Atmospherics

Here is a neat article from Centauri Dreams about the atmosphere of Io. The atmosphere is composed of sulfur dioxide, spewed out by the nine or so volcanoes on the moon. But when Io passes into Jupiter's shadow - which happens once every Io-day - its temperature drops below the freezing point for SO2, and the atmosphere collapses; it resublimes when the moon moves back into the sunlight.

"The universe is not only stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine," as J. B. S. Haldane put it.

No Limits

“'If she gets to pick her judges,' Trump said, 'nothing you can do, folks. Although the Second Amendment people, maybe there is.'"

The man is suggesting one of the following: assassinating Sec. Clinton, should she be elected President; assassinating one or more of her hypothetical appointments to the judiciary; or outright armed rebellion.

I have no words.