ive spoken to you about this before, but you seem to think that we're pretty safe from rogue planets and rogue black holes for the foreseeable future.
that being said, if there's anything we do need to worry about (aside from climate change, of course), what in your mind would stick out as being an immediate threat to this planet?
Idk about 'immediate" but certainly way more realistic:
- rogue asteroids/meteorites (the other two are so remote/that's not how they work, these are in the solar system and could happen
- a very strong solar flare that happens to go right at us. This is unlikely and wouldn't kill us, but there is the potential to severely damage our communication systems. Given how reliant a lot of us are to technology, would be very detrimental.
If you could redesign any Pokémon, which would you choose and how would you make it different?
Ambipom so it doesn't have yucky rubber hands coming out of its butt. Ew.
What is your biggest goal for Daily at the moment?
Hard to say. After LGPE releases and has its time in the limelight so we (particularly I) can move off from making guide articles for it, I want to see more creative articles, including by myself. More fanwork features, analysis articles on niche stuff, etc. Moving away from news to such a large degree, basically.
I have a good idea as to your profession, but what you say is the "end game" in terms of what you personally would like to achieve?
Generally this is being a professor and that would be hella neat, but also this is hard to achieve just due to numbers (many more postdocs than there are staff positions). I will see if I continue liking the academic life as well (and because when you move up in staff it becomes less about doing research and more managing projects/people, grant proposals, etc), but the other option is to then go into industry using skills acquired from my work researching astronomy stuff, say data science, and going from there. I need to have some flexibility if I'm being realistic.
With astronomy specifically I want to stay in radio astronomy and be part of the major science projects in the era of the SKA (Square Kilometre Array, a massive radio telescope project underway, and currently with smaller "pathfinder" in action - which I've been working with atm!).
