15 Eumonia is a stony asteroid (S-type). It was magnitude ~9 last night. The star field of 15 Eumonia imaged and captured in 9 x 4" exposures last night. 15 Eunomia is a large asteroid in the inner asteroid belt. 15 Eunomia was discovered by Annibale de Gasparis in July 1851, and named after Eunomia, …
Harbour Air and magniX announce successful flight of FIRST electric commercial airplane 10DEC2019
Inaugural flight is the first step in becoming the world’s first all-electric commercial fleet VANCOUVER, British Columbia – December 10, 2019 – Harbour Air, North America’s largest seaplane airline and magniX, the company powering the electric aviation revolution, today announced the successful flight of the world’s first all-electric commercial aircraft. The successful flight of the ePlane, a six-passenger DHC-2 de …
A “Verified” Understanding…
I will just post both of these certificates here. I really do appreciate science. I modeled the collapse of the Arctic Vortex in the years 2014-2017 using four, quad-core mini iMacs in a parallel cluster with Thunderbolt cabling; a very powerful, personal computer. I only used the publicly available Los Alamos Community ICE model, a …
“This Boeing-Backed Company Is Planning to Make Electric Airplanes”
https://www.popularmechanics.com/flight/news/a28540/boeing-backed-electric-plane-fly-2020s/ This story appears in the July 2018 issue. As experimental prototypes, electric airplanes have been around for decades. But the nagging question remains: Will they ever be commercially viable? Zunum Aero thinks so. It has 20 full-time employees and 20 contract workers spread across facilities in Kirkland (software operations) as well as Chicago and Indianapolis (electric manufacturing …
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The ‘Great’ Conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn
Saturn, top, and Jupiter, below, are seen after sunset from Shenandoah National Park, Sunday, Dec. 13, 2020, in Luray, Virginia. The two planets are drawing closer to each other in the sky as they head towards a “great conjunction” on December 21, where the two giant planets will appear a tenth of a degree apart.Credits: …
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MapX and the older UN Biodiversity Lab data
Climate Crisis and A Warmer Climate in CaliforniaChange from 2011 to 2100 in crops and suitability for crops, as modeled with a "business-as-usual" SRES A1B model. Brown is negative change or towards desert-like conditions, while green is wetter, positive change. The new research by Battelle-PNNL says this may even be "too WET." "The impact of …
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Error Correction Means California’s Future Wetter Winters May Never Come
Correcting for the double-ITCZ bias, a persistent error in many climate models, reveals that future U.S. Southwest winters will be drier than expected Brendan Bane, PNNL RICHLAND, Wash.—California and other areas of the U.S. Southwest may see less future winter precipitation than previously projected by climate models. After probing a persistent error in widely used models, …
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To begin, we copy – a few thoughts
The only way we as humans know how to begin a thing and to initiate learning is to see others practice doing it or something like it, and copy that practice. We never call this plagiarism, but this is what we do. We plagiarize as tots, taking credit for our activity, and mostly we are …
“The Rapid ASKAP Continuum Survey I: Design and First Results”
Recently, Dr. Buzz Aldrin featured a FACEBOOK post of a SPACE.COM article on this Australian research paper (below). It raised many questions amongst his readers, not the least of which, "where is American leadership in this rapidly developing science?" What this shows is when a country - in this case Australia - is determined to …
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“Smokey the Beaver: beaver‐dammed riparian corridors stay green during wildfire throughout the Western United States
Emily Fairfax Andrew Whittle First published: 02 September 2020 https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.2225 Corresponding Editor: Nancy F. Glenn. Ecological Applications, Volume 30, Issue 8 "Abstract "Beaver dams are gaining popularity as a low‐tech, low‐cost strategy to build climate resiliency at the landscape scale. They slow and store water that can be accessed by riparian vegetation during dry periods, …
