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To trudge via the snow, the Chang’e-5 restoration staff wore powered exoskeletons
Other worlds are not the only difficult terrain personnel must traverse in human exploration of the solar system. There are some parts of our own planet that are inhospitable and difficult to travel to. Inner Mongolia, a northern…
Youngsters “actually manage out of concern of the atmosphere” – Watts Up With…
Guest essay by Eric Worrall
The LA Times reports that children are so concerned about what they have been taught about the alleged climate crisis that some are committing suicide. Others welcome radical climate activism as a coping…
Even the skin of the Hayabusa 2 pattern capsule has asteroid particles
On December 5, 2020, the Hayabusa 2 mission of the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) sent home a sample capsule containing debris from Near-Earth Asteroid (NEA) 162173 Ryugu. This was the culmination of the probe's first six…
Late Fall Polar Bear Habitat 2020 Versus Some Earlier Years – Watts Up With That?
Reposted by Polar Bear Science
Published on December 22nd, 2020 |
It's time to check out the sea ice habitat on December 15 (Julian Day 350), as virtually all bears except pregnant women in the entire Arctic are either out on the…
Past “Fermi’s Paradox” XV: What’s the Percolation Concept Speculation?
Welcome back to our Fermi Paradox series, where we take a look at possible resolutions to Enrico Fermi’s famous question, “Where Is Everybody?” Today, we examine the possibility that Earth hasn’t been visited by aliens because interstellar…
New York Cannot Purchase A Manner Out Of Blackouts – Watts Up With That?
By David Wojick
New York City will soon be home to the world's largest supply-scale battery system designed to underpin its growing reliance on intermittent renewable energies. At 400 MWh, this battery charge will be more than…
Es wurde gerade ein sehr interessantes Funksignal von Proxima Centauri entdeckt
Es gibt eine kraftvolle Szene im Film „Contact“ (einer meiner Favoriten), in der die Hauptfigur Ellie Arroway zwischen einer Reihe von Teleskopen sitzt und das erste außerirdische Signal hört - einen bedrohlichen Impuls -, den die…
97% of the 186 island coasts have grown (59%) or haven’t modified (38%) since 2005.
Reposted by NoTricksZone
By Kenneth Richard on December 21, 2020
Despite a rise in sea levels, a 2019 global analysis (Duvat, 2019) found that 89% of the island's 709 coastlines were either stable or increasing in size over the…
NASA declares its Artemis astronauts: 18 individuals are coaching to fly to the moon
In less than four years, NASA will send the "first woman and the next man" to the moon as part of the Artemis III mission. This is the first time since the last mission of the Apollo program, which was Apollo 17 in 1972, that astronauts…
Weekly Local weather And Power Information Roundup #436 – Watts Up With That?
The Week That Was: 2020-12-19 (December 19, 2020)
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Quote of the Week: “What gets us into trouble is not what we don’t know. It’s what we know for…