Starship Asterisk*

Fabulous! Given that this video is posted in the context of a great many more conventional astronomy pictures and videos that not only meet our expectations but often exceed them, I'm for it. It's a matter of perspective, isn't it... Would we object to APOD posting a video of rhythmically moving ali...

"Not scientifically puzzling..." "a mundane solution..." Your descriptions seem to be getting a bit loose. I'm surprised to hear that offering a hypothesis without confirming data is sufficient to answer a scientific question. To quote the last line of Paul Messina's 1998 dissert...