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EXCLUSIVE Pentagon to boost rare earths and lithium stockpiles -sources

Reuters 19 Feb 2022
WASHINGTON, Feb 18 (Reuters) - The Pentagon plans to boost the stockpile of rare earth minerals, cobalt and lithium it manages for the U.S ... military scientists developed the most widely-used type of rare earth magnet but China has slowly grown to control the entire sector in the past 30 years.
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Ed Pratt: A chance encounter with crime prompts some soul searching

The Advocate 19 Feb 2022
It was a Sunday afternoon, about two weeks ago, when I saw a young man lying on the walkway entrance into my favorite gas station. He was about 50 feet from me and there were people crouched over treating him. I thought the person had been shot ... Again, why on Earth had I never asked his name over all these years? I was really troubled by that ... .
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The Star Trek Cast Is Returning for Another Adventure, and More Movie News

Rotten Tomatoes 19 Feb 2022
Let’s consider, for example, the last few years of Star Trek. The current Star Trek streaming renaissance began just five years ago with Star Trek ... Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings trilogy, but rather the various stories set thousands of years earlier found in The Silmarillion, Unfinished Tales, and The History of Middle-earth.
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The most precise atomic clocks ever are proving Einstein right—again

Popular Science 18 Feb 2022
For most of human history, we kept time by Earth’s place in space. The second was a subdivision of an Earth day, and, later, an Earth year. The timespan was defined by where Earth was ... Take Earth ... Earth’s core is actually 2.5 years older than Earth’s crust ... look under Earth’s surface.
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Planetary intelligence: Can an entire planet think like we do?

Interesting Engineering 18 Feb 2022
And when it comes to the interconnected systems of the Earth, we see it all the time ... Stage 1 is the "immature biosphere," which the researchers say happened when the Earth was very young, billions of years ago ... The second stage is the "mature biosphere," which was the Earth from roughly 2.5 billion to 540 million years ago.
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Happy Mars-iversary, Perseverance

Popular Science 18 Feb 2022
Huzzah! Perseverance has made it through one Earth year on the Red Planet ... As Perseverance hunts for microbial life around a billions-year-old lakebed, the Mars 2020 team is analyzing the raw data it transmits back to Earth ... But Percy is built for long-term science—its power reserves should last another 13 Earth years, or 6.9 Mars years.
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Scientists discover third rock around alien sun

Yahoo Daily News 18 Feb 2022
And while the newly-found planet is less than half the size of Earth and probably too hot to be inhabited, there’s still a chance there could be life around Proxima Centauri, Earth’s nearest galactic neighbor ... It’s also likely to be “tidally locked,” as the moon is to Earth, with one face always pointing toward Proxima Centauri.
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Sustainable living: Mother Earth fair this weekend at Expo Center

TDT News 18 Feb 2022
The Mother Earth News Fair is headed to Belton this weekend for a two-day event aimed at helping residents live simpler, more meaningful lives through sustainable practices ... But with the Mother Earth News Fair returning to Belton after two years, Perkins is excited for folks to once again engage with dozens of organizations and sponsors in person.
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How does ISRO place satellites into space and what launch vehicles does it use?

Financial Express 18 Feb 2022
On February 14, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) launched the year’s first space mission — an earth observation satellite, EOS-04, along with two other smaller satellites ... Several satellites need to be deposited in the lower-Earth orbits, beginning from around 180 km from the surface and extending up to 2,000 km.
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ORBITERS: Kidnapped!

Pagosa Daily Post 18 Feb 2022
Conquer Earth ... “Do you miss Earth, Megan?” Ensign Jennifer Tate asked, walking into the ship’s library ... Earth glowed blue below, with black space beyond ... The last time was seven years ago ... On Earth, and even during her years on the Moon, Megan dated quite a bit.
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Faith Matters: Space telescopes and psalms both reveal origins of the cosmos

The Recorder 18 Feb 2022
Since our sun is 93 million miles away from earth, the light rays which brighten our earth and days are eight and 1/3 minutes old. The light from stars we see are measured in light years, which means the light from the stars we think we are seeing right now is light that took years traveling at the speed of light to reach our eyes.
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NASA's Curiosity rover captures stunning footage of the Martian sky with clouds of carbon dioxide ...

The Daily Mail 18 Feb 2022
But rather than being made of water like on Earth, these are composed of carbon dioxide ice because of how high they are on the Red Planet ... Rather than being made of water like on Earth, these are composed of carbon dioxide ice because of how high they are on the Red Planet ... One day on Mars takes a little over 24 hours and a year is 687 Earth days.
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International Space Station: how Nasa plans to destroy it – and the dangers involved

The Conversation 18 Feb 2022
Finding Point Nemo will be the final stop in a complex and multi-staged mission to transition the operations of the ISS to new commercial space stations, and to bring the remaining structure safely down to Earth. Originally commissioned for a 15-year lifespan, the ISS is outliving all expectations.
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How NASA plans to destroy the International Space Station, and the dangers involved

Phys Dot Org 18 Feb 2022
Finding Point Nemo will be the final stop in a complex and multi-staged mission to transition the operations of the ISS to new commercial space stations, and to bring the remaining structure safely down to Earth. Originally commissioned for a 15-year lifespan, the ISS is outliving all expectations.
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Antarctic ice cores reveal Australian drought risk worse than thought

Phys Dot Org 18 Feb 2022
The IPO varies between negative (wetter climate in eastern Australia) and positive (drier climate in Eastern Australia) phases, which until now were assumed to alternate every 15-30 years ... Vance et al, Pacific decadal variability over the last 2000 years and implications for climatic risk, Communications Earth & Environment (2022).
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