On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams

Noting that today, whilst walking around my neighbourhood on a shopping errands and doing yard work, I've spotted bees, a cricket(!) and...possibly a millipede. Are they the ones with "fur" coats?

On the matter of exoplanets around nearby stars:

https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/a-second-planet-for-beta-pictoris

(Did I remove "Beta Pictoris" from my list of tags? No, I didn't!)

Current "confirmed" count as of 20 August 2019 at exoplanet.eu, FYI: 4107. Ninety more worlds confirmed in the space of about three months.

And a physicist may have useful data on how to mess with hatemongers online:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/aug/22/online-hate-extremism-physics-science

It occurs to me that, despite the relative proximity of Beta Pic to Sol at 64 lightyears (barring updates from GAIA DR 2 or later), we're still not ever going to see any planets finish forming in our lifetimes. Nor that of our entire biosphere, probably.

The same goes for the protagonists of Star Trek, Babylon 5, The Expanse, Honor Harrington, the Legion of Super-Heroes, the 31st Century incarnations of the Guardians of the Galaxy, etc..

Here's what set off my thought:

https://www.centauri-dreams.org/?p=39109