topspeed.com) [129]128 Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday September 17, 2023 @12:34PM from the engines-of-progress dept. "Here is another radical replacement for the traditional combustion engine," writes long-time Slashdot reader [130]Inzkeeper. "Check out the [131]Astron Aerospace H2 Starfire Omega 1... an ICE engine with a turbine configuration." The company "is claiming that it is a viable alternative to EVs," [132]reports TopSpeed: Astron have showcased a 3D rendering of their engine which helps to understand this extremely complicated new powerplant in all of its glory. They also showed a functioning prototype which gives us a glimpse into how the engine could potentially function... The company claims that it [133]weighs an absolutely mind-boggling 35 pounds yet produces horsepower in the region of 160 and about 170 pound-feet of torque. These are insane figures. The Omega 1 boasts an alleged 60 percent efficiency, which is absurd if true given that piston engines rarely ever top 40 percent efficiency. On top of this, Omega 1 can run on any kind of combustible fuel, meaning that hydrogen could easily be used to reduce emissions so close to zero that it's negligible. HotCars adds that "According to Astron Aerospace, the [134]engine idles at 1,000 rpm and redlines at an incredible 25,000 rpm — much higher than all the other rotaries we've seen. This is thanks to the circular movement, rather than the epitrochoidal movement used for Reuleaux triangle rotaries." The awesome thing about this engine is that it is stackable, meaning two of them will make 320 hp and 340 lb-ft, three will produce 480 hp and 510 lb-ft, etc... Astron Aerospace also stated that due to the design, the engine is easily scalable for other applications — for instance, marine engines. According to them and one of their renders, a larger version can easily reach 4,500 hp... [I]t is not only more efficient than the equivalent piston engine — 80% compared to a mere 34% — but the engine is also much smaller and lighter. This translates to better fuel economy and a lighter overall vehicle. The [135]engine is air-cooled as well, which means there aren't any additional radiators or other cooling systems needed to keep the engine working. Air-cooled may sound a bit old-fashioned, but in this case, it simplifies the whole package. The maintenance on such an engine would also be minimal, with Astron Aerospace claiming 60,000 miles further usage over a typical piston engine before maintenance is required. The disadvantage of this engine is that it hasn't yet been thoroughly tested in real-world conditions. Astron Aerospace has patented the engine and has a working prototype but has found no investors to begin mass testing and production. The engine needs to be worked hard to flesh out any potential weak points and new materials need to be used to cope with the internal stresses and wear. apply tags__________ 171839298 story [136]Social Networks [137]WordPress Blogs Can Now Be Followed in the Fediverse, Including Mastodon [138](techcrunch.com) [139]21 Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday September 17, 2023 @11:34AM from the collating-comments dept. An anonymous reader shared [140]this report from TechCrunch: In March, WordPress.com owner Automattic made a commitment to the fediverse — the decentralized social networks that include the Twitter rival Mastodon and others — with the [141]acquisition of an ActivityPub plug-in that allows WordPress blogs to reach readers on other federated platforms. Now, the company is [142]announcing ActivityPub 1.0.0 for WordPress has been released allowing WordPress blogs to be followed by others on apps like Mastodon and others in the fediverse and then receive replies back as comments on their own sites. Since the acquisition, the company has improved on the original software in a number of ways, including by now allowing the ability to add blog-wide catchall accounts instead of only per-author. It also introduced the ability to add a "follow me" block to help visitors follow your profile and a "followers" block to show off your followers, noted Automattic design engineer Matt Wiebe, in [143]a post on X... For the time being, the software supports self-hosted WordPress blogs, but Wiebe teased that support for WordPress.com blogs was "coming soon." Last year Automattic's CEO Matt Mullenweg announced Tumblr would [144]add support for ActivityPub, the article adds. "But more recently, Mullenweg told us he's been investigating not only ActivityPub, but also other protocols like Nostr and Bluesky's AT Protocol." apply tags__________ 171835144 story [145]Government [146]US Energy Department Unveils Interactive Map Showing New Clean Energy Investments [147](energy.gov) [148]15 Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday September 17, 2023 @10:34AM from the going-green dept. Long-time Slashdot reader [149]destinyland writes: Thursday America's Energy Department [150]released an interactive map showing America's clean energy investments, "for tracking the industrial revitalization happening across the country, [151]fostered by a clean energy transition..." The map aims to show how both the 2021 Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act "are leading to announcements of historic levels of private sector investments in the United States," which the head of America's Energy Department credited for "a manufacturing renaissance across the U.S." A senior White House energy advisor specifically described it as "a clean energy boom" and called the map "a great resource for understanding the widespread and important impact this boom is having on communities all across our nation." The announcement notes 500 "planned investments in at least 450 new or expanded clean energy manufacturing facilities, totaling over $160 billion in announced private and public sector investments" in solar, battery, and offshore wind manufacturing projects — as well as in electric vehicle assembly, components, and chargers. Ford received over $12 billion for battery pack/cell projects and EV assembly, along with billions more for Ford's joint venture with BlueOval SK to [152]build a battery plant. And six of the projects are Tesla — totalling over $2 billion for projects in battery materials, cells, packs, and EV assembly. apply tags__________ 171840780 story [153]Linux [154]Ask Slashdot: What's the Best Linux Resource for a Retired Windows User? [155]123 Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday September 17, 2023 @07:34AM from the learning-Linux dept. Slashdot reader [156]Leading Edge Boomer wants to help "a retired friend whose personal computing has always been with Windows." But recently, they were gifted a laptop that's running "some version of Linux..." Probably he's not even aware that there are different distributions for different purposes. He seems open to learning about this different world. What recommendations might Slashdot readers have to bring him up to speed as a competent Linux user? I really don't want to hold his hand, and he's smart enough to learn on his own. "Mint is the answer," argues long-time Slashdot reader [157]denisbergeron. "First make him use Mint, because it's easy and there a lot of documentation and the community is very strong." But long-time Slashdot reader [158]spaceman375 thinks they can solve the problem with just three letters. "Show him the man command. When he feels confident, or breaks it pretty hard, then I'd agree — install mint and go from there. But start with man." Is that it? Is it as simple as that? Share your own thoughts and opinions in the comments — along with your learning tools for beginners. What's the best Linux resource for a retired Windows user? apply tags__________ 171840298 story [159]Space [160]Avi Loeb Says Meteor Analysis Shows It Originated Outside Our Solar System [161](usatoday.com) [162]74 Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday September 17, 2023 @03:34AM from the strange-new-worlds dept. In late August the blog of Harvard professor Avi Loeb declared he had "[163]Wonderful news! For the first time in history, scientists analyzed materials from a meter-size object that originated from outside the solar system." In July Loeb [164]retrieved parts of a meteor that landed in the waters off of Papua, New Guinea in 2014. A local New York newscast describes the find as "[165]metallic marbles, less than a millimeter in diameter," while Loeb called them "beautiful spheres that were colored — blue, brown or gold." Now [166]USA Today reports: Early analysis shows that some spherules from the meteor path contain "extremely high abundances" of an unheard-of composition of heavy elements. Researchers on the team say the composition of beryllium, lanthanum and uranium, labeled as a "BeLaU" composition, does not match terrestrial alloys natural to Earth or fallout from nuclear explosions. Additionally, the composition is not found in magma oceans of Earth, nor the moon, Mars or other natural bodies in the solar system. Other elements are thought to have been lost by evaporation during IM1's passage through the Earth's atmosphere, researchers said, leading them to theorize that the spherules could originate in a magma ocean on an exoplanet with an iron core outside the solar system. Long-time Slashdot reader [167]Okian Warrior writes that "Technical details can be found [168]here, and a readable accounting of the analysis and results can be found on [169]Avi Loeb's blog." Loeb writes that the exact composition of those spheres are now being studied at three separate laboratories, including one at Harvard. In July the New York Times [170]published reactions to Loeb's claim that "It's most likely a technological gadget with artificial intelligence." "People are sick of hearing about Avi Loeb's wild claims," said Steve Desch, an astrophysicist at Arizona State University. "It's polluting good science — conflating the good science we do with this ridiculous sensationalism and sucking all the oxygen out of the room." Dr. Desch added that several of his colleagues were now refusing to engage with Dr. Loeb's work in peer review, the process by which scholars evaluate one another's research to ensure that only high-quality studies are published... "What the public is seeing in Loeb is not how science works. And they shouldn't go away thinking that." Last week Salon [171]also had a few questions for Loeb: In your book, you called Carl Sagan's adage that "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence" a "logical fallacy." How and why do you think that statement is somewhat flawed or a logical fallacy? It's used as an excuse for people who don't want to deal with an exciting possibility. They don't seek the evidence and they argue, "Well, we don't have any evidence...." If or when we encounter extraterrestrial life, do you think we'll find it or it will find us? Why? I think we will find it near us because most stars [formed] billions of years before the sun, so it's more likely that some other civilizations preceded us because their star, if it's like the sun, already went through what we in the future might go through. We just need to be humble and modest, not assume that we are unique and special — that [172]Albert Einstein was the smartest scientist who ever lived since the Big Bang — and engage in the search. That's what I'm trying to do, and the pushback is really strange under these circumstances because the people who argue against it have very strong opinions. But if you look at the history of science, they were very often wrong: the people [who] thought that the earth was the center of the universe, for example. From Loeb's blog post: During my routine jog at sunrise on the deck of Silver Star, I was asked: "Are you running away from something or towards something?" My answer was: "Both. I am running away from colleagues who have strong opinions without seeking evidence, and I am running towards a higher intelligence in interstellar space." apply tags__________ [173]« Newer [174]Older » Slashdot Top Deals Slashdot Top Deals [175]Slashdot Deals Slashdot Poll What's your favorite machine to play games on? (*) Xbox ( ) PlayStation ( ) Nintendo ( ) PC ( ) Smartphone (BUTTON) vote now [176]Read the 86 comments | 16471 votes Looks like someone has already voted from this IP. 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