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Click here to see the summaryNasa has selected Elon Muskās SpaceX company to bring down the International Space Station at the end of its life.The California-based company will build a vehicle capable of pushing the 430-tonne orbiting platform into the Pacific Ocean early in the next decade.A contract for the work, valued at up to $843m (Ā£668m), was announced on Wednesday.The first elements of the space station were launched in 1998, with continuous crewed operations beginning in 2000.The station circles the Earth every 90 minutes at an altitude just above 400km (250 miles) and has been home to thousands of scientific experiments, investigating all manner of phenomena from the aging process in humans to the formula for new types of materials. Engineers say the laboratory remains structurally sound, but plans need to be put in place now for its eventual disposal. Without assistance, it would eventually fall back to Earth on its own, however this poses a significant risk to populations on the ground. "Selecting a US De-orbit Vehicle for the International Space Station (ISS) will help Nasa and its international partners ensure a safe and responsible transition in low Earth orbit at the end of station operations. Nasa has studied various options for end-of-life disposal, external.These include disassembling the station and using the younger elements in a next-generation platform. Another idea has been to simply to hand it off to some commercial concern to run and maintain.But these solutions all have varying complications of complexity and cost, as well as the legal difficulty of having to untangle issues of ownership.Neither Nasa nor SpaceX have released details of the design for the de-orbiting ātug boatā, but it will require considerable thrust to safely guide the station into the atmosphere in the right place and at the right time.The platformās great mass and extent - the dimensions roughly of a football pitch - mean some structures and components are bound to survive the heat of re-entry and make it all the way to the surface.Controllers will allow the orbit of the ISS to naturally decay over a period of time, and after removing the last crew will command the tugboat to execute the final de-orbit manoeuvre.Redundant spacecraft are aimed at a remote location in the Pacific known as Point Nemo.Named after the famous submarine sailor from Jules Verneās book 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, the target graveyard is more than 2,500km from the nearest piece of land.Nasa is hopeful that a number of private consortia will have started launching commercial space stations by the time the ISS is brought out of the sky.The focus of the space agencies will shift to a project to build a platform called Gateway that will orbit the Moon. ā Saved 13% of original text.
I still remember boomers making jokes about casting couch in early 2000s...
Instead of seeing the crime, it was a meme to them.
Don't get me started on the Catholic church. These people literally enabled a generation of child abuse. They now act like they didn't know "it was like that" lol
At least now people are more likely to be dropped when they pull shit like that. James Franco, for stance, has not been in shit since he was found to be doing a casting couch. He has not been in any movies in five years.
Hilton, 43, accused the industry, which is worth billions of dollars, of being more interested in making money than protecting and caring for the vulnerable children it is responsible for.
At which point the Republicans present smiled, nodded, and made mental notes to check their investment portfolios.
āVulnerable children you say? Ahā¦ uh Ms. Hilton, you do know the presidential candidate for our party ran the miss teen USA pageant?
Oh yes he even bragged about how much he liked to walk into the girls dressing room and how they (us republicans now) just LET him do that cause he is famous you knowā¦
Tell you what let me introduce you to my colleague Matt Gaetz heās offered to help any of your younger friends still facing these terrible circumstancesā¦ā
It would be good for her parents to make an effort with her too but Iāve heard Kathy Hiltonās a particular piece of shit. I can totes see why Paris had such a rough start
I have zero faith in a Republican-controlled Congress doing shit about child abuse because its all they know, hopefully the Dems rake the āProLifestocksā over the coals about it and get this shameful bullshit criminalized like the conversion nonsense.
As the temperatures rose in southern Pakistan, so did the body count.The Edhi ambulance service says it usually takes around 30 to 40 people to the Karachi city morgue daily.But over the last six days, it has collected some 568 bodies - 141 of them on Tuesday alone.It is too early to say exactly what the cause of death was in every case.However, the rising numbers of dead came as temperatures in Karachi soared above 40C (104F), with the high humidity making it feel as hot as 49C, reports said.People have been heading to hospitals seeking help.Civil Hospital Karachi admitted 267 people with heatstroke between Sunday and Wednesday, said Dr Imran Sarwar Sheikh, head of the emergency department.
Twelve of them died.āMost of the people who we saw coming into the hospital were in their 60s or 70s, although there were some around 45 and even a couple in their 20s,ā Dr Sheikh told the BBC.Symptoms including vomiting, diarrhoea and a high fever.āMany of those we saw had been working outside.
My clothes are totally drenched in sweat,ā Mohammad Imran told Reuters news agency as he struggled to keep cool on Monday.Not all those who needed help made it to hospital.Wasim Ahmed knew he wasnāt feeling well when he arrived home.The 56-year-old security guard had just finished a 12 hour overnight shift outside.
Even then, he had found the temperatures too much.āHe came through the door and said I canāt deal with this hot weather,ā Adnan Zafar, Wasimās cousin, told the BBC.
Soon after he finished it, he collapsed.āBy the time Wasimās family got him to hospital, the medics said he had already died of a suspected heart attack.He had an existing heart condition, Adnan says, but he hadnāt suffered in the heat before.Karachiās struggle to cope with the high temperatures is, some fear, being made worse by regular power cuts which cut off the fans and air conditioning many rely on to keep cool.Muhammad Amin was among those who was suffering with loadshedding - where the electricity supply was cut off; a common practice across Pakistan by the electricity board to try to preserve supply.His relative says their flat experienced consistent constant power cuts.According to his family, Muhammad who was in his 40s suddenly became sick, then died.Cause of death has not been established, but his family suspect it was heat-related.According to Dawn newspaper, almost 30 people have been found dead by emergency services on the cityās streets.Many are suspected drug addicts, Police Surgeon Summaiya Syed told the newspaper, external.
Doctors in the city say theyāve never seen anything like it before.For Karachi resident Mohammad Zeshan, it is clear what the problem is.āThis is due to climate change,ā he told Reuters.
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I really wasnāt aware of her working on this issue until I read that, but good for her for doing it. Iām glad she is able to do something good with her fame.
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Click here to see the summaryNHS England has confirmed its patient data managed by blood test management organisation Synnovis was stolen in a ransomware attack on 3 June.Qilin, a Russian cyber-criminal group, shared almost 400GB of private information on their darknet site on Thursday night, something they threatened to do in order to extort money from Synnovis. In a statement, NHS England said there is āno evidenceā that test results have been published, but that āinvestigations are ongoingā. āPatients should continue to attend their appointments unless they have been told otherwise and should access urgent care as they usually would,ā NHS England said.A sample of the stolen data seen by the BBC includes patient names, dates of birth, NHS numbers and descriptions of blood tests, something cyber security expert Ciaran Martin told the BBC was "one of the most significant and harmful cyber attacks ever in the UK. "There are also business account spreadsheets detailing financial arrangements between hospitals and GP services and Synnovis being taken. The ransomware hackers infiltrated the computer systems of the company, which is used by two NHS trusts in London, and encrypted vital information making IT systems useless.As is often the case with cyber-criminals, they also downloaded as much private data as they could to further extort the company for a ransom payment in Bitcoin.It is not known how much money the hackers demanded from Synnovis or if the company entered negotiations. But the fact Qilin has published some, potentially all, of the data means they did not pay.The cyber-attackers told the BBC on an encrypted messaging service they had deliberately targeted Synnovis as a way to punish the UK for not helping enough in an unspecified war.In NHS Englandās statement it said it ācontinues to work with Synnovis and the National Crime Agencyā.NHS England said it had set up a helpline to support people impacted by the attack and it will continue to share updates, but āinvestigations of this type are complex and take timeā. ā Saved 3% of original text.
A friend of mine once made a bacon chocolate gelato and it was divine. 10/10 would recommend. And now that you brought it to my mind, Iām jonesing for itā¦
Thereās a place in town that has Belgian Bacon Waffles, and youāre correct theyāre divine!
I love getting an order, plain, and a side of warmed maple syrup, then ripping them into dunk-able pieces. I make a mess, but theyāre so good that way. Hot, crispy, crunchy, bacon-y, sweet, salty, smoky, delicious.
Turns out that the āgreenā in Greencore wasnāt about sustainability but rather the color your face turns an hour after eating one of their literal shit sandwiches!
I am betting one million internet points that there will be some field with salad, bamboo shoots or similiar produce were they used sewage or manure to fertilize and then didnāt keep the minimum time till harvest and the processing plant didnāt wash them properly before putting them in the sandwiches.
This is the most common way of getting fecal E.coli bacteria outbreaks. Given the amount of people infected it is rather unlikely that it comes from a single employee not washing hands after shitting.
Either way this screams lack of proper hygiene inspections.
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