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Swarms Of Satellites That Surf The Solar Wind Could Be The Future Of Asteroid Mining
Asteroid mining — which may be necessary to get the human species off its only rock — has inched closer to reality over the last few years. Last week, asteroid mining groups joined with scientists at the European Planetary Science Congress 2017 (EPSC2017) hosted in Riga, Latvia, to present some key findings of the current…
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How A Team Of Meteorologists With A Few Trucks Collected Some Unprecedented Data From The Heart Of Hurricane Harvey
Last week, a team of intrepid storm chasers converged near Corpus Christi, Texas to witness the landfall of Hurricane Harvey, the storm that’s brought over 127cm of rain to the Texas Gulf Coast and major flooding to the city of Houston. But these researchers collecting data for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) didn’t…
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Proposed Trump Budget Would Kill Program That Monitors Debilitating Solar Storms
The idea that a huge solar storm could wreak havoc here on Earth isn’t just a sci-fi plot, it’s a situation that countries and power grids around the world actively prepare for. But the Trump administration’s latest 2017 budget proposal would completely eliminate the program that keeps the continental US under 24/7 protection from this…
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Disruptive Undersea Air Gun Blasts Okayed By Trump
Extremely loud air gun blasts have not been used to hunt for oil deposits in the mid and south Atlantic ocean for the last 30 years, but since the industrial practices of the ’80s are apparently in vogue again, on Wednesday the Trump administration restarted the application process to use seismic surveying. Environmentalists say the…