Will Trump echo JFK's moonshot and vow to send humans to Mars?
By Joel Achenbach, The Washington Post For drive-by readers we offer this immediate answer to the question posed in our headline: Almost certainly not, at least in the inaugural address. Maybe later. By tradition, inaugurals are broadly thematic and not specific. President-elect Donald Trump has been studying past inaugurals, according to his aides, so he understands that this is not a State of the Union address with a laundry list of proposals. That said, we feel no shame in plunging forward wi..>> view originalCU Boulder professor helps assess danger of primates' extinction
Three-quarters of the world's primates are declining in population and 60 percent are threatened with extinction, according to a new study to which a University of Colorado professor is a contributing author. "At the rate we're going, we're not taking care of our home very well," said study coauthor Joanna Lambert, a professor in CU's Department of Biological Anthropology. "The next few years will be critical." The study, "Impending extinction crisis of the world's primates: Why primates matter..>> view originalThink global warming's a fraud? These scientists want to change your mind
Marion Renault The Columbus Dispatch @MarionRenault Scientists declared 2016 the warmest year on record last week, mostly blaming man-made global warming. It was the third straight record-breaking year. A majority of Americans — 61 percent — say they are “very” or “somewhat” worried about global warming, according to a national survey conducted by the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication shortly after the presidential election in November. But the same Yale program found l..>> view originalThe Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) Shares Sold by IBM Retirement Fund
IBM Retirement Fund cut its position in shares of Computer Sciences Corporation (NYSE:CSC) by 6.3% during the third quarter, according to its most recent 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The institutional investor owned 13,118 shares of the company’s stock after selling 884 shares during the period. IBM Retirement Fund’s holdings in Computer Sciences Corporation were worth $685,000 at the end of the most recent quarter. Several other large investors also recently bou..>> view originalSpaceX To Use Expendable Rocket For Upcoming Launch
SpaceX’s upcoming Falcon 9 launch, when it will deliver a 5.5 metric ton communications satellite for EchoStar Corporation to a geostationary transfer orbit, will be made using a reusable rocket, CEO Elon Musk confirmed in response to a question on Twitter on Saturday. The launch is scheduled to take place from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida no earlier than Jan. 30.That launch is expected to be one of the last times — if not the last time — SpaceX would use an expendable Falcon 9 booster.“F..>> view originalNASA study in Hawaii paving way for human travel to Mars
HONOLULU (AP) — A group of NASA-funded researchers are poised to enter an isolated geodesic dome on a remote Hawaii volcano to study human behavior in long-term space exploration, including a planned voyage to Mars. The six scientists enter their new home Thursday on the Big Island’s Mauna Loa volcano for an eight-month stay. The team will have no physical contact with people in the outside world and will work with a 20-minute delay in communications, the time it would take for an email to reac..>> view originalSpace weather forecasters remain vigilant in 2017 for potentially crippling solar storms
As ridiculous as it sounds, the fiery, roiling sun was “tame” in 2016. It spewed very few solar storms and had minimal impact on our electrical, digital life on Earth. Our star is in a declining phase of activity — it sounds good on paper, but seemingly quiet moments on the sun can still produce crippling geomagnetic storms. Huge eruptions of radiation and plasma from the surface of the sun can, if headed toward Earth, impact or bring down the electrical grid, radio communications, GPS and othe..>> view originalHow to immunise yourself against fake news on climate change
A "psychological vaccine" of a weakened form of a piece of fake news can make people better at identifying false claims about climate change, researchers have said.Turning one of the main tactics of fake news back on itself is an effective strategy to halt the spread of misinformation, psychologists say in a study published in the journal Global Challenges.A Japanese macaque has been spotted trying to have sex with a sika deerExposing people to a fake "fact" with either a general warning about f..>> view original
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