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We're Very Close to Having a Very, Very Good, Strong, Powerful Deal

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Judgment Fund Day

The banner image above is a map, by country, of the fraction of electricity generated by renewable energy sources. If you look in the rear view mirror, the US can be seen receding into the distant past. While the Trump Regime forces us to "Burn, Baby, Burn!" the

Nature

A Missing Messier Mystery

"There's a trick with M102," said Max. "A trick?" I asked. "What do you mean a 'trick'. It's a galaxy. The 'Spindle' galaxy." "Come on, let's go, and I'll show you.

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Make It a Dummymander

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Trump: Mexico Will Pay For Ballroom

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"I Don't Think It Means What You Think it Means"

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The Trump Regime is Pissing Into the Wind

How much offshore wind energy potential is there in the US? The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) carried out a coastal resource analysis in 2022 to answer that question. Combining near shore anchored platforms and deeper water floating platforms, NREL identified a total of 4.3 terawatts of production sites,

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The Absurdity of These Priorities

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Old Signs

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An Epic Clash of Epochs

Our destination wasn't listed anywhere in the deep space catalogs. That was the interesting thing. At least, that was the interesting thing for me. Up until now, we just needed to type the name of some deep space object, like "Andromeda Galaxy," and its coordinates would

Travel

Like a Business

This is Part 3 of series in which we travel by train to Vermont. You can read Part 1 here, and Part 2 here. The purpose of the Project is to expand and modernize Washington Union Station, the National Capital Region’s principal intermodal transportation hub. – Federal Railroad Administration 2022

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donald j. trump Terrifies SCOTUS With Lower Case Font

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Edelweiss

This is Part 2 of a series in which we travel by train to Vermont. You can read Part 1 here. We entered Union Station through an atrium on the west side of the building. Sort of "blown in" to be more accurate. I've since gathered

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The Measure of Mayhem

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All of Ours

Hundreds of thousands of stars are crammed together in that one spot, each seemingly fighting for elbow room among its brethren. At the center of the clot, the stars are packed so closely together that you can't find any black sky between them. It's like an

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Dunebunker Gives Trump Her Soapbox Derby Trophy

Nature

At the Circus

“If you can come up with something that [rich people will] regard as special, you can really make a lot of money selling to them,” said Robert Frank, a professor of management and economics at Cornell. “So, a lot of the ingenuity in the economy gets directed to things that

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Georgia Floyd County GOP Declares Heads AND Tails!

Nature

Alone On a Hill

Day after day Alone on a hill The man with the foolish grin is keeping perfectly still – Lennon-McCartney, The Fool on the Hill, 1967 It was quiet on the hill. Sitting in the afterglow. Waiting for the comet. "You look like you are here for more than the sunset,

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Spelunking the Cave

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Long-Term Weather Pattern Unsameness Attributed to Scuzzy Joule 533nmHouse Gas Farts

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Tariffs R Us

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Exceeding the Limit

“There are three interesting things about NGC 5907 – the Splinter Galaxy,” said Max. “Oh, yeah? Like what?” I asked. We had cruised to rest in a vast interstellar region towards the outskirts of the Splinter Galaxy, just inside the circling dust and smoke lanes. A galactic park, in effect, where

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What Part of "Absolute Immunity" Do You Not Understand?

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Trump to Return Alaska to Russia in Exchange for Epstein Files