Science on Notes from the Rabbit Hole

Dear Gravity, What The Fuck Was That?

Sun, 31 May 2026 00:17:29 -0400

Dear Gravity,

I don’t know if you remember me. I sat in the back of the room in high school physics, third row from the window. I definitely fell asleep during angular momentum. I am not qualified to write this letter.

But I’ve been reading about you lately, Gravity. And I think you’re trying to tell us something.

Here’s what I learned this week, after many failed attempts to understand a single sentence of astrophysics.

Luke's Moisture Vaporators Are Real (And Scientists Accidentally Built Them)

Sun, 25 May 2025 14:30:00 -0400

I remember watching A New Hope as a kid and thinking those towering moisture vaporators on the Lars farm looked pretty cool, but also wondering how they actually worked. Pulling water straight out of desert air seemed like pure science fiction—the kind of tech that belonged in a galaxy far, far away, not here on boring old Earth.

Well, it turns out I was wrong about the “boring old Earth” part.