Science and Technology
There could be more than 30 alien civilizations in the Milky Way
By: Bill Watterson By Chris Ciaccia If extraterrestrial civilizations exist, we may not have to go too far to find them. A new study from researchers at the U.K.’s University of Nottingham suggests there are 36 planets in the Milky Way galaxy, a calculation the experts have dubbed “the Astrobiological Copernican Limit.” “The classic method […]
SPACEX launched more Starlink satellites into orbit
SpaceX Launch Launch time: 0921 GMT (5:21 a.m. EDT) Launch site: SLC-40, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the ninth batch of approximately 60 satellites for SpaceX’s Starlink broadband network, a mission designated Starlink 8. Three SkySat Earth-imaging satellites for Planet will launch as rideshare payloads on this mission. […]
USS Portland Shoots Drone With Laser
In 2014, the USS Ponce deployed to the Persian Gulf with a laser weapon. After they successfully tested that laser weapon, the Ponce’s commanding officer requested permission to use it as a part of their defense system. They received that permission. Now, the USS Portland successfully shot a drone with a laser. This is not […]
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Officially Ready for Touchdown on Asteroid Bennu
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft descending towards asteroid Bennu to collect a sample of the asteroid’s surface. Credit: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona Today’s S&T post is brought to you by NASA, and is showcasing a sample-and-return mission to the asteroid Bennu. Bennu is a carbonaceous asteroid in the Apollo group, discovered by the LINEAR Project on 11 September […]
If Wacky Weather Is Bad Now, Wait A Minute
This is regarding weather, CMEs, solar events, volcanoes, and our dependence on “other” for everything we need. Solar eruptions. Coronal mass ejections a/k/a CMEs. These are damaging and dangerous events that have occurred with our central star in the past. Could this happen again? Considering that when the Sun went dormant in 2006, and has had […]
Today’s Science and Technology Post
The eruption of Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano in 2018 was one of the most destructive in this volcano’s recorded history. Why this happened has remained a mystery until a paper published recently in Nature suggests that rainfall could have been the culprit. Credit: U.S. Geological Survey In the interests of providing a more diverse and hopefully […]
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