Archive for June, 2020
As Many as Six Billion Earth-Like Planets in Our Galaxy
June 16th, 2020Via: PhysOrg: “My calculations place an upper limit of 0.18 Earth-like planets per G-type star,” says UBC researcher Michelle Kunimoto, co-author of the new study in The Astronomical Journal. “Estimating how common different kinds of planets are around different stars can provide important constraints on planet formation and evolution theories, and help optimize future missions […]
Scientists Edited Human Embryos in the Lab, and It Was a Disaster
June 16th, 2020Via: OneZero: A team of scientists has used the gene-editing technique CRISPR to create genetically modified human embryos in a London lab, and the results of the experiment do not bode well for the prospect of gene-edited babies. Biologist Kathy Niakan and her team at the Francis Crick Institute wanted to better understand the role […]
Starlink Will Cause Large Change in Seismic Oil and Gas Exploration
June 15th, 2020Oil companies use tape to store information collected from reflection seismology. A lot of tape. A lot of bulky, slow, expensive tape. Starlink will allow for the fast movement of terabytes of data from remote exploration vessels to cloud storage for analysis. Currently, the data moves by crates in helicopters and trucks. Via: BigMarker: For […]
Melinda Gates: After Health Care Workers, Vaccinate Black People Next
June 15th, 2020Well, at least they’re consistent: The Bill Gates Effect: WHO’s DTP Vaccine Killed More Children in Africa Than the Diseases it Targeted Via: Time: Who needs it after health care workers? In the U.S., that would be black people next, quite honestly, and many other people of color. They are having disproportionate effects from COVID-19.
Canadian Scientist Sent Deadly Viruses to Wuhan Lab Months Before RCMP Asked to Investigate
June 15th, 2020“The virus shipments are not related to the outbreak of COVID-19 or research into the pandemic, Canadian officials said.” Mmm hmm. What is admitted in this article (in terms of what was sent to China) is almost unbelievable. Also, the denials about “conspiracy theories” are hilarious. I mean, Bill Gates, millions of dollars in research […]
FCC Has “Serious Doubts” that SpaceX Can Deliver Latencies Under 100ms
June 14th, 2020In the darkest days of my Internet connectivity hell in rural NZ, I had to use IPstar, which had latencies as high as 1000ms+. Yep. Not a typo. Over a second. How is SpaceX going to improve on that by a couple orders of magnitude? Operating the Starlink constellation in low earth orbit is part […]
Pentagon Surplus Handouts Stoke the Militarization of U.S. Police
June 14th, 2020This has been happening since 1997. Via: AFP: When US police flooded the streets around the country to confront protesters two weeks ago, for many it appeared like the army had deployed, with camouflage uniforms and combat gear, heavily armored anti-mine vehicles, and high-powered assault weapons. That’s not by accident. For years the US Defense […]
Central Banks Bailed Out Markets To Avoid Trillions In Pension Losses
June 14th, 2020Via: ZeroHedge: The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) recently published a report showing how pension funds in OECD countries recorded a massive loss of approximately $2.5 trillion during the stock market meltdown in February through late March. Shortly, after that, central banks intervened with monetary cannons to rescue stock markets and other financial […]
Hawaii: Great Depression-Level Unemployment as Tourism Plummets
June 13th, 2020Via: ABC: Roughly 25% of the jobs in Hawaii are connected to tourism, which has almost entirely vanished, according to Bonham. “Because we rely completely on air travel, when you shut down tourism with a 14-day quarantine and you go from 30,000 airline passengers per day to a few hundred, that’s a very different situation […]
Homelessness Jumps 13% in Los Angeles County
June 12th, 2020Via: AP: The number of homeless people counted across Los Angeles County jumped 12.7% over the past year to more than 66,400 and authorities fear that figure will spike again once the full impact of the coronavirus pandemic is felt, officials said Friday. The majority of those experiencing homelessness were found within the city of […]
