Newsletter #20
Discover the Earth from a cosmic perspective
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The r/DiscoverEarth subreddit has grown to 14,000 people!!! 🎉🎉🎉
We’ve also made major upgrades to our Discord. We’re now doing:
🎦 Community livestreams (movies, docos, or just our daily lives),
👾 Multiplayer games, and
🎧 Music listening parties!
See you in there!
Harvard University is ending its investments in fossil fuels. This is a direct divestment of up to $40 billion, plus its name as the world’s flagship university will encourage others to divest too. In the long term, this will limit the capital available to oil, gas & coal companies. A major win for climate activism. 🔗 Link
NASA has decided to upgrade its Deep Space Network, which will improve communication to the robot probes we’ve been sending out across the solar system. 🔗 Link
Fossil trees as tall as modern-day redwoods have been found in northern Thailand
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Muscle tissue through an electron microscope.
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Platypus being re-introduced into Royal National Park after being absent for 50+yrs
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How our solar system moves in space relative to the galactic center
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