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Comment Re:Here we go again ... (Score 1) 30

Perhaps it's the fact that there has been no significant change in sea level over the last 8000 years.

8,000 to 6,000 Years Ago: Global sea levels rose dramatically by roughly 10 to 38 meters as the great North American and European ice sheets continued to melt. This period experienced some of the fastest post-ice-age melting.

Please check your facts.

Comment Re:Where global warming?!! (Score 2) 61

by Wimmie (#65912752) Attached to: Record Ocean Heat is Intensifying Climate Disasters, Data Shows

"When a place has a record high temperature, it's because of climate change. When a place has a record low temperature, it's just weather"

Please count the number of high record temperatures with the number of low record temperatures. The first easy outnumbers the last by a factor of at least 10.
So there is no climate change ?

Comment Re:Suspensionless, slow, and expensive? (Score 1) 24

This is kind of an Apple-ish product; they're selling design, not specs.

I totally agree, an overpriced gadget which you'll probably not see outside Amsterdam.
Somebody may like the design (I think it is ugly as hell), but no suspension (Holland is a flat country but littered with speed-bumps) and a front
weel hub: you'll want a mid-drive which will give better torque and steering.
For day-to-day use (I average some 3500 km/year) there are lower priced and much better alternatives.

Comment Re:What could go wrong (Score 1) 231

by Wimmie (#60739754) Attached to: New Pfizer Results: Coronavirus Vaccine Is Safe and 95% Effective

Millions of idiots could refuse to get vaccinated thus prolonging our COVID nightmare.

As long as my friends/family get theirs, I'm fine with the millions of idiots taking the Darwin approach.

Unless you get some other medical condition requiring hospitalisation and those idiots are taking up all the ICU beds.
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NASA is Trying To Save Voyager 2 After a Power Glitch Shut Down Its Instruments (technologyreview.com) 39

Posted by msmash from the in-a-galaxy-far-far-away dept.
UPDATE (2/8/2020): NASA technicians were able to reach Voyager 2, a whopping 11.5 billion miles from earth, and get it fully back online and collecting scientific data again.

Below is Slashdot's original story from January 31st...

Last Saturday, Voyager 2's software shut down all five of the scientific instruments onboard because the spacecraft was consuming way too much power. Engineers at NASA don't know what triggered this energy spike and are currently trying to get the interstellar probe, which was launched in 1977, back to normal operations. Its primary mission was supposed to last five years. In 2018, it officially left the solar system. In order to keep the spacecraft running properly 42 years later, NASA has had to carefully manage power consumption for the instruments and the probe's heaters. From a report: About 11.5 billion miles away, Voyager 2 was supposed to make a scheduled 360-degree rotation that would help calibrate its magnetometer (used to measure magnetic fields). The spacecraft delayed this move for still unknown reasons, leaving two other internal systems running at high power. The onboard software decided to offset this power deficit by shutting down the five scientific instruments still working. NASA engineers shut down one of the power-hungry systems and turned the science instruments back on. But the spacecraft is still not cleared for normal operations and is not collecting any new data for now. [...] It takes 17 hours for data from Earth to get to Voyager 2, and vice versa. This lag means it will take several days to solve the spacecraft's woes. As it is, the radioisotope thermoelectric generator, which powers the spacecraft, is only expected to last another five years before the plutonium-238 can no longer provide enough heat to power the probe's instruments, so Voyager 2 is on its last hurrah anyway.

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