Non-IT News Thread
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Florida utility to close natural gas plants, build massive solar-powered battery
The battery bank will be significantly larger than the world's current biggest battery.
On Thursday, Florida Power and Light (FPL) announced that it would retire two natural gas plants and replace those plants with what is likely to be the world's largest solar-powered battery bank when it's completed in 2021.
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NatGeo’s riveting series Hostile Planet puts you in the center of the action
Predator and prey struggle to survive in Earth's rapidly changing extreme environments.
It's more than an hour into a whale-watching excursion organized to promote National Geographic's new six-part series, Hostile Planet, and folks are starting to get restless. We saw our first Pacific gray whale before we'd even left the harbor. It swam right up to the boat to give us a good, long look at its telltale gray-white pattern over dark slate-gray skin. But now we're in the open sea with not a whale in sight.
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Flight management system crash causes airline delays across US
Service provider's software and data used for flight planning by multiple airlines.
A fault in software used by most US airlines caused a wave of flight delays this morning across the US, affecting hundreds of flights. "Several airlines are experiencing issues with a non-FAA flight planning weight and balance program called AeroData," a Federal Aviation Administration spokesperson said in an e-mailed statement. "Mainline operations and regional operations are affected to varying degrees."
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Scientists Predict Massive Ionosphere Inversion
Chandra, Arizona, USA. - A team of scientists at the Chandra Dark Energy Observatory (CDEO) has shocked the physics world with a warning that Earth will soon undergo a severe ionospheric inversion. According to their paper based on data gathered over the past year, they predict that our solar system will "pass through the Orion arm of the central galactic disk of dark matter". As earth traverses the sterile neutrino field at exactly 03:14 UTC on Monday, 01 April 2019, the normal right-handed chirality will abruptly swing oppositely to left-handed spin. According to the paper, this polarity reversal will induce non-solar ion-like effects (NSILEs) into earth's magnetosphere, causing the F-layers and D-layers to reverse position.
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@NerdyDad I don't put a lot of stock into this, because I've heard that the magnetic field is supposed flip before, and when that happens, its supposed to create another life-ending event on earth. Sounds more like tin-foil hat theory to me but wanted you to get a read on it before I construed my opinion on it first.
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@NerdyDad This is a joke
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@NerdyDad said in Non-IT News Thread:
@NerdyDad I don't put a lot of stock into this, because I've heard that the magnetic field is supposed flip before, and when that happens, its supposed to create another life-ending event on earth. Sounds more like tin-foil hat theory to me but wanted you to get a read on it before I construed my opinion on it first.
someone missed the date....
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@JaredBusch said in Non-IT News Thread:
@NerdyDad said in Non-IT News Thread:
@NerdyDad I don't put a lot of stock into this, because I've heard that the magnetic field is supposed flip before, and when that happens, its supposed to create another life-ending event on earth. Sounds more like tin-foil hat theory to me but wanted you to get a read on it before I construed my opinion on it first.
someone missed the date....
Okay. They got one on me.
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This could be so amazing!!
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/01/technology/burger-king-impossible-whopper.html
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
This could be so amazing!!
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/01/technology/burger-king-impossible-whopper.html
They really are ramping up production of that stuff. I'm not searching them out to go try one, but from the reviews I hear it's good eating.
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Final countdown: Marvel drops one last teaser for Avengers: End Game
“It’s not about how much we lost, it’s about how much we have left.”
The first trailer for End Game dropped in December, giving us a glimpse of the Avengers who survived the Snappening, in which Thanos wiped out half of all living beings in the universe with a snap of his fingers, including many of our beloved superheroes. That's about all they could show us without giving too much away, although we did get a scene with Paul Rudd's Scott Lang/Ant-Man showing up, having escaped the quantum realm where he was presumably trapped at the end of Ant-Man and The Wasp.
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BBC News - Canada warming twice as fast as the rest of the world, report says
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BBC News - Abdelaziz Bouteflika: Algeria's president resigns amid mass protests
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Whistleblowers: FAA 737 MAX safety inspectors lacked training, certification
Senate committee launches investigation into 737 MAX certification process.
Multiple whistleblowers have raised issues over the Federal Aviation Administration’s safety inspection process connected to Boeing’s 737 MAX aircraft, according to a letter to the FAA from Senate Commerce Committee chairman Sen. Roger Wicker on April 2. And the FAA’s leadership was informed of these concerns as far back as August of 2018.
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@mlnews as if the whole country didn't already know that the FAA lacked the skills (or the desire) to be doing this.
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Microsoft kills off the book store you probably didn’t know it had
Anyone who bought books will have them deleted and will receive a refund.
For reasons that were never entirely clear, Microsoft released a book store for Windows 10 back in 2017. The Edge browser was given support for EPUB books, and the Microsoft Store had a book category, offering a range of free and non-free books. No longer: yesterday the company ended book sales entirely.
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Joaquin Phoenix breathes new life into an iconic role in first Joker trailer
It's a standalone film as DC Films moves away from the shared universe model.
Joker is intended as a standalone film, with no sequels planned—part of DC Films' decision to move away from the shared-universe approach of their prior franchise films (aka, the Marvel model). So it has no relation to the Justice League films that came before. That freed Director Todd Phillips to create his own darker, gritty version of this iconic character, with a much smaller budget of $55 million.
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@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
Joaquin Phoenix breathes new life into an iconic role in first Joker trailer
It's a standalone film as DC Films moves away from the shared universe model.
Joker is intended as a standalone film, with no sequels planned—part of DC Films' decision to move away from the shared-universe approach of their prior franchise films (aka, the Marvel model). So it has no relation to the Justice League films that came before. That freed Director Todd Phillips to create his own darker, gritty version of this iconic character, with a much smaller budget of $55 million.
People are comparing this to Taxi Driver
