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welcome to the conkey ride home for Wednesday, December 15th, 2021.

I'm Jackson Bird.

Today, a NASA spacecraft has just touched the sun for the first time in human history.

Plus, our floating neighborhoods, the future for coastal towns,

and a look back at the origin of online reviews

and a question about their future. Here are some of the cool things from the news today.

For the first time ever in history, a spacecraft has touched the sun.

NASA's Parker Solar Probe has flown into the sun's upper atmosphere, the corona,

sampled some particles and came back out of it intact.

As NASA wrote in a press release yesterday, quote,

The new milestone marks one major step for Parker Solar Probe

and one giant leap for solar science.

End quote.

This is something we've been working on since the late 50s, but didn't have the technology to create a craft that could withstand the journey until the 2000s.

60 years after the idea was first conceived, the Parker Solar Probe launched and we got that

much closer to figuring out many of the Sun's mysteries, including learning more about solar

wind, which can have anywhere from inconvenient to disastrous effects on our satellites and other

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