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Submission + - SPAM: Boeing takes added charge for Starliner, bringing cost overruns to near $700M

schwit1 writes: Boeing disclosed a charge of $93 million in the second quarter from its Starliner astronaut capsule program.

The latest Starliner-related charge means the company has absorbed $688 million in costs from delays and additional work on the capsule to date.

Boeing was once seen as evenly matched with SpaceX in the race to launch NASA astronauts, but fell behind due to development setbacks.

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Comment Re: Poor blue star, she will be eaten one day. (Score 1) 35

The blue star will develop, in astronomical time scales, quickly and expand as stars are wont to do towards the end of their life. Then the black hole will start to accrete (read: suck) material from the star and emit lots of radiation from the accretion disk. But it may be that the stellar core survives, I just have no idea how long.

Submission + - SPAM: NYC polled as one of the dirtiest cities on the planet 1

An anonymous reader writes: There's too much grit in the Big Apple.

New York City was ranked the world’s second-dirtiest city due to rampant rats and foul-smelling piles of trash, according to a new poll.

Gotham came in second to Rome, Italy,as the filthiest city on the planet while Glasgow, Scotland, placed third,according to a Time Out survey of 27,000 people worldwide.

Stockholm, Sweden — which has a population roughly an eighth of New York City’s, at just 1 million people — was named the cleanest city in the world followed by Dubai and Abu Dhabi, according to the poll.

The fifth annual Time Out Index poll surveyed residents in cities including Melbourne, Tokyo and Chicago starting in March about topics ranging from cleanliness to food and culture.

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Comment Re:W I N D !! (Score 1) 134

That seems like many things concocted together and a humblebrag. True, that greening due to incresed CO2 is a real phenomenon (about 70% of the reason) but the article attributes also increased rainfall (due to global climate change) as one of the causes. Is the greening enough to compensate for warming?

Also what has the motion of the north magnetic pole to do with climate?

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