new almost science

[twoeleven]

a bunch of folks with the USGS claim to have evidence for early human habitation of what's now california. this is apparently an improvement over their previous claim about that. but it appears to be press-release science, not even a poster at a conference, much less a peer-reviewed paper with publically-accessible raw data (the current gold standard).

nevertheless,

i rather like it because it clearly depicts which strata had evidence for people and what animals:



dating the strata is another matter altogether.


also in the new science imagery department, osiris-rex launches an escape pod ejects its sample return capsule:



the glare at the top is the sun, and the limb of the earth is just visible at the left.

Comments

[corvi]

Oo, that is a nice visualization.