Coronal Mass Ejections are massive disturbances on the Sun’s surface, ejecting plasma out into the solar system. Sure, they look pretty but what are the dangers of being on the receiving end of a CME?
There are a lot of problems with the “renewable” energy solutions being touted as the solutions for our problems. Not the least of which are the non-renewable components that they require and their relatively low output rates.
A new planet’s been discovered. Creatively named Kepler-22b, read on to find out how something like this gets even gets named and what it means for human civilization. Or… something.
Tyranny can come in many forms, just as often through the prosecution of silly laws as through governments ignoring core civil liberties. One of the safeguards against this is jury nullification, a right of juries since the Sixteenth Century. Of course, for those trying to put people behind bars, it’s a real impediment. So now they’re trying to lock up someone who wants to inform juries of what they can do.
I’ve been doing some modifications to the systems that run the Unified Republic of Stars and realized that the open source projects that underly everything are pretty damn amazing. If you’re interested in combining MediaWiki and WordPress, this might be the article for you.
