Wedding season approaches! For a lot of people, late spring and summer means a lot of traveling for weddings — and bridal showers, and bachelor parties, and and and and and! Which means packing things like suits and fancy dresses and shoes that aren’t sneakers. Also, you probably want to look good at all these events,…
The president defended the attorney general, who testified earlier in the day at a contentious Senate hearing.
“We have to deal in facts,” the host said when discussing Robert Mueller’s letter to Attorney General William Barr.
O’Rourke had accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars from fossil fuel employees in the past but says he won’t anymore.
Sending up a satellite into space is not a cheap endeavor, and as such, a lot of work is put into making sure that everything works right and that it can withstand the rigors of being sent up into space. Unfortunately, it seems that no thanks to an Oregon company by the name of Sapa Profiles, they might have cost NASA about $700 million in satellite failures.
This is apparently due to the company who faked test results of the metals that they were providing to NASA, in which the faulty materials caused more than $700 million in losses and two failed satellite launch missions. One of those missions involved the Taurus XL, a rocket that was meant to deliver satellites into space to help study the Earth’s climate, but it failed when it failed to fully open after being deployed.
According to Jim Norman, director for launch services at NASA in Washington, not only was this a financial loss for NASA, but it was also a scientific loss for the world in general as it meant that years of work had been lost due to the fraud. “When testing results are altered and certifications are provided falsely, missions fail.”
Norsk Hydro ASA, the parent company of Sapa, has since agreed to a settlement agreement of $46 million that will be paid out to NASA, the Department of Defense, and others to resolve criminal charges and civil claims related to the fraud.
Metals Fraud Has Cost NASA $700 Million In Satellite Failures , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.
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The use of plastic containers, bottles, bags, and styrofoam boxes have long been a staple in the F&B business, especially in takeaways. However, they are hardly the most environmentally-friendly solutions, which is why we’ve been seeing how some companies have stopped offering their customers plastic straws.
Now over in the state of Maine, it has now been signed into law that the use of styrofoam has been banned. This law will not be kicking in immediately and will only go into effect on the 1st of January, 2021, which hopefully will give businesses enough time to find new solutions and alternatives to the use of styrofoam.
This will affect F&B businesses such as restaurants, caterers, coffee shops, and grocery stores. According to governor Janet Mills, “Polystyrene cannot be recycled like a lot of other products, so while that cup of coffee may be finished, the Styrofoam cup it was in is not. In fact, it will be around for decades to come and eventually it will break down into particles, polluting our environment, hurting our wildlife, and even detrimentally impacting our economy.”
We have been seeing quite a lot of effort in trying to cut down on waste that isn’t recyclable. For example, it was recently that organizers of the London Marathon turned to the use of edible seaweed pouches to replace water bottles that are typically handed out to runners during a race, cutting down on a potential 200,000 plastic bottles that might have otherwise been used.
Maine Is The First State To Ban The Use Of Styrofoam , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.
Image credit – Ciel Austral
If you’re a photographer who has ever shot landscape photos, there is a good chance that long-exposure photography is something that you’re probably quite familiar with. For those who aren’t familiar, long-exposure photography means leaving the shutter of your camera open for extended periods of time to allow as much light in as possible.
This is useful in capturing certain landscape photos, especially in low-light where the long exposure will help light up the photo in a more natural manner. It is also used in astrophotography where long-exposure can help reveal more parts of the sky, which is kind of what a group of amateur photographers calling themselves Ciel Austral has done.
Image credit – Ciel Austral
Over the course of time, the team managed to capture 4,000 photos over the period of 1,060 hours of cumulative exposure, which could be seen as a world record set by non-professionals. This resulted in 620 GB of data which they then used to create the photo you see above. For non-space buffs, this is an image of the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way that’s said to be about 163,000 light-years away. The result is stunning and only goes to remind us of how small we truly are, and how there is much of the universe we have yet to truly explore.
Amateur Photographers Capture 1,060-Hour Photo Of A Galaxy , original content from Ubergizmo. Read our Copyrights and terms of use.
The Pixel 3 didn’t sell as well as the Pixel 2. That was Google’s admission in its earnings call a few days ago. But while it blamed that on economic factors and promised things will be changing in the coming months, the fact remains that the Pixel 3 may just have been too expensive for what it offers. Fortunately, the … Continue reading
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