Just as certain computer scientists and engineers dream of doing better garbage collection in computers (for a dream come true, see Microsoft’s “Fundamentals of Garbage Collection“), scientists and engineers at Ecole Polytechnique de Lausanne dream of doing better garbage collection in space. Dead satellites. Detritus from collisions between now-dead satellites and whatever slammed into them. Junk that […]
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What’s worth looking at (science, etc.)
There is a metaphor here, in this short (0:01:33) video, about how people decide what’s worth looking at: The filmmaker is named Malik. (HT @almuraisy)