So, another week, another blog post.  More zero-days, more products and services being flogged by vendors, more doom and gloom.
  I was going to post a couple of links about 10 common IT risk assessment mistakes and an early review of the new NIST cybersecurity framework, but, well, meh.  Small beer.

Instead, I going to post a link to one of my favorite science websites:    

That wild man is actually Doctor Ethan Siegel, PhD, Theoretical Astrophysics, and he also wears a kilt!  His blog has won multiple awards for being one of the best "science" blogs out there.  He's really, really good at explaining physics, usually with fantastic graphics and pictures, and I really enjoy his weekly articles.  This weekend's "Diversion" is about a much larger type of risk--our impending collision with this:


That's the Andromeda Galaxy.  If you want to know more about the "Andromeda Project"  you have to go here and read the whole article. 

Enjoy!

"Good luck and Good night"
Mark V2