BBC – Future | External Steel Pipe Shot Blasting Machine

Now, a trio of engineers have teamed up with a master Japanese swordsmith to design a rock-sampling device made with the same steel used in these blades – and the plan is to use it on an asteroid.

Cherry Picker, you need to think a second and to think in logically. 1. Feldman et al used instruments taking spectral scans of the downwelling IR; those are observations. The instruments operated for over a decade. The original design was to take scans up to every minute – and later modified to do so every 30 seconds. Now – there are 525,600 minutes in a year So granting some times for maintenance and outages – there are a huge number of actual observations in their work 2. Read the methane abstract, noting the increase in methane forcing since 2006: the trend in forcing was 0.026 ± 0.09 (99.7% CI) Watts per m*2 per yr Cherry Picker, a Watt is a joule per second, that’s heat, that’s warming 3. Yes, clear sky conditions are absent the additional downwelling radiation from clouds So you do have a less complex and cleaner spectra to look at the CO2 and methane under clear sky conditions. There is no change in the concentration of CO2 and methane in the atmosphere. It’s that simple. So no problem with their results. Finally, yes, when CO2, methane, and other human greenhouse gas emissions warm the earth’s climate system – yes, there is a feedback – yes, the total quantity of atmospheric water vapor increases – and yes, this further increases the greenhouse effect and warming.

I’m not excusing the error, I’m exorciating him over that and just about every other creative decision in that mess of a movie. Funny how you can think I’m excusing something when the whole post is tearing him a new one. Are DSC’s devotees so sensitive that they have to attack things that aren’t even aimed at them?

Considering Kirk is basically all we’ve seen of 23rd century captains making PD decisions prior to Discovery, the only thing we can speak to is what Kirk did, so I used the shorthand phrasing of “Kirk being Kirk.”

Anthony’s captions are a highlight of the reviews, man, lighten up. “Hit or miss” … humor is like that sometimes.

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Ice forms along the shore of Lake Michigan before sunrise, Thursday, Jan. 31, 2019, in Chicago. The painfully cold weather system that put much of the Midwest into a historic deep freeze was expected to ease Thursday, though temperatures still tumbled to record lows in some places. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato)

The new Sonic the Hedgehog movie poster is straight up a normal guy with Sonic’s oversized head on him. pic.twitter.com/Gj46iU6SJ7

I actually thought he had gotten himself banned, but it may have been voluntary after he was asked to quit spamming the blog with pseudoscience crackpot theories like his “magnetic forcings” spiel, or insistence that a new ice age is on the way. I can see he’s chosen to ignore that and go back to his old ways.

In a strange way, it’s Queen’s music, delectable as it is, that’s most underserved by Singer’s one-thing-after-another sketchbook approach. In terms of the Queen songbook, the movie gets a few things wonderfully right, like the Live Aid performance, or the recording — and marketing — of “Bohemian Rhapsody,” the one-of-a-kind existential rock-opera mash-up (“Nothing really matters..to me”) that, in 1975, became Queen’s signature six-minute radio masterpiece. The marathon recording session exuberantly evokes the song’s shoot-the-works quality, and there’s an irresistible sequence, built around the in-joke of casting Mike Myers — yes, Wayne Campbell himself — as an EMI executive, in which the members of Queen try, and fail, to convince the label to release “Bohemian Rhapsody” as a single. The rest, as they say, is history.

Arguably VR’s biggest, most exhaustive game, racing or otherwise. Project Cars 2 comes from the school of ‘everything and the kitchen sink’, throwing in a frankly overwhelming amount of cars, racing disceplines and tracks, coupled with visuals that spare no detail. This is a simulation game for true petrol heads, giving you the kind of options you’ve always dreamed about tinkering with in the past. The sheer amount to consider will be too much for some, but for the devoted there’s no better place to drive than Project Cars 2.

1* – Each style of gold mineralisation will manifest (size, shape, gangue minerals) differently and perform differently within metallurgical plant2* – Length of the exploration target is defined as a conservative maximum and minimum length estimation based off the distances over which drill intercepts are observed and geological or geophysical characteristics associated with the mineralisation are observed3* – Width of the exploration targets is taken from drill intercepts and expressed as a range4* – Depth information is gained from drill intercepts. The oxide/weathering zone is often taken from geochemical data from drilling, i.e. sulphur often helps define the base of oxidation as it is readily weathered and does not commonly exist in the weathering profile. The base of oxidation is interpreted to be the depth that sulphur appears within the drill hole5* – Density data is taken from drilling or assumed to be the average rock density in the Kharmagtai dataset (2.75)6* – Tonnage range is estimated as a calculation of the maximum and minimum length, width and depth.7* – Grade range is taken directly from drill results8* – Metallurgical factor is either taken from existing metallurgical results or assumed to be 85%.9* – Potential Oz range is estimated from a calculation of tonnage ranges and grade ranges. Larger tonnage with lesser grade range and smaller tonnage with higher grade range.