Why not avoid the inconvenience of people writing “nazi monument” on your nazi monument by not building a nazi monument?
This is actually a big issue in Canada. Not only did we bring loads of Nazis over after WWII in order to break up unions, but our Deputy PM, Chrystia Freeland, is the granddaughter of a Ukrainian Nazi propagandist and a huge supporter not only of these memorials, but also the “victims of Communism” memorial going up in Ottawa. A “memorial” that’s funded in large part by neo-Nazis and other far-right groups in Canada.
There’s one in Oakville too and a monument to Roman Shukhevych in Edmonton too.
This isn’t just a Canada thing as well of course. Here is a monument to the Nazi-aligned “Russian Liberation” army in New York
While the first exoplanets—planets beyond our solar system—were discovered using ground-based telescopes, the view was blurry at best. Clouds, moisture, and jittering air molecules all got in the way, limiting what we could learn about these distant worlds.
A superhero team of space telescopes has been working tirelessly to discover exoplanets and unveil their secrets. Now, a new superhero has joined the team—the James Webb Space Telescope. What will it find? Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
To capture finer details—detecting atmospheres on small, rocky planets like Earth, for instance, to seek potential signs of habitability—astronomers knew they needed what we might call “superhero” space telescopes, each with its own special power to explore our universe. Over the past few decades, a team of now-legendary space telescopes answered the call: Hubble, Chandra, Spitzer, Kepler, and TESS.
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Much like scientists, space telescopes don’t work alone. Hubble observes in visible light—with some special features (superpowers?)—Chandra has X-ray vision, and TESS discovers planets by looking for tiny dips in the brightness of stars.
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Kepler and Spitzer are now retired, but we’re still making discoveries in the space telescopes’ data. Legends! All were used to tell us more about exoplanets. Spitzer saw beyond visible light into the infrared and was able to make exoplanet weather maps! Kepler discovered more than 3,000 exoplanets.
Three space telescopes studied one fascinating planet and told us different things. Hubble found that the atmosphere of HD 189733 b is a deep blue. Spitzer estimated its temperature at 1,700 degrees Fahrenheit (935 degrees Celsius). Chandra, measuring the planet’s transit using X-rays from its star, showed that the gas giant’s atmosphere is distended by evaporation.
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Adding the James Webb Space Telescope to the superhero team will make our science stronger. Its infrared views in increased ranges will make the previously unseen visible.
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Soon, Webb will usher in a new era in understanding exoplanets. What will Webb discover when it studies HD 189733 b? We can’t wait to find out! Super, indeed.
When we consider the resources deployed to achieve the cultural alienation so typical of the colonial period, we realize that nothing was left to chance and that the final aim of colonization was to convince the indigenous population it would save them from darkness. The result was to hammer into the heads of the indigenous population that if the colonist were to leave they would regress into barbarism, degradation, and bestiality.
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Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth (via philosophybits)
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