NASA’s Voyager spacecraft is 15 billion miles away, out beyond Pluto, which means it can't be fixed if there is a mechanical issue. But FORTRAN is pretty elegant code, and it's self-powered, so if the CMOS isn't messed up and the telemetry modulation unit gets going it should be communicating fine for decades. Maybe even long enough to leave the solar system - in 25,000 years.read...
read moreThe the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and U.S. Customs and Border Protection seized $18 million in vaping products from China. They're cheering that they are protecting American youth but...from what? $18 million is nothing, and yet the Biden administration spent three months preparing to nab it. All because on surveys, if you count any young person who claims to have used a vaping tool, and...
read moreWith so many epidemiology papers published each month, everyone in a giant academic industry essentially created by Harvard School of Public Health in the 1980s is pushing out "correlation" between some common food or chemical and some disease or health benefit, it is hard to get noticed.One way corporate journalists will notice is if a Republican says it. A WHO "miracle drug" was dragged through...
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December 23rd is 'Festivus', a not-real holiday invented by the father of George Costanza on the hit television show "Seinfeld", involving an aluminum pole, feats of strength, and, most fun, an airing of grievances.(1)It's the airing of grievances I want to address. read...
read moreThe Hamas terrorist attack is the top news search, according to Google, while in cinema the top searches were about "Barbie" and in music Yoasobi's "アイドル (Idol)" wins the prize.There was a health-related win. Among people, Damar Hamlin's near-death cardiac arrest on the field during a Buffalo Bills NFL game in January ended up being the top for the...
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