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Nerds Amalgamated
That's Not Canon Productions
2020 Year Review
56 minutes Posted Jan 6, 2021 at 10:38 am.
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This week we offered remembrance to all the victims of COVID-19. Rather than the 500 000 we quoted, there are more than 1.8 million COVID deaths.
It's early days for 2021, and things seem to be going well. So far. I'll try not to jinx us.
So we're taking a chill week to talk about some of the most significant things that happened last year.
This week DJ watched a retro anime and Professor was pleasantly surprised by the Doctor Who special.
2020 in Science
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_in_science
2020 in Movies/Anime & Comics
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_in_film
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_in_anime
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_in_comics
2020 in Games
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_in_video_games
Nerdful things
DJ
– Fist of the North Star - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fist_of_the_North_Star
Rating: 5/5
Professor
- Revolution of the Daleks - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolution_of_the_Daleks
Rating: 3.5/5
Other topics discussed
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) (a contagious disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The first case was identified in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. It has since spread worldwide, leading to an ongoing pandemic.)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronavirus_disease_2019
Understanding mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines
- https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/different-vaccines/mrna.html
How mRNA vaccines work, and how they might protect us from the flu and other diseases
- https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2020-11-22/mrna-vaccines-covid-19-pfizer-moderna-influenza-emerging-disease/12891308
SpaceX Crew-1 (the first operational crewed flight of a Crew Dragon spacecraft.)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Crew-1
International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) (a United States regulatory regime to restrict and control the export of defense and military related technologies to safeguard U.S. national security and further U.S. foreign policy objectives.)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Traffic_in_Arms_Regulations
Arecibo Observatory (Arecibo Observatory, also known as the National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center (NAIC), is an observatory in Arecibo, Puerto Rico owned by the US National Science Foundation (NSF).)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arecibo_Observatory
Gut-wrenching footage documents Arecibo telescope’s collapse
- https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03421-y
Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope ((FAST; Chinese: 五百米口径球面射电望远镜), nicknamed Tianyan (天眼, lit. "Sky/Heaven Eye"), is a radio telescope located in the Dawodang depression (大窝凼洼地), a natural basin in Pingtang County, Guizhou, southwest China.)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five-hundred-meter_Aperture_Spherical_Telescope
SETI@home (an Internet-based public volunteer computing project employing the BOINC software platform created by the Berkeley SETI Research Center and is hosted by the Space Sciences Laboratory, at the University of California, Berkeley.)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SETI@home
Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) (an open-source middleware system for volunteer computing and grid computing.)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Open_Infrastructure_for_Network_Computing
Potential signs of life on Venus are fading as astronomers downgrade their original claims
- https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/11/potential-signs-life-venus-are-fading-astronomers-downgrade-their-original-claims
Hayabusa (a robotic spacecraft developed by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) to return a sample of material from a small near-Earth asteroid named 25143 Itokawa to Earth for further analysis.)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayabusa
Hayabusa2 (an asteroid sample-return mission operated by the Japanese state space agency JAXA. Hayabusa2 was launched on 3 December 2014 and rendezvoused in space with near-Earth asteroid 162173 Ry...