It was one of the most energetic particles ever known to strike the Earth — but where did it come from? Dubbed Amaterasu after the Shinto sun goddess, this particle, as do all cosmic rays that strike the Earth’s atmosphere, caused an air shower of electrons, protons, and other elementary particles to spray down onto […]
PM Rain today! With a high of 7C and a low of 7C. 82 Humidity. 6 C currently. 23 Km/h Wind from Southwest.
Wikipedia article of the day is Hurricane Erika (2003). Check it out: Article-Link Summary: Hurricane Erika was a weak hurricane that struck northeastern Mexico in August of the 2003 Atlantic hurricane season. Erika was the eighth tropical cyclone, fifth tropical storm, and third hurricane of the season. At first, the National Hurricane Center did not […]
Wikipedia picture of the day on December 5, 2023: Southern rough-winged swallow (Stelgidopteryx ruficollis) in the Pantanal, Brazil. The Pantanal is the world’s largest tropical wetland area, most of which is flooded during the rainy season. More Info
If spacecraft are to visit the outer solar system, they must cross the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. The Pioneer mission was faced with the question of just how dangerous this asteroid belt would be to a spacecraft passing through it. via NASA https://ift.tt/NSwJWbE
“The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.” – Voltaire
“The sensitive artist knows that a bitter wind is blowing.” – Herbert Read
No, the Moon is not a bow, and no, it did not shoot out a plane like an arrow. What is pictured is a chance superposition. The plane’s contrail would normally appear white, but the large volume of air toward the rising Sun preferentially knocked away blue light, not only making the sky blue, but […]
Rain/Snow today! With a high of 3C and a low of 3C. 84 Humidity. -3 C currently. 6 Km/h Wind from Southeast.
Wikipedia article of the day is Abishabis. Check it out: Article-Link Summary: Abishabis (died 1843) was a Cree religious leader and prophet of a movement that spread during the 1840s among the Cree communities in what is now northern Manitoba and Ontario. His preaching, an admixture of Christianity and Cree beliefs, caused some Cree people […]