kuontom

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Linux Mint is still going strong after being my daily driver for 4 months, and I don't think i will be going back anytime soon. in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
[–] kuontom@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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At least 2 dead, 28 injured in mass shooting at Baltimore block party (www.cbsnews.com)
 

An 18-year-old woman was pronounced dead at the scene, and a 20-year-old man was pronounced dead later at a local hospital. Nine of the people injured were transported to hospitals from the scene, while the other 20 victims walked into various hospitals in the area. A suspect has not been arrested in connection with the mass shooting.

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SpaceX rocket launches Euclid space telescope on a six year mission to map the 'dark universe' like never before [Video] (cdn.jwplayer.com)
 

Watch the European satellite, called Euclid, soar to space aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Florida's Space Coast. The launch took place today, July 1, at 11:11 a.m EDT.

The James Webb Space Telescope captures image of Saturn and its rings in all their shiny glory in c/space@kbin.social
[–] kuontom@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

An excerpt:

Methane gas absorbs almost all the sunlight falling on the atmosphere at this picture’s specific infrared wavelength (3.23 microns). As a result, Saturn’s familiar striped patterns aren’t visible because the methane-rich upper atmosphere blocks our view of the primary clouds. Instead, Saturn’s disk appears dark, and we see features associated with high-altitude stratospheric aerosols, including large, dark, and diffuse structures in Saturn’s northern hemisphere that don’t align with the planet’s lines of latitude. Unlike Saturn's atmosphere, its rings lack methane, so at this infrared wavelength, they are no darker than usual and thus easily outshine the darkened planet.

The James Webb Space Telescope captures image of Saturn and its rings in all their shiny glory in c/space@kbin.social
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The James Webb Space Telescope captures image of Saturn and its rings in all their shiny glory (media.kbin.social)
 
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The FBI has formed a national database to track and prevent 'swatting' (www.nbcnews.com)
 

Advances in technology allow prank callers to mask their voice, phone number or IP address, or make their false 911 calls sound more credible.

Author Patrick Tomlinson and his wife, business owner Niki Robinson, have been "swatted" at their home in Milwaukee more than 40 times, often resulting in police pointing guns at their heads. Their tormentors have also called in false bomb threats to venues using their names in three states. Yet law enforcement hasn’t been able to stop the prank calls.

The couple’s terror comes as these incidents appear to be on the rise in the U.S., at least on college campuses. In less than a single week in April, universities including Clemson, Florida, Boston, Harvard, Cornell, Pittsburgh, Rutgers and Oklahoma, as well as Middlebury College, were targeted by swatters.

To combat the growing problem, the FBI has begun taking formal measures to get a comprehensive picture of the problem on a national level.

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The first ever neutrino image of the Milky Way galaxy captured by the IceCube Neutrino Observatory (media.kbin.social)
 
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CDC issues alert after five cases of malaria were acquired locally in Texas and Florida (www.nbcnews.com)
 

The cases were the first in 20 years to be acquired in the U.S., with no links to travel outside the country. The last such local cases were identified in 2003 in Palm Beach County, Florida.

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New Zealand to wipe out every last rat (www.bbc.com)
 

New Zealand plans to exterminate every last rat, mustelid and possum to save native birds. The government expects the task to be completed by 2050.