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Congratulations! You’ve successfully avoided YouTube Shorts.

It is a well-known fact that the moment YouTube goes down, the collective productivity of Earth increases by approximately 4,000%, which is immediately squandered by everyone going to Hacker News to read comments about YouTube being down. I myself have taken to podcasts… an ancient medium in which people simply talk at you for ninety minutes without a single sponsorship for a mobile game, and this is considered a failure

This is really lovely work! Simple to use, surprisingly solid, and just a pleasure to poke around with. The fact it runs in the browser is a bit of magic on its own.

One idea for later might be a few preset systems, such as Alpha Centauri or other known three-body systems. It would give people a quick way to drop into something real before they start making chaos of their own.

Anyway, cracking project.

Initially read the headline and thinking it would be about a certain TV show about Silicon Valley. Not disappointed

The detection of a potential giant planet in the habitable zone of Alpha Centauri A is compelling, not because we could live on the planet (likely a gas giant), but because it could host moons with the right conditions for life. If even one of those moons is Earth-sized and water-rich, it might be our nearest shot at finding another habitable world.

Still, getting there with something like David Kipping’s proposed TARS propulsion system (a solar-powered launcher that can fling tiny probes at ~40 km/s) we’d be looking at 30,000+ years to reach the star system. It’s a step forward, but for now, our best hope is to keep watching. Until someone develops fusion propulsion…

What you’re describing is Bayesian inference in action. Given how rare big interstellar comets should be, and how common small ones should be, the lack of detections makes the big-comet hypothesis incredibly unlikely. So we update our beliefs: it’s probably small. Space statistics at work

Cutting 20% from NASA isn’t just a loss of jobs, it’s a loss of momentum, morale, and institutional knowledge built over decades. We need more long-term vision, not less. NASA’s not just about space, it’s about pushing boundaries, educating future generations, and reminding us what’s possible when we aim higher together.