global warming, each year is going to be hotter. Each winter will be colder.

 Hot enough?

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Missions to Mars will be operated by Robots

Missions to Mars will be operated by robots, impossible for humans. The fuel requirements are too high; the rocket is too slow. Too much radiation. Not enough exercise.

Richard Feynman gave a full explanation.

But Robots...just give them a wind. Of course, something new and innovative could happen.

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Any object that we discover from outside the solar system “is a new piece of the puzzle,” Statler said, in terms of understanding how planetary systems form and develop. They are like “frozen fossils,” he said.

The long-awaited images from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter’s High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HIRISE), whose release was delayed due to the government shutdown, can now be used to refine the size of the comet’s nucleus. Results will have to await further analysis, according to scientists at the press conference. Meanwhile, images taken by the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft, also at Mars, “truly are incredible,” said Shannon Curry (University of Colorado, Boulder) in a NASA release.

Update 08 November 2025

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS set a new first in its class on 4th November. The Meerkat radio detected a signal coming from the comet in the 1600 MHz range. Moreover, the natural signal had notches at 1665 MHz and 1667 MHz, which occur due to OH absorption. The detection is the first time a radio spectrum of an interstellar object has been obtained.

Astronomers have been left stunned by the sudden surge from comet 3I/ATLAS, a rare interstellar traveler now making a close pass around the Sun. In a matter of weeks, it has transformed from a faint object into a dazzling spectacle, brightening far more rapidly than experts had anticipated

Key Facts Discovery Date July 1st, 2025 Estimated Size 1 km diameter Current Speed 65.9 km/s

Origin Direction Constellation Sagittarius

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Man in tree

Man in tree

Summertime

The Woods WEHO

Diorama

The Woods

The congas save the day.

Maelstrom Whirlpool

Heat waves last 100 years

 A heat wave, sometimes described as extreme heat, is a period of abnormally hot weather. Definitions vary but are similar. A heat wave is usually measured relative to the usual climate in the area and to normal temperatures for the season

Heat waves last 100 years

Los Angeles is experiencing more heat waves and also more extreme heat days. These numbers have increased by over 3 heat waves per century and nearly 23 days per century occurrences, respectively. Both have more than tripled over the past 100 years as a consequence of the steady warming of Los Angeles.

Puppy

How do Variants of Covid work?

What COVID-19 variant are we on? Currently, the dominant variant nationwide is BQ.1.1. "The original omicron variant is gone now," says Dr. Rupp. "Currently subvariants of omicron are circulating, including BQ.1.1, BQ.1, BA.5, BF.7, and XBB. Dec 14, 2022

What is known about the latest Covid variant?

According to the CDC, the Omicron variant spreads more easily than the original SARS-CoV-2 virus and the Delta variant. In its early days, the variant caused an alarming spike in COVID-19 cases in South Africa—they went from 300 a day in mid-November 2021 to 3,000 a day at the end of that month. Dec 9, 2022

What are the symptoms of the new COVID-19 BA 5 variant?

All of the variants, including omicron BA.5, cause similar COVID-19 symptoms:

runny nose.

cough.

sore throat.

fever.

headaches.

muscle pain.

fatigue.

Severe weather, America's gift to the future

Severe weather is any dangerous meteorological phenomenon with the potential to cause damage, serious social disruption, or loss of human life. Types of severe weather phenomena vary, depending on the latitude, altitude, topography, and atmospheric condition

Thunderstorms, hail, blizzards, ice storms, high winds, and heavy rain can develop quickly and threaten life and property.

The Fujita Scale For Tornadoes

Original F scale (1) Enhanced F scale (2) Category Damage Wind speed (mph) 3-second gust (mph) F-0 Light 40-72  65-85 F-1 Moderate 73-112 86-110 F-2 Considerable 113-157 111-135 F-3 Severe 158-207 136-165 F-4 Devastating 208-260 166-200 F-5 Incredible 261-318 Over 200

The Great Red Spot is a persistent high-pressure region in the atmosphere of Jupiter, producing an anticyclonic storm that is the largest in the Solar System. Located 22 degrees south of Jupiter's equator, it produces wind-speeds up to 432 km/h.

Volcano, Mauna Loa

 

The world’s largest active volcano erupted for the first time in 38 years. Notice that Mauna Loa, the largest active volcano in the world, was going to erupt — as it did this week for the first time in nearly four decades — came to people on the Big Island of Hawaii an hour before the lava began to flow. Public officials scrambled to alert nearby residents. Scientists rushed to predict which areas of the island might be in danger. The curious made plans to observe what could shape up to be an event of a lifetime: the exhalation of a massive mountain.

The eruption was years in the making, matched not quite in scale by the ongoing effort to monitor the volcano with seismometers, spectrometers, tiltmeters, GPS units, and other state-of-the-art tools. “Mauna Loa is one of the most well-instrumented volcanoes in the United States,” said Wendy Stovall, a volcanologist with the U.S. Geological Survey. Even still, so much about the inner workings of the mountain is unknown, Dr. Stovall and other scientists said.

Weston Thelen, a volcanologist with the U.S.G.S. who monitored the mountain from 2011 to 2016, said that sheer size, mineral composition and heat all presented logistical difficulties for scientists and public officials hoping to predict its movements. “Mauna Loa is a beast,” he said.

With the eruption underway, researchers on the Big Island, including Jim Kauahikaua, a volcanologist with the U.S.G.S. Hawaiian Volcano Observatory, have had to strike a careful balance between concern for public safety, given the many unknowns, and the desire to collect data.

Last eight years hottest on record, UN report warns

 

The past eight years are on track to be the hottest ever recorded, a United Nations report has found, as UN chief Antonio Guterres warned that the planet was sending “a distress signal”.

The UN’s weather and climate body released its annual state of the global climate report on Sunday with another warning that the target to limit temperature increases to 1.5C (2.7F) was “barely within reach”.

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America's gift to the future. The new climate reality, a different geography. Rebuilding. Raising the cities 10, 20, 30, 40 feet as severe weather increases.

An aqueduct is a watercourse constructed to carry water from a source to a distribution point far away. In modern engineering, the term aqueduct is used for any system of pipes, ditches, canals, tunnels, and other structures used for this purpose. Wikipedia

Rebuilding the bigger infrastructure.

channel

a length of water wider than a strait, joining two larger areas of water, especially two seas.

During the 1850s and 1860s, engineers carried out a piecemeal raising of the level of central Chicago to lift it out of the low-lying swampy ground. Streets, sidewalks, and buildings were physically raised on jackscrews. The work was funded by private property owners and public funds.

Severe weather is any dangerous meteorological phenomenon with the potential to cause damage, serious social disruption, or loss of human life. 

Types of severe weather phenomena vary, depending on the latitude, altitude, topography, and atmospheric conditions. 

Climate-related disasters jumped 83 percent — from 3,656 events during the 1980-1999 period to 6,681 in the past 20 years. Major floods have more than doubled, the number of severe storms has risen 40 percent, and there have been major increases in droughts, wildfires, and heatwaves