…is wondering where the rest went (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) By the beginning of the 21st Century, humanity was finally starting to get a grasp on its old cohort deoxyribonucleic acid. Everywhere life had been, DNA stayed behind. It produced residues in microscopic pockets, it left bits in the roots of continents, it was subducted under oceans and was blown to the moon by…
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St. Remedius Medical College: "Junk In the Goldilocks Zone"
The Problems With Tracking Space Junk When It May Not Be Junk (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) Space around and near Earth is a crowded place. By most estimates, some 2000 active human satellites orbit the planet, with an additional 3000 defunct ones, and approximately 34,000 pieces of artificial space junk larger than 10 centimeters floating between Earth and its moon. When counting incipient meteors,…
Backstories: "One Giant Leap" (2020)
Plant: Nepenthees bicalcarata (Who was St. Remedius? And why is a medical college named after him?) This is an excerpt from the transcription of the Technical Air-to-Ground Voice Transmission (GOSS NET 1) from the Apollo 11 mission. Communicators in the text may be identified according to the following list. A series of three dots (…) is used to designate those portions of the communications that could not be transcribed because of garbling. One…