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April 1 paper 2.

2. Do Papers with Titles Ending in a Question Mark Usually Have the Answer “No”?

With almost clock-like precision, astronomers post approx one paper per day to the arXiv with a title ending in a question mark.

This begs several questions:
Why do they do this? What’s the purpose? What hidden parameters drive the variations in the frequency?
🤔

https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.29936
2/n

accidentally shot an album cover today
nearly thirty years ago i saw a guy stand up in an all hands staff meeting, declare "this is stupid", walk out and never come back, and friends, there's not a single day of 2026 I haven't thought of him

Last November the ESA JUICE Spacecraft captured the interstellar comet 3I/Atlas shortly after its closest approach to the sun.

Here is my reprocessed version of the Juice NavCam images from this encounter. For this animation I removed the static noise and aligned the images to the nucleus.

Credit: ESA/Juice/NavCam
Processing: Simeon Schmauß CC-BY-SA

#esa #space #comet #3IAtlas

"programming as theory building", peter naur, 1985
Sums up my experience growing up
ok, I admit it. I trained AI!
And I just love bullet point lists!