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Implausible evaluation of the touchdown and explosion of SN-10 by Scott Manley
To update: Yesterday (March 9th) Elon Musk shared the reason for the explosion via Twitter. According to Musk, the problem was due to the one Raptor engine that was used to slow the SN10 down before landing.
"The SN10 engine had little…
Face masks are a ticking plastic bomb – Watts Up With That?
University of Southern Denmark
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IMAGE: discarded face masks collected in Odense City, Denmark. View More Credit: Elvis Genbo Xu / SDU
Recent studies estimate that we use an astonishing 129 billion…
This exoplanetary system breaks all the principles
It's like a normal solar system ... only completely backwards.
When solar systems form, both the parent star and all planets come from the same molecular cloud. When the cloud collapses, it spins out of conservation of angular momentum,…
The Science Behind Frozen Wind Generators – And How To Flip Them By way of The Winter –…
Hui Hu, Iowa State University
Winter is said to be the best season for wind power - the winds are stronger, and as the air density increases as the temperature drops, more force is exerted on the leaves. But winter also brings with…
How do you carry electrical energy to your lunar base? With a concrete tower a number of kilometers…
It sounds like science fiction, but building a huge tower several kilometers high on the lunar surface may be the best way to harness solar energy for long-term exploration of the moon. Such towers would raise solar panels over disruptive…
Warming of the Antarctic Peninsula by Warmth within the Tasman Sea – Watts Up With That?
The warming of the Tasman Sea is warming the Antarctic Peninsula's climate due to changes in wind patterns, a new study by Japanese and Australian scientists shows
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Latest volcanic exercise on the moon? 100 million years in the past
Regions of the moon known as irregular mare spots, formed by magma cooling as a result of a volcanic eruption, have almost no large craters, indicating that they must be relatively young. By examining the distribution of the craters in…
Michael Mann urges the OECD to reject “Local weather Inactivist” Mathias Cormann’s…
Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Michael Mann and other Greens are appalled that the new OECD chief could be former Australian minister Mathias Cormann, whom they describe as a “climate inactivist”.
Mathias Cormann defends the climate…
Simulations of the universe maintain getting higher with regards to adapting actuality
How can you possibly use simulations to reconstruct the history of the entire universe with just a small sample of galaxy observations? This is the case with big data.
In theory, we understand much of the physics of the history and…
Brazil requires US funding to assist Biden’s local weather change agenda – is that true?
Guest essay by Eric Worrall
The bidding war begins; Brazil, whose government once described climate protection measures as a “Marxist conspiracy”, is happy not to cut the Amazon any more if it receives a share of Biden's two trillion…