The X-37B spaceplane lands after helping pave the way for “maneuver warfare” (arstechnica.com) angielski

Użytkownicy Androida, którzy nie zainstalowali jeszcze lutowej poprawki Google, powinni zrobić to jak najszybciej....
Based on the latest estimate from NASA, there is now just a 0.0039 percent chance. Put another way, the odds of impact are 1 in 26,000....
It is difficult to see Airbus and some of the other large, institutional space companies in Europe banding together and becoming nimble and more efficient operators in spaceflight. That would require enormous changes in companies that have decades of ossified culture, with layers of management that are difficult to cut through.
Ars has previously written admiringly of Pettit’s work, but his latest image deserves additional mention. When I first saw it, I was dazzled by its beauty. But when I looked further into the image, there were just so many amazing details to be found....
Mars disappeared behind the full Moon for a little more than an hour Monday night, an event visible across most of North America and parts of Africa.
Kolejna korporacja wykorzystuje do obrony przed klientami warunki udostępniania zupełnie innej usługi, tym razem skutecznie zmuszając ofiary wypadku swojej taksówki do arbitrażu zamiast normalnej sprawy sądowej.
Vega lifted off for the final time on 2024-09-05 at 01:50 UTC.
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Although US coal consumption has fallen dramatically since 2005, the country still consumes millions of tons a year, and exports tons more—much of it transported by train. Now, new research shows that these trains can affect the health of people living near where they pass....
W lato 2023 roku jeden z inżynierów Facebooka zaczął nagłaśniać wewnętrznie przypadki złego traktowania kobiet. Valdi Licul, prawnik Smitha (tj. byłego inżyniera Facebooka), stwierdził, że jest to kolejny przypadek, w którym wielkie korporacje, zamiast reagować na naruszenia, uciszają tych, którzy się...
Roughly a year ago, astronomers announced that they had observed an object that shouldn’t exist. Like a pulsar, it emitted regularly timed bursts of radio emissions. But unlike a pulsar, those bursts were separated by over 20 minutes. If the 22-minute gap between bursts represents the rotation period of the object, then it is...