A tad chilly

Getting bigger all the time . . .

I was only just a little concerned about the heat wave in NoCal this week, until I saw this:

Yeah, I think I'd make it a point to be somewhere else on Saturday . . .

Might as well clear out for the rest of the week, too.  Yeesh! good luck Mr. Swetnika.

If your organs melt, contact Bill.

Pluto and Charon, imaged yesterday (June 25) from 22.9 million km (22.9 gigameters). Photo courtesy of New Horizons.

Wow that is cool. Can they tell us anything more about this planet or is it too early to say ?

It's still a long way off, so the only instrument being used is the long-range visual camera. The real info comes during the hours they're close enough to actually measure thngs like escaped atmospheric particles, analyze structure and composition of the atmosphere, and bring all the imagers (infrared, ultiraviolet, and visible spectrum) into play for mapping the surfaces of Pluto and moons.

Lake Superior's level is currently about 8 inches above the long term average for this date and is expected to remain above normal levels for at least another few months. You may recall that for quite a while Lake Superior (and the rest of the Great Lakes) were substantially below normal levels. Lake Superior crossed back over to the high side of normal about 16 months ago and has been able to maintain that higher level since then.

Our Mundaring weir is currently 33% capicity. And outr total dam storageis

Dam Storage

28.3% full

https://www.watercorporation.com.au/water-supply-and-services/rainfall-and-dams/dam-levels/dam-levels-individual

Way out west here in Alberta we have just had some hot weather alerts ( mainly in the southern and central areas of the province ). I spent most of the day today close to my own version of an R2D2 unit. It's my cute little portable air-conditioner, which " Beeps " at me every time I change the settings  lol.

       Well I guess Space X won't be flying for a while.  Give em time to crunch the data, and the video. 

And time is what they don't have. At least the amount is decreasing. After the Orbital Sciences failure in October and the Russian Progress failure only 2 months ago the ISS crew schedules had already had to be delayed and shifted. This 3rd cargo delivery failure by the 3rd different supplies provider makes NASA's decision to get out of the ISS launching business look even more stupid than it did when it was first announced.

The Russians will attempt another supply launch on Friday, and the Japanese HTV cargo craft is scheduled for a supply mission on August 16.

        I'm glad no one got hurt but, 3 failures is also costing some money.

Cabby, glad to see the Alberta report from you!

Since Grobe left there hasn't been any weather news here from Alberta, and both of the standard ATC reporters from the U.S. northwest look to be gone for good too. You're the only person checking in from anywhere in the northwest part of the continent.

kco, I looked at a couple of the dam graphics on the link you provided. That's a cool webpage setup, being able to select individual years like that. But scary data for this year. At least you're coming to the half of the year that the levels usually increase somewhat, so maybe you'll get some recharging of the reservoirs.

yeah finger crossed, but someone said we got nothing to worry about we got plenty of underground water really. Well, last month (May) we only had 4 days of rain out of a average of 11 and this month we got 11 days out of 15.

"Data suggests counterintuitive cause." That's Elon Musk's helpful post-bomb comment. SpaceX's President Gwynne Shotwell calls the loss of the rocket a "hiccup".

To paraphrase Mario Andretti (who was speaking about Kevin Cogan), this is what happens when you send a boy to do a man's job.

The U.S. space program has become a bad joke. DUHbya set up the joke in 2004 when he scheduled the elimination of working launch systems before there were any replacements, and Obama delivered the punchline in 2010 when he canceled the work done to date on Constellation and turned the whole process over to private industry.

There's no light at the end of the tunnel. Just a couple weeks ago the Senate Appropriations Committee cut $300 million from NASA's budget for contracts to Boeing and SpaceX for early development of manned launch vehicles, which is expected to tack on at least another 2 years (until at least 2019) before any new vehicles can be ready for even unmanned test flights.

Maybe that part's not so bad. These guys aren't anywhere near ready to tackle manned launches. Musk is more concerned with trying to train his rockets to do handstands onto barges.

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