markbnine
Re:The War on Estonian Forests (2022)
on Tuesday July 09, 2024 @10:12AM (#40916393)
Wood burning can be made sustainable. Where I live, the forest service encourages people to take dead trees out of the forest. It reduces the fire load. And building codes and EPA certs have done a lot to clean up wood stoves. https://www.epa.gov/burnwise
Re:Egg whites can be transformed into a material capable of filtering ...
on Thursday November 10, 2022 @04:31PM (#33553707)
Aren't microplastics already in chickens? Do they get passed to the eggs? If so, where do you filter microplastics first. . . the chicken or the egg?
Re:Lunar Crater Radio Telescope on the Far-Side of the Moon (2020)
on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @10:20AM (#28539362)
LROC, which may be the closest we have in volume to a lunar telescope, sends its data back to Earth. http://lroc.sese.asu.edu/about
LROC is one of seven instruments on board LRO. Together, these instruments have a downlink allocation of 310 Gbits per Ka band pass and up to 4 passes per day. That translates into 155 GBytes per day of data or 56,575 GBytes per year (55 TBytes). These data are processed by each respective instrument's Science Operation Center (SOC) with the final products being delivered to the NASA Planetary Data System (PDS).
Re:50 Years Ago, Sugar Industry Quietly Paid Scientists to Blame Fat (...
on Saturday February 13, 2021 @05:55PM (#26127791)
Good documentary on this: https://frontlinetv.com/plastic-wars-full-film
Re:Bill introduced to promote prescribed fire intends to reduce fire risk
on Saturday October 03, 2020 @07:29PM (#24675448)
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms... HDT
I've lived in the forest for the last ten years. Nothing better. Sure there's risks; there's risks everywhere.
Re:NASA’s 1966 plan for a mission to Mars
on Friday September 25, 2020 @04:53PM (#24593978)
If you're looking for a rabbit hole, after Dave left Wired, he started his own blog: https://spaceflighthistory.blogspot.com/
Re:Blizzard cofounder launches new gaming endeavor Dreamhaven
on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @10:42AM (#24567662)
Me thinks they used the Fantasy Place Name generator. . . https://www.fantasynamegenerators.com/fantasy-town-names.php
Re:Blacklight – A Real-Time Website Privacy Inspector
on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @09:56AM (#24554405)
Be patient. . . there's people working on that.
Re:91% of plastic isn't recycled (2018)
on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @04:37PM (#24486423)
Here is a recent Frontline on how the petro-chem industry fooled consumers: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/plastic-wars/. Advocates may be gearing up for a lawsuit, similar to what happened to the cigarette companies.
Re:Oxide Computer Company: Initial boot sequence
on Monday December 02, 2019 @10:39AM (#21683287)
Do you ever get that creepy feeling that HN is being used for guerrilla advertising?
Re:Why Do People with Depression Like Listening to Sad Music?
on Wednesday April 24, 2019 @12:01PM (#19739751)
My dad often said, "When you are cold, eat ice cream. It lowers your mean temperature."
That said, we always knew he just wanted ice cream.
Re:Jessamyn West, Technology Lady (2015)
on Thursday August 10, 2017 @05:22PM (#14984429)
Our local library is more like a free internet shop with half the terminals taken up by transients and the other half by kids from the nearby jr. high, playing shoot-em ups. It's impossible to get a terminal. They also have a huge DVD collection that rivals the old blockbusters. Not sure who's checking out books anymore.
Re:Open Access at European Space Agency
on Tuesday February 21, 2017 @10:56AM (#13696381)
For NASA image data, you can go to the PDS: http://pds-imaging.jpl.nasa.gov/index.html The Atlas has access to the mission released data. There is also link to PILOT, which has quick access to MESSENGER data and some Dawn data. New Horizons will be added soon.
Although there is a learning curve to processing and projecting raw imagery (using ISIS), it's gotten simpler. You can now use gdal to generate images.
Global Croplands
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Re:Visualizing the Warmest August in 136 Years
on Friday September 16, 2016 @02:13PM (#12516033)
obligatory George Carlin bit. . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjmtSkl53h4
NASA launches OSIRIS-REx
Re:NASA Data Portal
on Friday August 19, 2016 @12:07AM (#12317924)
For planetary data, the PDS Imaging Node has pages both at NASA and the USGS. Here is the USGS page pointing to much of it: http://astrogeology.usgs.gov/facilities/cartography-and-imag.... The PDS formats can be difficult but tools like GDAL now deal with it. Here is tool I wrote to search much of it: http://pilot.wr.usgs.gov.
New Frontiers Program
Re:How Hackers Stole $100M from the New York Fed
on Thursday March 10, 2016 @11:42PM (#11264684)
I find ZH amusing.. In some ways I think it's the anti hackers news.. Hyper negative about the future.. Constant hate for new tech.. (Fear of skynet).. The system is always rigged and the little guy will never succeed... Posts by Right coast angry ex-traders.. The comments are inane...the cherry picked stories out of left field but plausible. Etc. The one place the two sites do often intersect is the fear and loathing of government surveillance.. I vote to give ZH stories a fair shake...
Re:Zynga to Put Headquarters Building in San Francisco on the Market
on Tuesday February 23, 2016 @02:54PM (#11161768)
When I first read this I thought Zynga was going to move their HQ to Market Street.
Google's self-driving car pulled over for driving too slowly
The Life and Creativity of a Great Bethesda Artist
Sol 1091
Re:From a million miles away, NASA camera shows moon crossing face of ...
on Thursday August 06, 2015 @11:29AM (#10017121)
Nice. Also THEMIS took a shot in 2001 as it was headed to Mars that captured this distance.
Re:From a million miles away, NASA camera shows moon crossing face of ...
on Thursday August 06, 2015 @11:21AM (#10017060)
I agree with the bunker mentality of the NASA centers. That said, the PDS (https://pds.nasa.gov/) is the closest thing to a central source for planetary data and imagery. And they run the photo journal (http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/index.html)
Show HN: 2015 – The Year of the Dwarf Planets
Re:New Horizons: Nasa spacecraft speeds past Pluto
on Tuesday July 14, 2015 @12:34PM (#9886151)
What we need now is a real-time play-by-play by Carl Sagan. . e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8eqYVFgzIU
Or Larry Soderblom on Triton. Try to dig up the full "Encounter with Neptune". . . classic. . . first ten minutes - http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8zzlq_encounter-with-neptu...