Milwaukee average cloud cover
From this graph, it's twice as likely to be overcast in December as it is in July in Milwaukee, near where the sighting occurred.
From the photometrics:
That's about 2% of the brightness of a German WW2 60cm anti-aircraft searchlight (135,000,000 cd). If the beam was more focused, it'd be even more.
China
Several local governments in China encouraged people with mild cases of COVID-19 to go to work this week, another sign of the difficulty the country faces as its rollback of virus-containment measures sets off a wave of infections — and a growing number of deaths.
The moves appear to be...
Note that this picture shows an optical illusion: it appears as though the aircraft is flying towards the decoy, although we know it is towed and must be behind.
I expect that witnesses can easily be mistaken when describing the 3D motion of unidentifiable objects in the sky, as most of the...
what seems to have happened mid-2020 was people being more reluctant to seek medical care for fear of getting infected at the hospital
but that was offset by the much reduced traffic and pollution in the cities
I haven't heard of staffing issues like you describe, is there even anecdotal...
You can control them from any computer with a DMX interface; that computer would also control the music. With a setup like that, you can make whatever sequence you like.
most people who died "with" Covid wouldn't have died then without Covid, even if Covid was "merely" the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back. the other cases have either been struck from the statistics (e.g. "died in a car accident"), or they're exceptions and not statistically relevant...
There's no time series there?
the bars say, "if you have X amount of CO2, and increase it by 20 ppm, that throws Y amount of heat on the pile". (That's a delta.)
the red line says, "if you have X amount of CO2, your heat pile is Z big." (that's cumulative)
those are conceptually different...
Apollo 17 (December 7–19, 1972) was the final mission of NASA's Apollo program, the most recent time humans have set foot on the Moon or traveled beyond low Earth orbit. It ended 50 years ago today.
Last year's meme:
bold of you to assume I have the power to politicize the pandemic response in the US
my linked post contains
a) a Tedros quote from 4/2020, saying that politicizing the pandemic kills people, (prediction)
b) data that shows politicizing the virus in the US has killed people (confirmation)
the...