SpaceX launched a joint NASA-European environmental research satellite early Monday, the second in an ongoing billion-dollar project to measure long-term changes in sea level, a key indicator of climate change.
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Why do brighter astronomical objects have negative magnitudes?
What is the baseline for determining the magnitude scale of celestial objects? Why do brighter objects have negative numbers? Dean TreadwayKnoxville, Tennessee The first observer to catalog differences in star brightnesses was Greek astronomer Hipparchus. He created a catalog around 135 B.C.E. of roughly 850 stars divided into six ranges. […]
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NASA, SpaceX Launch US-European Satellite to Monitor Earth’s Oceans
About the size of a full-size pickup truck, a newly launched satellite by NASA and its partners will provide ocean and atmospheric information to improve hurricane forecasts, help protect infrastructure, and benefit commercial activities, such as shipping. The Sentinel-6B satellite lifted off aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Launch […]
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Chinese astronauts to get replacement spacecraft after debris strike leaves them without a ride home
China has a launch date for an uncrewed spacecraft that will replace one damaged by space debris while docked at the Tiangong Space Station.
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The Second Coming: The Worship Moto Show Returns to Leeds
Birthed by the creator of Sideburn Magazine and the UK’s Dirt Quake, Gary Inman, the Worship Moto Show is a celebration of the excess of the 90s. For the second year in a row, a plethora of custom Japanese streetfighters, sportbikes, muscle bikes, and other oddities descended on the 120-year-old […]
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Black market risk: will banning sweepstakes push players offshore?
Sweepstakes are gaining a lot of regulatory attention across the US right now – but could this end up pushing… Continue reading Black market risk: will banning sweepstakes push players offshore? The post Black market risk: will banning sweepstakes push players offshore? appeared first on ReadWrite.
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Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Sundar Pichai are exploring future lunar and orbital AI data centers which could offer steady solar power with fewer regulations (Tim Higgins/Wall Street Journal)
Tim Higgins / Wall Street Journal: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Sundar Pichai are exploring future lunar and orbital AI data centers which could offer steady solar power with fewer regulations — Energy constraints in the artificial-intelligence race are causing tech companies to think out of this world
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I tested Motorola’s cheaper iPhone Air alternative, but it still didn’t win me over to team thin-phone
The Motorola Edge 70 is a surprisingly expensive thin-body Android, which doesn’t live up to the expectations past generations have set.
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Slack Randoms: Rob Warner & Eliot Jackson’s Tandem Challenge, Reverse Steering Bikes & More
Videos and stories from all corners of the cycling world and beyond.( Comments: 3 )
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Nov. 16, 1974: Arecibo sends a message
On Nov. 16, 1974, a group gathered at Arecibo Observatory in the rainforest interior of Puerto Rico, there for a reopening celebration after upgrades to the facility. After the requisite speeches, scientists used the radio telescope to send what would be known as the Arecibo message: 1,679 bits of data […]