Because as it evaporates, it exposes toxicity that can blow into nearby communities.
Rose Pastore
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Rose Pastore edits Gizmodo's science and climate coverage.
A co-workers brother was force to go to his Walmart warehouse job in southwest Florida during Ian. Fuck Walmart
MA native up here. I can vouch for how dry it has been. I’ve never seen anything like it.
That being said, I was listening to a cranberry farmer on the radio the other day and he said he preferred this summer’s weather to last year’s unusually wet one. He said that at least in a dry summer they can pump in water,… Read more
A lot of times, the lead scientist on the team, won’t even live to see the product hit market.
...this is an incredibly adapted, venomous, electro-receptive transformer of an animal... Read more
Bummer, but I’d rather see it take off successfully than have a mishap on the pad or shortly after takeoff in a few days. Kinda like waiting for a package to arrive and it’s a week late. You hate every minute of every day it didn’t arrive, but once you receive it you’re happy. A year afterwards you had forgotten the… Read more
Ugh. I guess this is what happens when your launch platform includes parts from a 30 year old rockets.
I constantly get texts from relatives about outages, brownouts, and even water outages. Some of those relatives have chronic health issues and this has been so stressful.
They were the ones to give Luma the contract. We all expected multiple energy companies coming in, instead they replaced one company with another one, but for-profit.
The only real response from the governor has been “Ok guys settle down, trust the process” Read more
It’s my pleasure. I’m a geologist turned journalist so I wouldn’t dare forget my roots!
As someone living down here, its been one thing after the other. QoL has taken such a hit, that medical personnel are leaving the island in droves (we got hospitals shutting down birth wards at this point).
We get brownout about 4-5 times a week and our Kwh is as expensive as California (second highest in the US at 27… Read more
Light this candle!
The frog slideshow description made me so mad I’m not sure I want to continue with the slideshow. I just can’t forget how horrible the release of the frogs have been for Hawaii and Australia.
Octoclam Read more
I got my spirit fingers wiggling in the air in hopes of a safe and successful launch!
Honestly, this is a better time for me to watch it anyway, so I hope it goes then.
We got up early and drove up to see it. Oh well, a morning at the beach is still a morning at the beach. Really wish we’d have seen it though. The next window is Friday and I happen to have the day off so if that window holds we’ll drive up again. It’s only 30 minutes away so not a huge trip other than traffic.
I just learned that manikins is a real word. Read more
Aaaand it’s been scrubbed. Surprise.
Who’s surprised? Anyone? Anyone at all? Bueller??