Mon. 07/11 - Sailing Without a Map, or Compass, or Anything
Could an MIT idea to ease the climate crisis by blowing up giant sun-blocking bubbles in space actually work? Plus, the Polynesian voyagers who are reviving ancient seafaring techniques and traversing thousands of miles across the ocean without maps or modern technology. And a cool little interactive Easter egg from the latest season of Stranger Things.
Could an MIT idea to ease the climate crisis by blowing up giant sun-blocking bubbles in space actually work? Plus, the Polynesian voyagers who are reviving ancient seafaring techniques and traversing thousands of miles across the ocean without maps or modern technology. And a cool little interactive Easter egg from the latest season of Stranger Things.
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Links:
- MIT Scientists Suggest Wild Plan to Ease Climate Change: Space Bubbles (ScienceAlert)
- Space Bubbles (MIT Senseable City Lab)
- Climate change: MIT proposes using a space bubble shield the size of Brazil to cool the Earth (Interesting Engineering)
- MIT Scientists Propose Space Bubbles to Reverse the Worst of Climate Change (Gizmodo)
- This woman navigated a 3,000-mile Pacific voyage without maps or technology (National Geographic)
- Polynesia's master voyagers who navigate by nature (BBC)
- “Stranger Things” Has a Surprise for Fans That Call the Surfer Boy Pizza Number (Teen Vogue)
- Where to Buy Stranger Things' Surfer Boy Pizza (Pop Sugar)
- NASA Is About to Unveil The Deepest View of The Universe Ever – A Day Ahead of Schedule (ScienceAlert)
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