Archive for June, 2019
Richard Dolan: Leaked UFO Notes on Vice Admiral Thomas R. Wilson
June 9th, 2019Document link: Imgur If it was anyone else besides Richard Dolan, I wouldn’t post this here without much more vetting. But it’s Richard Dolan. So, if this turns out to be fake, let’s get it over with. Via: Richard Dolan:
Low Probability of Having to Evacuate Edinburgh and Glasgow if Nuclear Power Plant Turned Back On
June 8th, 2019Via: Edinburgh Live: The two reactors at Hunterston B nuclear power plant near Ardrossan are 43 years old – the oldest in Europe. They’re already well beyond their operating lifetimes, which have twice been extended by EDF Energy, and they’re scheduled to close down for good in 2023. However, there’s a serious safety fault in […]
The Future Of School Safety Includes Round-The-Clock Surveillance Of Students
June 7th, 2019Via: TechDirt: To go to school is to be surveilled, on campus and off. The average school hosts a number of cameras, and the average school administration is always looking for more ways to keep tabs on students, even after they’ve gone home. The move towards pervasive surveillance of off-campus activities is generally justified with […]
Citizen Cattle
June 7th, 2019Via: Ben Garrison:
Americans May Be Ingesting Thousands of Microplastics Every Year
June 7th, 2019Via: Smithsonian Magazine: Microplastics are everywhere in our environment: oceans, soils, the air, the bodies of animals. It’s hardly surprising, then, that the tiny fragments have also been found in humans. But a new study is shining troubling light on the quantity of microplastics Americans are consuming each year—as many as 121,000 particles, per a […]
Trails Made by Starlink Satellites
June 7th, 2019“Please note that the density of these satellites is significantly higher in the days after launch (as seen here) and also that the satellites will diminish in brightness as they reach their final orbital altitude.” I would have added: Please note that this is from 25 of the first batch of 60 satellites of a […]
Celera 500L Aircraft
June 7th, 2019Via: The Drive: More than two years after The War Zone was first to report on a mysterious bullet-shaped aircraft appearing at the Southern California Logistics Airport near Victorville, a refined version of the plane has conducted taxi tests and looks to be getting close to its first flight. Even though much about its design […]
NASA to Let Tourists, Film Crews Into International Space Station
June 7th, 2019Via: Independent: Nasa will allow tourists to live inside the International Space Station. The space agency plans to open the floating lab up to private astronauts as well as commercial companies, it said. That could include film crews, for instance, who could be allowed to make ads or whole films in space. The first space […]
Toyota and Subaru Partner to Make All-Electric SUVs Together
June 6th, 2019Via: Electrek: Toyota and Subaru, which is partly owned by the latter, have announced that they are partnering to develop a new electric platform in order to launch a couple of all-electric SUVs under each brand. The two Japanese automakers have been increasingly collaborating over the past decade, including on some hybrid vehicle projects. Both […]
GE Bet on Fossil Fuels, Lost Nearly $200B in Misjudging Renewable Energy Transition
June 6th, 2019Via: Electrek: General Electric’s profitability collapse over the past few years can be largely attributed to the company’s inability to judge the accelerating pace of the global energy transition away from fossil fuels and toward renewables, a new study claims. The analysis comes from the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA), which says […]
