Dr. Carl Sagan may be gone but I’m grateful for his many successors (Plait, Tyson-DeGrasse) who excel at explaining recent finding because the SCLM is filled with reporters who got C- in Science classes. WSJ went with a guy who earned an F, then again, why does the Right Wing Noise Machine always counter Science with Economics and (at best) Pseudo Science?
Last week the whole FTL/Neutrino matter was brought up again in The Guardian. One source of error was removed so some people were probably planning how to buy real estate on other planets. My understanding isn’t much better than the average college graduate yet I knew that we’re not close to any breakthrough like the fictional scientist Zefram Cochrane made.
Thumbs up to Dr. Plait’s explanation here.