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Weak internet zero commitments provide a chance to implement actual local weather motion –…
Guest essay by Eric Worrall
According to researchers, companies are wrong if they believe that a little greenwashing can help them escape criticism because weak commitments are an opportunity to attack the company's credibility.…
Starlink and OneWeb have their first avoidance maneuver with one another’s constellations
Two companies, OneWeb and SpaceX, are trying to put fleets of thousands of communications satellites into orbit. In March they had their first near miss. Avoidance maneuvers worked, but how many more close calls will you have in the…
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spaceship is heading for Earth with an asteroid pattern – watts with…
From NASA
May 10, 2021 APPROVAL 21-061
After almost five years in space, NASA's Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security and Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spaceship is on its way back to Earth with an…
Each Uranus and Neptune have actually weird magnetic fields
The magnetic fields of Uranus and Neptune are really seriously messed up. And we don't know why.
Most planets (if they have any) magnetic fields are pretty simple. The planet rotates in a certain direction and the field roughly…
US Emergency Declared After Cyber Criminals Lower 45% Of East Coast Gas Provide – Watts…
Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Climate activists in New York and other east coast cities may have the opportunity to realize their fossil-fuel-free dream as Colonial Pipeline operators struggle to repair damage from a cyberattack that…
Younger stars can vaporize close by disks earlier than they’ll type planets
According to new research, many planetary systems can be wiped out before they even have a chance to form. The culprit: nearby stars that are capable of vaporizing entire protoplanetary disks as soon as they begin to form.
Stars tend to…
Weekly Local weather and Vitality Information Roundup #454 – Watts Up With That?
The Week That Was: 2021-05-08 (May 8, 2021)Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org)The Science and Environmental Policy Project
Quote of the Week: “The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool…
Supernovae Twins Open Up New Prospects for Precision Cosmology – Watts Up With That?
The results will improve experiments with dark energy on large telescopes
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PICTURE: THE TOP LEFT PICTURE SHOWS THE SPECTRA - BRIGHTNESS VS WAVELENGTH - FOR TWO SUPERNOVA.…
A full yr of seismic knowledge collected by Mars Perception contains 500 quakes
The English vocabulary contains a few words that only make sense from an earthly point of view. Earthquake is one of them. Even in some science fiction and fantasy books where the action takes place in a location other than earth, this…
Why Will not Renewable Power Finish Zimbabwe’s Power Poverty – Watts Up With That?
16328421 - Victoria falls from the air in the afternoon Zimbabwe
Ellen Fungisai Chipango, University of Johannesburg
Zimbabwe is one of the African countries that hopes that renewable energy technologies will help address their…