Our climate reality will catch up to us, no matter how hard Trump tries to bury the evidence.
Trump responds to his administration’s report indicating a huge cost from climate change: ‘I don’t believe it’
Trump Administration’s Strategy on Climate: Try to Bury Its Own Scientific Report
As an adult, Steven Barrett of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology focused on a concept called "ionic wind."
For the MIT airplane, that involves a series of thin wires at the front of the plane that generates a powerful electric field. The field strips electrons from air molecules, turning the molecules into positively charged particles called ions. Those ions flow toward negatively charged parts of the plane, colliding with ordinary air molecules and transferring energy to them. That produces a wind that provides thrust for the plane, Barrett explained.
We know things are bad – worse than bad. They’re crazy. It’s like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don’t go out anymore. We sit in the house, and slowly the world we are living in is getting smaller, and all we say is: ‘Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted radials and I won’t say anything. Just leave us alone.’
Well, I’m not gonna leave you alone. I want you to get MAD! I don’t want you to protest. I don’t want you to riot – I don’t want you to write to your congressman, because I wouldn’t know what to tell you to write. I don’t know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the Russians and the crime in the street. All I know is that first you’ve got to get mad. (shouting) You’ve got to say: ‘I’m a human being, god-dammit! My life has value!’
So, I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window. Open it, and stick your head out, and yell: ‘I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not gonna take this anymore!’
I want you to get up right now. Sit up. Go to your windows. Open them and stick your head out and yell – ‘I’m as mad as hell and I’m not gonna take this anymore!’ Things have got to change. But first, you’ve gotta get mad!…You’ve got to say, ‘I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not gonna take this anymore!’ Then we’ll figure out what to do about the depression and the inflation and the oil crisis. But first, get up out of your chairs, open the window, stick your head out, and yell, and say it: ‘I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not gonna take this anymore!’
President Biden signed an executive order to revoke a permit for the Keystone XL pipeline. Here is a brief history of the long-contested project, and a look at what likely comes next.
Mysterious interstellar asteroid 'Oumuamua could be a giant solar sail 'sent from another civilization to look for signs of life,' claim astronomers
Mysterious object Oumuamua arrived in our solar system in October 2017
NASA spotted unexpected boost in speed and shift in trajectory as it passed through the inner solar system last year
Now one study claims it could actually be a solar sail sent by aliens
'Considering an artificial origin, one possibility is that ‘Oumuamua is a lightsail, floating in interstellar space as a debris from an advanced technological equipment,
look at all the possible alien civilizations. video below
The Parker probe is transiting the Sun, which is an image that is a sure message to another planet that Earthlings are busy.
During its nominal mission lifetime of just under 7 years, Parker Solar Probe will complete 24 orbits of the Sun — reaching within 3.8 million miles of the Sun's surface at closest approach.
The Sun is about 8.3 light minutes from the Earth. This means it would take 8.3 minutes for light to reach from the Surface of the Sun to reach the Earth. If you are traveling in a Jumbo Jet, it would take you about 19 years to reach the Sun.
On the final three orbits, Parker Solar Probe will fly to within 9 solar radii of the sun's "surface" 9 solar radii is 9 times the radius of the sun or about 3.83 million miles. That is about seven times closer than the current record-holder for a close solar pass, the Helios spacecraft.
At closest approach, Parker Solar Probe will be hurtling around the sun at approximately 430,000 miles per hour! That's fast enough to get from Philadelphia to Washington, D.C., in one second.
At closest approach to the sun, while the front of Parker Solar Probe' solar shield faces temperatures approaching 1,400° Celsius, the spacecraft's payload will be near room temperature.
This is what other advanced civilizations will see, a manmade object crossing the path at over 400,000 miles per hour. It will be easy to read for others.
Note about transits and our work.
Moreover, it’s meant to be sensitive to small changes in the amount of light emitted by objects, as it usually looks for the dim light changes caused planets passing in front of distant stars.
The point of no return is coming when it comes to climate change.
Jupiter has a red dot, might a severe storm trigger a never-ending cyclonic event?
The world is currently 1C warmer than pre-industrial levels. Following devastating hurricanes in the US, record droughts in Cape Town and forest fires in the Arctic, the IPCC makes clear that climate change is already happening, upgraded its risk warning from previous reports, and warned that every fraction of additional warming would worsen the impact.
Hurricane Michael: 'Monstrous' storm set to hit Florida
More than 370000 people have been ordered to evacuate as Hurricane Michael heads towards Florida.
Hurricane Michael May Be Florida Panhandle's Strongest Landfall in 13 Years With Life-Threatening Storm Surge, Damaging Winds, Flooding Rain
California is experiencing its worst fire season in memory, with one million acres burned so far this year, more than twice the amount in the same period last year.
Parker will be able to withstand the sun's intense heat, thanks to a heat shield made of carbon composite foam and plates. Instruments will occupy both the front and the back of the spacecraft enabling complete imaging of the sky.
Many of its instruments use alloys with high melting points, and the probe also has an effective cooling system that can keep its arrays, instruments, and mechanisms cool and functional.
Parker #SolarProbe's FIELDS instrument suite measures (no surprise) electric and magnetic fields! 〰☀️ This information, direct from the Sun's corona, will help scientists understand the forces at work in this dynamic region.
Parker #SolarProbe's SWEAP instrument suite will study the most common particles in the solar wind — electrons, protons and helium ions — to shed new light on the solar wind. Meet the rest of the mission's instruments: https://go.nasa.gov/2OfU7gx. the solar wind is the exiting gases that have enough speed to escape the gravitational forces of the sun.
Computations show that a material made with just the right amounts of hafnium, nitrogen, and carbon would have a melting point of more than 4400 K (7460°F). That's about two-thirds the temperature at the surface of the sun and 200 K higher than the highest melting point ever recorded experimentally.
Mendocino fire becomes biggest in modern California history as weary firefighters brace for more
Reaching 283,000 acres in just 11 days, the combination of the Ranch and River fires is now the largest recorded in California. As fatigue sets in for firefighters, their battle continues.
Its origin is thought to be a galaxy situated some 3 billion light-years from Earth, and the power it would take for a radio signal to make it that far makes it believable that it could be from an advanced civilization or an extreme radio source.
Apple Successfully Avoids $50 Billion in American Taxes.
According to Apple's announcement, it'll pay a one time tax of $38 billion. ... Apple doesn't have to pay that bill all at once. But it's clear the company sees the one-time 15.5 percent tax on all of a company's overseas holdings that is included in the new tax bill as a great deal.Jan 18, 2018
U.S. refineries running at near-record levels
For the week ending July 6, 2018, the four-week average of U.S. gross refinery inputs surpassed 18 million barrels per day (b/d) for the first time since the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) began publishing that data series in 1990. U.S. refineries are running at record levels in response to robust domestic and international demand for motor gasoline and distillate fuel oil
Refiners in China were the top buyers of American crude oil in May, and have been regular importers since the US revived domestic output and exports in recent years. But sales may slow amid a growing trade war between Beijing and the Trump presidency.
Man With World's Longest Fingernails Cuts Them Off After 66 Years, Sells Them To Museum
A man with fingernails longer than a bus finally cut them off during a “nail clipping ceremony” in New York earlier this week after 66 years of growing them out.
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Man With World's Longest Fingernails Finally Cuts Them After 66 Years
The collective weight of the nails has made it impossible for Shridhar Chillal to open his left hand or flex his fingers.
One of those figures is called the U-6 rate, which has a broader definition of unemployment than does the U-3. In April, that number was 8.6 percent.
This year that number reached nearly 554,000 — a 1 percent increase from last year, driven by the dramatic surge in West Coast cities.
Shellfish in the Puget Sound, an inlet of the Pacific Ocean along the northwest coast of Washington, tested positive for the prescription opioid oxycodone.
But that wasn't all, The mussels also contained four kinds of synthetic surfactants -- the chemicals found in detergents and cleaning products -- seven kinds of antibiotics, five types of antidepressants, more than one antidiabetic drug and one chemotherapy agent.
Oxycodone is a semi-synthetic opioid synthesized from thebaine, an opioid alkaloid found in the Persian poppy, and one of the many alkaloids found in the opium poppy. It is a moderately potent opioid pain medication (orally roughly 1.5 times more potent than morphine), generally indicated for the relief of moderate to severe pain. Oxycodone was developed in 1917 in Germany as one of several semi-synthetic opioids in an attempt to improve on the existing opioids.
plastic bags have been blamed for the deaths of sperm whales in the Mediterranean. The Athens-based Pelagos Cetacean Research Institute found that more than a third of the sperm whales found dead in Greek waters had stomachs blocked by plastic waste. But this comes as no surprise to whale watchers.
Ascent and descent into the water.
Reorient oneself to a land marker.
Tread water for one minute.
Swim forward with head up.
Make it to the shoreline and get out of the water.
The human race is just 0.01% of all life but has eradicated most other living things.
Yet since the dawn of civilization, humanity has caused the loss of 83% of all wild mammals and half of the plants, while livestock kept by humans abounds.
Only 10 percent of all large fish—both open ocean species including tuna, swordfish, marlin and the large groundfish such as cod, halibut, skates, and flounder—are left in the sea, according to research published in today's issue of the scientific journal Nature.
The last time a global survey was attempted – by the United Nations in 2005 – an estimated 100 million people were homeless worldwide. As many as 1.6 billion people lacked adequate housing (Habitat, 2015).
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A crude oil spill from the Keystone Pipeline in South Dakota last November has turned out to be near twice as big as first reported.
A spokeswoman for pipeline owner TransCanada says around 407,000 gallons spilled onto farmland when the pipeline broke near Amherst in Marshall County on Nov. 16. TransCanada had originally put the spill at 210,000 gallons
Fat is converted to carbon dioxide and water. You exhale the carbon dioxide and the water mixes into your circulation until it's lost as urine or sweat. If you lose 10 pounds of fat, precisely 8.4 pounds comes out through your lungs and the remaining 1.6 pounds turns into water. In other words, nearly all the weight we lose is exhaled.
How we swallow 114 pieces of plastic with every meal: Household dust containing soft furnishings and synthetic fabrics fall onto dinner plates before being consumed
Scientists from Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh made the shocking finding
They put Petri dishes containing sticky dust traps next to plates in three homes
Average person swallows up to 68,415 possibly dangerous plastic fibers a year
QUANTUM gravitational effects are usually ignored in calculations of the formation and evolution of black holes. The justification for this is that the radius of curvature of space-time outside the event horizon is very large compared to the Planck length (Għ/c3)1/2 ≈ 10−33 cm, the length scale on which quantum fluctuations of the metric are expected to be of order unity. This means that the energy density of particles created by the gravitational field is small compared to the space-time curvature. Even though quantum effects may be small locally, they may still, however, add up to produce a significant effect over the lifetime of the Universe ≈ 1017 s which is very long compared to the Planck time ≈ 10−43 s. The purpose of this letter is to show that this indeed may be the case: it seems that any black hole will create and emit particles such as neutrinos or photons at just the rate that one would expect if the black hole was a body with a temperature of (κ/2Ï€) (ħ/2k) ≈ 10−6 (M⊙/M)K where κ is the surface gravity of the black hole. As a black hole emits this thermal radiation one would expect it to lose mass. This, in turn, would increase the surface gravity and so increase the rate of emission. The black hole would, therefore, have a finite life of the order of 1071(M⊙/M)−3 s. For a black hole of a solar mass, this is much longer than the age of the Universe. There might, however, be much smaller black holes which were formed by fluctuations in the early Universe2. Any such black hole of mass less than 1015 g would have evaporated by now. Near the end of its life, the rate of emission would be very high and about 1030erg would be released in the last 0.1 s. This is a fairly small explosion by astronomical standards but it is equivalent to about 1 million 1 Mton hydrogen bombs.
Kruger National Park is one of the largest game reserves in Africa. It covers an area of 19,485 square kilometres (7,523 sq mi) in the provinces of Limpopo and Mpumalanga in northeastern South Africa, and extends 360 kilometres (220 mi) from north to south and 65 kilometres (40 mi) from east to west. The administrative headquarters are in Skukuza. Areas of the park were first protected by the government of the South African Republic in 1898, and it became South Africa's first national park in 1926.
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