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- What if Planet 9 is a Primordial Black Hole? https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.051103 119 comments
- There is no Planet B https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/2019-1-january-february/feature/there-no-planet-b-kim-stanley-robinson 11 comments
- Can open source save the planet? http://www.computerworlduk.com/in-depth/open-source/3325167/can-open-source-save-planet/ 7 comments
- California Recall Vote Could Weaken the State’s Aggressive Climate Policies | Many Republicans vying to replace Newsom as governor want to roll back the state’s ambitious plans to cut planet-warming emissions, a change with nationwide implications. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/08/climate/california-recall-newsom-climate.html 7 comments climate
- Nvidia has virtually recreated the entire planet — and now it wants to use its digital twin to crack weather forecasting for good https://www.techradar.com/pro/nvidia-has-virtually-recreated-the-entire-planet-and-now-it-wants-to-use-its-digital-twin-to-crack-weather-forecasting-for-good 65 comments technology
- Friday Facts #401 - New terrain, new planet https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-401 456 comments factorio
- Peter Singer: Fix Your Diet, Save the Planet https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/22/opinion/earth-day-climate-change-meat-vegan.html 59 comments environment
- DEVASTATING FOR THE WHOLE PLANET! "Russia is burning gas in a giant torch that is visible from Finland. Flames have been burning at Gazprom's Portovaya compressor station every day since June 17. This could be happening because there is nowhere to deliver surplus gas." https://mobile.twitter.com/EuromaidanPress/status/1555418324053266437 4 comments environment
- Two Companies Aim to Beat SpaceX to Mars With ‘Audacious’ Landing. Relativity Space, which could launch its first rocket soon, and Impulse Space, founded by a SpaceX veteran, optimistically say that together they can reach the red planet a few years from now. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/19/science/mars-landing-relativity-space-spacex.html?smid=re-share 14 comments space
- Planet Signs Multi-Year, Multi-Launch Rideshare Agreement with SpaceX https://www.planet.com/pulse/planet-signs-multi-year-multi-launch-rideshare-agreement-with-spacex/ 140 comments spacex
- 2 weeks until Planet 13 opens its California shop. https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/nzvb9b/2_weeks_until_planet_13_opens_its_california_shop/ 27 comments wallstreetbets
- What Michael Moore’s new film gets wrong about renewable energy: Planet of the Humans relies too much on outdated information https://www.sciencenews.org/article/what-michael-moore-new-film-gets-wrong-about-renewable-energy 64 comments energy
- The world is failing to ensure children have a 'liveable planet', report finds https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/feb/19/the-world-is-failing-to-ensure-children-have-a-liveable-planet-report-finds 48 comments worldnews
- New paper describes a toy scenario in which a planet orbiting a black hole remains habitable. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ab5dab#apjab5dabs2 27 comments space
- Psychiatrist Lance Dodes on the "panicked" state of the "most dangerous person on the planet" https://www.salon.com/2019/10/29/psychiatrist-lance-dodes-on-the-panicked-state-of-the-most-dangerous-person-on-the-planet/ 43 comments politics
- We're Eating This Planet to Death http://wired.com/story/ipcc-land-report-food/ 5 comments worldnews
- Global Ocean Circulation Appears To Be Collapsing Due To A Warming Planet https://www.forbes.com/sites/trevornace/2017/08/03/global-ocean-circulation-appears-to-be-collapsing-due-to-a-warming-planet/#631116d3f6f4 13 comments worldevents
- Hunt for bogus asthma cure threatens pangolins - The most trafficked mammal on the planet is in dangerous decline https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/mar/24/pangolins-bogus-asthma-cure-trafficked-animal-decline 7 comments worldnews
- Researchers discover planet Vulcan from Star Trek — sort of https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/exoplanet-vulcan-star-trek-1.4830111 9 comments worldnews
- Massive rogue planet with unexplained aurora glow discovered drifting far beyond our solar system https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/rogue-planet-aurora-glow-discovered-space-brown-dwarf-solar-system-a8478141.html 383 comments worldnews
- New research suggests bigger, better-protected marine reserves can help protect the planet and its oceans from the negative effects of global warming. http://oregonstate.edu/ua/ncs/archives/2017/jun/international-science-team-marine-reserves-can-help-mitigate-climate-change 2 comments science
- What is the ultimate fate of rogue planets (and planets that survive their stars death remain in orbit?)? https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/62pdkh/what_is_the_ultimate_fate_of_rogue_planets_and/ 5 comments askscience
- Scientists just ran the numbers on how much Trump could damage the planet https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/12/27/scientists-just-ran-the-numbers-on-how-much-trump-could-damage-the-planet/ 16 comments politics
- David Attenborough makes an emotional last plea in the Planet Earth II finale http://www.sciencealert.com/watch-david-attenborough-s-emotional-plea-in-the-last-minutes-of-the-planet-earth-ii-finale 15 comments worldnews
- Michelle Obama, Elizabeth Warren, and Bernie Sanders all did one important thing in their convention speeches | “This election is about climate change, the great environmental crisis facing our planet,” Sanders said http://grist.org/election-2016/michelle-obama-elizabeth-warren-and-bernie-sanders-all-did-one-important-thing-in-their-convention-speeches/ 78 comments politics
- Sudden appearance of crater dubbed ‘the Gateway to the Underworld’ in Siberia is a warning to our warming planet: Such slumps have been ‘increasing in extent and intensity’ in the frozen north, scientists say http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/gateway-to-the-underworld-siberia-batagaika-siberia-russia-permafrost-melting-a7063936.html 527 comments worldnews
- Today NASA's Curiosity rover became the first mission to visit sand dunes on another planet! https://pbs.twimg.com/media/curipv9xiaas5ed.jpg:large 41 comments space
- Sylvia Driskell, a 66-year-old woman from Nebraska, is suing every single gay person on the planet. She will be representing herself in Driskell V. Homosexuals. http://www.digitaljournal.com/news/odd+news/there-s-a-woman-suing-every-single-gay-person-on-earth/article/432807 11 comments politics
- Thanks to an automated robotic telescope, scientists have spotted three new super-Earths in our cosmic backyard. The planets orbit a star just 54 light years away from Earth. "The three planets are unlike anything in our solar system, with masses 7-8 times the mass of Earth" http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2015/04/29/automated-planet-finder-spots-three-new-super-earths-orbiting-a-nearby-star/?tid=rssfeed 6 comments science
- Planet hosts giant ring system http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-31001936 9 comments worldnews
- NASA's Dawn spacecraft gets its best glimpse yet of dwarf planet Ceres. http://www.cnet.com/news/nasas-dawn-gets-its-best-glimpse-yet-of-dwarf-planet-ceres/ 3 comments space
- One in Five Stars Has Earth-sized Planet in Habitable Zone http://www.linksapien.com/s/space/one-in-five-stars-has-earth-sized-planet-in-habitable-zone/visit 3 comments science
- Legal loophole could let billionaires buy planets. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2125714/legal-loophole-let-billionaires-buy-planets-human-settlers-arrive-snap-moon.html 3 comments worldnews
- Top Planets for Alien Life http://news.discovery.com/space/cowboys-aliens-exoplanets-110729.html 17 comments space
- Deep Freeze: Mars Orbiter Finds Massive Stores of Buried Dry Ice - Radar soundings point to huge deposits of carbon dioxide near the Red Planet's south pole, which may have once contributed to a different climate http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=mro-co2-ice 10 comments space
- If only greed and ignorance could sequester carbon, Bono could FINALLY save the planet http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8439200.stm 7 comments technology
- "We're borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf to burn it in ways that destroy the planet." http://www.michaelmoore.com/mustread/index.php?id=1105 7 comments politics
- "Haskell is an obscure and mostly disused esoteric programming language named after the planet Haskell, a large and moving planet orbiting Aldebaran." http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/haskell 18 comments programming
- Attacks all over the planet by U.S. Predator planes suggest Bush thinks he has the "right" to kill civilians. http://www.alternet.org/audits/79872/ 79 comments politics
- Comparing the gravity of planets using pennies. http://www.krampf.com/experiments/science_experiment50.html 7 comments science
