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First Death in the U.S. from Vaping
There are now at least 193 people across 22 states have suffered from respiratory illnesses after vaping.
Patient’s death is possibly the first in the U.S. related to vaping
Cows and Greenhouse Gas
So there are about a billion cows on earth, and they produce methane as part of their digestive process. Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas. BUT, it turns out if you add pink seaweed to their diet it eliminates methane production in cattle. Amazing.
Effects of Marine and Freshwater Macroalgae on In Vitro Total Gas and Methane Production
The World Could Shift To Green Energy for Less Than it Subsidies Fossil Fuels
This is a game changer. A new report from the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) estimates the cost of subsidizing a full transition to clean energy, and comes out with a figure that is only 10-30% of the subsidy presently given to the planet-destroying fossil fuel industries.
That’s right. It would be cheaper to go green.
Just 10% of fossil fuel subsidy cash ‘could pay for green transition’
The report can be found here.
Why are we not doing this? Hmmm.
Just How Big are Rockets?
Neat.
Weird Stars in a Dance of Death
R.I.P. Rutger Hauer
Blade Runner, Ladyhawke, much more.
The Greatest Accomplishment in Human History
Happened 50 years ago Today.
Think about it. When a team of historians and scholars were recently asked “What is the greatest accomplishment in human history?” The overwhelming answer was the time when humans walked on the moon.
The last human to set foot on the moon was 47 years ago.
Why so long?
Ohio Now Has the Measles
Thanks to stupidity. A disease that was almost wiped out in this country has now been brought back by ignorance and arrogance.
Ohio reports first case of measles in two years amid national outbreak
Filming a Giant Squid
Mythical creatures until quite recently, there is very little in the way of pictures or video of them. Here is the story of the best video (so far) ever taken of one.
Here Be Monsters: We Filmed a Giant Squid in America’s Backyard
Curiosity Rover Seen from Orbit
7.1 Earthquake Strikes Southern California
Summer Music
The Black Keys have released a new album!
A Model Rocket with Thrust Vectoring
What’s Going on with Jupiter?
Supposedly Galileo first saw Jupiter’s Red Spot. So a 400+ year-old hurricane is ending?
Starlink Over Chicago
Elon Musk want to create worldwide access to the Internet. So he’s launching a LOT of satellites to do it. Here are the first 60.
Starlink (satellite constellation)
Thanks Mark!
This is Sad
Supermassive Black Holes
Interesting…
Positive Lightning
An electrical strike from the top of the cloud not the bottom. Wow. This time the electrons truly would be flowing upward.
NEW: Boynton woman’s video captures rare ‘positive’ lightning bolt up to 10 times stronger
Looks like plastic bags aren’t so bad after all
Although I’ve got a couple Aldi totes that have to have hundreds of prior uses.
You’d need to use an organic cotton tote bag 20,000 times to get the same environmental impact as a plastic disposable bag. Plastic bags are an environmental nightmare, but it looks like the other options may be worse. I think grocery retailers should have to take back plastic bags and recycle them.
Your cotton tote is pretty much the worst replacement for a plastic bag
Packaging and convenience bags are a growing problem. What is the solution?
We May Have a Picture of a Black Hole by Friday
Whoa.
SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy will now fly on Wednesday, hopefully
Should be a good show…
Ultima Thule
Ultima Thule, is a trans-Neptunian object located in the Kuiper belt. A cold lump of rock at the edge of our Solar Solar System. It is a mystery.
Ultima Thule is unlike anything we’ve seen in the solar system
Dragon Has Splashed Down
Nice Job Space X!
Space X Astronaut Demo Launch
This morning Space X launched a Dragon crew module to the International Space Station. Aboard was only a dummy in a spacesuit loaded with sensors. If all goes well, and so far it has, This will be how American astronauts get to the ISS soon.
SpaceX astronaut capsule demo for Nasa lifts off
And they MADE IT!!!