Sciencing The $#!# Out Of The Day

It is

Saturday

and once again,

I am up early reading about some interesting

Science.

The first story is really good news for the planet,

but I feel bad news for people who are trying to convince the world about

Global Warning.

That is my personal opinion,

since I feel this

Administration

will use it,

to their advantage,

by saying something stupid like,

"I told you so."

The Earth’s ozone hole is shrinking and is the smallest it has been since 1988.

By Marwa Eltagouri for The Washington Post.com/news/speakingofscience 

"Here's a rare piece of good news about the environment: The giant hole in the Earth's protective ozone layer is shrinking and has shriveled to its smallest peak since 1988, NASA scientists said. The largest the hole became this year was about 7.6 million square miles wide, about two and a half times the size of the United States, in September. But it was still 1.3 million square miles smaller than last year, scientists said, and has shrunk more since September. Warmer-than-usual weather conditions in the stratosphere are to thank for the shrinkage since 2016, as the warmer air helped fend off chemicals like chlorine and bromine that eat away at the ozone layer, scientists said. But the hole's overall reduction can be traced to global efforts since the mid-1980s to ban the emission of ozone-depleting chemicals."

See,

I can here them now.

"Warmer client has help close the Ozone Layer. Global Warming has helped the world, not hurt it."

That is what I believe those nuts in

Washington

will say.

First-seen neutron star collision creates light, gravitational waves and gold.

By Ashley Strickland, for CNN on MSN.com

"For the first time, two neutron stars in a nearby galaxy have been observed engaging in a spiral death dance around one another until they collided. What resulted from that collision is being called an unprecedented discovery that is ushering in a new era of astronomy, scientists announced Monday.

We can now fill in a few more tiles in the jigsaw puzzle that is the story of our universe, said Laura Cadonati, deputy spokeswoman for the LIGO Scientific Collaboration and professor in the school of physics at Georgia Tech. The collision created the first observed instance of a single source emitting ripples in space-time, known as gravitational waves, as well as light, which was released in the form of a two-second gamma ray burst. The collision also created heavy elements such as gold, platinum and lead, scattering them across the universe in a kilonova -- similar to a supernova -- after the initial fireball." 

 I really need to buy a good telescope.

I can't see $#!+ with mine.

Beautiful Saturn: Ringed Planet Shines in New Cassini Photo.

By Mike Wall, Space.com

"Another gorgeous Saturn photo has emerged from the Cassini archives. The newly released image, which NASA's Cassini spacecraft took on Aug. 12, shows the gas giant and its iconic rings in all their glory. And if you look carefully, you can see the tiny moon Pandora; it's a faint dot near the top of the photo, just beyond the thin outer F ring. Also in this image is the gap between Saturn's cloud tops and its innermost D ring, through which Cassini would pass 22 times before ending its mission in spectacular fashion [on] Sept. 15, 2017, NASA officials wrote in an image description today."

 One last look at what

Cassini

 has sent back to us.

This is,

Sciencing The $#!# Out Of The Day,

Jim Hauenstein,

And,

“If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?”

- Albert Einstein -

That is my story and I am sticking to it!

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