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#ndwgoecountdown Exoplaneten – Entdeckung von Planeten um ferne Sterne
Tausende Planeten, die um ferne Sterne kreisen, sind bisher bekannt. Doch wie entdeckt man einen Planeten, der viele Lichtjahre von uns entfernt ist? Im Mitmachexperiment erläutern Forscher*innen eine der gängigsten Methoden und berichten von der künftigen Weltraummission PLATO und ihrer Suche nach erdähnli…

"The ship of fools, is an allegory, first appearing in Book VI of Plato's Republic, about a ship with a dysfunctional crew. The allegory is intended to represent the problems of governance prevailing in a political system not based on expert knowledge. "
#redux #Plato

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Writing has been an instrument for some of the highest expressions of the human spirit: poetry, philosophy, science. But to understand it — why it came into being, how it changed the human experience — we have to first appreciate its crass practicality. It evolved mainly as an instrument of the mundane: the economic, the administrative, the political.
Confusion over this point is understandable. Some scholars have equated the origin of “civilization” with the origin of writing. Laypeople sometimes take this equation to mean that with writing humanity put aside its barbarous past and started behaving in gentlemanly fashion, sipping tea and remembering to say “please.” And indeed, this may be only a mild caricature of what some nineteenth-century scholars actually meant by the equation: writing equals Greece equals Plato; illiteracy equals barbarism equals Attila the Hun.
But, in truth, if you add literacy to Attila the Hun, you don’t get Plato. You get Genghis Khan. During the thirteenth century, he administered what even today is the largest continuous land empire in the history of the world. And he could do so only because he had the requisite means of control: a script that, when carried by his pony express, amounted to the fastest large-scale information-processing technology of his era. One consequence was to give pillaging a scope beyond Attila’s wildest dreams. Information technology, like energy technology or any other technology, can be a tool for good or bad. By itself, it is no guarantor of moral progress or civility.
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(Robert Wright, Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny)

Ernst #Bloch - Konkrete Utopie in der Jetztwelt
".... the very desire to transcend the status quo supports the idea that the world is pregnant with unrealized possibilities (Bloch 1988: 16)"
1988, The Utopian Function of Art and Literature: Selected Essays, Jack Zipes and Frank Mecklenburg (trans.), Cambridge, MA: MIT Press

Exoplanet exploration in the context of the PLATO mission: From detection to population studies
Amadeo Castro-Gonz\'alez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19898

Exoplanet exploration in the context of the PLATO mission: From detection to population studies
This thesis constitutes an observational effort to advance our understanding of planet formation and evolution across different regimes. To do so, we exploited Kepler/K2 and TESS data in combination with ground-based observations, serving as a preparation for the PLATO mission. This endeavour led to the discovery and statistical validation of four planets, the confirmation and characterisation of two other planets, the detection of 14 new planet candidates, and the revision of the properties of…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
Leonard Bernstein, Jaap van Zweden, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra & Riccardo Chailly:
🎵 Serenade after Plato's 'Symposium'
#LeonardBernstein #JaapvanZweden #RoyalConcertgebouwOrchestra #RiccardoChailly

38ºC de mšxima, índice ultravioleta 11 (que dicen que es extremadamente alto). Dan unas ganas de aprotarse un plato de judiones bien calentitos...

#ndwgoecountdown Vortrag – Die Entdeckung von Planeten um ferne Sterne mit der PLATO-Mission
Neben den acht Planeten unseres Sonnensystems wurden um andere Sterne bereits über 5800 Planeten entdeckt. Am MPS bereiten wir in Zusammenarbeit u.a. mit der ESA die Weltraummission PLATO vor. Mit PLATO werden wir bald tausende neuer Exoplaneten entdecken.