reminder: Inegnuity set for take off Mon afternoon

NASA's Ingenuity helicopter set to take historic flight on Mars today
ABC NEWS on MSN.com, 18 Apr 2021 19:32Z
NASA's Ingenuity helicopter will today attempt to become the first aircraft
to lift off from the surface of ...

Latest news from NASA is they plan to fly around 6pm eastern.
The new nav s/w has been downloaded and prop has been stretched.
Cross fingers it doesn't immediately smash into a rock.

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"Online Haters" Are Psychopaths, Recent Study Finds.
The Debrief, 6 Apr 2021
Recently published research finds that "online haters" or people who
post hateful comments on online forums and social media demonstrate
high levels of personality disorder traits associated with psychopathy.

[Rewriting History:]
The US military takes UFOs seriously. Why doesn't Silicon Valley or academia?
NBC News, 16 Apr 2021 21:29Z
The govt wants to know if these unidentified objects pose a military
threat. But they also represent an opportunity to ...

UFO sightings ignored by Pentagon, former insider says
ABC News, 13 Mar 2018
Christopher Mellon, a former deputy assistant secretary of defence for
intelligence, accuses the US Government of failing to investigate ...

NASA Picks SpaceX for Artemis Human Lunar Lander Development
NASA, 16 Apr 2021 22:49Z

First multi-node quantum network paves the way for the quantum internet
ZDNet, 16 Apr 2021 13:48Z
Researchers in the Netherlands have established an entanglement-based
network between 3 quantum processors for the first time.

Cape Town wildfire spreads to university, forcing evacuation of students
ABC News, 18 Apr 2021 21:28Z
A wildfire raging on the slopes of Cape Town's Table Mountain spreads to the
University of Cape Town, burning the historic campus library and forcing the
evacuation of students.

Surprising Side Effects Bread Has On Your Gut, Says Science
msnNOW, 18 Apr 2021 11:47Z
Although bread gets shunned, choosing the right type of bread can have
positive effects on your gut-or negative if you choose the wrong one.

NASA Pays Elon Musk's SpaceX $2.9 Billion To Ferry Astronauts To Moon Surface
NPR, 17 Apr 2021 23:55Z
The company beat out 2 others in its bid to develop a lunar lander that
will bring Americans back to the moon in the coming years.

Despite Tensions, US and China Agree to Work Together on Climate Change
The New York Times, 18 Apr 2021 02:45Z
Seoul. The United States and China have agreed to fight climate change "with
the seriousness and urgency that it demands" by stepping up efforts to reduce ...

The shocking prediction about sperm count that could have huge ramifications
for humanity
ABC/The Conversation, 17 Apr 2021 at 7:00pm
Our chemical environment appears to be responsible for an alarming plummet
in sperm counts - in humans and in animals, write Alex Ford and Gary Hutchison.

Salisbury poisoning agents 'linked to Czech blast'
BBC News, 17 Apr 2021 23:37Z
Two Russian men suspected of carrying out the Salisbury poisoning of Sergei
Skripal in 2018 are being linked to an explosion at an arms depot in the
Czech ...

Experiments cast doubts on the existence of quantum spin liquids
Phys.org, 16 Apr 2021
A quantum spin liquid is a state of matter in which interacting quantum
spins do not align even at lowest temperatures, but remain disordered.
Research on this ...

Least Vaccinated US Counties Have Something in Common: Trump Voters
The New York Times, 17 Apr 2021 09:58Z
A Times analysis found that willingness to receive a vaccine and actual
vaccination rates to date were both lower, on average, in counties that
voted red in the ...

Philippines: Giant clam shells worth $25m seized in raid
Yahoo News, 17 Apr 2021 09:45Z
The 200-tonne seizure is one of the largest ever hauls of the endangered
species.

TX Politicians Aim to Penalize Wind and Solar in Response to Outages. Are
Renewables Now Strong Enough to Defend Themselves?
InsideClimate News, 17 Apr 2021 09:44Z
TX lawmakers are pushing legislation aimed at what they see as the
culprit in the massive power outages and more than 100 deaths during
Feb's winter ...

Will green hydrogen be Australia's new climate friendly fuel?
ABC/Landline, 17 Apr 2021 0:35Z
Experts and big companies are testing the waters to see if green hydrogen
will be our energy of the future.

[The New Coal:]
Gas Is the New Coal With Risk of $100 Billion in Stranded Assets
Yahoo Finance, 17 Apr 2021 04:56Z
(Bloomberg). Natural gas is falling out of favor with emissions-wary
investors and utilities at a quicker pace than coal did, catching some power
generators ...

Worldwide COVID-19 death toll tops a staggering 3 mn
Associated Press, 17 Apr 2021 09:55Z
Rio de Janeiro. The global death toll from the coronavirus topped a
staggering 3 mn people Sat amid repeated setbacks in the worldwide ...

Covid-19 Pushes India's Middle Class Toward Poverty
The New York Times, 17 Apr 2021 01:54Z
The pandemic sent 32 mn people in India from the middle class last year.
Now a second wave is threatening the dreams of mns more looking for a
better ...