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I’m going to watch this film, I think you should too.
A better path? I am not sure, but one that deserves serious examination.
A neat tour of the LHC with a few updates as to upgrades, plus lotsa 3D zooming!
I look at this and decide, at least on a local level, urban heating is not necessarily a bad thing. Here in Alberta we have snow a good part of the year, warmer temperatures mean on average less of the infernal stuff.
“A new British study suggests that cities are getting hotter faster than rural areas as populations increase amid general global warming.
By mid-century, night temperatures in various cities around the world could rise by five degrees Celsius, according to Richard Betts, a climate scientist with the United Kingdom’s Met office, which examines weather trends in the British Isles.
That means Toronto, which had a mean temperature in July 2009 of 19 C, could see a reading of almost 25 C for the same month by 2050.”
AGW I am sure will mess things up to a greater extent than they are now, but my selfish anti-snow genes say, bring it on.
“Before this study, researchers thought temperatures in rural and urban areas were rising by roughly the same amounts. Betts’s study indicates that cities are getting warmer faster than less urbanized areas.”
It seems to be a fairly safe hypothesis to test, as the urban ‘heat-island’ effect is easy to observe and is well documented. It is always good to see corroborating evidence.
I cautiously embrace my urban heat island because at very least it allows me a few more days of being unshod and fancy free before the indomitable torture known as winter boots. :)
My 'arch'-nemisis.
Once again, the CBC to the rescue.
Or more precisely, Jupiter’s large gravity well which does a marvellous job of sucking all sorts of interstellar debris away from Earth. Recently, Jupiter once again performed its role as our solar systems’ lifesaving vacuum cleaner.
Jupiter has been whacked again. An amateur astronomer in Australia peering at the giant gas planet Thursday reported witnessing a bright flash from an object hitting the Jovian surface and apparently burning up in the atmosphere.
Anthony Wesley, a computer programmer with a good reputation among professional astronomers, reported the cosmic collision to professional and amateur sky-gazers. The discovery was later confirmed by another amateur astronomer in the Philippines.
“When I saw the flash, I couldn’t believe it,” said Wesley. “The fireball lasted about two seconds and was very bright.”
Jupiter, takes a beating and keeps on ticking. :)
The authors of this particular video have taken pains to make particle physics and the LHC as interesting and accessible as possible. Not a lot of meat here, but still the fly though of the LHC site and some of the pictures of the first higher energy collisions are really quite fantastic.
It is a video week here at DWR for better or worse. Sometimes you just want to share cool stuff with people, the Rationalist Anthem fits nicely into that category.
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