Karan Jani

Although Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar himself had to contend with hostile referees in his early days, when he assumed a position of authority - as an Editor of the Astrophysical Journal - he used his power with generosity. A very well known story (see link in thread below) concerns Eugene Parker's prediction of the existence of the solar plasma wind. Referees ridiculed and rejected the paper; Parker appealed to Chandra, who, not finding any technical mistake in the work, overruled the referee and had the paper published. Within a few years of the theoretical prediction, the first satellites discovered the existence of the solar wind. Today NASA has a US$1.5 billion space mission named "Parker Probe" that is exploring the solar wind to understand it's origins, evolution and impact on Earth. There is something personal for me at the end of this story separated by three decades. Prof. Eugene Parker was the external thesis examiner for my PhD thesis "Modeling the Sun's Magnetic Cycle". He sent in his review neatly typed, a copy of which is one of my most cherished collections.

When they were orbiting the moon, the Apollo 11 astronauts saw a strange cylinder-shaped object fly by them. From today's DOD release.

Yann LeCun says there is no such thing as general intelligence Human intelligence is super-specialized for the physical world, and our feeling of generality is an illusion We only seem general because we can't imagine the problems we're blind to "the concept is complete BS"

🎥 Here is a 7-hour time-lapse at the start of drilling the first hole for the IceCube Upgrade. This comes almost exactly 15 years after drilling for the 86th hole of IceCube was finished on December 18, 2010! 🤯 🎥 Jennifer Wang and Vedant Basu, IceCube/NSF

The Blue Moon MK1 flight vehicle that will land near Shackleton crater. We’ll soon be doing fully integrated checkout tests. At over 26 feet tall (8 meters), it’s smaller than our MK2 human lander but larger than the historic Apollo lander.

I’m not sharing this as the CEO of Eternal, but as a fellow human, curious enough to follow a strange thread. A thread I can’t keep with myself any longer. It’s open-source, backed by science, and shared with you as part of our common quest for scientific progress on human longevity. Newton gave us a word for it. Einstein said it bends spacetime. I am saying gravity shortens lifespan.  Read on, and tell me what you think.