There getting better; First ‘exomoon’ may have been found
‘Sci-fi’ plane with no moving parts flies successfully
OK it isn’t an exageration!!! (spelling) But is looks to be the size of a drone.
Those little tin-foil triangles strung up with copper wire and wooden tooth picks sure have come a long way.
It’s just fancy new lighter weight battery technology that allows that thing to work. It’s still cripplingly inefficient and remains almost entirely useless for practical applications and will remain so, pretty much forever.
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Yum, nitrogen oxide emissions! I was missing acid rains.
Still, if you really need a no-moving-part and/or a completely silent ultralight drone, this could be useful.
Were did you get that from? It’s a battery no?
My guess: product of ionized air.
^^ Yeah, if i remember correctly from high school chemistry, the ionized nitrogen will convert into NO which can interfere with the ozone layer. Something for them to be aware of if that technology becomes viable.
I would love to see the return of airships for cargo and tourism and this would be a low noise pollution method.
So long as it wasn’t a “laughing gas joke” I messed up… then ok
Yes, for what I’ve read, ionized air produce those. Apparently, if you change the direction of the current it works slightly less well and you produce ozone instead of NO, which is probably no better.
But as this system should be relatively niche (due to the energy inefficiencies) compared to conventional propellers, it should not become too much of a problem.
Saturn’s Rings Are Disappearing Ya long after your dead and a cosmic sense of “rapidly”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=95&v=mN8o90UbpmE
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It goes near the Heliopause? did I read that correctly?
I wounder if it has anything to do with Schultz? (probably misspelled)
Pterosaurs: Fur flies over feathery fossils
Dino discoveries over 2018
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INTERSTELLAR COMMUNICATION. II. APPLICATION TO THE SOLAR GRAVITATIONAL LENS
The paper talks about using gravitational lensing of the Sun to increase data rates to nearby stars. It’s a pretty cool idea. Absolutely blew my mind when I found the paper.
We have shown in paper I of this series (Hippke 2017) that interstellar communication to nearby (pc) stars is possible at data rates of bits per second per Watt between a 1 m sized probe and a large receiving telescope (E-ELT, 39 m), when optimizing all parameters such as frequency at 300–400 nm
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Achievable (re-ceiving) data rates from αCen are of order 10 Mbits per second per Watt for a pair of meter-sized telescopes, an improvement of 10^7 compared to using the same receiving telescope without the SGL[solar gravitational lense].
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Nasa’s New Horizons: ‘Space snowman’ appears squashed
Rather than being two relatively spherical bodies in contact with each other, Ultima Thule in this new analysis is determined to be much more squashed.
It’s not the snowman lookalike we all first imagined.
The New Horizons science team now says the larger lobe, nicknamed “Ultima”, more closely resembles a giant pancake; and the smaller lobe, nicknamed “Thule”, is shaped like a dented walnut.
It will not copy the link. It is on BBC: science tab.
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Solar storm: Evidence found of huge eruption from Sun
In 660 BC
Not current but interesting in what could be coming.
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First ever black hole image released
Surprised someone else didn’t beat me to this. 
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Can you spot ocean plastic from space?
I would be disappointed if they can’t.
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J. Michael Straczynski
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Pretty sure this is how we got into this mess in the first place.
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Scientists at Large Hadron Collider hope to make contact with PARALLEL UNIVERSE in days https://bit.ly/36YZso7
From this twitter page…
https://twitter.com/straczynski