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Cake day: August 30th, 2025
  • Thorry@feddit.orgtoWorld News@lemmy.world•Trump shares altered map of U.S. flag covering Canada, Greenland and VenezuelaEnglish
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    2 hours ago

    One night Musk and Trump were sitting in the Oval Office not doing much, as they like to do. Musk was out of his gourd on ketamine and Trump just shit himself for the third time since his last diaper change. Out of nowhere Musk says: “We should start saying “Sieg Heil” to each other”. Trump looks up, or at least as much as his failing body would allow, and says: “Why Elon? What does that mean?” Musk responds, irritation showing in his voice: “Well that’s what our brothers in Germany said, so I think we should bring back the tradition”. Trump, also getting angry, picks up the phone and shouts he needs a MickeyD hamberder right away. As he fumbles the handle back on the red phone, he shouts to Musk: “Yes, I know that’s what the Germans said, but what does it mean?!”. “I’m not sure, wait I’ll ask Grok” Musk responds. After a couple of failed tries with the speech to text on his phone, Grok responds using a voice suspiciously like Scarlett Johanssons. Grok explains the word Sieg means victory and Heil is a greeting (hail), Germans used to say this to mean they believed they would be victorious. “Why would we say it then? I’m already President for life, I already have my victory!” Trump exclaimed. “We’re going to need a war then” Musk responded.

    “And that, children, is how WW3 started all the way back in 2026” the Teacherbot says to the class over Microsoft Copilot New 365 Teams with Copilot ™. Elroy shouts: “Teacher! That can’t be true, that sounds dumb as shit!”. “Language! We’ll have a talk about your behavior after class young man. I’ve already sent a meeting invite to your father, so he’ll be joining that call as well” Teacherbot responds. Elroy sighs and says “Ah shucks”

  • Thorry@feddit.orgtoWorld News@lemmy.world•Astronauts Helicoptered to Hospital After Mystery Evacuation From Space StationEnglish
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    5 hours ago

    They had the option to return at any moment in case of emergency. They were never “stuck”, that’s just something the media made up. Emergency evacuation of the ISS is possible at all times, that’s a pretty strict rule. They just chose not to, since there wasn’t any real reason to. Sure it was unplanned they would stay that long, but those are still two very valuable crew members that can do a lot of work. So they just did their job. And as both of them worked very hard to get there, staying wasn’t really a punishment or anything.

    In the end they went home on a different vehicle, as the one they arrived on had too many issues to risk it (even though it worked fine in the end, but they didn’t want to take unnecessary chances)

  • Thorry@feddit.orgtoAstronomy@mander.xyz•Jupiter from the Webb Space Telescope
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    2 days ago

    It’s still stunning to me how small the great red spot has become. If it gets any smaller it’s hardly a feature worth talking about. I remember back in the 80’s looking through my telescope at Jupiter and clearly seeing the spot. I know it’s entirely possible, but to see a large thing like that visibly change over my lifetime still somehow feels wrong.

  • Thorry@feddit.orgtocollapse@lemmy.zip•The Earth energy data just came in from CERES for October, 2025, and guess what? Right. A new record low for the 36-month running average for Earth albedo, now down to 28.689%.
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    2 days ago

    Correct.

    However albedo is usually over a broad range of wavelengths, not just in the infrared.

    One of the main drivers of albedo is the amount of ice and snow on the surface. As we know, ice and snow is (usually) white and thus reflects a whole lot of light coming in. This includes all the sea ice on the north pole and fresh snow. With temperatures going up, the amount of sea ice is reducing and the amount of snow being deposited is decreasing (on average, snow is part of the weather and thus very chaotic, but we can see trends). The biggest factor is the white sea ice being replaced with dark ocean water, which absorbs light very efficiently.

    Another big factor is clouds, clouds are more complicated however. Clouds usually reflect a lot of light and are thus a factor in albedo. However they also reflect light on the bottom and thus also play a role in temperature. This makes it hard to factor in how much they matter.

    The Earth heats up mostly because of light received from the sun during the day, this can be all sorts of wavelength. It’s partly reflected directly and partly absorbed. Then at night, the hot surfaces radiate away infrared energy into space. This is where the greenhouse gasses come in, they trap that infrared light and reflect it back to the surface (like the glass of a greenhouse would, hence the name). Clouds also play a role where more clouds mean more of the energy is reflected back when receiving, but at the same time blocking the release of that energy at night. So albedo and temperatures are related, but in a complex way.

    In general however, the less energy gets reflected, the hotter the surface will be.