Sunday, October 29, 2017
Saturday, October 28, 2017
Hunters in interior Alaska bag some big moose.
They call it the 60 inch club.
This years members tell their stories here.
And of course, there's that one guy that harvests a true monster. Behold the 80 inch moose that Israel Payton brought down.
Payton estimates the moose yielded somewhere between 700 and 800 pounds of meat. The antlers and skull alone weighed 105 pounds.
This years members tell their stories here.
And of course, there's that one guy that harvests a true monster. Behold the 80 inch moose that Israel Payton brought down.
Payton estimates the moose yielded somewhere between 700 and 800 pounds of meat. The antlers and skull alone weighed 105 pounds.
He's gonna need a bigger freezer.
A few days ago astronomers spotted what they think is our solar system's first known visitor from outer space.
Then things got more confusing.
The initial readings were taken on 18 October from the Pan-STARRS 1 telescope in Hawaii by the International Astronomical Union's Minor Planet Center (MPC). Judging by its orbit, astronomers hypothesised it could be a comet unlike any we've seen before.
"If further observations confirm the unusual nature of this orbit, this object may be the first clear case of an interstellar comet," reported the associate director of the MPC, Gareth Williams.
The object has what's called a hyperbolic orbit, which means it's going fast enough to avoid getting drawn in by the Sun.
Assuming it to be a comet, astronomers designated it C/2017 U1, but on 25 October new imaging from the Very Large Telescope in Chile revealed no comet characteristics.
The object is now called A/2017 U1 to reflect that (A stands for "asteroid"), and it's the first time a potential comet has been bumped to the designation of an asteroid. But it's still extremely interesting.
Both its extreme hyperbolic eccentricity of 1.19, which is essentially its path through the Solar System, and its very high inclination of 122° compared with Earth's orbit around the Sun, are making astronomers think this is a visitor.
In other words, if you think of the orbits of the planets in our Solar System arranged in a disc shape, A/2017 U1 has raced in from almost directly overhead, and is now flying out of sight again.
Here's it's trajectory, which does suggest it's coming from deep space.
Pan-STARRS 1 got a closer look, and took this picture.
I'm not saying it's aliens, but, well, better stock up on ammo.
Your good news of the day: World wide poverty is at a historic low
The speed of poverty alleviation in the last 25 years has been historically unprecedented. Not only is the proportion of people in poverty at a record low, but, in spite of adding 2 billion to the planet’s population, the overall number of people living in extreme poverty has fallen too.
In 1820, 94 percent of the world’s population lived in extreme poverty (less than $1.90 per day adjusted for purchasing power). In 1990 this figure was 34.8 percent, and in 2015, just 9.6 percent.
Consider the impact free-market capitalism has had in the last 200 years in alleviating extreme poverty. The Industrial Revolution turned the once-impoverished western countries into abundant societies. The new age of globalization, which started around 1980, saw the developing world enter the global economy and resulted in the largest escape from poverty ever recorded.
Take that, Bernie Sanders and all you Socialists.
Buy a lottery ticket
Especially the one that just freezes in place. The luck is strong with that one.
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