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Tech Talk Weekly Number 189


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Episode Number 189 – July 11th 2024 – Is it

something we don’t understand or just aliens? What’s colder than ice cold?
Well, this quantum detector. Would you spend a year in solitude to pretend you’re
on Mars? How much can our fingernails feel? We’ll give a quick update on the
Starliner that is still docked at the International Space Station.

Links to this week’s stories:

Is it something we don't

understand or is it just Aliens?

 

https://www.iflscience.com/could-dyson-spheres-be-the-universes-missing-mass-74978

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXZHq0XaGUQ

 

What’s colder than ice cold? Well, this quantum detector.

https://interestingengineering.com/science/worlds-coldest-quantum-detector-uk

 

Would you spend a year in solitude pretending to be on Mars?

https://www.npr.org/2024/07/07/nx-s1-5032120/nasa-mars-simulation-volunteers-year#:~:text=Hourly%20News-,Volunteers%20who%20lived%20in%20a%20NASA%2Dcreated%20Mars%20replica%20for,living%20on%20the%20Red%20Planet.

 

https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/volunteer-crew-to-exit-nasas-simulated-mars-habitat-after-378-days/

 

 

How much can our fingernails feel?

https://www.sciencealert.com/your-fingernails-have-unexpectedly-precise-sensory-capabilities

 

Also a brief update on Starliner:

https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-boeing-provide-next-update-on-space-station-crew-flight-test/

 

https://www.broward.org/library/Pages/Summer.aspx⁠

 

⁠https://issuu.com/browardcountylibrary/docs/summer_magazine_2024?fr=xKAE9_zU1NQ⁠

 

⁠https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/2M3VXCR⁠ 

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