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A 2022 Gamma Ray Burst Was So Highly effective, it was Detected by Spacecraft Throughout the Photo…
On October 9, 2022, a gamma-ray burst illuminated the solar system. Its light had traveled 2.4 billion years to reach us, having begun its journey when only bacteria and archaea existed on the Earth and oxygen was not yet plentiful in our…
Big Utility Rejects Web Zero Energy, Huge Struggle Follows • Watts Up With That?
By David Wojick
Dominion Energy, Virginia’s big electric utility, is telling the State it does not foresee complying with the 2045 net zero power target in the Virginia Clean Economy Act (VCEA). The preferred option in Dominion’s…
Has the First Biosignature Been Discovered on an Exoplanet?
Recently I wrote about the discovery of a hycean world. A potentially habitable exoplanet with a deep warm ocean and thick, hydrogen-rich atmosphere. Such planets are thought to be somewhat common orbiting red dwarf stars, and they are an…
Sydney Airport EV Fireplace Destroys 5 Autos • Watts Up With That?
Essay by Eric Worrall
Should Electric Vehicles be banned from airports and ferries?
Five cars destroyed at Sydney Airport after battery from luxury electric vehicle ignites
By Olivia IrelandSeptember 12, 2023 — 4.48pm
Five…
JWST May Have Imaged a Hycean World for the First Time, With a Hydrogen-Wealthy Ambiance and a Deep…
Despite its great oceans, Earth is not really an ocean world. It has less water than icy moons such as Europa and Enceladus, a relatively thin nitrogen-rich atmosphere, and vast continents that rise above sea level. A true ocean world…
The Woke Transformation of the Australian Academy of Science • Watts Up With That?
Peter Ridd recently wrote an excellent article for SPECTATOR AUSTRALIA
A Shift from Science to Sentiment
In the realm of scientific research and discovery, the Australian Academy of Science (AAS) once stood as a beacon of…
The Case for a Small Universe
The Universe is big, as Douglas Adams would say.
The most distant light we can see is the cosmic microwave background (CMB), which has taken more than 13 billion years to reach us. This marks the edge of the observable universe, and while…
The Elites Directing The Vitality Transition Actually Have No Concept What They Are Doing • Watts Up…
From the MANHATTAN CONTRARIAN
Francis Menton
We are on our way to Net Zero by 2050. It must be true because everybody says so. The entire $6+ trillion per year federal government is committed to the project, which obviously would…
Did a Comet Airburst Destroy a Native American Group?
In 1908, when an object entered the Earth’s atmosphere above the Podkamennaya Tunguska River, it flattened 80 million trees over nearly 2,200 square kilometers, and sent atmospheric shock waves reverberating around the world. Fortunately,…