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Mar 22, 2021

Mars 360: 1.2 billion pixel panorama of Mars — Sol 3060 (360video 8K)

Posted by in categories: climatology, media & arts, robotics/AI, space

1.2 billion pixel panorama of Mars by Curiosity rover at Sol 3060 (March 152021)

🎬 360VR video 8K: 🔎 360VR photo 85K: http://bit.ly/sol3060

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Mar 20, 2021

Training AI to be really smart poses risks to climate

Posted by in categories: climatology, robotics/AI

As artificial intelligence models grow larger and consume more energy, experts have begun to worry about their impact on Earth’s climate.

Mar 20, 2021

These Drones Will Fly Directly Into Tornadoes To Predict Future Storms

Posted by in categories: climatology, drones

Circa 2014


Better we rely on death-proof drones than human tornado-chasers.

Mar 18, 2021

“Meteorological Beast in Our Solar System” – Powerful Stratospheric Winds Measured on Jupiter for the First Time

Posted by in categories: climatology, space

“The most spectacular result is the presence of strong jets, with speeds of up to 400 meters per second, which are located under the aurorae near the poles,” says Cavalié. These wind speeds, equivalent to about 1450 kilometers an hour, are more than twice the maximum storm speeds reached in Jupiter’s Great Red Spot and over three times the wind speed measured on Earth’s strongest tornadoes.

“Our detection indicates that these jets could behave like a giant vortex with a diameter of up to four times that of Earth, and some 900 kilometers in height,” explains co-author Bilal Benmahi, also of the Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Bordeaux. “A vortex of this size would be a unique meteorological beast in our Solar System,” Cavalié adds.

Mar 16, 2021

Lightning strikes played a vital role in life’s origins on Earth: study

Posted by in category: climatology

Lightning strikes were just as important as meteorites in creating the perfect conditions for life to emerge on Earth, geologists say.

Minerals delivered to Earth in meteorites more than 4 billion years ago have long been advocated as key ingredients for the development of life on our planet.

Scientists believed minimal amounts of these minerals were also brought to early Earth through billions of lightning strikes.

Mar 14, 2021

How Far Should Humans Go to Help Species Adapt?

Posted by in categories: climatology, evolution, sustainability

A project to teach threatened marsupials to avoid feral cats is among a host of “assisted evolution” efforts to help animals in the face of climate change.

Mar 8, 2021

Nikola Tesla Predicted that the Weather Could Be Controlled and He Was Right

Posted by in categories: climatology, geoengineering

More than 100 years ago in his autobiography, Nikola Tesla reflected on the first time he had the idea to control the weather. Now, China is spending billions to prove that weather modification is possible.

Tesla wrote:

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Mar 7, 2021

Electric Hydrofoiling Watercraft

Posted by in categories: climatology, existential risks

Kevin Cuevas.

Rookie numbers we can doom ourselves far faster, but we probably wont because survived at least 6 mass extinctions and that drive probably wont change with level of tech we have now.

Nick Vincent.

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Mar 7, 2021

This innovative wind turbine can withstand hurricane-force winds

Posted by in categories: climatology, sustainability

This is much more efficient.


IceWind has redesigned the wind turbine to be more efficient and durable by reimagining the machine’s blades sideways.

Mar 5, 2021

The first known space hurricane pours electron ‘rain’

Posted by in categories: climatology, space

Satellite observations have revealed an unprecedented ‘space hurricane’ in Earth’s upper atmosphere, hinting that such events could occur on other planetary bodies.

Scientists have previously documented hurricanes in the lower atmospheres of Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. Similar phenomena have even been spotted on the Sun. But the existence of space hurricanes — hurricane-like circulation patterns in planets’ upper atmospheres — has been uncertain.


Earth’s upper atmosphere cooks up a storm.