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It isn’t time yet for Firefox’s biggest update, but Mozilla is serving up some small features as an appetizer. While not yet Project Quantum fast, the latest version of Firefox is still faster because it removes the need for convoluted processes and workarounds just to perform some of the most common tasks you do on the web, like filling out … Continue reading
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Google is building a smart screen competitor to Amazon’s Echo Show | TechCrunch
'Multiple sources tell TechCrunch that Google is building a tabletop smart screen for video calling and more that will compete with Amazon’s Echo Show. The device could help Google keep up in the race for the smart home market after Amazon just revealed a slew of new Echos and as Facebook continues to work on its codename “Aloha” video calling screen.'
https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/28/google-homescreen
'Multiple sources tell TechCrunch that Google is building a tabletop smart screen for video calling and more that will compete with Amazon’s Echo Show. The device could help Google keep up in the race for the smart home market after Amazon just revealed a slew of new Echos and as Facebook continues to work on its codename “Aloha” video calling screen.'
https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/28/google-homescreen
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Potato Peel – The Best Way To Get Rid Of Gray Hair! Here Is How!
Even though some women reveal that gray hair is attractive as well as a sign associated with distinction, not every woman has the feeling that we look great with it and they look for methods to conceal it. However, accomplishing this particular goal demands using chemical substances that harm the skin, dry your hair, as well as are expensive.
#potatopeel #potato #hair #grayhair #skin #recipe #healthcaresolution #Healthcare #HealthyLiving #Health #Medicine #Explore #Natural #Treatment #Holistic #Workout
Even though some women reveal that gray hair is attractive as well as a sign associated with distinction, not every woman has the feeling that we look great with it and they look for methods to conceal it. However, accomplishing this particular goal demands using chemical substances that harm the skin, dry your hair, as well as are expensive.
#potatopeel #potato #hair #grayhair #skin #recipe #healthcaresolution #Healthcare #HealthyLiving #Health #Medicine #Explore #Natural #Treatment #Holistic #Workout
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Bursting with Starbirth
This oddly-shaped galactic spectacle is bursting with brand new stars. The pink fireworks in this image taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope are regions of intense star formation, triggered by a cosmic-scale collision. The huge galaxy in this image, NGC 4490, has a smaller galaxy in its gravitational grip and is feeling the strain.
Compared to the other fundamental forces in the Universe, gravity is fairly weak. Despite this, gravity has an influence over huge distances and is the driving force behind the motions of the most massive objects in the cosmos. The scattered and warped appearance of the galaxy in this image, NGC 4490, is a prime example of the results of gravity’s unrelenting tug.
Over millions of years, the mutual gravitational attraction between NGC 4490 and its smaller neighbour, NGC 4485, has dragged the two galaxies closer. Eventually, they collided in a swirling crush of stars, gas, and dust. In this image, this most intense period is already over and the two galaxies have moved through each other, untangled themselves, and are speeding apart again. But gravity’s pull is relentless; the galaxies are likely to collide again within a few billion years.
Together NGC 4490 and NGC 4485 form the system Arp 269, which is featured in the Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies. They are located 24 million light-years from Earth in the constellation of Canes Venatici (The Hunting Dogs). The extreme tidal forces of their interaction have determined the shapes and properties of the two galaxies. Once a barred spiral galaxy, similar to the Milky Way, NGC 4490’s outlying regions have been stretched out, resulting in its nickname of the Cocoon Galaxy. Virtually no trace of its past spiral structure can be seen from our perspective, although its companion galaxy NGC 4485 — not pictured here — still clings on to its spiral arms.
This cosmic collision has created rippling patches of higher density gas and dust within both galaxies. The conditions there are ripe for star formation; the brilliant pink pockets of light seen here are dense clouds of ionised hydrogen, glowing as they are irradiated with ultraviolet light from nearby young, hot stars. This spectacular burst of new activity has led to NGC 4490’s classification as a starburst galaxy.
Star formation is also evident in the thin thread that connects the two galaxies: a bridge of stars created by the ancient crash, stretching over the 24 000 light-years that currently separate the fated pair. But where there is life, there is also death. Several supernovae have also been spotted in NGC 4490 over the past few decades, including SN 1982F and SN 2008ax.
More information
The Hubble Space Telescope is a project of international cooperation between ESA and NASA.
The Image
Result of a galactic crash
This image, taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, shows the galaxy NGC 4490. The scattered and warped appearance of the galaxy are the result of a past cosmic collision with another galaxy, NGC 4485 (not visible in this image).
The extreme tidal forces of the interaction between the two galaxies have carved out the shapes and properties of NGC 4490. Once a barred spiral galaxy, the outlying regions of NGC 4490 have been stretched out, resulting in its nickname of the Cocoon Galaxy.
Image credit: ESA/Hubble, NASA
Acknowledgements: D. Calzetti (UMass) and the LEGUS Team, J. Maund (University of Sheffield), and R. Chandar (University of Toledo)
This oddly-shaped galactic spectacle is bursting with brand new stars. The pink fireworks in this image taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope are regions of intense star formation, triggered by a cosmic-scale collision. The huge galaxy in this image, NGC 4490, has a smaller galaxy in its gravitational grip and is feeling the strain.
Compared to the other fundamental forces in the Universe, gravity is fairly weak. Despite this, gravity has an influence over huge distances and is the driving force behind the motions of the most massive objects in the cosmos. The scattered and warped appearance of the galaxy in this image, NGC 4490, is a prime example of the results of gravity’s unrelenting tug.
Over millions of years, the mutual gravitational attraction between NGC 4490 and its smaller neighbour, NGC 4485, has dragged the two galaxies closer. Eventually, they collided in a swirling crush of stars, gas, and dust. In this image, this most intense period is already over and the two galaxies have moved through each other, untangled themselves, and are speeding apart again. But gravity’s pull is relentless; the galaxies are likely to collide again within a few billion years.
Together NGC 4490 and NGC 4485 form the system Arp 269, which is featured in the Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies. They are located 24 million light-years from Earth in the constellation of Canes Venatici (The Hunting Dogs). The extreme tidal forces of their interaction have determined the shapes and properties of the two galaxies. Once a barred spiral galaxy, similar to the Milky Way, NGC 4490’s outlying regions have been stretched out, resulting in its nickname of the Cocoon Galaxy. Virtually no trace of its past spiral structure can be seen from our perspective, although its companion galaxy NGC 4485 — not pictured here — still clings on to its spiral arms.
This cosmic collision has created rippling patches of higher density gas and dust within both galaxies. The conditions there are ripe for star formation; the brilliant pink pockets of light seen here are dense clouds of ionised hydrogen, glowing as they are irradiated with ultraviolet light from nearby young, hot stars. This spectacular burst of new activity has led to NGC 4490’s classification as a starburst galaxy.
Star formation is also evident in the thin thread that connects the two galaxies: a bridge of stars created by the ancient crash, stretching over the 24 000 light-years that currently separate the fated pair. But where there is life, there is also death. Several supernovae have also been spotted in NGC 4490 over the past few decades, including SN 1982F and SN 2008ax.
More information
The Hubble Space Telescope is a project of international cooperation between ESA and NASA.
The Image
Result of a galactic crash
This image, taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, shows the galaxy NGC 4490. The scattered and warped appearance of the galaxy are the result of a past cosmic collision with another galaxy, NGC 4485 (not visible in this image).
The extreme tidal forces of the interaction between the two galaxies have carved out the shapes and properties of NGC 4490. Once a barred spiral galaxy, the outlying regions of NGC 4490 have been stretched out, resulting in its nickname of the Cocoon Galaxy.
Image credit: ESA/Hubble, NASA
Acknowledgements: D. Calzetti (UMass) and the LEGUS Team, J. Maund (University of Sheffield), and R. Chandar (University of Toledo)
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Kourtney Kardashian Is Giving Low-Key Looks In Paris
On Tuesday, Paris Fashion Week kicked off and while Kim Kardashian West probably will not be in attendance for the festivities, that hasn’t stopped her big sister Kourtney from joining in on the fun. Kourtney doesn’t seem to be sweating the news that Scott Disick, the father of her three children, is rumored to be gallivanting around with Sofia Richie, a woman 15 years his junior. Instead Robert Kardashian’s eldest child is back in the City of Lights, almost a year to the date of her sister’s frightening robbery — and she’s having a grand old time.
She and her model boyfriend Younes Bendjima, are in Paris going to art museums, football games, and even visiting the French version of Disneyland. And while Kourt looks good, it’s definitely more low-key than the outfits she wore during her last jaunt to the city. This trip, she’s wearing chic and functional separates (we’ve yet to see anything fur or sequined) and we’re just trying to keep up.
Clearly Kardashian isn’t opposed to hopping on a plane to take her fashion show on the road (why would she with airport outfits like hers?) but we wonder if her brother-in-law Kanye West’s rumored Yeezy Season Six show is on her (stylish) agenda and what she’ll wear. In the meantime, click ahead to see what she’s worn so far.
http://www.refinery29.com/2017/09/174339/kourtney-kardashian-paris-fashion-week-2017
On Tuesday, Paris Fashion Week kicked off and while Kim Kardashian West probably will not be in attendance for the festivities, that hasn’t stopped her big sister Kourtney from joining in on the fun. Kourtney doesn’t seem to be sweating the news that Scott Disick, the father of her three children, is rumored to be gallivanting around with Sofia Richie, a woman 15 years his junior. Instead Robert Kardashian’s eldest child is back in the City of Lights, almost a year to the date of her sister’s frightening robbery — and she’s having a grand old time.
She and her model boyfriend Younes Bendjima, are in Paris going to art museums, football games, and even visiting the French version of Disneyland. And while Kourt looks good, it’s definitely more low-key than the outfits she wore during her last jaunt to the city. This trip, she’s wearing chic and functional separates (we’ve yet to see anything fur or sequined) and we’re just trying to keep up.
Clearly Kardashian isn’t opposed to hopping on a plane to take her fashion show on the road (why would she with airport outfits like hers?) but we wonder if her brother-in-law Kanye West’s rumored Yeezy Season Six show is on her (stylish) agenda and what she’ll wear. In the meantime, click ahead to see what she’s worn so far.
http://www.refinery29.com/2017/09/174339/kourtney-kardashian-paris-fashion-week-2017
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Lebron James Injured His Left Ankle During Practice
Lebron James injured his left ankle on Wednesday during practice.
The Cavs announced that James turned his left ankle during practice. James got x-rays on his ankle. The results came back negative. He did not practice with the Cavs on Thursday. James got treatment on his left ankle on Thursday as the Cavs were practicing.
The Cavs will evaluate James's left ankle on a daily basis.
What do you think about James's left ankle injury?
https://mindbodycollide.blogspot.com
Lebron James injured his left ankle on Wednesday during practice.
The Cavs announced that James turned his left ankle during practice. James got x-rays on his ankle. The results came back negative. He did not practice with the Cavs on Thursday. James got treatment on his left ankle on Thursday as the Cavs were practicing.
The Cavs will evaluate James's left ankle on a daily basis.
What do you think about James's left ankle injury?
https://mindbodycollide.blogspot.com
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Every time we learn a new skill, pick up a new habit, or go through an emotional experience, our brain takes note and its circuits undergo change. But the brain's much-heralded "plasticity" is just part of the story: if everything changed all the time, how could we maintain the memories, skills, and knowledge that make us who we are? Plasticity only has value against a predictable, stable background, and factors that threaten this stability—from genetic mutations present at birth, to life experiences such as trauma, drug abuse, and aging—have the potential to trigger brain disorders, the researchers said.
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Subconscious Awareness
Awareness can be part of it, but it’s much more than that.
"Consciousness may never arise—be it in babies, children or adults—because it may always be there to begin with. For all we know, what arises is merely a metacognitive configuration."
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[ Emergent Consciousness ]
An article on the neuroscience of infant consciousness, which attracted some interest a few years ago, asked: “When does your baby become conscious?” The premise, of course, was that babies aren’t born conscious but, instead, develop consciousness at some point. (According to the article, it is about five months of age). Yet, it is hard to think that there is nothing it feels like to be a newborn.
[ Biological Consciousness ]
Newborns clearly seem to experience their own bodies, environment, the presence of their parents, etcetera—albeit in an unreflective, present-oriented manner. And if it always feels like something to be a baby, then babies don’t become conscious. Instead, they are conscious from the get-go.
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[ Conscious Attention ]
The problem is that, somewhat alarmingly, the word “consciousness” is often used in the literature as if it entailed or implied more than just the qualities of experience. Dijksterhuis and Nordgren, for instance, insisted that “it is very important to realize that attention is the key to distinguish between unconscious thought and conscious thought. Conscious thought is thought with attention.” This implies that if a thought escapes attention, then it is unconscious.
[ Experiential Consciousness ]
But is the mere lack of attention enough to assert that a mental process lacks the qualities of experience? Couldn’t a process that escapes the focus of attention still feel like something? Consider your breathing right now: the sensation of air flowing through your nostrils, the movements of your diaphragm, etcetera. Were you not experiencing these sensations a moment ago, before I directed your attention to them? Or were you just unaware that you were experiencing them all along? By directing your attention to these sensations, did I make them conscious or did I simply cause you to experience the extra quality of knowing that the sensations were conscious?
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[ Meta-Consciousness ]
Indeed, Jonathan Schooler has established a clear distinction between conscious and meta-conscious processes. Whereas both types entail the qualities of experience, meta-conscious processes also entail what he called re-representation. “Periodically attention is directed towards explicitly assessing the contents of experience. The resulting meta-consciousness involves an explicit re-representation of consciousness in which one interprets, describes or otherwise characterizes the state of one’s mind.
[ Introspective Reporting ]
So where attention plays an important role is in re-representation; that is, the conscious knowledge of an experience, which underlies introspection. Subjects cannot report—not even to themselves—experiences that aren’t re-represented.
[ No-Report Experiences ]
Nothing, however, stops conscious experience from occurring without re-representation: Dreams, for instance, have been shown to lack re-representation, despite the undeniable fact they are experienced in consciousness. This gap between reportability and the contents of consciousness has motivated the emergence of so-called “no-report paradigms” in the modern neuroscience of consciousness.
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[ Awareness without Attention ]
Clearly, the assumption that consciousness is limited to re-represented mental contents under the focus of attention mistakenly conflates meta-consciousness with consciousness proper. Yet, this conflation is disturbingly widespread. Consider Axel Cleeremans’s words: “Awareness…always seems to minimally entail the ability of knowing that one knows. This ability, after all, forms the basis for the verbal reports we take to be the most direct indication of awareness. And when we observe the absence of such ability to report on the knowledge involved in our decisions, we rightfully conclude the decision was based on unconscious knowledge.”
[ Empiricism and Science ]
Because the study of the Neural Correlates of Consciousness (NCC) is, by and large, dependent on subjective reports of experience, what passes for the NCC is liable to be merely the neural correlates of meta-consciousness. As such, potentially conscious mental activity—in the sense of activity correlated with experiential qualities—may evade recognition as such.
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[ Meta-Feedback Loop ]
As a matter of fact, there is circumstantial but compelling evidence that this is precisely the case. To see it, notice first the conscious knowledge N—that is, the re-representation—of an experience X is triggered by the occurrence of X. For instance, it is the occurrence of a sense perception that triggers the metacognitive realization one is perceiving something. N, in turn, evokes X by directing attention back to it: the realization one is perceiving something naturally shifts one’s mental focus back to the original perception. So we end up with a back-and-forth cycle of evocations whereby X triggers N, which in turn evokes X, which again triggers N, and so forth.
[ Unconscious Awareness ]
As it turns out, characterizations of the NCC show precisely this pattern of reverberating back-and-forth communications among different brain regions. Researchers suspect even that when damage to the primary visual cortex presumably interrupts an instance of this kind of reverberation, patients display blindsight. That is, the ability to correctly discriminate moving objects despite the reported inability to see them. This is precisely what one would expect if the reverberation in question were the oscillations between X and N: The objects are consciously perceived—which therefore explains how the patients discriminate them—but the patients do not know they consciously perceive the objects.
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[ Conscious Unconscious ]
By mistaking meta-consciousness for consciousness, we create two significant problems: First, we fail to distinguish between conscious processes that lack re-representation and truly unconscious processes. After all, both are equally unreportable to self and others. This misleads us to conclude there is a mental unconscious when, in reality, there may always be something it feels like to have each and every mental process in our psyche.
[ Metacognitive Emergence ]
Second, we fail to see our partial and tentative explanations for the alleged rise of consciousness may concern merely the rise of metacognition.
This is liable to create the illusion we are making progress toward solving the “hard problem of consciousness” when, in fact, we are bypassing it altogether: Mechanisms of metacognition are entirely unrelated to the problem of how the qualities of experience could arise from physical arrangements.
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[ Preexisting Consciousness ]
Consciousness may never arise—be it in babies, toddlers, children or adults—because it may always be there to begin with. For all we know, what arises is merely a metacognitive configuration of preexisting consciousness. If so, consciousness may be fundamental in nature—an inherent aspect of every mental process, not a property constituted or somehow generated by particular physical arrangements of the brain.
Claims, grounded in subjective reports of experience, of progress toward reducing consciousness to brain physiology may have little—if anything—to do with consciousness proper, but with mechanisms of metacognition instead.
Awareness can be part of it, but it’s much more than that.
"Consciousness may never arise—be it in babies, children or adults—because it may always be there to begin with. For all we know, what arises is merely a metacognitive configuration."
[ Emergent Consciousness ]
An article on the neuroscience of infant consciousness, which attracted some interest a few years ago, asked: “When does your baby become conscious?” The premise, of course, was that babies aren’t born conscious but, instead, develop consciousness at some point. (According to the article, it is about five months of age). Yet, it is hard to think that there is nothing it feels like to be a newborn.
[ Biological Consciousness ]
Newborns clearly seem to experience their own bodies, environment, the presence of their parents, etcetera—albeit in an unreflective, present-oriented manner. And if it always feels like something to be a baby, then babies don’t become conscious. Instead, they are conscious from the get-go.
[ Conscious Attention ]
The problem is that, somewhat alarmingly, the word “consciousness” is often used in the literature as if it entailed or implied more than just the qualities of experience. Dijksterhuis and Nordgren, for instance, insisted that “it is very important to realize that attention is the key to distinguish between unconscious thought and conscious thought. Conscious thought is thought with attention.” This implies that if a thought escapes attention, then it is unconscious.
[ Experiential Consciousness ]
But is the mere lack of attention enough to assert that a mental process lacks the qualities of experience? Couldn’t a process that escapes the focus of attention still feel like something? Consider your breathing right now: the sensation of air flowing through your nostrils, the movements of your diaphragm, etcetera. Were you not experiencing these sensations a moment ago, before I directed your attention to them? Or were you just unaware that you were experiencing them all along? By directing your attention to these sensations, did I make them conscious or did I simply cause you to experience the extra quality of knowing that the sensations were conscious?
[ Meta-Consciousness ]
Indeed, Jonathan Schooler has established a clear distinction between conscious and meta-conscious processes. Whereas both types entail the qualities of experience, meta-conscious processes also entail what he called re-representation. “Periodically attention is directed towards explicitly assessing the contents of experience. The resulting meta-consciousness involves an explicit re-representation of consciousness in which one interprets, describes or otherwise characterizes the state of one’s mind.
[ Introspective Reporting ]
So where attention plays an important role is in re-representation; that is, the conscious knowledge of an experience, which underlies introspection. Subjects cannot report—not even to themselves—experiences that aren’t re-represented.
[ No-Report Experiences ]
Nothing, however, stops conscious experience from occurring without re-representation: Dreams, for instance, have been shown to lack re-representation, despite the undeniable fact they are experienced in consciousness. This gap between reportability and the contents of consciousness has motivated the emergence of so-called “no-report paradigms” in the modern neuroscience of consciousness.
[ Awareness without Attention ]
Clearly, the assumption that consciousness is limited to re-represented mental contents under the focus of attention mistakenly conflates meta-consciousness with consciousness proper. Yet, this conflation is disturbingly widespread. Consider Axel Cleeremans’s words: “Awareness…always seems to minimally entail the ability of knowing that one knows. This ability, after all, forms the basis for the verbal reports we take to be the most direct indication of awareness. And when we observe the absence of such ability to report on the knowledge involved in our decisions, we rightfully conclude the decision was based on unconscious knowledge.”
[ Empiricism and Science ]
Because the study of the Neural Correlates of Consciousness (NCC) is, by and large, dependent on subjective reports of experience, what passes for the NCC is liable to be merely the neural correlates of meta-consciousness. As such, potentially conscious mental activity—in the sense of activity correlated with experiential qualities—may evade recognition as such.
[ Meta-Feedback Loop ]
As a matter of fact, there is circumstantial but compelling evidence that this is precisely the case. To see it, notice first the conscious knowledge N—that is, the re-representation—of an experience X is triggered by the occurrence of X. For instance, it is the occurrence of a sense perception that triggers the metacognitive realization one is perceiving something. N, in turn, evokes X by directing attention back to it: the realization one is perceiving something naturally shifts one’s mental focus back to the original perception. So we end up with a back-and-forth cycle of evocations whereby X triggers N, which in turn evokes X, which again triggers N, and so forth.
[ Unconscious Awareness ]
As it turns out, characterizations of the NCC show precisely this pattern of reverberating back-and-forth communications among different brain regions. Researchers suspect even that when damage to the primary visual cortex presumably interrupts an instance of this kind of reverberation, patients display blindsight. That is, the ability to correctly discriminate moving objects despite the reported inability to see them. This is precisely what one would expect if the reverberation in question were the oscillations between X and N: The objects are consciously perceived—which therefore explains how the patients discriminate them—but the patients do not know they consciously perceive the objects.
[ Conscious Unconscious ]
By mistaking meta-consciousness for consciousness, we create two significant problems: First, we fail to distinguish between conscious processes that lack re-representation and truly unconscious processes. After all, both are equally unreportable to self and others. This misleads us to conclude there is a mental unconscious when, in reality, there may always be something it feels like to have each and every mental process in our psyche.
[ Metacognitive Emergence ]
Second, we fail to see our partial and tentative explanations for the alleged rise of consciousness may concern merely the rise of metacognition.
This is liable to create the illusion we are making progress toward solving the “hard problem of consciousness” when, in fact, we are bypassing it altogether: Mechanisms of metacognition are entirely unrelated to the problem of how the qualities of experience could arise from physical arrangements.
[ Preexisting Consciousness ]
Consciousness may never arise—be it in babies, toddlers, children or adults—because it may always be there to begin with. For all we know, what arises is merely a metacognitive configuration of preexisting consciousness. If so, consciousness may be fundamental in nature—an inherent aspect of every mental process, not a property constituted or somehow generated by particular physical arrangements of the brain.
Claims, grounded in subjective reports of experience, of progress toward reducing consciousness to brain physiology may have little—if anything—to do with consciousness proper, but with mechanisms of metacognition instead.
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Elon Musk was at IAC showing off his ambitious plan to ultimately make Earth an interplanetary species, and one of the new pieces of his plan he revealed was Earth-to-Earth transport using SpaceX rockets to cut down trips to almost anywhere on Earth in under an hour, and to most destinations in under 30 minutes.
The plan would essentially fly passengers up to an altitude where the craft would encounter virtually no resistance from air or wind, which would dramatically increase potential speed and efficiency in terms of fuel use.
The plan would essentially fly passengers up to an altitude where the craft would encounter virtually no resistance from air or wind, which would dramatically increase potential speed and efficiency in terms of fuel use.
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Dover + Las Vegas: NASCAR TV Schedule https://racingnews.co/2017/09/29/2017-nascar-dover-tv-schedule-sept-29-oct-1/
Tags: #nascar #doverinternationalspeedway #lasvegasmotorspeedway
Tags: #nascar #doverinternationalspeedway #lasvegasmotorspeedway
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An article published in the magazine "Icarus" describes a research that offers an explanation for the origin ice blades that are tens of meters high found on Pluto. According to a team of researchers led by Jeffrey Moore, one of NASA's New Horizons mission scientists, those blades originated in the freezing and subsequent erosion of methane at the highest altitudes of the dwarf planet, with a process similar to what happens on the Earth, for example on the Andes, but with much larger sizes.
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Live: Everything Elon Musk Just Unveiled About His Plans to Colonize Mars
"Every year, the who’s who of the space industry gathers at the International Astronautical Congress (IAC) to celebrate all things space-related. The week-long event is essentially the Comic-Con of space exploration, with panels of astronauts replacing the cast of Game of Thrones and talks on off-world colonization filling in for the latest Marvel movie trailer.
This year’s IAC is being held in Adelaide, Australia, and the past few days have delivered their share of excitement..."
#future = #REALnews #tech #innovation #design #sustainability #science #engineering #singularity #progress #space
https://futurism.com/live-everything-elon-musk-just-unveiled-about-his-plans-to-colonize-mars/amp/
"Every year, the who’s who of the space industry gathers at the International Astronautical Congress (IAC) to celebrate all things space-related. The week-long event is essentially the Comic-Con of space exploration, with panels of astronauts replacing the cast of Game of Thrones and talks on off-world colonization filling in for the latest Marvel movie trailer.
This year’s IAC is being held in Adelaide, Australia, and the past few days have delivered their share of excitement..."
#future = #REALnews #tech #innovation #design #sustainability #science #engineering #singularity #progress #space
https://futurism.com/live-everything-elon-musk-just-unveiled-about-his-plans-to-colonize-mars/amp/
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"Steve": The Strange Auroral Arc
Credit: John Andersen
Location: Alberta, Canada
Release Date: September 28, 2017
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+Rory Aurorasaurus
+The Royal Astronomical Society of Canada
+NASA Goddard
#Earth #Astronomy #Science #Space #Stars #Aurora #Borealis #NorthernLights #Steve #Auroral #Arc #Gas #Phenomenon #Photography #Astrophotography #Panorama #Alberta #Canada #STEM #Education #CitizenScience
Credit: John Andersen
Location: Alberta, Canada
Release Date: September 28, 2017
+Aurorasaurus
+Rory Aurorasaurus
+The Royal Astronomical Society of Canada
+NASA Goddard
#Earth #Astronomy #Science #Space #Stars #Aurora #Borealis #NorthernLights #Steve #Auroral #Arc #Gas #Phenomenon #Photography #Astrophotography #Panorama #Alberta #Canada #STEM #Education #CitizenScience
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Are you surprised, or did you expect it to arrive that soon?
#nokia #nokia8 #android80oreo #news #android
#nokia #nokia8 #android80oreo #news #android
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Trump has a habit of deleting his tweets after they prove embarrassing, and especially when they pertain to evidence of his support of people he later deems to be political failures.
He's desperate to maintain his personal fantasy, however false, that everything he touches creates success. To preserve a link to any record of his support of people, who in his eyes "fail," is damaging to that fantasy.
From the article linked below:
Trump Deleting Tweets After Luther Strange's Loss Raises Legal Questions
NPR -- Brian Naylor · Sep 28, 2017
After the candidate whom President Trump backed in Tuesday's Alabama Senate primary, Luther Strange, lost to Roy Moore, Trump summarily deleted several tweets he had made in support of Strange. However, they were archived on ProPublica's Politiwhoops website.
Among them: "Luther Strange has been shooting up in the Alabama polls since my endorsement. Finish the job-vote today for "Big Luther"
And: "ALABAMA, get out and vote for Luther Strange-he has proven to me that he will never let you down!#MAGA"
...Trump's actions to remove the tweets from his feed have raised some legal questions.
In June, two government watchdog groups, the National Security Archive and Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, brought a lawsuit against the Trump administration in part for deleting other tweets, arguing it was in violation of the Presidential Records Act.
According to the website of the National Archives, which administers the act, it places "the responsibility for the custody and management of incumbent Presidential records with the President."
At the time the lawsuit was filed, CREW Executive Director Noah Bookbinder said that "by deleting these records, the White House is destroying essential historical records."
In an email, CREW Communications Director Jordan Libowitz said Trump can delete "purely political tweets," which he said are not covered by the Presidential Records Act.
However, Libowitz said Trump has been deleting a lot of tweets, and that "particularly as the government has acknowledged @realdonaldtrump tweets to be official statements, deleting those tweets which are not purely political would violate the [Presidential Records Act] if the tweets are not archived."
Lauren Harper of the nonprofit National Security Archive, .... says the deletion of the Strange tweets "is part of a larger pattern" of the Trump administration's not taking record keeping seriously.
There was also the "covfefe" kerfuffle in May, when Trump tweeted the mysterious nonword, which was retweeted more than 100,000 times before being deleted. In June, Rep. Mike Quigley, D-Ill., introduced the "COVFEFE Act of 2017" to officially make social media part of the Presidential Records Act.
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He's desperate to maintain his personal fantasy, however false, that everything he touches creates success. To preserve a link to any record of his support of people, who in his eyes "fail," is damaging to that fantasy.
From the article linked below:
Trump Deleting Tweets After Luther Strange's Loss Raises Legal Questions
NPR -- Brian Naylor · Sep 28, 2017
After the candidate whom President Trump backed in Tuesday's Alabama Senate primary, Luther Strange, lost to Roy Moore, Trump summarily deleted several tweets he had made in support of Strange. However, they were archived on ProPublica's Politiwhoops website.
Among them: "Luther Strange has been shooting up in the Alabama polls since my endorsement. Finish the job-vote today for "Big Luther"
And: "ALABAMA, get out and vote for Luther Strange-he has proven to me that he will never let you down!#MAGA"
...Trump's actions to remove the tweets from his feed have raised some legal questions.
In June, two government watchdog groups, the National Security Archive and Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, brought a lawsuit against the Trump administration in part for deleting other tweets, arguing it was in violation of the Presidential Records Act.
According to the website of the National Archives, which administers the act, it places "the responsibility for the custody and management of incumbent Presidential records with the President."
At the time the lawsuit was filed, CREW Executive Director Noah Bookbinder said that "by deleting these records, the White House is destroying essential historical records."
In an email, CREW Communications Director Jordan Libowitz said Trump can delete "purely political tweets," which he said are not covered by the Presidential Records Act.
However, Libowitz said Trump has been deleting a lot of tweets, and that "particularly as the government has acknowledged @realdonaldtrump tweets to be official statements, deleting those tweets which are not purely political would violate the [Presidential Records Act] if the tweets are not archived."
Lauren Harper of the nonprofit National Security Archive, .... says the deletion of the Strange tweets "is part of a larger pattern" of the Trump administration's not taking record keeping seriously.
There was also the "covfefe" kerfuffle in May, when Trump tweeted the mysterious nonword, which was retweeted more than 100,000 times before being deleted. In June, Rep. Mike Quigley, D-Ill., introduced the "COVFEFE Act of 2017" to officially make social media part of the Presidential Records Act.
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