Wednesday, October 12, 2016

This game requires its players to walk around outside, and interact and battle with other players in real-world environments like parks or at local monuments. As an outsider to this game, it all seems pretty funny to me. There's particular park quite near where I live that has become one of the most popular destinations in my state for players of the game. It has a high concentration of characters you can capture, and regulary attracts hundreds of players with their smartphones and backpacks. Walking past, it's absurd to see a children's playground swarming with 50 to 100 20 something, none looking at each other, all looking at either their own smartphone screen or someone else's.

Well, on a day when America is commemorating its independence with July 4 fireworks, the U.S. Space Agency is anticipating a celestial event that could prove very illuminating about the planet Jupiter and the beginnings of our solar system. NASA's solar-powered Juno spacecraft, hurtling through space for five years and nealy tow billion miles, is now making its closest encounter with the biggest planet in our solar system. I talked about what this mission could reveal with Greg Redfern, NASA Jet Propulsion Lab Solar System Administrator.