The Science News for the first week of July. Enjoy!
Space Suits:
Atmospheric Chemistry:
0:00 Intro
0:15 – Russian satellite explodes
3:54 – Satellite reentry threatens ozone layer
8:12 – NASA being sued for Space Junk damage
10:50 – Big Three prepare for War in Spaaaace
14:50 – ISS Space Suits become Snow Cone Machines
22:00 – Rare Mammatus Clouds take over Philly
24:40 – The Content Creator Generation
26:15 – The Myopic Epidemic
29:15 – Bones for sugar
35:07 – Whale language
39:55 – They ♥ COâ‚‚
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5,800lbs is not an everyday garbage run. What's the expected temporal frequency on that?
How heavy does a satellite have to be for 70lbs of it to be aluminum? Is that like the antenna array/dish? Just thinking of how long a 70lb piece of extruded aluminum would be.
Aliens again here. If we could talk to the animals. I always thought my dog could understand most things that I said. If he had a voice I think he probably could really talk, probably mostly about food but, but really talk like a person. I wonder if someone could do some sort of brain implants where the speech areas could be read out in a sound producing thing on his collar. Like a prostecstc, can't spell that word, voice. If they did that with all the animals, the world would be a different place. By the way aliens can speak esp and so can dogs. Just wait for the AI's to get their hands on it.
In order to encounter this debris would one not have to be in orbit at the same altitude and thus be traveling at a similar rate?
NASA should just stop leaning on SpaceX. They fumble with the most basic issues that were solved decades ago. Enough public money has been spent on free trials for this commercial company spurred on by it's mad billionaire owner.
With the space weapons thing you actually do need to have a capability before you can ask for restrictions on it. Who got to make the rules around nukes? It wasn't NZ.
There's a video by a channel called Perun on automated weapons systems that explains the dynamic much better than I can in comment.
the absolute mendacity of the "CO2 Coalition", sickening. (can't spell coalition without coal).
Pretty angry about the satellite situation too. After centuries of industrial development and industrial pollution and endless wars, we know very well that actions have consequences and seemingly infinite resources are always very finite, and we should have anticipated that with space. I guess as long as we're 200 bickering "nations" instead of one world, getting global action on anything is difficult. Even the optimistic Star Trek timeline starts with a global war between factions.
Thank you Fran for the science news you are a great presenter
More FUD!, CO2 may be naturally occurring but us humans are dumping a large amount of unnatural CO2 into the atmosphere. If you understood the scale of the numbers you'd find the amounts staggering.
Idea for a new YA novel:
Some Elon-like figure discovers that he could [insert dastardly plan here] if he were to systematically destroy his own satellites along orbits to accomplish [insert stated goal here].
Thanks for reading through al those newspapers Fran. A nice extraction.
This saved my legs from going to sleep.
The U.N. Should have to pay for space junk removal. Almost all people today use devices that use satellites to function.
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C02 Coalition, thats funny sh*t. or it would be if people were not so greedy as to destroy the atmosphere their kids and grandkids will have live with just to have a bigger number at the bank. Who doesnt love Carbon? You dont like Diamonds or ashes or dirt, gotta have dirt for them plants as well, lol 🙂 Love ya Fran. Dont you go anywhere, youre a great teacher of the absurdities of the world
this the most depressing news i heard, it is all a shitshow and heading for worse
Drug users in Sierra Leone dig up bodies to use human bone to make their favorite drug, kush. For some reason, bones from livestock just don't cut it.
"The road to hell, is paved with good intentions"!
CO2 is currently 0.04% 400ppm, at the time of the Dinosaurs, it was 4,000ppm, around the time when the Coal seams were laid down, and Elephants and hippopotami roamed the banks of the River Thames. CO2 is cyclic and the climate is driven by the Sun. Termites emit far more CO2 than Man does, don't you like Termites.?
Fran, if Earth is ever visited by extraterrestrials, we will send YOU to greet The Arrival at point of Contact and you can be the closest thing we have to Jody Foster or Amy Adams in initiating a conversation!
"We are charred dust, we are Olden….." paraphrasing Joni Mitchell 😉
Try living in Australia, where most of the American space rubbish seems to end up landing. Remember space lab?
I already knew that the fine soot-like industrial carbon known as "lampblack" was made by burning bones, but I had assumed it was animal bones….. One also wonders if some of the charcoal generated by burning bones ended up in gunpowder and munitions as well.
"Dem bones, dem bones, dem dry bones…..:
So, when the giant said to Jack the Beanstalk planter "I'll grind your bones to make my bread", it had a ring of truth?!
Fran you should check out Quirks and Quarks. Fun science show.
yup, increase in co2 apparently results in stratospheric cooling which results in global warming. who would have figured.
It's not like the ISS can go park at the nearest hardware store and pick up a package of bolts. Everything has to be planned out and space made available on the next support launch. Which also has to be planned out months in advance.
Oh great, the CO2 coalition fruit loops are now in my back yard. Seriously, where do these jack wagons come from. Apparently south central PA.