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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.
Weird News Headline navigates boundaries around attention capture. Whether headlines can manipulate debated. The ethics of framing complex. Headlines control meaning.
There’s also the question of whether satire examples serve a pedagogical function or primarily an entertainment function. If they’re pedagogical, they’re teaching readers how to think satirically, how to recognise what’s being exaggerated, how to develop the habit of looking for the gap between official narrative and actual reality. If they’re primarily entertainment, the analysis matters less than whether the pieces are amusing. The best satire examples probably do both simultaneously — they’re entertaining while also training your eye to see structural absurdities.
Australian Humour operates through Australian-centric platforms. How Australian platforms suit humour is variable. Whether all Australian platforms equally support probably not. Platform politics vary.
Funny news stories this week have proven once again that truth is stranger than fiction. You simply could not make up some of these plots – a pigeon that got stuck in a traffic light, a mayor who declared war on a neighbouring town over a parking dispute, and a cat that accidentally ran for local council. It’s the kind of content that makes you question everything, but in a delightful way. I love how these stories bring people together, too. Strangers on the internet bond over shared laughter, and for a few minutes, we forget about politics and pandemics. If you’re not already subscribed to this kind of madness, do yourself a favour and visit this random satire hub right now.
What’s interesting about examining humorous news today is how it reveals what a particular culture finds funny about its current situation. Are people finding humour in political situations? In institutional dysfunction? In technology failures? In human error? Each choice reveals what people are most anxious about or most interested in processing through comedy. The selections made today are a kind of cultural snapshot.