Recent content by Casual Observer

  1. Casual Observer

    Hubble image reveals the mighty baby stars that will probably destroy the 'Pillars of Creation'

    Voyager 2 is about 17 billion kilos away and has left the solar system. So solar system is about 34 billion kilos across. A light year is approx. 9 trillion kilos so the solar system is just less than .5% of a light year across.
  2. Casual Observer

    Pablo Escobar's 'cocaine hippos' may be helping river ecosystems in Colombia

    Don’t you think it is irresponsible to introduce foreign fauna to an ecosystem and displace its current residents? I don’t see what is confounding about that. And what do the fauna of the region have to do with human cocaine use?
  3. Casual Observer

    Pablo Escobar's 'cocaine hippos' may be helping river ecosystems in Colombia

    The article`s authors are enthusiastic about the hippos returning the ecosystem to a past state but I imagine that the current residents that are being displaced are not so sanguine about it.