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in reply to Gary Hill

Well at least you saw a photograph of it : )
It will still be big tonight but no lunar eclipse : (



Mars has two small moons: Phobos and Deimos. But did it have a larger third moon in the past? In a new paper, a researcher proposes that a massive moon could help explain an outstanding puzzle about the shape of Mars. The planet has a "triaxial" shape, which means it doesn't just share the oblate spheroid shape of Earth and other rotating planets; it bulges out in a third axis. A massive moon could have distorted Mars into this shape, and then the moon was lost.

arxiv.org/abs/2408.14725



NY Times - Israel carried out its operation against Hezbollah on Tuesday by hiding explosive material within a new batch of Taiwanese-made pagers imported into Lebanon, according to American and other officials briefed on the operation. nytimes.com/2024/09/17/world/m…
in reply to Steve Herman

So they can target individuals if they want which shows killing tens of thousands of civilians by indiscriminate bombing is a choice to clear the land from people they aim to annex. There's a name for that.








"On average, you should expect fact-checks to move people in the direction of the fact-check, but there are going to be people who are really dug in. You might occasionally observe these backfire effects. And if the fact-check is particularly rude or denigrating to people’s existing worldview, you’re more likely to observe this backfire."

Good Q&A with a scientist who's been testing whether facts can change someone's mind: theatlantic.com/podcasts/archi…

Unpaywalled: theatlantic.com/podcasts/archi…





State Sen. Justine Wadsack faces October trial over Tucson speeding ticket tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor…
Arizona Sen. Justine Wadsack, a local Republican, appeared in Tucson City Court on Tuesday for a criminal speeding ticket for allegedly driving her Tesla down Speedway at more than 70 mph.
#Tucson #Arizona


gist.github.com/voidus/af267f7…
I cannot believe it took me this many years to actually write this omg it's like 15 lines of code #pytest #python #testing #dev #factoryboy


Judge Who Tossed Trump’s Docs Case Repeatedly Violated Disclosure Rule: Report | Florida Judge Aileen Cannon failed to disclose lavish trips hosted by influential conservative law school byteseu.com/427236/ #America #Politics #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #US #USPolitics #USA #USAPolitics





NORTHLAND FORECAST FOR SEPTEMBER 18, 2024:

#Summer in September continues in the #Northland.

A stray #shower or #thunderstorm is possible on the Minnesota side Tuesday night. Everyone else will see partly #cloudy skies with light #winds and lows in the 60s.

Wednesday will be #dry with a mix of sunshine and clouds. The #heat and humidity continues, pushing #temperatures to the upper 70s and 80s for highs.

VIDEO: fox21online.com/2024/09/17/tue…

#wxtooter #wx #forecast #MNwx #WIwx #UPwx