Forbes by Amanda Kooser 4/26/2024

It’s not easy being a 34-year-old space telescope. NASA is troubleshooting an issue with the elderly Hubble Space Telescope that has put a pause on science operations. The space agency described the glitch as an “ongoing gyroscope (gyro) issue” in a statement on Friday.

The telescope went into safe mode on April 23. Safe mode is a protective mode that Hubble enters when it encounters a technical problem. It gives NASA a chance to diagnose and work on the glitch, but it also means Hubble isn’t sending back any new science data. There is some good news, though. “Hubble’s instruments are stable, and the telescope is in good health,” the agency said.

The gyros help Hubble point in the right direction. Three of Hubble’s six gyroscopes are operational, but one of those three gave faulty readings that triggered the safe mode. The same gyro previously sent the telescope into safe mode in November, so it’s a lingering problem. “The team is currently working to identify potential solutions,” NASA said. “If necessary, the spacecraft can be re-configured to operate with only one gyro, with the other remaining gyro placed in reserve.”

More: https://www.forbes.com/sites/amandakooser/2024/04/26/nasa-hubble-space-telescope-suspends-science-due-to-glitch/?sh=e4ddafcb8d9c

These States Are Making It Illegal For Illegal Immigrants To Enter

BY TYLER DURDEN
FRIDAY, APR 26, 2024 - 12:45 PM

Authored by Darlene McCormick Sanchez via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),

Conservative states across the country—Florida, Iowa, Louisiana, Tennessee, Georgia, and Oklahoma—are taking border security matters into their own hands, proposing or passing legislation targeting illegal immigration.
 

The Oklahoma legislature just passed a bill designed to prohibit illegal immigrants from entering or living in the state.

HB 4156 states: “A person commits an impermissible occupation if the person is an alien and willfully and without permission enters and remains in the State of Oklahoma without having first obtained legal authorization to enter the United States.”

The bill passed the state House and Senate by wide margins and Gov. Kevin Stitt, a Republican, is expected to sign it into law.

The legislature declared the issue a crisis in the state and stated in the bill: “Throughout the state, law enforcement comes into daily and increasingly frequent contact with foreign nationals who entered the country illegally or who remain here illegally.

https://www.alipac.us/f12/these-states-making-illegal-illegal-immigrants-enter-420188/

Net Zero Watch brands new windfarm subsidy ‘obscene’
APRIL 29, 2024
tags: wind power
By Paul Homewood

 

The logic of floating wind farms is that they can operate in much deeper waters, thus accessing stronger winds. The corollary is therefore that they should provide cheaper power.

 

Net Zero Watch brands new windfarm subsidy ‘obscene’
Green Volt project could be handed annual half billion pound subsidy



Net Zero Watch has revealed the astonishing scale of subsidies likely to be received by a windfarm planned for Scottish waters. The Green Volt floating offshore windfarm could hand its backers around £500 million pounds per year in subsidies. The project received official approval from Marine Scotland last week.

Because it is a floating windfarm, it is eligible for a much higher level of subsidies than fixed-bottom or onshore windfarms. At the launch of the most recent subsidy auction, the Government announced that it had raised the maximum price for floating windfarms to around £240 per megawatt hour [1], around four times current market prices. If the whole windfarm is subsidised at this level, consumers will probably have to pay more than £500 million per year in subsidy [2].

https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2024/04/29/net-zero-watch-brands-new-windfarm-subsidy-obscene/

People who tout this kind of idea have unilaterally placed themselves on a level with God.

'We have become victims of sloganology…'
 

Rarely have truer words been spoken.