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  • Edit: PBS Space Time and Dr Becky have done some great videos about this on YouTube.

    It’s basically a disagreement on the expansion rate of the universe. Depending on how we measure it we get two vastly different numbers. And either our understanding of how the universe evolved after the Big Bang is wrong or we interpreted data from our telescopes incorrectly.

    The hope with the launch of JWST was that it would go away with better data. But it seems to be getting worse.

    So that makes it more and more likely that our universe formation theories are wrong. This does not mean that there wasn’t a Big Bang. But it means that what we thought happened between the Big Bang and now isn’t quite right.

    So we can expect some great new theories in the next decades.











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    Don’t agree. There is so much interesting stuff happening in astrophysics. It’s hard to choose one.

    Vera Rubin going online is already giving us a huge boost to detecting near earth objects.

    And neutrino astronomy is pretty much still in its infancy. There is still a lot to learn.

    We’re finding older and older objects every month. A potential bio signature has been found on Mars. We discovered our third Interstellar visitor. The next stage of the moon mission is about to launch people around the moon in the next few months. The crisis in cosmology is getting bigger and bigger.

    Astrophysics is in a great shape.



  • But it’s still a full fledged ARM computer running SteamOS including full desktop support. It’s just a matter of time until you can put a mainline Linux distribution on it and have it do whatever you want.

    My guess is that Valve market it as a streaming-first device because they don’t have as many VR titles in their catalogue that can run on it as Meta has for the Quest. It’s a safer bet not to rely on devs porting their lighter games to the Frame.

    And if they do not manage to get Alyx running on it comfortably nobody will blame them because they never promised it in the first place.

    But it is not an exclusively tethered device. Never was. It is a full on gaming PC. Just not one with the power to run newer games. But it’s plenty powerful enough to run all of the Team Beef ports. And besides playing those and lighter flat games I will enjoy playing around with a fully functional Linux OS on a VR headset.