Environment

Ozone hole recovery attributed to CFC ban, but it's more likely because of the drop in solar output.

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NASA covers up Elon Musk's failures.

Environment

NASA's plan to prevent Yellowstone supervolcano eruption could set it off.

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NASA spacecraft to orbit 4 million miles from sun.

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After Trump proposes cuts to Meals on Wheels, donations surge.

Cost overruns like those for this Butler County monument are business as usual for local governments too.

Scientists acknowledge what NASA swore was water on Mars could be sand. No kidding. They don't understand Martian sandstorms either.

NASA gets more money for manned mission to Mars.

Misc

NASA issues powerful confirmation of EU theory with study showing solar wind causes lightning strikes on the moon comparable to meteor strikes.

Astronomers predict union of two stars in supernova explosion in 2022. I'm skeptical.

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NASA claims Ceres has underground ocean that could harbor life. It says that about every rocky body to make more money.

China's stock of Treasuries falls below Japan's as it continues selloff.

Four richest counties in US are suburbs of Washington DC.

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It's hilarious how NASA went from maybe there's water on Mars to giant underground reservoirs existing. This make it politically easier for Congress to fund missions, including a manned mission, to Mars.

War

The truth about ISIS.

"As a former soldier and war correspondent who has covered 14 conflicts, I look at all the media hoopla over tightening siege of Mosul, Iraq and shake my head. This western-organized “liberation” of Mosul is one of the bigger pieces of political-military theater that I’ve seen.
Islamic State(IS), the defender of Mosul, is a paper tiger, blown out of all proportion by western media.  IS is, as this  writer has been saying for years, an armed mob made up of 20-something malcontents, religious fanatics, and modern-day anarchists.  At its top is a cadre of former Iraqi Army officers with military experience.
These former officers of Saddam Hussain are bent on revenge for the US destruction of their nation and the lynching of its late leader. But IS rank and file has no military training, little discipline, degraded communications, and ragged logistics."

But they are great at media.

As Iraqi forces finally get around to taking Mosul from ISIS, casualties soar over 500.

American fighter killed in Iraq.

NASA is a cover for the military.

War wiping out gorillas in Congo.

Five unethical US military experiments I hadn't heard of.

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New study of Mars lander Viking data says the same thing the old study says: life exists on Mars. It's more lucrative to appear to be looking for life than to know it's there.

China dumps more Treasuries to prop up yuan.

Environment

NOAA admits 16 month record hot streak ended September while NASA says it was a record too. But here comes la Nina.

NOAA keeps corrupting the past record in Texas to make it look like it's warming instead of cooling.

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Headline says NASA's Hubble definitively images water vapor erupting from Europa, but when you read the article, it says what "may be water." Great propaganda. It got me to read the article. It may be water, but let's not announce it before it's known. Whatever they're made of, these plumes are probably electrically generated like the ones on Saturn's moons.

Misc

NASA can't figure out age of star.

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Compared to tax receipts, US debt is second worst in the world.

NASA and contractor HP can't upgrade computers.

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NASA was wrong when calling dark streaks on Mars running water.

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All government-funded science should be available for free. NASA is better late than never.

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Government accounting office slams NASA for unreliable spending projections.

Health Care

Epidemic of addiction and death from Big Pharma's opioid pain killers.

Apollo astronauts are five times more likely to die from heart disease than astronauts who stay in earth orbit.

Bates method and vitamin A to improve eyesight/vision.

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Curiosity rover's AI now firing laser without human intervention.

How welfare harms the people it claims to help. That's why I call it part spider's web, part spider.

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Curiosity rover to search for briny water flowing down Martian slope, but I doubt it finds any. NASA is making a mistake. It usually avoids doing meaningful science.