For the other Astronuts out there

Storm Cloud Over Texas
Image Credit & Copyright: Laura Rowe (Used with permission)

Explanation: What makes this storm cloud so colorful? First, the cloud itself is composed of millions of tiny droplets of water and ice. Its bottom is almost completely flat -- but this isn't unusual. Bottom flatness in clouds is generally caused by air temperature dropping as you go up, and that above a specific height, water-saturated air condenses out water droplets. The shape of the cloud middle is caused by a water-droplet-laden column of air being blown upward. Most unusual, though, are the orange and yellow colors. Both colors are caused by the cloud's water drops reflecting sunlight. The orange color in the cloud's middle and bottom sections are reflections of a nearly red sunset. In contrast, the yellow color of the cloud's top results from reflection of light from a not-yet-setting Sun, where some -- but less -- blue light is being scattered away. Appearing to float above the plains in Texas, the featured impressive image of a dynamic cumulonimbus cloud was captured in 2021 while investigating a tornado.

Otto? Is that you in the "chase truck"?

 

Two hurricanes and a taifun at sea, just another day at the office.

 

"A few years ago" we went on a little exercise to prove that USN aviation ships could operate north of the Arctic Circle. I went up on the flight deck with it was announced that we had an aurora going. One of my guys asked me what the fuck? I told him it was the lights from Santa's workshop. I was horrified when he bought that explanation. Kept an eye on him until I could ship him off.

 

They may have found Mars' oceans.

 

The New World was unreachable at one point.

 

If we could start drilling at the bottom of Valles Marineris...

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Valles Marineris, the largest canyon in the solar system, can be as deep as 10 kilometers (6.25 miles) in some regions. The canyon's depth varies across its 4,000 kilometer (2,500 mile) length and 200 kilometer (124 mile) width. Scientists believe that massive landslides may cause parts of the canyon's surface to sink, which contributes to the depth variation."

 

I've come to the conclusion that explanations and "theories" are nothing but excuses to buttress the authors perception.
Now they have disproved Hawking. I'll wait until someone in Academia prophesize's the Universe is Eternal with no beginning nor end.

 

I'm sure this is just a ploy by Helmuth, speaking for Boskone.

 

Yeah, our current "best guess".

 

Not that I agree or disagree, or even pretend to understand

www.quantamagazine.org/mathematicians-prove-hawking-wrong-about-extremal

"In 1973, the prominent physicists Stephen Hawking, James Bardeen and Brandon Carter asserted that extremal black holes can’t exist in the real world — that there is simply no plausible way that they can form. Nevertheless, for the past 50 years, extremal black holes have served as useful models in theoretical physics. “They have nice symmetries that make it easier to calculate things,” said Gaurav Khanna (opens a new tab)of the University of Rhode Island, and this allows physicists to test theories about the mysterious relationship between quantum mechanics and gravity.
Now two mathematicians have proved Hawking and his colleagues wrong. The new work — contained in a pair of (opens a new tab) recent papers (opens a new tab) by Christoph Kehle (opens a new tab) of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Ryan Unger (opens a new tab) of Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley — demonstrates that there is nothing in our known laws of physics to prevent the formation of an extremal black hole."

 

It means we can get funding to look for them.