New gentle materials presses interstellar probe dream nearer
Every material used as a light sail is bound to very restrictive physical requirements. It must be extremely light, cannot melt from the energy used on it and does not have to bend from this pressure, but does not break. Various…
Britain’s Web Zero Masochism and the China Mirage – Watts Up With That?
From Tilak’s Substack
It is one of the enduring marvels of political hubris that a small, deindustrialising island nation contributing less than 0.8% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions believes it can “lead the world” into…
NASA's Juno spaceship might intercept 3i/Atlas if it approaches Jupiter
Astronomers in Pan-Starrs Observatory in Hawaii wrote the story in 2017 when they found 'Oumuamua, the first interstellar object (ISO), which was ever observed. Two years later, the Interstellare Comet 2i/Borisov became the…
“Delete Previous Emails” to Fight Local weather Change and Drought – Watts Up With That?
Spending tax money on reservoirs instead of renewables might have been more effective.
Press release
National Drought Group meets to address “nationally significant” water shortfall
Five areas remain in drought with six more in…
Plan the last word house mission
As a child, I remember that I looked at the stars and dreamed of space vehicles that travel to distant worlds, and these classic pictures of rockets that flocked to unknown borders filled my imagination. But a mission to a black…
The North Atlantic sees extra hurricane clusters when the local weather warms up – so one?
This weakness comes from Fudan University and the "Clustered Climate Science" department. You cannot show a trend in the North Atlantic Hurricanes and change the narrative in the "cluster" of hurricanes. Of course, nobody could see such…
The Mars panorama reveals local weather secrets and techniques
Mars is a world that is shaped by dramatic landscapes and a few regions that show this better than Acheron Fossae, a spectacular network of deep cracks and valleys that cut the surface of the red planet like old scars. The latest…