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Planned obsolescence is illegal in France; it is a crime to intentionally shorten the lifespan of a product with the aim of making customers replace it. In early 2018, French authorities used this law to investigate reports that Apple deliberately slowed down older iPhones via software updates.

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3/1/19: A day in Senate House library. My first day back in London studying after the holidays. Trying to focus in on the two essays I have due this month

Take a look at Sharma&Singh Enterprise Pvt. Ltd (@SinghLtd): https://twitter.com/SinghLtd?s=09

Check out @MomentsAU’s Tweet: https://twitter.com/MomentsAU/status/1086195392096550913?s=09

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*studies for 2 minutes*

Mic decided to investigate these claims for themselves and see if this alleged former Trumpian was telling the truth. They set up a $1 recurring donation to the Trump Campaign, and when they tried to cancel it, Mic confirmed that there was no cancelation option.

Not only that, but you could not edit or remove your credit card information on the website.

Mic concluded that the way to stop donating is to call your bank and cancel your credit card. If not, you will be donating to Trump forever.

To be fair, Mic also set up recurring $1 donations to Clinton’s campaign to see if they too tried to trap you into an eternity of donating. Mic noted that it was very simple to cancel donations on Clinton’s website.

[kind of important]

[how to cancel]

sorry i cant reblog that, i have standards

Russia lost control of its space radio telescope Spekt-R

ROSCOSMOS - Spekt-R Mission logo. Jan. 15, 2019 Russia is no longer able to communicate with its only radio telescope in orbit, called Spekt-R. Russia has lost control of its only space radio telescope, Spektr-R. It works to restore communication with the machine, announced Monday the Russian Space Agency Roscosmos, which has experienced a series of failures in recent years.

Spektr-R or RadioAstron

The giant telescope - Spektr-R or RadioAstron - no longer responds to the instructions of its control center on Earth since Thursday, said Roscosmos, who recently experienced the failure of launching a Soyuz rocket with two men on board. A new attempt to regain control Monday night has failed, according to Russian news agencies quoting a Roscomos official. An American observatory, however, has received signals from the aircraft, which means that its aircraft systems operate autonomously, said the Russian space agency. The Spektr-R telescope - nicknamed the “Russian Hubble”, in reference to the US Space Telescope - was launched in 2011 to observe black holes, neutron stars and magnetic fields. With Earth-based observatories and a ten-meter antenna, it is one of the largest telescopes in the world. Another telescope A new attempt to make contact with the device will take place, according to Roscosmos, the previous ones remained without result. “You can not bury a satellite that is undoubtedly still alive,” the project director Yuri Kovalev said in an email to AFP, refusing to say that the telescope was definitely lost. It’s like asking for a comment on the state of health of a patient at a time when doctors are fighting to save him, “he added.

The Spektr-R telescope was supposed to remain in service only until 2014, but its mission had been extended. According to experts, this project had been an important success for the Russian space program. Russia plans to launch this year another telescope, Spektr-RG, whose mission will be to "complete the map of the world,” according to Roscosmos. In October, the Soyuz rocket that was to bring two astronauts, a Russian and an American, to the orbital station, failed. The two men returned to Earth safe and sound after the automatic ejection of their capsule. Related article: Soyuz MS-10 - Emergency landing after a failure https://orbiterchspacenews.blogspot.com/2018/10/soyuz-ms-10-emergency-landing-after.html Roscosmos: https://www.roscosmos.ru/ Images, Text, Credits: ATS/ROSCOSMOS/RIANOVOSTI/Orbiter.ch Aerospace/Roland Berga. Greetings, Orbiter.ch Full article

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Really makes you think

NASA Science Show & Tell

This week, we’re at one of the biggest science conferences in the country, where our scientists are presenting new results from our missions and projects. It’s called the American Geophysical Union’s Fall Meeting.

Here are a few of the things we shared this week…

The Sun

A few months into its seven-year mission, Parker Solar Probe has already flown far closer to the Sun than any spacecraft has ever gone. The data from this visit to the Sun has just started to come back to Earth, and scientists are hard at work on their analysis.

Parker Solar Probe sent us this new view of the Sun’s outer atmosphere, the corona. The image was taken by the mission’s WISPR instrument on Nov. 8, 2018, and shows a coronal streamer seen over the east limb of the Sun. Coronal streamers are structures of solar material within the Sun’s atmosphere, the corona, that usually overlie regions of increased solar activity. The fine structure of the streamer is very clear, with at least two rays visible. Parker Solar Probe was about 16.9 million miles from the Sun’s surface when this image was taken. The bright object near the center of the image is Mercury, and the dark spots are a result of background correction.

Hurricane Maria

Using a satellite view of human lights, our scientists watched the lights go out in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria. They could see the slow return of electricity to the island, and track how rural and mountainous regions took longer to regain power.

In the spring, a team of scientists flew a plane over Puerto Rico’s forests, using a laser instrument to measure how trees were damaged and how the overall structure of the forests had changed.

Earth’s Ice

Our scientists who study Antarctica saw some surprising changes to East Antarctica. Until now, most of the continent’s melting has been on the peninsula and West Antarctica, but our scientists have seen glaciers in East Antarctica lose lots of ice in the last few years.

Our ICESat-2 team showed some of their brand new data. From the changing height of Antarctic ice to lagoons off the coast of Mexico, the little satellite has spent its first few months measuring our planet in 3D. The laser pulses even see individual ocean waves, in this graph.

Scientists are using our satellite data to track Adélie penguin populations, by using an unusual proxy – pictures of their poop! Penguins are too small to be seen by satellites, but they can see large amounts of their poop (which is pink!) and use that as a proxy for penguin populations.

Asteroid Bennu

Our OSIRIS-REx mission recently arrived at its destination, asteroid Bennu. On approach, data from the spacecraft’s spectrometers revealed chemical signatures of water trapped in clay minerals.  While Bennu itself is too small to have ever hosted liquid water, the finding indicates that liquid water was present at some time on Bennu’s parent body, a much larger asteroid.

We also released a new, detailed shape model of Bennu, which is very similar to our ground-based observations of Bennu’s shape. This is a boon to ground-based radar astronomy since this is our first validation of the accuracy of the method for an asteroid! One change from the original shape model is the size of the large boulder near Bennu’s south pole, nicknamed “Benben.” The boulder is much bigger than we thought and overall, the quantity of boulders on the surface is higher than expected. Now the team will make further observations at closer ranges to more accurately assess where a sample can be taken on Bennu to later be returned to Earth.

Jupiter

The Juno mission celebrated it’s 16th science pass of #Jupiter, marking the halfway point in data collection of the prime mission. Over the second half of the prime mission — science flybys 17 through 32 — the spacecraft will split the difference, flying exactly halfway between each previous orbit. This will provide coverage of the planet every 11.25 degrees of longitude, providing a more detailed picture of what makes the whole of Jupiter tick.

Mars

The Mars 2020 team had a workshop to discuss the newly announced landing site for our next rover on the Red Planet. The landing site…Jezero Crater! The goal of Mars 2020 is to learn whether life ever existed on Mars. It’s too cold and dry for life to exist on the Martian surface today. But after Jezero Crater formed billions of years ago, water filled it to form a deep lake about the same size as Lake Tahoe. Eventually, as Mars’ climate changed, Lake Jezero dried up. And surface water disappeared from the planet.

Interstellar Space

Humanity now has two interstellar ambassadors. On Nov. 5, 2018, our Voyager 2 spacecraft left the heliosphere — the bubble of the Sun’s magnetic influence formed by the solar wind. It’s only the second-ever human-made object to enter interstellar space, following its twin, Voyager 1, that left the heliosphere in 2012.

Scientists are especially excited to keep receiving data from Voyager 2, because — unlike Voyager 1 — its plasma science instrument is still working. That means we’ll learn brand-new information about what fills the space between the stars.

Learn more about NASA Science at science.nasa.gov. 

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