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TECH ESPAÇO
A NASA fará história em 24 de dezembro de 2024, quando a sonda Parker Solar Probe passar a apenas 6,1 milhões de quilômetros da superfície do Sol. A sonda será a primeira a chegar tão perto da estrela central do Sistema Solar.
“Estamos basicamente a pousar numa estrela”, disse Nour Raouafi, um dos responsáveis pelo projeto, em entrevista à BBC. “Esta será uma conquista monumental para toda a humanidade. É equivalente a termos pousado na Lua em 1969”.
A agência espacial norte-americana estima que a Parker Solar Probe passe pelo Sol a uma velocidade de 195 quilômetros por segundo. A sonda terá a oportunidade não só de estudar a atmosfera solar, mas também de captar fotografias da superfície.
A Parker Solar Probe foi lançada em 2018 e está em uma órbita polar que a leva cada vez mais perto do Sol. A sonda foi equipada com uma série de instrumentos científicos que permitirão aos cientistas estudar a atmosfera solar em detalhes nunca antes vistos.
A passagem da Parker Solar Probe pelo Sol será uma oportunidade única para a ciência. Os dados coletados pela sonda ajudarão os cientistas a entender melhor como o Sol funciona e como ele influencia o Sistema Solar.
The finale shows him finally accepting his “has-been” status, and he opens a roadside attraction called “The Real Henry’s Head” that goes bankrupt.
Fatherhood and succession come into sharp focus when he tries to arrange a marriage between his modern-day distant nephew and a random European princess he found on Instagram, completely ignoring the fact that arranged marriages are no longer a thing and that his nephew is already happily engaged. His obsession with producing a “legitimate” heir is turned on its head when he discovers that through modern genetics, he has thousands of descendants, and he tries to hold a family reunion that ends in a massive legal dispute over who gets the royal title. This novel finds the comedy in his patriarchal obsession, reducing his grand dynastic plans to a chaotic, dysfunctional family barbecue.
Midlife crisis hits hard when he buys a tattoo gun and gives himself a large “H” on his arm, but it gets infected, and he spends the next week moaning about how modern medicine has failed him.
The closing chapter finale brings all these themes to a brilliant, satisfying conclusion where Henry finally accepts that he is not the center of the universe, but not before he threatens to execute the author for writing him into a comedy. He finds a strange, reluctant peace in his diminished status, realizing that the 21st century doesn’t need a tyrant, but maybe it needs a cautionary tale with a good punchline. The final scene, where he sits down to watch a documentary about his own life and laughs for the first time at his own absurdity, is the perfect emotional payoff that elevates this novel from simple farce to something genuinely moving.
Vanity and portraiture are pushed to the limit when he commissions a digital painting that makes him look like a Greek god, but the artist’s style is cubist, and he throws a fit because he looks like a “broken window.”